Defying Gravity

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

1. John Doe

   2002 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended98% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8).

   A man who knows literally everything---except his own identity---helps the Seattle police solve crimes as he tries to figure out who he is and where he came from.

2. Utopia

   2013 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended94% match

   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.

3. Orphan Black

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   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.

4. This is Not My Life

   2010 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   In the peaceful, leafy New Zealand suburb of Waimoana, a man wakes up in a lovely home, to his lovely wife and children. The only problem is that he can't remember anything. Not who he is, ever having a wife and kids, not even his own name. The people around him call him Alec Ross, but he only has their word for that. Setting out to discover what's going on, he stumbles upon the truth - this is not his life. Now he must try and unravel the mystery of Waimoana - and get out alive!

5. Firefly

   2002 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar 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.

6. Eleventh Hour

   2008 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile.

   Eleventh Hour follows Dr. Jacob Hood, a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government as he investigates scientific crises and oddities. His jurisdiction is absolute and Hood is dogged in his pursuit of those who would abuse and misuse scientific discoveries and breakthroughs for their own gain. His passion and crusade is to protect the substance of science from those with nefarious motives. He is called in at the eleventh hour and he represents the last line of defense. Special Agent Rachel Young is the decorated FBI protection officer assigned to watch Hood's back.

7. Counterpart

   2017 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended91% match

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

   Counterpart is about a mysterious world hidden beneath the surface of our everyday existence. Howard Silk is a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. When Howard discovers that his organization safeguards the secret of a crossing into a parallel dimension, he is thrust into a shadow world of intrigue, danger, and double cross… where the only man he can trust is his near-identical counterpart from this parallel world. The show explores themes of identity, fate and lost love, posing the eternal question, "what if our lives could have been different?"

8. Humans

   2015 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended91% match

   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.

9. Sense8

   2015 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended91% match

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

   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.

10. The Leftovers

    2014 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended90% match

    Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile, highly rated (8).

    Three years after millions of people—some 2% of the world's population—vanished into thin air, residents of Mapleton, NY weigh the pros and cons of a "Heroes Day" tribute to the local "Departed". Attempting to maintain a sense of normalcy in his strained community, police chief Kevin Garvey faces additional challenges at home with his daughter, Jill, who's lost in a cloud of apathy with her friend Aimee, and son, Tom, who has gravitated to a cult led by the charismatic Holy Wayne. Also of concern is a silent, white-clad group of chain-smoking men and women called the Guilty Remnant, who team up in pairs to stake out people and places around town. As tension in Mapleton escalates, the lives of Laurie, an unexpected member of the Guilty Remnant, and Meg, a recently engaged young woman, converge.