X-Men '97

Series Similar to X-Men '97

If you enjoyed X-Men '97, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

   2012 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (a prequel to the critically acclaimed hit series, Battlestar Galactica) takes place in the midst of the First Cylon war. As the battle between humans and their creation, the sentient robotic Cylons, rages across the 12 colonial worlds, a young, talented fighter pilot, William Adama, finds himself assigned to one of the most powerful battlestars in the Colonial fleet: the Galactica. Full of ambition and in pursuit of the intense action that the Cylon war promises, Adama quickly finds himself at odds with his co-pilot, the battle-weary officer Coker. With only 47 days left in his tour of duty, Coker desires an end to battle just as much as Adama craves the start of it. Though they clash at first, the two men forge an unlikely bond when a routine escort mission with an enigmatic passenger turns dangerous and becomes a pivotal one for the desperate fleet.

2. Doctor Who

   1963 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   Doctor Who is the longest-running science fiction TV series in history, airing initially from 1963 to 1989. Doctor Who is about ideas. It pioneered sophisticated mixed-level storytelling. Its format was the key to its longevity: the Doctor, a mysterious traveller in space and time, travels in his ship, the TARDIS. The TARDIS can take him and his companions anywhere in time and space. Inevitably he finds evil at work wherever he goes..

3. Loki

   2021 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.1), also on Disney+.

   Loki follows the trickster and shape-shifter god who pops up throughout human history as an unlikely influencer on historical events.

4. Dark Angel

   2000 · Action, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   In the year 2019 the U.S. has become a third world country in the wake of the Pulse - an electromagnetic shockwave unleashed by nuclear terrorists in 2009. This is Max's world, an unforgiving place even for a genetically engineered soldier like her. On the run from her creators and constantly in search of her past, Max joins forces with the idealistic cyberjournalist "Eyes Only". She's a revved-up girl trying to make a run-down world a better place.

5. What If...?

   2021 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, also on Disney+.

   What If…? flips the script on the MCU by reimagining events from the films in unexpected ways. Marvel Studios' first animated series focuses on different heroes from the MCU, featuring a voice cast that includes a host of stars who reprise their roles.

6. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

   2008 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.2).

   The mother of all destiny. Her son, the future leader of mankind. Their protector, a Terminator from the future. Together they must take back the future as Sarah Connor prepares her son to fight the war against machines determined to annihilate the human race. The clock is ticking. Can they stop Judgment Day?

7. Lanterns

   2026 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · returning

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

   Lanterns follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.

8. Person of Interest

   2011 · Action, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.8).

   You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it. I designed the Machine to detect acts of terror but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people. People like you. Crimes the government considered "irrelevant". They wouldn't act so I decided I would. But I needed a partner. Someone with the skills to intervene. Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret. You'll never find us. But victim or perpetrator, if your number is up, we'll find you.

9. Jericho

   2006 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   Jericho is a drama about what happens in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion in the once peaceful town of Jericho. Following the battle with New Bern, the citizens of Jericho begin reconstruction efforts to restore the town's power and communication with the outside world. As the country's new leaders, the Cheyenne government, attempt to establish their stronghold in the region, Jericho's citizens become suspicious of their new leaders and question why their community is so important to this newly formed government.

10. Marvel's Agent Carter

    2015 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

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

    Marvel's Agent Carter, starring Captain America's Hayley Atwell, follows the story of Peggy Carter. It's 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life—Steve Rogers. Inspired by the feature films Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, along with the short Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter.