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Series Similar to Smallville

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

1. Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

   2013 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   Phil Coulson heads an elite team of fellow agents with the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division), as they investigate strange occurrences around the globe. Its members -- each of whom brings a specialty to the group -- work with Coulson to protect those who cannot protect themselves from extraordinary and inconceivable threats.

2. Heroes Reborn

   2015 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   The saga behind the 2006 breakout series Heroes continues as creator Tim Kring returns to the fold and develops new layers to his original superhero concept. This highly anticipated 13-episode miniseries will reconnect with the basic elements of the show's first season where ordinary people were waking up to the fact that they had extraordinary abilities. This series will be preceded by a new digital series that will introduce audiences to the new characters and storylines that will take the "Heroes" phenomenon to new places.

3. Superman & Lois

   2021 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, also on The CW.

   Superman & Lois follows the world's most famous superhero and comic books' most famous journalist, as they deal with all the stress, pressures and complexities that come with being working parents in today's society.

4. The Flash

   1990 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Science-Fiction profile.

   The Flash is Barry Allen, a police scientist, who was working one night during a terrible thunder storm when a bolt of lightning crashes through the lab window, electrocuting him. Barry survives and soon learns that he is now able to move at almost incomprehensible speed.

5. Marvel's The Punisher

   2017 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.4).

   After exacting revenge on those responsible for the death of his wife and children, Frank Castle uncovers a conspiracy that runs far deeper than New York's criminal underworld. Now known throughout the city as The Punisher, he must discover the truth about injustices that affect more than his family alone.

6. The Boys

   2019 · Action, Fantasy, Adult · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8.3).

   In a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame, The Boys centres on a group of vigilantes known informally as "The Boys," who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

7. Arrow

   2012 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, also on The CW.

   After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. He returned home to Starling City, welcomed by his devoted mother Moira, beloved sister Thea and former flame Laurel Lance. With the aid of his trusted chauffeur/bodyguard John Diggle, the computer-hacking skills of Felicity Smoak and the occasional, reluctant assistance of former police detective, now beat cop, Quentin Lance, Oliver has been waging a one-man war on crime.

8. Marvel's Daredevil

   2015 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Matt Murdock, a Marvel Comics hero who's a lawyer by day but fights the bad guys at night to avenge the murder of his father, a boxer. But what sets Matt apart from most superheroes isn't his back story it's his handicap. Matt is blind, the result of a childhood accident that removed his ability to see but gifted him with heightened senses of touch, taste, hearing and smell.

9. Heroes

   2006 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   This epic chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. As a total eclipse casts a shadow across the globe, viewers follow a genetics professor in India whose father's disappearance leads him to uncover a secret theory—there are people with super powers living among us. A young dreamer tries to convince his politician brother that he can fly. A high school cheerleader learns that she is totally indestructible. A Las Vegas stripper, struggling to make ends meet to support her young son, uncovers that her mirror image has a secret. A prison inmate mysteriously finds himself waking up outside of his cell. A gifted artist, whose drug addiction is destroying his life and the relationship with his girlfriend, can paint the future. A down-on-his-luck beat cop can hear people's thoughts, including the secrets of a captured terrorist. In Japan, a young man develops a way to stop time through sheer will power. Their ultimate destiny is nothing less than saving the world.

10. 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.