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Best Sci-Fi TV Series of the 2020s

Top 500 most popular Sci-Fi series that started in the 2020s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

Severance

★ 8.6
399K 25 2022–present
Mystery box · Workplace

Obi-Wan Kenobi

★ 7.0
265K 6 2022–2022
Nostalgic

Silo

★ 8.1
223K 40 2023–present
Dystopia · Mystery box

The Book of Boba Fett

★ 7.1
212K 7 2021–2022
Big-budget spectacle

Pluribus

★ 7.9
167K 10 2025–present
Existential dread · Philosophical

Foundation

★ 7.6
128K 38 2021–present
Space & sci-fi · Sprawling saga

Halo

★ 7.3
111K 17 2022–2024
Space & sci-fi · War & military

Alien: Earth

★ 7.1
108K 10 2025–present
Monster horror · Space & sci-fi

Raised by Wolves

★ 7.4
93K 18 2020–2022
Faith & religion · Space & sci-fi

The Peripheral

★ 7.5
92K 8 2022–2022
Near-future tech

Upload

★ 7.7
91K 29 2020–2025
Near-future tech

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

★ 8.2
76K 46 2022–2027
Hopeful · Space & sci-fi

Dark Matter

★ 7.6
76K 19 2024–present
Philosophical · Puzzle plot

Snowpiercer

★ 6.9
76K 41 2020–2024
Class divide · Dystopia

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

★ 7.0
63K 20 2023–present
Big-budget spectacle

Devs

★ 7.6
58K 8 2020–2020
Philosophical · Existential dread

Invasion

★ 6.2
58K 30 2021–2025
Space & sci-fi · Slow burn

Resident Evil

★ 4.2
50K 8 2022–2022
Post-apocalyptic · Monster horror

Skeleton Crew

★ 7.0
46K 8 2024–2025
Child's perspective

Into the Night

★ 7.0
39K 12 2020–2021
Survival · Tense · Fast-paced

The Devil's Hour

★ 7.6
34K 16 2022–present
Unsettling · Mystery box

Takopi's Original Sin

★ 8.7
28K 6 2025–2025
Gut punch · Disturbing · Anime

Away

★ 6.6
27K 10 2020–2020
Drama · Romance · Sci-Fi

Tales from the Loop

★ 7.4
27K 8 2020–2020
Atmospheric · Melancholic
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