The Flash

Series Similar to The Flash

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

1. Smallville

   2001 · Drama, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.1), also on The CW.

   A retelling of Superman's early days as teenager Clark Kent growing up in Smallville, Kansas. He is guided by his adopted parents Jonathan and Martha Kent.Friends and adversaries include Lana Lang, Chloe Sullivan, Pete Ross, Lois Lane and Lex Luthor and his father Lionel Luthor.

2. Arrow

   2012 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / 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.

3. DC's Legends of Tomorrow

   2016 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   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?

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

   2013 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / 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.

5. 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.

6. Marvel's Luke Cage

   2016 · Action, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   After a sabotaged experiment leaves him with super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage becomes a fugitive trying to rebuild his life in modern day Harlem, New York City. But he is soon pulled out of the shadows and must fight a battle for the heart of his city – forcing him to confront a past he had tried to bury.

7. Superman & Lois

   2021 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / 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.

8. Supergirl

   2015 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   Supergirl is an action-adventure drama based on the DC Comics character Kara Zor-El, Superman's (Kal-El) cousin who, after 12 years of keeping her powers a secret on Earth, decides to finally embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be.

9. No Ordinary Family

   2010 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   No Ordinary Family follows the Powell Family, who go from ordinary to extraordinary. After 16 years of marriage, Jim feels disconnected from his workaholic wife, Stephanie, and two teenage children, Daphne and JJ. To encourage family bonding time, Jim decides the family will join Stephanie on her business trip to South America. When their plane crashes into the Amazon River, they barely enjoy a moment to celebrate their survival before returning to the grind of everyday life. But they soon realize that their lives have been forever changed. Each member of the family starts to show signs of new, unique and distinct super powers. Will their newfound abilities finally bring them together or push them further apart?

10. Babylon 5

    1993 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

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

    "It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind ten years after the Earth-Minbari War The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where Humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five-hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5".A five season space opera written by J. Michael Straczynsky.