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Series Similar to Fringe

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

1. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

   2008 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.2), also on FOX.

   The mother of all destiny. Her son, the future leader of mankind. Their protector, a Terminator from the future. Together they must take back the future as Sarah Connor prepares her son to fight the war against machines determined to annihilate the human race. The clock is ticking. Can they stop Judgment Day?

2. Jericho

   2006 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Jericho is a drama about what happens in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion in the once peaceful town of Jericho. Following the battle with New Bern, the citizens of Jericho begin reconstruction efforts to restore the town's power and communication with the outside world. As the country's new leaders, the Cheyenne government, attempt to establish their stronghold in the region, Jericho's citizens become suspicious of their new leaders and question why their community is so important to this newly formed government.

3. The X-Files

   1993 · Drama, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.6), also on FOX.

   Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder (a believer) and Dana Scully (a skeptic), investigate unexplained cases where the paranormal might be involved while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

4. Torchwood

   2006 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended95% match

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

   Captain Jack Harkness is a man from the 51st century trapped in the past who leads the last remnants of the Torchwood Institute, a top secret British agency outside the government whose job it is to investigate alien goings on in the world, act in mankind's best interest, and, if needed, be the Earth's last line of defense.

5. Travelers

   2016 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Action / 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.

6. John Doe

   2002 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended91% match

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

   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.

7. Firefly

   2002 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.9), also on FOX.

   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.

8. Dark Angel

   2000 · Action, Science-Fiction · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.6), also on FOX.

   In the year 2019 the U.S. has become a third world country in the wake of the Pulse - an electromagnetic shockwave unleashed by nuclear terrorists in 2009. This is Max's world, an unforgiving place even for a genetically engineered soldier like her. On the run from her creators and constantly in search of her past, Max joins forces with the idealistic cyberjournalist "Eyes Only". She's a revved-up girl trying to make a run-down world a better place.

9. Babylon 5

   1993 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended88% match

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

   "It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind ten years after the Earth-Minbari War The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where Humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five-hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5".A five season space opera written by J. Michael Straczynsky.

10. 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…