Best TV shows — science-fiction on Apple TV+ : our Top 20

2022 · Dan Erickson · 3 seasons

Mark heads a team of office employees who have undergone surgery to partition their recollections into separate professional and private selves. When a stranger from within their ranks turns up in the world beyond the office, it sets them on a perilous quest to uncover what their work actually entails and who’s been controlling their lives.

With Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Dichen Lachman and Michael Chernus

2016 · Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy · 4 seasons

A bleak odyssey tracing the emergence of sentient machines and the shifting landscape of human vice, where new forms of awareness force a reckoning with desire, guilt and responsibility. Set where a near-future reality collides with a reimagined past, it imagines a society in which technology makes every craving attainable—whether altruistic or corrupt—blurring the line between creator and creation and exposing the true price of indulgence.

With Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Ed Harris, Luke Hemsworth and James Marsden

2023 · Graham Yost · 2 seasons

Centuries after the surface turned into a poisoned wasteland, thousands of people eke out an existence inside a vast underground silo. When the silo’s sheriff breaks a sacred rule and a string of unexplained deaths follows, engineer Juliette starts probing forbidden zones and buried records, unraveling a web of lies and the dark truth at the heart of their refuge.

With Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, Rick Gomez and Tim Robbins

2008 · J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci · 5 seasons

FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham teams up with Walter Bishop, a brilliant scientist who spent years institutionalized, and his calculating but reluctant son Peter to probe a string of inexplicable incidents. As they peel back layers of the case, they uncover a deadly conspiracy that forces them to confront a disturbing overlap between speculative science and emerging technology.

With Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Jasika Nicole, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown and Leonard Nimoy

2025 · Vince Gilligan · 1 season

A chronically gloomy loner, convinced that misery defines them, is suddenly tasked with stopping a contagious surge of joy from sweeping the planet—forced to fight happiness itself to protect the world they believe belongs to sorrow.

With Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra, Carlos-Manuel Vesga, Miriam Shor and Samba Schutte

2015 · Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby · 6 seasons

Two centuries from now, a vanished young woman drags a world‑weary detective and a rogue freighter captain into an uneasy partnership. Their pursuit sweeps them from neon orbital cities to the frozen fringes of the solar system, racing ahead of corporate enforcers, private militias, and hidden agencies. As scattered clues coalesce, they begin to unravel a vast, centuries‑old plot whose exposure could topple the foundations of human society.

With Steven Strait, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Cas Anvar, Frankie Adams and Cara Gee

2019 · Steven Knight · 3 seasons

A devastating pandemic left the human race sightless, and generations later people have learned to live in a world of dark rituals and cautious order. Centuries after the collapse, twins are born who possess a legendary gift—the ability to see—and their existence upends long-standing beliefs. A queen, threatened by what their vision could mean for her rule, moves to eliminate the danger, forcing the twins’ father to stand between his clan and a sovereign who will stop at nothing to protect her power.

With Jason Momoa, Sylvia Hoeks, Hera Hilmar, Christian Camargo, Archie Madekwe, Nesta Cooper and Eden Epstein

2017 · 1 season

Kim Min Gyu has everything money can buy, yet a bizarre allergy to other people keeps him confined to a solitary life. His carefully controlled existence is upended when he falls for a woman who, to placate her brilliant ex—a robotics professor—has been masquerading as an android.

With Yoo Seung-ho, Chae Soo-bin, Uhm Ki-joon, Kang Ki-young, Hwang Seung-eon, Kim Ha-kyoon and Park Se-wan

2017 · Noah Hawley · 3 seasons

A troubled young man named David Haller, long written off as schizophrenic and shuffled through psychiatric wards, begins to suspect there’s more to his condition than illness. After a strange encounter with another patient, the line between hallucination and reality blurs as he faces the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he experiences may point to powers or truths beyond comprehension.

With Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Jeremie Harris, Amber Midthunder, Bill Irwin and Hamish Linklater

2019 · Ronald D. Moore, Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert · 5 seasons

In a world where NASA and human spaceflight stayed at the heart of the country's ambitions, this series follows the triumphs and struggles of astronauts, engineers, and their families, revealing how a sustained commitment to exploration shapes careers, relationships, and the dreams of an entire generation.

With Joel Kinnaman, Shantel VanSanten, Jodi Balfour, Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Noah Harpster and Michael Dorman

2021 · David S. Goyer · 3 seasons

A disparate group of outcasts sets off on an epic quest to safeguard humanity and piece together a broken civilization as the Galactic Empire collapses. Along the way they confront ruthless foes, harsh frontiers, and the moral cost of rebuilding a future from the ruins of the past.

With Jared Harris, Lou Llobell, Lee Pace, Leah Harvey, Laura Birn, Terrence Mann and Cassian Bilton

2022 · Kyle Killen, Steven Kane · 2 seasons

In the 26th century, humanity wages war against an alien force called the Covenant in a sweeping saga that combines intimate, character-driven drama with relentless action, bold adventure, and a vividly realized vision of the future.

With Pablo Schreiber, Natascha McElhone, Jen Taylor, Yerin Ha, Charlie Murphy, Shabana Azmi and Danny Sapani

2018 · Cary Joji Fukunaga, Patrick Somerville · 1 season

When two strangers sign up for a secret drug trial that guarantees a permanent, complication-free solution to their problems, they expect their lives to be fixed — but the experiment quickly unravels, unleashing unexpected and dangerous consequences.

With Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Sonoya Mizuno, Justin Theroux, Sally Field, Kathleen Choe and Danny Hoch

2016 · Pedro Aguilera · 4 seasons

Floortje Dessing and Sebastiaan Labrie anchor a travel series that each episode adds a guest presenter, who travels to and reports from an eco-conscious destination, spotlighting sustainable travel, local culture, and conservation efforts.

With Bianca Comparato, Vaneza Oliveira, Rodolfo Valente, Rafael Lozano, Thais Lago, Laila Garin and Bruno Fagundes

2023 · Liu Cixin · 1 season

Nanotechnology researcher Wang Miao is escorted to the Joint Operations Center by the tough-minded police officer Shi Qiang, who is investigating a baffling wave of suicides among scientists worldwide. Recruited to go undercover, Wang is sent to infiltrate a shadowy group called the Frontiers of Science to assist the inquiry. There he is contacted by the organization’s enigmatic leader, Shen Yufei, who introduces him to an immersive virtual-reality experience known as Three-Body — a game that soon reveals itself to be far more than mere entertainment.

With Zhang Luyi, Yu Hewei, Chen Jin, Wang Ziwen, Lin Yongjian, Li Xiaoran and He Dujuan

1966 · Gene Roddenberry · 3 seasons

The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five-year exploratory voyage across the galaxy, commanded by Captain James T. Kirk with his Vulcan first officer, Mr. Spock. With a steadfast crew at his side, the starship confronts Klingon and Romulan adversaries, untangles bewildering temporal anomalies, deals with proliferating tribbles, and faces genetically engineered opponents led by Khan Noonien Singh, all while charting unfamiliar star systems and encountering new forms of life and civilizations.

With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig

2011 · 5 seasons

A select team called the X-Men—humans born with extraordinary abilities—dedicates itself to defending mutant civil rights against oppressive government forces while also protecting the broader population from Magneto, a militant mutant driven by vengeance who seeks to annihilate humanity in retaliation for the persecution of his kind.

With Rikiya Koyama, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Kaori Yamagata, Hideyuki Tanaka, Yukari Tamura, Katsunosuke Hori and Aya Hisakawa

2020 · 1 season

The Western began with veteran character actor Ward Bond as the wagon master; following his death the part was taken over by John McIntire. Robert Horton played the scout in the show's early years, and when he chose to leave the series he was replaced a year later by the visually similar Robert Fuller to maintain continuity. The program was inspired by John Ford’s 1950 film Wagon Master, which featured Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., and Ward Bond, and it consciously nodded to earlier widescreen wagon-train epics such as The Big Trail — the picture that marked Bond’s first major screen role opposite John Wayne. In its first season the scout’s buckskin costume echoed Wayne’s earlier scout outfit, reinforcing the show’s ties to those cinematic predecessors.

With Yun Si-yun, Kyung Soo-jin, Shin So-yul, Cho Wan-ki, Cha Yup, Kim Dong-young and Lee Hang-na

2023 · Matt Fraction, Chris Black · 2 seasons

Surviving Godzilla’s assault on San Francisco leaves Cate shaken, and a buried family secret soon upends her life again. Hunted by colossal threats, she sets out on a perilous, globe-spanning hunt for answers about her past and the shadowy organization known as Monarch. As alliances shift and hidden truths surface, Cate must confront what she’s willing to sacrifice to protect those she loves.

With Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett and Elisa Lasowski

2020 · Nathaniel Halpern · 1 season

A small town sits above "The Loop," an experimental device built to probe and harness the universe's hidden laws, forcing its residents to navigate astonishing breakthroughs—and unforeseen consequences—that were once only imagined in science fiction.

With Daniel Zolghadri, Robert Nahum Allen, Paul Schneider, Rebecca Hall, Ato Essandoh, Duncan Joiner and Jonathan Pryce