01 An adaptation of Asimov's novels about a mathematician who can predict the fall of an empire.
12 Best Sci-Fi TV Series
By Vlad Zakh · March 10, 2026
Black Mirror and Westworld use science fiction as a lens on something much closer to home, Battlestar Galactica and The Expanse go harder and more political, and Severance shows the genre still has genuinely new ideas. Foundation adapts Asimov’s story of a mathematician who predicts an empire’s fall, The X-Files pairs a believer and a sceptic at the FBI, Dark turns missing children into a multi-generational time-travel puzzle, and Fringe connects odd science to a parallel universe. Doctor Who, Stranger Things and The Man in the High Castle round out the list.
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02 Two FBI agents investigate unexplained cases, one a believer and one a sceptic.
03 A German sci-fi mystery about missing children that unravels into a multi-generational time-travel puzzle.
04 An FBI unit investigates fringe science phenomena that turn out to connect to a parallel universe.
05 An alternate history where the Axis powers won the Second World War and America is divided between Japan and Germany.
06 A centuries-running British institution about a time-travelling alien who regenerates instead of dying.
07 Anthony Hopkins's television work proved just as commanding as anything on film.
08 Ben Stiller directs and produces one of the decade's most acclaimed dramas.
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09 Horror-tinged nostalgia that balances real scares with genuine warmth.
10 A politically dense, grounded space opera about a solar system on the brink of war.
11 A grim, politically sharp sci-fi reboot about the last survivors of humanity.
12 An anthology series imagining how new technology could go quietly, plausibly wrong.
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