Black Mirror

Series Similar to Black Mirror

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

1. Humans

   2015 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

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

   Humans is set in a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a Synth – a highly-developed robotic servant eerily similar to its live counterpart. In the hope of transforming the way they live, one strained suburban family purchases a refurbished synth only to discover that sharing life with a machine has far-reaching and chilling consequences.

2. Sense8

   2015 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.1), also on Netflix.

   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.

3. Mr. Robot

   2015 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8.3).

   Mr. Robot follows Elliot, a young programmer who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and as a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroads when the mysterious leader of an underground hacker group recruits him to destroy the firm he is paid to protect. Compelled by his personal beliefs, Elliot struggles to resist the chance to take down the multinational CEOs he believes are running (and ruining) the world.

4. Westworld

   2016 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Western · ended

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

   Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

5. House of Cards

   2013 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8.2), also on Netflix.

   Based on the BBC miniseries of the same name, House of Cards follows Francis Underwood, the politician's politician – masterful, beguiling, charismatic and ruthless. He and his equally ambitious wife Claire will stop at nothing to ensure their ascendancy. This wicked political drama slithers beneath the curtain and through the back halls of greed, sex, love and corruption in modern Washington D.C.

6. Travelers

   2016 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   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.

7. Utopia

   2013 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

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

   Utopia based initially around a small group of people who find a rare manuscript of the same name. This leads the group to be targeted by a large organisation with little knowledge of the manuscript's relevance or importance.

8. Pluribus

   2025 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · returning

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile.

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

9. The Undeclared War

   2022 · Drama, Thriller · returning

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Set in 2024, The Undeclared War tracks a leading team of analysts buried in the heart of GCHQ, secretly working to ward off a series of cyber-attacks on the UK in the run up to a general election. When a routine stress test of internet infrastructure goes awry 21-year-old GCHQ intern Saara Parvin suddenly finds herself operating on the invisible frontier of high-stakes cyber warfare.

10. Orphan Black

    2013 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.6).

    Orphan Black is about Sarah, an outsider and orphan whose life changes dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman, "Beth", who looks just like her. Sarah takes her identity, her boyfriend and her money. But instead of solving her problems, the street-smart chameleon is thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery. She makes the dizzying discovery that she and the dead woman are clones... but are they the only ones? Sarah quickly finds herself caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy, racing to find answers.