Utopian/Dystopian TV Shows (
)

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.

The Last Man on Earth

Everyone dies. Except it’s not everyone. It would be a pretty boring show if it was everyone, I guess…

Network:
Airdates: 2015 - 2018

The Man in the High Castle

What if the Nazis won? Everything would suck.

Network:
Airdates: 2015 - 2019

The Power

When girls and women everywhere develop the ability to produce electricity, the world as we know it is changed as woman fight the imbalance they were born into.

Network:
Airdates: 2023

The Purge

People discover how far they will go to survive a night where all crime is legal for 12 hours.

Network:
Airdates: 2018 - 2020

The Stand (2020)

After the world is in ruins, due to a man-made plague, a battle of Biblical proportions ensues between the survivors.

Network:
Airdates: 2020 - 2021

Upload

A man is able to choose his own afterlife after his untimely death by having his consciousness uploaded into a virtual world. As he gets used to his new life and befriends his angel (real world handler), questions about his death arise.

Network:
Airdates: 2020 - current

Utopia Falls

Each year, 24 candidates from different sectors are chosen to compete in The Exemplar, an annual performance competition. These candidates have to be 16-years old and are chosen based on their talent.

Network:
Airdates: 2020

X

It’s 1999 and we’re all gonna die. Which happened to be 2 years before this anime was aired.

Network:
Airdates: 2001 - 2002

Y: The Last Man

Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Y is the last surviving cis-male human on the planet.

Network:
Airdates: 2021

Z Nation

A comedy about life after the zombie apocalypse.

Network:
Airdates: 2014 - 2019