The Most Underrated Sci-Fi TV Shows Of The 2010s

Seasons & Episodes:5 / 64

Details: Warehouse 13Secret Service agents work for the facility. They complete missions to recover dangerous, historic artifacts. These items include Lewis Carroll's mirror, which holds Alice's spirit. Agents carry a "Tesla" electric gun, named for its inventor. Each agent also has a small TV communicator, invented by Farnsworth, the TV inventor.

SyFy renewed the series for a fifth and final season after it nearly canceled.Six episodesThe show rushed its ending but found a satisfying finish. The series premiered in 2009. However, 85% of the show aired on TV from 2010 to 2014.

Seasons & Episodes:3 / 38

Details: DefianceThe show takes place on Earth, a planet unlike our own. Aliens colonize Earth, and their terraforming tech alters the land, killing many plants and animals. New species emerge. The series is set in 2046. Humans live among several alien races fighting for their place. This strange setting moves to old-world St. Louis.

The series wascanceledSyFy canceled the show for money. The television story ended, butDefiancelives on in a companionvideo game of the same name.Trion Worlds made the game and keeps updating it. They announced no sequel; instead, they will add new content, acting as a fourth season.

Seasons & Episodes:4 / 42

Details:In 2077, extremists time travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 2012. They travel decades early to continue their political strikes. Their aim is to stop corporations from replacing world governments. A police officer unintentionally joins them in the past, trying to stop their plan while keeping their future origin secret.

The series wascanceledThe network cut the show mid-story at the end of season three. They allowed a shortened fourth season with six episodes, giving fans a finale.

Seasons & Episodes:3 / 34

Details: TravelersTravelers is a Canadian-American sci-fi show. The premise puts people from the future into the bodies of past individuals just before they die. A stellar object ends the world, causing an ice age. Each Traveler has a mission to stop the apocalypse.

TravelersThe series Travelers was getting a hold of itself.The series got the axe from the network.Travelers aired for three seasons. The show concluded in a way that tied up the story without upsetting fans about its cancellation.

Seasons & Episodes:3 / 26

Details: DarkDark is a German sci-fi/thriller set in Winden, Germany. The series follows a child's disappearance and four estranged families linked by a conspiracy involving time travel across three generations. The series examines human nature and how time travel affects it.

DarkDark aired 26 episodes over three seasons, with its third season.final seasonDark dropped on Netflix in 2020.

Seasons & Episodes:4 / 47

Details:The show12 Monkeys12 Monkeys loosely adapts the 1995 film. That movie features a man traveling back in time to find a virus origin that nearly wipes out humanity, forcing survivors underground. The series follows James Cole and Dr. Cassandra "Cassie" Railly. Destiny brings them together to use time travel against the "Army of the 12 Monkeys."

Critics highly praised 12 Monkeys.12 Monkeys12 Monkeys generated a decent fan base. The show was cut short, but it finished its story in its fourth, 11-episode season.concludedIt finished its story in its fourth, 11-episode season.

Seasons & Episodes:3 / 36

Details:InColonyThe world exists under the militaristic rule of an alien race called the Hosts. Few know about them, except for their attack on a day called the "Arrival" recently. They came down in huge rectangular ships that built walls around big city areas. Many walls are hundreds of meters thick, reaching up to 30 stories high. Cities get blocked by smaller sections, forming a Colony. Resistance fighters operate beneath the total society, targeting collaborators as humanity fights to regain its Earth sovereignty.

Fans and critics highly praised the series, but it was canceled.canceledended at the close of its third season.Stephen KingStephen King, an outspoken fan, said, "In a year of remarkable TV,"ColonyThis show is smart, suspenseful, and subversive. It makes you think.

Seasons & Episodes:3 / 27

Details: LegionDavid Haller, the near-omnipotent but mentally troubled mutant son of Professor Charles Xavier, follows the story. The series draws from Marvel Comics' Legion but shifts from the source material. David tells events with an unreliable narration. David suffers from dissociative identity disorder.dissociative identity disorderEach of his personalities possesses omega-level mutant superpowers.

LegionThe Marvel community of creators and fans supported Legion, but it never got wide attention. Thus, FX canceled it.FX canceledThis cancellation let the series finish with an eight-episode third season.

Seasons & Episodes:2 / 20

Details:Howard Silk works in Berlin at the UN Office of Interchange (OI). After 30 years, his rank hides his actual work. The OI manages a crossing point between reality and an alternate Earth reality, which looks like ours. This changes when a scientist named Yanek gives his daughter a cassette tape in one reality, but not the other. This sparks events causing a deadly viral outbreak. Passage between the two worlds remains a constant issue in the thrilling series.

Starzopted to cancel CounterpartAfter its second season, plans to show Counterpart on other networks/streaming platforms never happened. There will be no third season.

Seasons & Episodes:1 / 19

Details: Capricawas a spinoff/prequel toBattlestar GalacticaCaprica tells the origin story of the Cylons. It focuses on androids and artificial intelligence, also covering the stories of William Adama's father and uncle, the man who later commandedGalactica.

Capricanever gained the momentum its predecessor had, and it wascanceled by SyFybefore it finished airing its final five episodes. Those episodes appeared on DVD with the rest of the first season and later on various streaming platforms.

Seasons & Episodes:2 / 24

Details: Sense8Features eight strangers from around the world. These people all find out at the same time they are "sensates," human beings linked mentally and emotionally. The series touches on topics like politics, religion, gender, sexuality, and identity in a new way.

The show wascanceledon a cliffhanger, which upset fans. Netflix made a 2.5-hour standalone film that serves as the series finale.

Seasons & Episodes:3 / 28

Details:Three years after the "Sudden Departure," which made 2% of the world population vanish, people struggle to survive. The series follows Police Chief Kevin Garvey, his family, and others as they try to cope after losing loved ones.

Critics praised the series and linked it to.LostThe show has a certain tone and substance. Despite good reviews, it ended after its third season.HBOHBO greenlit the show to allow for a proper ending.

Seasons & Episodes:2 / 26

Details: Future ManThis show is a comedy sci-fi/end-of-the-world.It is a time travel series.Josh Hutcherson plays Josh Futterman, a janitor. His online name, "Future Man," pulls future renegades to the present. They must fight for mankind's survival. Josh, who is mostly incompetent, creates more problems than he solves. The team tries to change the future, but they mess things up in unexpected ways.

HuluIt was renewed.Hulu renewed the show for a third season in April 2019.

Seasons & Episodes:2 / 12

Details:InUtopia, there is a graphic novel calledThe Utopia Experiments, which people say predicted past epidemics. An unpublished sequel might hold the key to mankind's survival. Many people and groups hunt for the manuscript; several have teamed up in the search.

Only two seasons of 12 episodes aired onChannel 4Channel 4 aired only two seasons of 12 episodes in the UK. HBO planned a third season, but those plans failed. Amazon bought the show, and an American version began production in 2019. This new project uses the original but is not a continuation.

Seasons & Episodes:2 / 26

Details: SalvationSalvation is an end-of-the-world/sci-fi/suspense drama on CBS. It follows scientists trying to save Earth after an asteroid heads for collision. With only six months left, they must use new tech to change the asteroid's path. Failure means an extinction-level event. The series explores world-saving politics, corporate power over governments, and humanity's nature.

SalvationwascanceledSalvation canceled after its second season ended on a surprising cliffhanger.

Seasons & Episodes:2 / 20

Details: People of Earthis a sci-fi comedy about alien abductees forming a support group that includes their captors. The show mainly follows journalist Ozzie Graham. He travels to Beacon, NY, to write about "StarCrossed," the group of abductees. He sees his own life in their stories and quits his city job to move to Beacon.

The network gave the show the green light for Season 3. That season was fully written. Then the network reversed that decision and canceled the show.The network reversed the decision.This canceled the show. Fans felt happy for a moment, then they became largely upset about the cancellation.

Seasons & Episodes:4 / 67

Details: The Last Man on EarthThis post-apocalyptic comedy series stars Will Forte. Forte's character, Phil Miller, thinks he is the last man on Earth. In the pilot, he travels across the United States seeking other survivors but finds none. A woman appears just as he faces his end. More people join the group, showing he is not truly the last man, and the show uses funny 'end of the world' ideas.

FOXFOX canceled the series after its fourth season ended on a cliffhanger.FOX canceled the series after its fourth season ended on a cliffhanger.

Seasons & Episodes:1 / 13

Details: AwakeLos Angeles Police Detective Michael Britten follows his wife Hannah and son Rex after a bad car crash. Upon waking, Britten finds he lives in two separate realities split when he sleeps. In one, Hannah dies; in the other, Rex dies. He does not know which reality is real, but he uses details from one to solve crimes in the other.

Critics praised the series, especially Jason Isaacs's acting as Britten. However, it did not get a renewal for a second season.It did not get a renewal for a second season.Only 13 episodes aired. There is little hope for a revival.

Seasons & Episodes:1 / 10

Details: ManiacThis dark psychological comedy is based on a Norwegian TV series with the same name. The show follows two strangers connected during a mind-bending drug trial. Emma Stone plays Annie Landsberg, who has borderline personality disorder. Jonah Hill's Owen Milgrim may have schizophrenia.

Though one season had only 10 episodes, the story finished.The story concluded, and there will be no second season., and there won't be a second season.

Seasons & Episodes:1 / 8

Details: OsmosisOsmosis is set in near-future Paris. It centers on a dating app named Osmosis. The app claims to find true love by reading brain data for a perfect match with 100% accuracy. Using a computer program to look into your mind for love has a cost, and your secrets might not stay secret.

OsmosisCritics highly praised Osmosis. The season earned a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Season 2Season 2 is expected to air sometime in 2020 on Netflix.