Utopia

Series Similar to Utopia

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

1. Black Mirror

   2011 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · returning99% 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.

2. Humans

   2015 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.2), also on Channel 4.

   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.

3. Orphan Black

   2013 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.6).

   Orphan Black is about Sarah, an outsider and orphan whose life changes dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman, "Beth", who looks just like her. Sarah takes her identity, her boyfriend and her money. But instead of solving her problems, the street-smart chameleon is thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery. She makes the dizzying discovery that she and the dead woman are clones... but are they the only ones? Sarah quickly finds herself caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy, racing to find answers.

4. Fringe

   2008 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.6).

   When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport and the passengers and crew have all died grisly deaths, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate. After her partner is nearly killed during the investigation, a desperate Olivia searches frantically for someone to help, leading her to Dr. Walter Bishop, our generation's Einstein. There's only one catch: he's been institutionalized for the last twenty years, and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son Peter in to help. When Olivia's investigation leads her to a manipulative corporate executive, she and her team will discover that what happened on Flight 627 is only a small piece of a larger, more shocking truth and will explore the blurring line between the possible and the impossible.

5. Emergence

   2019 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile.

   Emergence centers around a police chief who takes in a young child that she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child's identity is at the center of it all.

6. Counterpart

   2017 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended95% 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?"

7. Torchwood

   2006 · Drama, Science-Fiction · ended95% match

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

   Captain Jack Harkness is a man from the 51st century trapped in the past who leads the last remnants of the Torchwood Institute, a top secret British agency outside the government whose job it is to investigate alien goings on in the world, act in mankind's best interest, and, if needed, be the Earth's last line of defense.

8. Sense8

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

9. The Man in the High Castle

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

10. The Leftovers

    2014 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended94% 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.