Utopian/Dystopian TV Shows (
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The utopia and its derivative, the dystopia, are genres of literature that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author’s ethos, having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers. Dystopian (or dystopic) fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from apocalyptic literature) is the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author’s ethos.

3%

A bleak future where only 3% get to live in Utopia.

Network:
Airdates: 2016 - 2020

After Oil

After all the oil is gone, what’s left but each other?

Network:
Airdates: 2017

Altered Carbon

Consciousness is digitized and stored in cortical stacks implanted in the spine, allowing humans to survive physical death by having their memories and consciousness “re-sleeved” into new bodies.

Network:
Airdates: 2018 - 2019

Brains

An award-winning web series about love, friendship, neuropsychology, and zombies.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2015 - 2016

Brave New World

TV adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s book set in dystopian future.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2020

Class of ’07

When an apocalyptic tidal wave hits during the ten-year reunion of an all-girls high school, a group of women must find a way to survive on the island peak of their high school campus.

Network:
Airdates: 2023

Creamerie

A viral plague has swept the earth, and in a matter of weeks, it decimated 99% of men. The 1% were sent to The Facility in New Zealand but didn’t survive. Or did they?

Network:
Airdates: 2021

Day 5

An unexplainable epidemic has swept across the globe affecting every human being. People are frantically searching for answers because if you fall asleep… You die.

Network:
Airdates: 2016 - 2017

Falconette

Three young musicians (Bou, Joshi, and Artemis) make up Pure Vision. Once they discover that the government they’ve been representing is corrupt, Pure Vision becomes Falconette and thus begins their shift into a rebel punk group, fulfilling their thrasher destiny.

Network:
Airdates: 2019

Fallout

In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.

Network:
Airdates: 2024 - current

gen:LOCK

In a dystopian future Earth, an international coalition known as The Polity fights a hostile, autocratic invading force known as The Union.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2019 - 2021

Into the Badlands

If you like Game of Thrones as a concept but wish it wasn’t so violent and brutal, watch this show instead. You’ll like it.

Network:
Airdates: 2015 - 2019