SciFi, a list by Jef Westerveld

8.5

/84271/

84

/1314/

81

/926/

4.1

/13455/

95

/90/

94

89

/62/

A re-imagining of the original series in which a "rag-tag fugitive fleet" of the last remnants of mankind flees pursuing robots while simultaneously searching for their true home, Earth.

87

IMDb 12

9.2

/2524970/

88

/143666/

84

/26049/

89

/337/

85

86

/171/

age 18+

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

87

8.4

/16070/

81

/540/

77

/202/

4.1

/898/

100

/16/

93

age 13+

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.

83

IMDb 96

8.3

/662810/

80

/37297/

79

/4831/

86

/176/

89

84

/73/

age 14+

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

83

IMDb 1

8.6

/1638989/

84

/69718/

85

/20198/

90

/658/

83

74

/174/

age 14+

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

82

8.1

/102720/

78

/7757/

75

/1496/

91

/157/

85

82

/56/

age 16+

David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.

82

8.6

/644517/

83

/27369/

84

/10657/

90

/109/

78

71

/58/

age 14+

After the fall of the Galactic Empire, lawlessness has spread throughout the galaxy. A lone gunfighter makes his way through the outer reaches, earning his keep as a bounty hunter.

81

IMDb 8

8.1

/101312/

80

/5097/

79

/536/

98

/114/

66

87

/38/

age 15+

The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.

81

7.9

/80004/

79

/4181/

78

/965/

87

/72/

88

76

/22/

age 14+

The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

81

8.1

/83573/

81

/6007/

77

/850/

92

/147/

82

75

/55/

age 15+

Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.

81

7.5

/233857/

77

/21172/

75

/3694/

95

/205/

91

74

/38/

age 14+

Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.

80

7.9

/45558/

77

/4010/

74

/667/

94

/92/

85

76

/30/

age 14+

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 it's transforming the way we live.

79

8.6

/269419/

84

/13723/

84

/3405/

74

/194/

85

65

/72/

age 14+

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

79

7.9

/139030/

78

/10746/

82

/3428/

89

/74/

90

58

/30/

age 14+

After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.

79

IMDb 51

8.4

/529979/

83

/27210/

83

/8166/

93

/163/

73

60

/48/

age 14+

When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

79

IMDb 37

8.1

/1177649/

78

/70635/

80

/17421/

79

/477/

78

79

/115/

age 16+

Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.

78

7.7

/93186/

76

/6064/

78

/1823/

84

/153/

82

71

/38/

age 14+

Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.

78

7.6

/65029/

76

/3684/

74

/959/

84

/49/

88

73

/28/

age 14+

The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.

77

IMDb 15

8.0

/82240/

79

/3286/

82

/1168/

81

/94/

82

61

/30/

age 15+

In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.

77

7.3

/48200/

73

/3302/

71

/702/

95

/16/

86

69

/11/

age 14+

4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained healing touch. A government agency is formed to track the 4400 people after one of them commits a murder.

77

7.8

/21917/

79

/940/

74

/396/

3.5

/2376/

The show takes place from 1944 to 2002 and follows the lives of three families: the Crawfords, who seek to cover up the Roswell crash and the existence of aliens; the Keys, who are subject to frequent experimentation by the aliens; and the Clarkes, who sheltered one of the surviving aliens from the crash.

77

7.7

/14734/

79

/506/

76

/229/

Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

77

7.3

/12404/

70

/840/

67

/191/

3.8

/5436/

87

/77/

73

82

/37/

RogerEbert

3.5

age 16+

An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.

77

7.0

/58726/

74

/3751/

79

/1275/

84

/47/

97

62

/9/

age 14+

After waking up in a morgue, an orphaned teen discovers she now possesses superpowers as the chosen Halo-Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns.

76

6.7

/35959/

70

/2403/

76

/893/

100

/14/

70

age 15+

Out to avenge his mother's death, a college student pledges a secret order and lands in a war between werewolves and practitioners of dark magic.

76

7.6

/59619/

77

/6089/

75

/1659/

91

/123/

74

65

/38/

age 14+

Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity.

76

IMDb 60

7.7

/35142/

75

/1668/

71

/357/

91

/40/

73

72

/21/

age 17+

A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again.

76

7.4

/117508/

74

/7591/

81

/3692/

82

/237/

72

74

/36/

age 14+

Magic and mischief collide as half-human, half-witch Sabrina navigates between two worlds: mortal teen life and her family's legacy, the Church of Night.

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76

8.3

/292889/

81

/14745/

81

/3095/

83

/391/

57

80

/119/

age 16+

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

75

7.1

/27240/

73

/2650/

69

/385/

81

/27/

82

71

/20/

age 14+

Set 58 years before Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two rival families - the Graystones and the Adamas - as they grow, compete, and thrive in the vibrant world of the peaceful 12 Colonies, living in a society close to our own. Entangled in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe-to-toe, blending action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics.

75

8.2

/38974/

79

/1891/

80

/746/

61

/7/

age 12+

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

75

7.2

/24580/

76

/2565/

68

/505/

95

/34/

90

53

/8/

age 15+

An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets on the brink of revolution.

75

7.5

/17908/

77

/732/

73

/206/

age 13+

Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.

75

7.5

/299764/

77

/22896/

79

/8459/

93

/106/

68

64

/34/

age 14+

100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.

75

7.7

/52584/

77

/5026/

74

/1132/

88

/76/

78

57

/28/

age 14+

The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.

75

8.0

/386500/

79

/20683/

84

/15246/

87

/114/

73

49

/28/

age 14+

Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.

74

7.4

/26024/

72

/1783/

69

/451/

87

/68/

75

68

/15/

age 15+

The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.

83

74

8.4

/6942/

78

/136/

76

/87/

100

/6/

81

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or even science fiction, including fantastic creatures.

74

7.8

/250216/

76

/16589/

75

/3600/

77

/159/

68

70

/44/

age 14+

Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?

74

7.3

/92379/

72

/7116/

74

/1933/

79

/111/

79

70

/54/

age 17+

A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself.

74

8.1

/75084/

83

/6965/

80

/1112/

53

/5/

age 10+

With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to contact Earth, but their explorations unexpectedly reawaken the Ancients' deadly enemies, The Wraith, who hunger for this new prey. Now with the help of newfound local allies like Teyla Emmagan, the Atlantis Team sets about to uncover their new home's secrets even as their war of survival against the Wraith begins.

73

8.0

/13196/

75

/506/

76

/265/

62

/5/

A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.

73

8.0

/8716/

75

/537/

74

/96/

50

/16/

100

60

/28/

age 16+

Today Detective Brett Hopper will be accused of shooting state attorney Alberto Garza. He will offer his rock solid alibi. He will realize he's been framed. And he will run. Then, he will wake up and start the day over again.

73

7.5

/13694/

70

/603/

71

/131/

73

/11/

81

72

/30/

age 15+

In the aftermath of a hurricane the Florida Park Ranger and his family deal with strange occurrences, including luminescent creatures in the water. People in the town start to act different, who can you trust?

73

7.6

/34494/

77

/2905/

77

/435/

66

/30/

80

66

/12/

age 14+

The gorgeous and charismatic Bo is a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.

73

7.7

/53460/

78

/4413/

72

/475/

72

/73/

84

57

/56/

age 14+

Echo is a member of a highly illegal and underground group of individuals whose personalities have been wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas. Confined between missions to a secret facility known as the Dollhouse, the "Actives" are hired by the wealthy, powerful and connected to wholly become—with mind, personality and physiology—whomever the client wants or needs them to be. They know no other life than the specific engagements they are in at that time—or do they?

73

8.2

/65757/

80

/4109/

78

/612/

57

/47/

92

54

/24/

age 14+

Doctor Henry Morgan, New York City’s star medical examiner, has a secret. He doesn't just study the dead to solve criminal cases, he does it to solve the mystery that has eluded him for 200 years—the answer to his own inexplicable immortality. This long life has given Henry remarkable observation skills which impresses his new partner, Detective Jo Martinez. Each week, a new case and their budding friendship will reveal layers of Henry’s long and colorful past. Only his best friend and confidant, Abe knows Henry’s secret.

73

7.5

/382797/

75

/26077/

78

/11464/

85

/176/

53