Crafting an apocalyptic endgame for the screen is not exactly a walk in the park; it is a high-stakes mission that only gets harder. Yet, visionary creators defy the odds, launching compelling dystopias into our watchlists like Fallout did on Amazon Prime Video. After Fallout’s stratospheric success, the scanners have picked up a spike in sci-fi signals across streaming galaxies. 

For those still riding the radiation wave from Fallout, here are 7 Netflix series that will transport them straight back into those end-of-the-world vibes. 

Inspired by the internationally celebrated novel The Three-Body Problem, Netflix’s adaptation, 3 Body Problem, from creators David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo, blurs the line between space and time. In a world where scientists are systematically silenced, a group of unlikely allies must navigate a treacherous landscape of science, mystery, and terror.

With the fabric of reality fraying and the laws of physics hanging by a thread, they confront the unknown to prevent a catastrophe that could rewrite the rules of existence.

If you want a sci-fi series that reeks of family drama, The Umbrella Academy should be your pick. Steve Blackman created the Netflix show based on My Chemical Romance’s front man, Gerard Way, and Gabriel Ba’s comic book.

The Umbrella Academy revolves around an estranged family of adopted, super-abled siblings, who reunite after their father’s death to uncover the secrets he kept from them. 

Bodies is based on Si Spencer’s eponymous graphic novel. It is an eight-episode British series that follows four detectives who happen to investigate the same case of execution, but in four different timelines.

The four detectives, portrayed by Jacobe Fortune-Llyod, Amaka Okafor, Kyle Soller, and Shira Haas between the years of 1890 and 2053, encounter a disrobed corpse of a man at the same location, which inadvertently links them together. 

No sci-fi adventure is complete without a trip to the Hawkins land of happenings. Stranger Things, Matt and Ross Duffer’s Netflix series, revolves around a group of kids from small-town Indiana whose lives are turned upside down when a friend goes missing. The vanishing makes them stumble across supernatural beings, alternate dimensions, and clandestine government operations.

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Black Mirror is one of the most celebrated sci-fi shows on Netflix. Charlie Brooker’s anthology delves deep into the paranoias of online existence, mirroring a world on the screen that seems like ours, but with a terrifying twist that surrenders to the impact of advanced technology.

Although Black Mirror’s Netflix acquisition was not a cakewalk, the show’s success speaks for itself.

Another must-watch Netflix title that had viewers in a chokehold during the streaming frenzy of the COVID-19 pandemic was the German series, Dark.

Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese have created the series set in a fictional town where a slew of mysteries unfolds one by one when a child goes missing, and ropes in four local families into a journey of time-travel unlike any other. 

Lastly, a Netflix sci-fi show that deserves all the hype is Welcome to Eden. The Spanish-language sci-fi thriller follows a flock of influencers who attend an invitation-only party on a remote island, only to find out the other guests have left them on a commune called Eden when they wake up the next day.

Contrary to its name, Eden is overrun by a sinister cult, and the journey out there is anything but heavenly.

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