Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1Counterpart (2017)Counterpart (2017) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 10 Dec 2017A parallel-world crossing is administered like a dreary office, making a brilliant speculative device depend on procedures, loyalties and people who have grown differently. J. K. Simmons' two versions of Howard give the mechanism emotional weight. This is a demanding two-season discovery with…0
  2. 2Other Space (2015)Other Space (2015) 7.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 14 Apr 2015An inexperienced crew gets lost with equipment and colleagues nobody would have chosen for a heroic expedition. The modest spaceship becomes a productive comic constraint: faulty systems keep exposing personal insecurities. Its eight-episode Yahoo Screen run was easy to miss, and the ensemble's…0
  3. 3Dimension 404 (2017)Dimension 404 (2017) 6.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 4 Apr 2017Six separate stories treat digital-age anxieties as opportunities for extravagant, sometimes silly genre experiments. The appeal is variety without a season-long homework assignment: an episode can move from a recognisable consumer habit to full monster-movie absurdity. Choose this anthology when a…0
  4. 4Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017)Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017) 7.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 Sept 2017Each adaptation builds a different world around a question about identity, memory or obedience. Its unevenness is useful to acknowledge, but the changing casts and visual approaches make this a generous sampler of speculative short fiction. Start with an episode whose premise appeals; there is no…0
  5. 5Almost Human (2013)Almost Human (2013) 7.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 Nov 2013A traumatised detective is paired with an android whose emotional responses make him a less predictable colleague than the approved machines. Karl Urban and Michael Ealy give the familiar procedural framework enough friction to carry its arguments about programmed trust. The thirteen-episode run…0
  6. 6The Crossing (2018)The Crossing (2018) 7.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 2 Apr 2018People arriving on an American beach claim to be refugees from a future America. That reversal makes asylum policy and responsibility part of the speculative mechanism, rather than scenery around a time-travel puzzle. The small-town investigation is an intriguing one-season experiment, but…0
  7. 7Continuum (2012)Continuum (2012) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 27 May 2012A future police officer pursues rebels into present-day Vancouver, only to find that the institutions she trusted are part of the argument. The pleasure is watching a working procedural complicate its original definition of order. Four seasons give the time-travel story an ending, making it a…0
  8. 8Killjoys (2015)Killjoys (2015) 7.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 19 Jun 2015Bounty hunters try to treat warrants as neutral work while the society around them keeps revealing who benefits from the rules. The trio's banter makes the expanding politics approachable, and the practical, scrappy world has more personality than its scale suggests. Five seasons deliver an actual…0
  9. 9Travelers (2016)Travelers (2016) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 Oct 2016Operatives from a damaged future inherit the bodies and unfinished obligations of ordinary people. Its best constraint is social: a technically correct mission can still destroy a relationship or endanger a host's family. The team structure rewards attention, and the third-season finish supplies a…0
  10. 10Ascension (2014)Ascension (2014) 7.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 15 Dec 2014A supposed generation ship preserves the social arrangements of the 1960s while travelling towards a distant future. That contradiction is more interesting than its initial murder mystery, and the short run keeps changing what the premise means. Treat its three-part broadcast as an ambitious,…0