The Best Futuristic TV Shows on Netflix
Finding a good Futuristic TV show to watch can be hard, so we've ranked the best ones and included where to watch them. Check out our list of the best Futuristic TV shows of all time streaming on Netflix.
1. Altered Carbon
What it's about: After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.
Where to Watch: 18 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix). 10 episodes (56%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (Vudu).
2. The Shannara Chronicles
What it's about: A young Healer armed with an unpredictable magic guides a runaway Elf in her perilous quest to save the peoples of the Four Lands from an age-old Demon scourge.
Where to Watch: 7 episodes (33%) are available to watch free online (Tubi). 20 episodes (95%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix). 19 episodes (90%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
3. Cleverman
What it's about: In the near future, creatures from ancient Aboriginal mythology endowed with extraordinary physical traits have emerged and must coexist with humans. Known as 'Hairypeople' they battle for survival in a world that wants to exploit and destroy them. One young man – The Cleverman – struggles with his own power and the responsibility to unite this divided world, but he must first overcome a deep estrangement from his older brother.
Where to Watch: 12 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix). 12 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).
4. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
What it's about: She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time... Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn't know if it happened by chance or by fate yet. This is a fateful encounter that can change her destiny. This is a beginning of the new story of the magical witch girls.
Where to Watch: 12 episodes (92%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll). 13 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix, HBO MAX & 2 others).
5. Knights of Sidonia
What it's about: An alien race called Gauna has destroyed Earth. leaving humanity struggling to survive aboard the spaceship Sidonia. Even though it’s been a century since the last encounter with the Gauna, military service is mandatory. For Nagate Tanikaze, whose grandfather secretly hid him in the forgotten bowels of Sidonia, it’s a strange new world as he’s forced to come to the surface. Yet his recruitment comes just in time, for the Gauna have suddenly reappeared.
Where to Watch: 24 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix).
6. The Barrier
What it's about: One family’s fight for survival in a future dystopian Madrid illustrates the disparity between two worlds separated by a fence — and so much more.
Where to Watch: 1 episodes (8%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix).
7. Omniscient
What it's about: In a city where citizens are monitored 24/7, a tech employee must outsmart her surveillance drone in order to investigate a murder.
Where to Watch: 6 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix).
8. Transfers
What it's about: Thanks to science, after five years of coma, Florian has his mind transferred into another's body. Now he has to hide his identity, living as an officer with BATI, the anti-transfers unit.
Where to Watch: 6 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix).
9. Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045
What it's about: In the year 2045, after global capitalism has defaulted, Japan's elite Section 9 begins conducting covert cyber operations.
Where to Watch: 12 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix).
10. Trash Truck
What it's about: Six-year old Hank and his best pal, a giant trash truck, explore the world around them on fantastical adventures with their animal friends.
Where to Watch: 12 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix).
11. Cagaster of an Insect Cage
What it's about: Thirty years after a disease that turns the infected into carnivorous insects emerged, a young exterminator and a teenage girl search for her mother.
Where to Watch: 12 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix).
12. Kong: King of the Apes
What it's about: Set in 2050, Kong becomes a wanted fugitive after wrecking havoc at Alcatraz Island’s Natural History and Marine Preserve. What most humans on the hunt for the formidable animal don’t realize, though, is that Kong was framed by an evil genius who plans to terrorize the world with an army of enormous robotic dinosaurs. As the only beast strong enough to save humanity from the mechanical dinos, Kong must rely on the help of three kids who know the truth about him.
Where to Watch: 23 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix). 23 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $0.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).