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Shows that feel likeAltered Carbon (2018–2020)

After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.

If you loved Altered Carbon, the closest series we have are The Peripheral (2022), Orphan Black (2013) and Raised by Wolves (2020). All three share Altered Carbon's cerebral and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Dark Matter (2024).

★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗2 seasons · Netflixcreated by Laeta Kalogridiscerebraldreamlikecontemplative
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If Altered Carbon hit the spot, these will too

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The Peripheral
2022 · 1 season · Prime Video
★ 7.5sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime Video

Consciousness slipping between bodies in a chrome-plated future

The difference: Cooler-headed Gibson puzzle — canceled before its answers

Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks all of her dreams of finding a purpose, romance, and glamour in what seems like a game…but it also puts her and her family in real danger.

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Orphan Black
2013–2017 · 5 seasons · Space
★ 8.3drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Identity as the mystery — one self scattered across many bodies

The difference: Present-day conspiracy thriller — no neon future to sink into

A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.

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Raised by Wolves
2020–2022 · 2 seasons · HBO Max
★ 7.4sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Common ground: distant future

After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.

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Doom Patrol
2019–2023 · 4 seasons · DC Universe
★ 7.7sci-fi & fantasy · dramaMax

Broken people wearing bodies that no longer feel like theirs

The difference: Weird superhero tragicomedy — sincerity over noir cool

The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities — but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The Chief, who brought them together to investigate the weirdest phenomena in existence — and to protect Earth from what they find.

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Travelers
2016–2018 · 3 seasons · Showcase
★ 8drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Minds beamed into borrowed bodies, missions bound by grim rules

The difference: Modest present-day scale — none of the lavish world-building

Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.

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Marvel's Agent Carter
2015–2016 · 2 seasons · ABC
★ 7.8drama · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

Cerebral where it counts, dreamlike underneath

It's 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life - Steve Rogers.

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The Magicians
2015–2020 · 5 seasons · Syfy
★ 7.6drama · sci-fi & fantasy

A genre premise pushed into adult territory — sex, damage and death

The difference: Fantasy campus antics — the tone jokes where Kovacs broods

Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity.

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Shadow and Bone
2021–2023 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.5drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

A dark stylish world where power decides who gets to survive

The difference: YA fantasy adventure — romance-forward and far less brutal

In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, a young soldier uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as she struggles to hone her power, dangerous forces plot against her. Thugs, thieves, assassins and saints are at war now, and it will take more than magic to survive.

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Dark Matter
2024– · 2 seasons · Apple TV
★ 7.6sci-fi & fantasy · dramaApple TV+

One man unspooling a sci-fi mystery about who he really is

The difference: A tidy one-mystery thriller — grounded, and no noir grime

Jason Dessen is abducted into an alternate version of his life. To get back to his real family, he embarks on a harrowing journey to save them from the most terrifying foe imaginable: himself.

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The Wheel of Time
2021–2025 · 3 seasons · Prime Video
★ 7.2sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime Video

Reincarnation as destiny — souls outliving the bodies they wear

The difference: Epic quest fantasy — earnest myth instead of cynical noir

The lives of five young villagers change forever when a strange and powerful woman arrives, claiming one of them is the child of an ancient prophecy with the power to tip the balance between Light and Dark forever. They must choose whether to trust this stranger – and each other – with the fate of the world before the Dark One breaks out of His prison, and the Last Battle begins.

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Fate: The Winx Saga
2021–2022 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.8sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

A moody genre world hiding secrets about the heroine's origin

The difference: Teen boarding-school drama — stakes end at the school gates

The coming-of-age journey of five fairies attending Alfea, a magical boarding school in the Otherworld where they must learn to master their powers while navigating love, rivalries, and the monsters that threaten their very existence.

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Once Upon a Time
2011–2018 · 7 seasons · ABC
★ 7.6drama · sci-fi & fantasyHuluDisney+

False memories and stolen identities driving a long mystery

The difference: Fairy-tale family viewing — sanitized where Carbon is savage

There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell.

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