Best TV shows — fantasy on Netflix : our Top 20

2020 · 1 season

By day he tends a small bakery; by night he hunts demons. Reborn as a deity, Zhong Kui must coax his lover’s lost memories back to the surface and reclaim the thousand-year love they once shared.

With Mike He, Yin Chao-Te, Dewi Chien, Amanda Chou, Bor Jeng Chen, Ivy Shao and Guang Chen

2016 · Tom Kapinos · 6 seasons

Weary of ruling the underworld, Lucifer Morningstar abandons his throne and crashes into life in Los Angeles, where he partners with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to hunt down criminals. But as he lingers farther from Hell, the realm's grip weakens—raising the risk that the worst of humanity (and whatever lurks below) could slip loose.

With Tom Ellis, Lauren German, Kevin Alejandro, D.B. Woodside, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Rachael Harris and Aimee Garcia

2022 · Miles Millar, Alfred Gough · 3 seasons

With Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Percy Hynes White, Hunter Doohan, Gwendoline Christie and Riki Lindhome

2016 · Michael Schur · 4 seasons

Eleanor Shellstrop unexpectedly wakes up in the afterlife and quickly faces the truth that her past choices weren't exactly admirable. With the guidance of a perceptive mentor in this new realm, she resolves to abandon old habits and grow into a better—if not flawless—version of herself.

With Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, Manny Jacinto, D'Arcy Carden and Marc Evan Jackson

2020 · Han Woo-ri · 1 season

Nam Ji-Ah est une productrice de télévision désireuse de prouver l'existence des créatures surnaturelles grâce à son émission spécialisée dans le paranormal. Cependant, quand une créature légendaire apparaît en ville, Nam Ji-Ah va tout mettre en œuvre pour révéler sa véritable nature, même si cela implique de se rapprocher beaucoup plus près du renard à neuf queues.

With Lee Dong-wook, Jo Bo-ah, Kim Bum, Kim Yong-ji, Hwang Hee, Kim Jung-nan and Ahn Kil-kang

2014 · Ronald D. Moore · 8 seasons

Claire Randall, a married combat nurse returning from 1945, is inexplicably hurled into 1743 and stranded in a dangerous, unfamiliar world. Forced by circumstance into marriage with Jamie, a gallant and passionate young Scottish warrior, she finds herself caught in an unexpected, consuming love that pulls her between two very different men and two lives that cannot easily be reconciled.

With Caitríona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Richard Rankin, Sophie Skelton, Duncan Lacroix, César Domboy and John Bell

2009 · Julie Plec, Kevin Williamson · 8 seasons

Centuries after losing the woman who defined their dark existence, two vampire brothers become dangerously fixated on a modern-day woman whose eerie resemblance to the seductive, ruthless lover they shared in 1864 reignites old rivalries, buried loyalties, and long-buried sins.

With Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Kat Graham, Candice King, Zach Roerig and Michael Trevino

2020 · Benjamin Dupas, Isaure Pisani-Ferry, Anne Cissé · 1 season

In the shadowed corners of Paris, a teenager of human and vampire blood must learn to control newly awakened powers and navigate a crumbling family life while a covert vampire cabal closes in to claim her.

With Juliette Cardinski, Oulaya Amamra, Pierre Lottin, Aliocha Schneider, Kate Moran, Mounir Amamra and Dylan Robert

2022 · Chun Sung-il, JQ Lee · 2 seasons

A fast-moving contagion erupts inside a high school, trapping students behind locked doors and turning the halls into a battleground; they must band together and fight their way to safety—or be consumed and transformed into the ferocious infected.

With Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-young, Cho Yi-hyun, Lomon, Yoo In-soo, Lee You-mi and Kim Byung-chul

2019 · Dennis Heaton, Shelley Eriksen · 2 seasons

A college student bent on avenging his mother's murder infiltrates a covert order, only to be plunged into a brutal clash between feral werewolves and practitioners of forbidden sorcery; as secrets unravel and alliances shift, his quest for revenge forces him to confront what he’s willing to sacrifice to stop the rising darkness.

With Jake Manley, Sarah Grey, Devery Jacobs, Thomas Elms, Katharine Isabelle, Louriza Tronco and Adam DiMarco

2016 · Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij · 2 seasons

Seven years after disappearing without a trace, a young woman reappears changed—endowed with baffling new abilities—and quietly recruits five unrelated people to join a covert operation. As her past unravels and the strangers grow closer, they must choose whether to risk everything for a mission that could upend their lives and reveal a far-reaching conspiracy.

With Brit Marling, Jason Isaacs, Emory Cohen, Phyllis Smith, Patrick Gibson, Brendan Meyer and Brandon Perea

2020 · Jonathan Entwistle, Christy Hall · 1 season

Syd, a moody teenager, juggles high school embarrassment, tense family ties and an unreciprocated crush on her best friend while desperately trying to control newly awakened superpowers.

With Sophia Lillis, Wyatt Oleff, Sofia Bryant, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Joe Fishel, Richard Ellis and Aidan Wojtak-Hissong

2022 · Neil Gaiman, David S. Goyer, Allan Heinberg · 2 seasons

Freed after years of captivity, Morpheus—the sovereign of dreams—undertakes a perilous odyssey across shifting realms to recover what was taken from him and reclaim the power that once sustained his realm.

With Tom Sturridge, Boyd Holbrook, Vivienne Acheampong, Patton Oswalt, Vanesu Samunyai, David Thewlis and Razane Jammal

2020 · Amr Salama · 1 season

Sian Eleri, Radio 1 presenter, embarks on a series that probes eerie and unexplained phenomena—visiting haunted locations, interviewing witnesses, skeptics and experts, and piecing together chilling accounts to explore where belief ends and explanation begins.

With Ahmed Amin, Razane Jammal, Aya Samaha, Reem Abdel Qader, Samaa Ibrahem, Rushdi Al-Shami and Ahmed Dash

2018 · Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa · 2 seasons

Sabrina, caught between her human upbringing and a witch-born destiny, must juggle ordinary teenage life—school, friends, first love—with the dark traditions and demands of her family's Church of Night.

With Kiernan Shipka, Ross Lynch, Lucy Davis, Miranda Otto, Chance Perdomo, Michelle Gomez and Jaz Sinclair

2020 · Carlton Cuse, Aron Eli Coleite, Meredith Averill · 3 seasons

After their father is murdered, a grieving mother and her three children move into his ancestral manor and uncover a set of enchanted keys that grant them strange abilities and pull back the curtain on long-buried family secrets.

With Darby Stanchfield, Emilia Jones, Jackson Robert Scott, Connor Jessup, Petrice Jones, Hallea Jones and Brendan Hines

2020 · Simon Barry · 2 seasons

An orphaned teenager comes to in the cold of a city morgue and discovers she’s been imbued with supernatural abilities — and an unexpected role: the Halo‑Bearer, the living symbol of a clandestine sisterhood of nun‑warriors who hunt demons. Pulled from anonymity into a brutal training ground of ritual and combat, she must learn to wield her new powers, navigate the dangerous politics of the order, and face the dark forces tied to her past.

With Alba Baptista, Tristán Ulloa, Kristina Tonteri-Young, Lorena Andrea, Sylvia De Fanti, Thekla Reuten and Olivia Delcán

2020 · Adam Price · 3 seasons

In a small Norwegian town where winters have grown unusually mild and fierce storms now lash the landscape, locals begin to fear an impending, almost mythic catastrophe. As the weather spirals out of control, a disparate group of residents must uncover the cause and act fast to prevent the town’s total destruction.

With David Alexander Sjøholt, Jonas Strand Gravli, Theresa Frostad Eggesbø, Herman Tømmeraas, Emma Bones, Synnøve Macody Lund and Gísli Örn Garðarsson

2021 · Joe Port, Joe Wiseman · 5 seasons

Samantha and Jay impulsively transform the rundown country manor they've inherited into a cozy bed-and-breakfast, hoping for a fresh start. But the property is riddled with hidden repairs and surprises — and Samantha soon realizes she's the only one who can perceive the lingering souls of former residents, whose memories and grievances complicate every step of their renovation.

With Rose McIver, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Brandon Scott Jones, Danielle Pinnock, Richie Moriarty, Asher Grodman and Rebecca Wisocky

2024 · Charlie Covell · 1 season

Chaos fractures Mount Olympus as Zeus sinks deeper into paranoia; amid the gods' unraveling, three mortals rise whose choices will redefine the future of humanity.

With Jeff Goldblum, Debi Mazar, Layo-Christina Akinlude, Jacob Utzon Krefeld, Robert Emms, David Thewlis and Janet McTeer