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.

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

A girl explores the possibilities in a post-apocalyptic world.

Network:
Airdates: 2020

Knights of Sidonia

A thousand years after the destruction of Earth by gigantic aliens called Gauna, mankind is living on massive spaceships and are protected by giant robots.

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Airdates: 2014 - 2015

Motherland: Fort Salem

Three young witches are trained to become powerful weapons for the American military.

Network:
Airdates: 2020 - 2022

See

Far in a dystopian future, the human race has lost the sense of sight, and society has had to find new ways to interact, build, hunt, and to survive. All of that is challenged when a set of twins are born with sight.

Network:
Airdates: 2019 - 2022

Severance

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

Network:
Airdates: 2022 - current

Shadow and Bone

Dark forces conspire against orphan mapmaker Alina Starkov when she unleashes an extraordinary power that could change the fate of her war-torn world.

Network:
Airdates: 2021 - 2023

Snowpiercer

Set over seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, Snowpiercer centers on the remnants of humanity, who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe.

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Airdates: 2020 - 2024

Squid Game

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits with deadly high stakes: a survival game that has a whopping 45.6 billion-won prize at stake.

Network:
Airdates: 2021 - 2025

Survivors

When a deadly virus wipes out most of the world’s population, a handful of survivors struggle to stay alive.

Network:
Airdates: 2008 - 2010

Tactical Roar

Hijinks on an all-female military vessel.

Network:
Airdates: 2006

The 100

100 attractive teenagers are dropped onto an ‘uninhabited’ and ‘irradiated’ earth to see if it’s survivable.

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Airdates: 2014 - 2020

The Handmaid’s Tale

A dystopian drama web series created by Bruce Miller, based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 seminal dystopian feminist novel of the same name.

Network:
Airdates: 2017 - 2025