12 Monkeys

Series Similar to 12 Monkeys

If you enjoyed 12 Monkeys, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Sanctuary

   2008 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8), also on Syfy.

   Sanctuary follows the adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population and a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans.Along with her new recruit, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Will Zimmerman, her quirky tech wiz Henry and her fearless daughter Ashley, Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence.

2. Firefly

   2002 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.9).

   Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.

3. Travelers

   2016 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These Travelers assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.These travelers are: FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren, the team's leader; Marcy, a young, intellectually disabled woman in the care of her social worker, David; Trevor, a high school quarterback; Carly, a single mom in an abusive relationship; and Philip, a heroin-addicted college student.Armed only with their knowledge of history and an archive of social media profiles, the travelers discover that 21st century lives and relationships are as much a challenge as their high-stakes missions.

4. Primeval

   2007 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.1).

   When rips in time called anomalies started opening across the UK, dangerous creatures from the past and future began appearing in the most unexpected places, endangering lives and placing the whole of humanity at risk.A crack team of specialists were appointed by the government to investigate and control "creature incursions," creating the Anomaly Research Center (ARC), which was later privatized. Matt, Abby, Connor and Becker do the field work while Jess mans the ARC control station under the leadership of government official James Lester and the mysterious scientist, Philip Burton

5. Oasis

   2017 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Set in the near future, Oasis tells the story of priest Peter Leigh, who is called to a remote planet where a mysterious multinational company is building the first permanent off-Earth human colony. The planet, Oasis, is humanity's last chance to escape from Earth's impending collapse, but it quickly becomes apparent that it may not be as hospitable to humanity as it seems…

6. Jeremiah

   2002 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile.

   Jeremiah is one of the many young survivors of the "Big Death" that claimed the lives of every adult in the world 15 years ago. Now forging his way through a bleak wilderness fraught with danger and conspiracy, Jeremiah and his most trusted friend, Kurdy , are plunged into thrilling adventures that test every facet of their humanity…and ultimately the fate of the human race itself!

7. V

   2009 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile.

   Simultaneously appearing over every major city in the world, the Visitors (or V's) arrived offering us the wonders of their technology and promoting peace. While the world quickly embraced the V's as saviors, an FBI Counter Terrorist Agent, and others making up the resistance group called The Fifth Column, quickly discovered that the Visitors are not who they said they were. Will humanity stop being fooled and realize the Visitors true intentions before it becomes too late and they take over Earth?

8. The Gifted

   2017 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended86% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile.

   The Gifted tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.

9. Doctor Who

   2005 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended86% match

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Adventures across time and space with the time travelling alien and companions.

10. Outcasts

    2011 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended86% match

    Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, hidden gem.

    A group of courageous pioneers face a unique opportunity: the chance to build a new and better future on another planet.