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I'm looking for TV shows to watch in the Sci-fi genre.
I've already seen;
Altered Carbon
Lost in Space
The 100
Travelers
Another life
What'cha got for me?
Hawk the Slayer?
The Expanse.
Favourite show that's still running.
Westworld
Cowboy Beebop
The expanse is well worth a watch.
And seeing as you obviously have a netflix sub there is all the star trek... All of it.
Seen both of them.
I didn't really think much of Westworld. Watched S1 and couldn't be bothered to watch S2.
Battlestar Galactica - the remake, not the original.
JP
Dark Matter also.
Farscape.
Firefly.
Star Trek: Discovery (if you can get through the first few episodes, it does improve I promise).
I’m currently rewatching series 1 of Heroes. I’m enjoying it immensely.
Farscape.
Awesome.
Firefly.
Awesomer.
Star Trek: Discovery (if you can get through the first few episodes, it does improve I promise).
No it bloody doesn't.
The Expanse, best Sci-fi i've watched.
I’m also a bit “meh” about Star Trek Discovery.
Expanse, firefly, new battlestar galactica, star trek discovery,
Curveball ---- Rick & Morty you should probably watch them in order but the Ricklantis Mix up in season 3 is proper bleak sci-fi that Charlie Brooker would be proud of
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/rick-and-morty/episode-guide/series-1
Blake's 7.
It's about a seven year old named Blake who watches Blake's 7.
Rick and Morty depending on how twisted your sense of humour is. If it's your thing it's sheer brilliance. They throw away better ideas every 2 minutes than most sci-fi writers have in a lifetime.
black mirror! loved the star trek episode, probably my favourite.
Bladerunner 2049 is on there. top movie.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century...
Battlestar Galactica – the remake, not the original.
This
I’m about to have another watch
Is The Boys sci-fi ?
You should watch anyway, it's brilliant (what heroes could've been)
The Boys on Amazon Prime. (Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, it's sort of SF).
edit: great minds, kimbers 🙂
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century…
You’re watching it for the deep exploration of gender dynamics in the future?
Or just for Colonel Wilma?
😁
Stranger Things.
The Orville, not that I could get into it, might try to come back to it later.
Futurama - you can watch with family unlike Rick and Morty!
The Expanse
Killjoys
Love, Death, and Robots
Counterpart
Umbrella Academy
12 Monkeys (series)
From series 2 onwards it just gets better and better.
12 Monkeys (series)
From series 2 onwards it just gets better and better.
I enjoyed the first season. By season 4, I'd forgotten what it was about so it made no sense. I gave up about half way through season 4.
Must admit I binged most of season 2-4 so I was 'abreast' of what was actually going on. If I'd waited a year between series I'd quite possibly be struggling.
I generally judge how good something is by whether I'm likely to go and buy the dvd box-set if the series I want isn't available to stream. I think I've done it for season 4 of this, season 2 of 24 and some GoT. Which may also tell the OP if he's likely to like it!
Stranger Things.
Most recent season of ST was ace.
Battlestar Galactica – the remake, not the original.
Was OK, right up to the point near the end when it became less so.
Battlestar Galactica – the remake, not the original.
I loved it when it was first shown but a lot of it doesn't bear a rewatch, and some that does stand up has lost a lot of its edge, particularly the occupation/insurgency stuff which was broadcast at the time of some of the worst of the Iraq War aftermath. The main arc disappears up its own arse around S4, I think they plotted themselves into a corner they couldn't write their way out of. The mini series and Razor still stand up well though.
unlike the original which was SOLID GOLD all the way through 😂 (Actually the very last episode was quite interesting sci-fi, Starbuck and a Cylon both crash and are stranded forever on a seemingly uninhibited planet, end up becoming buds as they decide killing each other would be pointless)Was OK, right up to the point near the end when it became less so.
Yes, more so than some of the other shows mentioned here, which are just dramas that happen to be set in space/the future.Is The Boys sci-fi ?
The Orville, not that I could get into it, might try to come back to it later.
That's a good shout actually, I was expecting it to be terrible but it's far, far better than it has any right to be. It's a bit lumpy to start with, basically Star Trek: TNG with nob gags, but it gets less schoolboy after a few eps.
I enjoyed Counterpart and was peaved when I saw it'd been cancelled, but that was just a clever spy drama with a sci-fi backdrop. The Expanse is the best thing I've seen in a long time
Oh and not strictly sci-fi either but imho probably the best series I've ever seen is The Leftovers.
The Expanse is the best thing I’ve seen in a long time
This I agree with.
unlike the original which was SOLID GOLD all the way through
Sure, they were different things though. I liked the re-booted BG, right up the point the writers decided to Kill Starbuck for no other reason other than it would be cool, (after the event, that was the reason the writers gave, figuring out they could sort the story out later on...yes, they actually said that) then resurrect her for no other reason than it would be cool, (see the reasons given before...) and end the entire thing thing with "It was God"... dum, dum, dhurrr... I think they all just got bored, and couldn't be arsed with it anymore.
Fringe - the first season wasn't that good, but from the second season onwards it was great!
Where can I watch The Expanse?
Rick and Morty?
The OA was strangely addictive.
Stargate Atlantis and the one after it.
Where can I watch The Expanse?
Amazon Prime
The Expanse is on Amazon Prime
Where can I watch The Expanse?
It used to be on Netflix, it's on Prime now.
edit ...and if you don't refresh your screen you repeat stuff that's already been covered!
Space 1999?
Babylon 5?
What's good about the Expanse? The fact I managed to fall asleep five minutes in has held me back from a second go at it...although, to be fair, I'd just got back from a long ride around some Dales Garbage and this may not be a judgement on how gripping it is.
What’s good about the Expanse?
Nothing, it's turgid self indulgent crap. (same as OA and Another Life) One of the great things about streaming telly is that stuff that normally wouldn't get past a pilot gets made, the downside of the streaming services is that things get made that should get past the pilot.
Stranger Things.
Most recent season of ST was ace.
Nope. Utter pony - the 80s shopping/ colour/ music montages are just brutal and illustrate how badly they were struggling to fill the time.
The OA was strangely addictive.
Everyone I've spoken to says they have no idea what it's about, but that it's totally addictive to watch. I can't work out from that whether the wife would watch it or not
Fringe is fabulous. Walter Bishop is my favourite character ever.
V (2009). Morena Baccarin - enough said.
Battlestar Galactica (2005) is great.
The Event (2010), it was canned after 1 series but I actually liked it.
Go old school! Space 1999 and UFO.
Go old school! Space 1999 and UFO.
UFO just for what people in 1970 (well, Sylvia Anderson) thought they'd be wearing in 1980. The submarine crew uniforms were an unusual take on workwear. Who'd have thought silver string vests would have been the way to go?
Fringe, I had thought everyone was overlooking this, probably due to the main actor not being able to act for shit but Walter (John Noble) is ace & so is Gene (that and Leonard Nimoy also appeared quite regulalry). It's mad as a box of frog but good sci-fi fun
Think bsg lost its way during the writer's strike?
The first series of the expanse was a bit poor, but the second better. It felt like they were all getting in to it a bit more.
Trying to come up with ones not mentioned already...
X Files (not the two recent mini-seasons though, got a bit silly towards the end of the orignal final season IMO)
Warehouse 13
The Librarian
Agents of SHIELD
Under the dome
The 100
Really took for granted just how golden the 1990s were for sci-fi series (X Files, various Star Trek, Babylon 5 etc.), a lot of the modern stuff doesn't consistantly stay top drawer imo.
The Expanse books are better than the TV show by a country mile, but that's not saying much. Buck Rogers is a stone cold classic, season one is better than season two though; and yes, when I watched it as a tween, I fell for Erin Gray hard.
I initially watched 'The Expanse' with things like Kodi. Amazon took it on for a 4th and 5th season. Season 4 starts in December.
The first series of V the remake was shite the second was really good but by then it got canceled. The same thing for Caprica, first was boring as hell the second 100% better then canceled.
I also had the misfortune of watching Another Life with Katee Sackhoff, Kept thinking this is going to get better at some point but no 🙁
I'd like to see/or maybe not a re-run of Space Above And Beyond or an updated remake.
Most things have been mentioned so I'll take a different tact. Some science fact based drama. Manhatten, just clocked there's a 2nd series which i'm about to watch.
It's on amazon, decent viewing.
Final Space has been some of the funniest Sci-Fi I've watched in a while. Personally preferred it to Rick and Morty
Space 1999
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica
Buck Rogers (aka what’s Wilma Deering wearing this week)
Another Life is dire
Enjoyed Trek Discovery
Rick and Morty is brilliant, very bleak on occasions and I’m now slightly disturbed by squirrels.......
Agents of Shield became hard work
Looking forward to ST Picard
Dollhouse. (aka 'what's Eliza Dushku wearing this week?')
Just be ready for a rapid wrapup in season 2 after they found out they were getting cancelled. Another Joss Whedon dead end that didn't deserve it.
Neon Genesis Evangelion. You ain't seen bleak until you crawl into the mind of the worlds most whiny annoying teenager ever. Thankfully not a regular occurance, Shinji is a world class ****. But aside from that giant biomechanoids fighting alien invaders, what's not to like?
Texhnolyze is also rather bleak and pretty slow but a good story in the end.
I still have Battlestar Galactica in the loft, unwatched, on Bluray. Keep meaning to get round to it. Missus enjoyed Umbrella Academy.
Think bsg lost its way during the writer’s strike?
Sounds about right, a lot of shows hit a trough of Marianas Trench proportions around that time.
Neon Genesis Evangelion. You ain’t seen bleak until you crawl into the mind of the worlds most whiny annoying teenager ever. Thankfully not a regular occurance, Shinji is a world class ****. But aside from that giant biomechanoids fighting alien invaders, what’s not to like?
I wondered whether this was worth a watch. I have started watching plenty of anime but stuck with very few.
I am always expecting anime to have moved on from Akira, but at 30 years old I find it hasn't been bettered.
Castlevania was good but that's fantasy. In terms of sci-fi I quite liked Ajin Demi-Human.
Evangelion is definitely worth a watch, it's a fantastic series. The reboots aren't half bad either (only watched the first 2, waiting for 3.0+1.0 to come out and I'll watch them all as a run)
I will look into it squirrelking.
I really enjoyed The Expanse but had various things on the go and then Netflix got rid of it!!
Just started watching Better than Us - Russian robot series - excellent so far.
Love Death and Robots was fun...
Dollhouse. (aka ‘what’s Eliza Dushku wearing this week?’)
I'll be in my bunk.
Love Death and Robots was fun…
Ooh, yeah, I need to finish that at some point. Bite-sized one-shot episodes, all totally different. If you get something you don't like, eh, there'll be another one along in 15 minutes.
Love Death and Robots was fun…
+1 Some were excellent, some less so but worth watching.
Interesting that someone said that The Expanse wasn’t as good as the books - I didn’t think much of the first of the series, when I read it. And I’m sure I started to watch it and got a little bored. Was going to give it another try but haven’t got Prime!
Watched another ep of Better than Us (Netflix) last night - nothing groundbreaking but good acting and very nicely filmed, if you can cope with subtitles. Also it's fun to work out how to swear in Russian...
Whoever said CowboyBeepop...yup, utterly brilliant in the way that really good Japanese Anime only can be. The movie (90min) is very good too. No longer on Netflix as they are rumoured to have commissioned live action series
Knights of Sidonia is really good too. Im sure someone in Hollywood will make a movie of this soon and truly screw the whole thing up like they did with Ghost in the Shell
Altered Carbon was surprisingly good in spite of a few "ooh-er, um, ok I got it, now please put your clothes back on: you'll catch your death if you keep walking around like that" moments.
Now, a left-field suggestion is the very wierd Netflix sci-fi series Maniac, its a remake of a equally odd Norwegian TV series about two people taking part in an experimental drugs trial that alters their perceptions of reality...really weird, slightly ennui feeling but but starts to come together as the series progresses, I really enjoyed this one.
The OA first series is near death experiences, kidnaping, storytelling, interpretive dance and hello to Jason Isaacs (good btw)
Checkout the Dust channel on YouTube.
Lots of interesting SciFi and some crap.
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC7sDT8jZ76VLV1u__krUutA
Maniac is brilliant.
And I liked Ghost in the Shell. Maybe going in with low expectations helped.
Oh, nearly forgot, Dark S2 is out there now.