Orphan Black

Series Similar to Orphan Black

If you enjoyed Orphan Black, 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 · ended97% 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.

2. Counterpart

   2017 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended94% 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?"

3. Humans

   2015 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended94% 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.

4. Sense8

   2015 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended93% 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.

5. The Man in the High Castle

   2015 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended93% match

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

   The Man in the High Castle is a startling depiction of an alternate history as imagined by author Philip K. Dick in his best-selling novel; a world in which Nazi Germany and Japan were victorious in World War II. The year is 1962 and the Axis Powers occupy the United States, where fascism rules and the few surviving Jews hide under assumed names.

6. The Leftovers

   2014 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended92% 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.

7. Our Zoo

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended91% match

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

   Our Zoo is a drama series based on the true story of the Mottershead family who, in the face of staunch opposition and huge personal sacrifice, founded Chester Zoo in the 1930s.

8. Black Mirror

   2011 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · returning90% match

   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.

9. Oasis

   2017 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended90% 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…

10. The Lost Room

    2006 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended90% match

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

    A mysterious event at the Sunshine Motel caused ordinary things in Room 10 to transform into indestructible objects with extraordinary powers. Detective Joe Miller discovers the dangerous potential of these objects when his daughter becomes lost in the room. His only hope of saving her is to find The Key, but shadowy figures will stop at nothing to keep it - and the other objects - for themselves.