Best Sci-Fi Shows of the 2010s (Ranked)

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Black Mirror

★8.7Ongoing(2011– )

#1Score 8.70751.8k IMDb votes

An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.

The Expanse

★8.5Ended(2015– )

#2Score 8.49195.7k IMDb votes

In the 24th century, a group of humans untangle a vast plot which threatens the Solar System's fragile state of detente.

Westworld

★8.4Ended(2016– )

#3Score 8.40562.3k IMDb votes

At the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.

Utopia 2013

★8.4Ended

#4Score 8.3656.6k IMDb votes

After a group of people, who meet online, discover a bizarre graphic novel which seems to hold mysterious answers, they find themselves being tracked down by a merciless organization known merely as 'The Network'.

The Handmaids Tale

★8.3Ended

#5Score 8.29306.1k IMDb votes

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

Orphan Black

★8.3Ended(2013–2017)

#6Score 8.28126.2k IMDb votes

A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.

Sense8

★8.2Ended(2015–2018)

#7Score 8.19173.2k IMDb votes

A group of people around the world are suddenly linked mentally, and must find a way to survive being hunted by those who see them as a threat to the world's order.

Years and Years

★8.2Ended(2019– )

#8Score 8.1538.4k IMDb votes

As Britain slowly turns into a dictatorship throughout the years, the lives of a typical busy family from Manchester converge on one crucial night in 2019.

Legion

★8.1Ended

#9Score 8.08104.9k IMDb votes

David Haller is a troubled young man diagnosed as schizophrenic, but after a strange encounter, he discovers special powers that will change his life forever.

For All Mankind

★8.1Ongoing

#10Score 8.0894.3k IMDb votes

In an alternative version of 1969, the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon, and the space race continues on for decades with still grander challenges and goals.

Counterpart

★8.0Ended(2017–2019)

#11Score 7.9635.3k IMDb votes

A hapless UN employee discovers that the agency he works for is hiding a gateway to a parallel dimension that's in a cold war with our own, and where his other self is a top spy. The war slowly heats up thanks to spies from both s...

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American Horror Story

★7.9Ongoing(2011– )

#12Score 7.90367.4k IMDb votes

An anthology series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an insane asylum, a witch coven, a freak show circus, a haunted hotel, a possessed farmhouse, a cult, the apocalypse, a ...

The Man in the High Castle

★7.9Ended(2015– )

#13Score 7.89126.9k IMDb votes

In a dystopian America dominated by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, a young woman discovers a mysterious film that may hold the key to toppling the totalitarian regimes.

Altered Carbon

★7.9Ended

#14Score 7.89204.8k IMDb votes

Set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored, a prisoner returns to life in a new body and must solve a mind-bending murder to win his freedom.

Humans

★7.9Ended

#15Score 7.8746.6k IMDb votes

In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human - is transforming the way we live.

People of Earth

★7.7Ended(2016–2017)

#16Score 7.618.7k IMDb votes

Journalist Ozzie Graham is skeptical when he investigates a support group for oddballs who think they have been abducted by aliens -- yet the more he learns, the more confused, intrigued, and seduced he becomes.

Maniac 2018

★7.6Ended

#17Score 7.5994.3k IMDb votes

Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial for a drug that they're assured will, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, permanently solve all of their problems. Things do not go as planned.

See

★7.6Ended

#18Score 7.59113k IMDb votes

Far in a dystopian future, the human race has lost the sense of sight, and society has had to find new ways to interact, build, hunt, and to survive. All of that is challenged when a set of twins are born with sight.

Continuum

★7.6Ended(I) (2012–2015)

#19Score 7.5967.2k IMDb votes

A detective from the year 2077 finds herself trapped in present-day Vancouver and searching for ruthless criminals from the future.

Project Blue Book

★7.6Ended(2019– )

#20Score 7.5615.7k IMDb votes

A tough US Air Force officer and a skeptical scientist investigate UFO and alien conspiracies as Cold War paranoia spreads.

You Me and the Apocalypse

★7.6Ended

#21Score 7.538.5k IMDb votes

When a group of ordinary people learn that an eight-mile-wide comet is on a collision course with Earth, they hunker beneath the town of Slough to watch the end of the world on television.

The 100

★7.5Ended(2014– )

#22Score 7.50308.9k IMDb votes

Set 97 years after a nuclear war destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity's lone survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth, hoping to repopulate the planet.

The Last Ship

★7.4Ended(2014–2018)

#23Score 7.4071.2k IMDb votes

The crew of a naval destroyer is forced to confront the reality of a new existence when a pandemic kills off most of the earth's population.

Mars 2016

★7.4Ended

#24Score 7.3815.7k IMDb votes

The first manned mission from Earth to Mars in 2033 attempts to colonize the red planet.

Second Chance

★7.4Ended(I) (2016)

#25Score 7.3813.1k IMDb votes

A billionaire bio-engineer brings a dead police officer back to life.

Impulse

★7.4Ended

#26Score 7.3711.2k IMDb votes

A young woman discovers she has the extraordinary power of teleportation.

Wayward Pines

★7.3Ended(2015–2016)

#27Score 7.3066k IMDb votes

A Secret Service agent goes to Wayward Pines, Idaho, in search of two federal agents who have gone missing in the bucolic town. He soon learns that he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive.

The Hot Zone

★7.3Ended

#28Score 7.2910.5k IMDb votes

The frightening spread of the Ebolavirus (season 1) and anthrax (season 2).

Incorporated

★7.2Ended(2016–2017)

#29Score 7.216k IMDb votes

A man attempts to thwart a giant corporation that seems to have unlimited power.

Alphas

★7.2Ended(2011– )

#30Score 7.2030.5k IMDb votes

Alphas is a science fiction drama focusing on a team that investigates people with supernatural abilities.

Killjoys

★7.2Ended(2015– )

#31Score 7.2025k IMDb votes

In the Quad, a planetary system on the brink of a bloody interplanetary class war, a fun loving trio of bounty hunters attempt to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants.

Emergence

★7.2Ended

#32Score 7.208.7k IMDb votes

A police chief investigates a case involving a young child found near the site of a mysterious accident.

Philip K. Dicks Electric Dreams

★7.2Ended

#33Score 7.2020.7k IMDb votes

A sci-fi anthology series with stand-alone episodes based on the works of Philip K. Dick.

Other Space

★7.1Ended(2015)

#34Score 7.152.8k IMDb votes

A young and inexperienced crew venture into space to face mysterious clouds, folds in time and the occasional alien attack, as well as more household challenges.

The Crossing

★7.1Ended(2018)

#35Score 7.1210.9k IMDb votes

Refugees from a war-torn country 180 years in the future start showing up in the present to seek asylum in an American town.

The Society

★7.1Ended(2019– )

#36Score 7.1143.6k IMDb votes

When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.

Caprica

★7.1Ended(2009–2010)

#37Score 7.1127.7k IMDb votes

Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, live together on a peaceful planet known as Caprica, where a startling breakthrough in artificial intelligence brings about unforeseen consequences.

Ascension

★7.1Ended

#38Score 7.1120.2k IMDb votes

A young woman's murder causes the subjects of a century-long mission to populate a new world to question the true nature of the project as they approach the point of no return.

Raising Dion

★7.1

#39Score 7.1118.3k IMDb votes

A widowed single mom discovers that her son has super powers and tries to figure out how to raise him safely and responsibly.

Star Crossed

★7.1Ended

#40Score 7.1118.7k IMDb votes

About an epic romance between a human girl and an alien boy when he and others of his kind are integrated into a suburban high school 10 years after they landed on Earth and were consigned to an internment camp.

Living with Yourself

★7.1Ended

#41Score 7.1137.9k IMDb votes

An existential comedy about a man struggling in life who undergoes a new treatment to become a better person, only to find that he's been replaced by a new and improved version of himself.

The Tomorrow People

★7.1Ended(2013–2014)

#42Score 7.1138.3k IMDb votes

Evolved humans with amazing abilities (Teleportation, Telekinesis, Telepathy) are being hunted down by agents of Ultra.

Origin

★7.0Ended

#43Score 7.048.3k IMDb votes

A group of strangers struggle for survival aboard a spaceship heading to a distant planet.

Believe

★7.0Ended

#44Score 7.0215.7k IMDb votes

A relationship forms between a gifted young girl and a man sprung from prison who has been tasked with protecting her from the evil elements that hunt her power.

Defiance

★7.0Ended(2013–2015)

#45Score 7.0147.1k IMDb votes

Life in the city of Defiance, in a near future after the arrival of different alien lifeforms to Earth.

Time Traveling Bong

★6.8Ended

#46Score 7.012k IMDb votes

Centers on two cousins who discover a time-traveling bong and ride high as they blaze through time.

Manifest

★7.0Ended(2018– )

#47Score 7.00107.4k IMDb votes

A commercial airliner suddenly reappears after being missing for five years. As those aboard reintegrate into society, they experience guiding voices and visions of events yet to occur, and soon a deeper mystery unfolds.

Do No Harm

★6.8Ended(2013)

#48Score 6.963.3k IMDb votes

Jason Cole, a brilliant neurosurgeon has to battle with his own alter-ego, Ian Price, in order to live a normal life in this modern take on Jekyll and Hyde.

Class

★6.8Ended

#49Score 6.924.8k IMDb votes

The sixth formers of Coal Hill Academy all have their own secrets and desires. They have to deal with the stresses of everyday life including friends, parents, school work, sex, and sorrow, but also the horrors that come from time...

Salvation

★6.9Ended(2017–2018)

#50Score 6.9225.7k IMDb votes

An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery--that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.

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