Krypton

Series Similar to Krypton

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

1. Legion

   2017 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   Legion introduces the story of David Haller: Since he was a teenager, David has struggled with mental illness. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he's confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real. He's based on the Marvel comics character Legion, the son of X-Men founder Charles Xavier (played by Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy in the films), first introduced in 1985.

2. The Umbrella Academy

   2019 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   Reunited by their father's death, estranged siblings with extraordinary powers uncover shocking family secrets — and a looming threat to humanity.

3. Defiance

   2013 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, also on Syfy.

   Set on a future Earth, Defiance introduces players and viewers to a world where humans and aliens live together on a planet ravaged by decades of war and transformed by alien terra-forming machines. It centers on Jeb Nolan, the law-keeper in a bustling frontier boomtown that is one of the new world's few oasis of civility and inclusion. Nolan is a former Marine who fought in the alien conflict and suffered the loss of his wife and child in the war. The trauma transformed him into a lone wanderer in the wilds of this new and dangerous world.

4. Colony

   2016 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   Colony is a naturalistic drama about a family that's torn by opposing forces and makes difficult decisions as its members balance staying together with surviving the struggle of the human race. Set in the near future, the story takes place in Los Angeles, which exists in a state of occupation by a force of outside intruders. Some people choose to collaborate with the authorities and benefit from the new order, while others rebel and suffer the consequences. Josh Holloway stars in Colony as Will Bowman a former FBI agent who — in a bid to protect his family — is forced to collaborate with the occupational government to bring down the growing resistance movement inside the L.A. colony. Sarah Wayne Callies co-stars as Katie Bowman, Will's wife and a mother of three who struggles daily to keep her family safe and united in an occupied Los Angeles.

5. Stargate Atlantis

   2004 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.8), also on Syfy.

   Atlantis, built thousands of years ago by the highly evolved Ancients, is home base for an elite expedition from Earth. These courageous military commanders and scientists leap through the city's Stargate to explore the wondrous Pegasus galaxy and battle the treacherous Wraith, who seek control of Atlantis -- at any cost.

6. Marvel's Jessica Jones

   2015 · Action, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   Haunted by a traumatic past, Jessica Jones uses her gifts as a private eye to find her tormentor before he can harm anyone else in Hell's Kitchen.

7. DC's Legends of Tomorrow

   2016 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   When heroes alone are not enough... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat - one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

8. The Event

   2010 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   Sean Walker, stumbles into a national conspiracy after his girlfriend Leila mysteriously disappears from a Caribbean cruise. Elsewhere, President Elias Martinez is scheduled to announce the release of a group of detainees led by Sophia Maguire -- despite the disapproval of his Director of National Intelligence, Blake Sterling. Their futures are on a collision course in a global conspiracy that could ultimately change the fate of mankind.

9. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

   2008 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   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?

10. Blake's 7

    1978 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

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

    In this British series by Terry Nation, Blake is a rebel framed for pedophilia. En route to a penal colony, Blake convinces several of his fellow prisoners to revolt. They find an alien spaceship and strike out to bring down the Empire. Some of them want freedom, some of them want money, some of them want to be left alone. Together, they are... Blake's 7.