Night Sky

Series Similar to Night Sky

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

1. Surface

   2005 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   During a routine submarine dive, oceanographer Laura Daughtery discovers an unknown life form and unearths a government cover-up operation led by scientist Dr. Aleksander Cirko. Meanwhile, Louisiana fisherman Richard Beck loses his brother in a suspicious diving accident, and a young boy named Miles sneaks an unusual aquatic egg into his home. From the South Antarctic Sea and the Gulf of Mexico to San Diego and Monterey, there's something lurking beneath the Surface.

2. Extant

   2014 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction 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.

3. Journeyman

   2007 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, hidden gem.

   Journeyman is a romantic mystery-drama about Dan Vasser, a San Francisco newspaper reporter and family man who inexplicably begins to travel through time and change the course of people's lives. Along the way, he must also deal with the difficulties and strife at work and home brought on by his sudden disappearances. His freewheeling travels through the decades reunite him with his long-lost fiance Livia--which complicates his blissful, present-day life with his vivacious wife Katie and son.

4. Firefly

   2002 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / 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.

5. Primeval

   2007 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   When rips in time called anomalies started opening across the UK, dangerous creatures from the past and future began appearing in the most unexpected places, endangering lives and placing the whole of humanity at risk.A crack team of specialists were appointed by the government to investigate and control "creature incursions," creating the Anomaly Research Center (ARC), which was later privatized. Matt, Abby, Connor and Becker do the field work while Jess mans the ARC control station under the leadership of government official James Lester and the mysterious scientist, Philip Burton

6. Oasis

   2017 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.4), also on Prime Video.

   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…

7. Childhood's End

   2015 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   Written by Arthur C. Clarke and hailed as a revolutionary work of science fiction since its publishing in 1953, Childhood's End follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious "Overlords," whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.

8. Resident Alien

   2021 · Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   Resident Alien is a dark, twisted and comedic fish-out-of-water story that follows a crash-landed alien named Harry who, after taking on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor, slowly begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his secret mission on Earth — ultimately asking the question, "Are human beings worth saving?"

9. The Time Traveler's Wife

   2022 · Drama, Romance, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   An intricate and magical love story, adapted by Steven Moffat from the much loved novel by Audrey Niffenegger and directed by David Nutter, the limited series The Time Traveler's Wife tells the story of Clare and Henry, and a marriage with a problem... time travel.

10. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

    2023 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · returning

    Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile.

    After surviving Godzilla's attack on San Francisco, Cate is shaken yet again by a shocking secret. Amid monstrous threats, she embarks on a globetrotting adventure to learn the truth about her family—and the mysterious organization known as Monarch.