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Cosmos: Possible Worlds

★ 9.0 9K votes 2020–2020 1 season · 13 episodes Returning Series
Nature & scienceThe natural world or science itself as the subject.This show: 10/10Wonder & aweSpectacle and imagination that expand the world.This show: 10/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 8/10Family-safeNothing to worry about with anyone in the room.This show: 8/10PhilosophicalBig questions of meaning, ethics and existence.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Seth MacFarlaneSasha SaganTrang VoElizardo TorrezShereen BallesViggo Mortensen
Starring
Seth MacFarlaneSasha SaganTrang VoElizardo TorrezShereen BallesViggo Mortensen
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"Awe-inspiring science storytelling on a cosmic scale"

This is the third chapter of the Cosmos franchise, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, exploring the history of science, the universe's workings, and humanity's possible futures. Each episode blends sweeping visual effects, animated history segments, and Tyson's calm, awe-struck narration to move from black holes to the origins of civilization to speculative tomorrows. It's a slow, meditative, big-picture kind of watch, more about wonder and perspective than plot or urgency, designed to make you feel small and curious rather than entertained in a conventional sense.

Watch it for

the gorgeous visualizations of science paired with Tyson's genuine sense of wonder.

Maybe skip if

you want fast pacing or find narrated documentary science lectures tedious.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12020
8.711K139h 19m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Ladder to the Stars8.6
1K43 min
▶2The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone8.9
1K43 min
▶3Lost City of Life8.6
91143 min
▶4Vavilov9.0
1K43 min
▶5The Cosmic Connectome8.3
83543 min
▶6The Man of a Trillion Worlds8.5
80443 min
▶7The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth9.0
90843 min
▶8The Sacrifice of Cassini8.9
83543 min
▶9Magic Without Lies9.1
88543 min
▶10A Tale of Two Atoms8.6
74343 min
▶11Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors8.7
76443 min
▶12Coming of Age in the Anthropocene8.5
72443 min
▶13Seven Wonders of the New World8.2
52743 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Neil deGrasse Tyson Self - Host
Seth MacFarlane President Harry S. Truman, Sherwood Rowland
Sasha Sagan Rachel Molly Gruber
Trang Vo Birthmark Child, Birthmark Teen, Birthmark Woman
Elizardo Torrez Young Carl Sagan
Shereen Balles Female Voyager
Viggo Mortensen Nikolai Vavilov
Patrick Stewart William Herschel
Marcelo Tubert Self
Adam Tsekhman Christiaan Huygens

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