Humans

Series Similar to Humans

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

1. Utopia

   2013 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

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

2. 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.

3. Black Mirror

   2011 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · returning

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

   Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone--a black mirror of our 21st Century existence. Black Mirror is a contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.

4. The Code

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8).

   Stretching from the spectacular red desert of Australia's outback to the cool corridors of power in Canberra, The Code tells the story of two very different brothers who are handed information those in the highest political echelons will kill to keep secret.

5. House of Cards

   2013 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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

   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. 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.

7. Emergence

   2019 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

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

   Emergence centers around a police chief who takes in a young child that she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child's identity is at the center of it all.

8. Extant

   2014 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

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

   Molly Woods is an astronaut who returns home from a year-long solo mission in space and tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.

9. Defying Gravity

   2009 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile.

   Hurtling into the vast challenge of infinite space, the eight astronauts and the ground personnel who support them are on a mission that has a powerful and awesome mystery at its core. The intimate and interconnected relationships among the astronauts and the ground crew, as well as their past actions, have a strangely karmic effect on the present. Episodes are divided between the present, as the Antares travels towards Venus, and the past, with flashbacks to earlier years when the astronauts were in the grueling selection and training process.

10. Pantheon

    2022 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile.

    Pantheon focuses on Maddie, a bullied teen who receives mysterious help from someone online. The stranger is soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being: an "Uploaded Intelligence" or "UI", but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war.Based short stories by Ken Liu