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Shows that feel likeFallout (2024–)

The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.

If you loved Fallout, the closest series we have are Falling Skies (2011), Into the Badlands (2015) and See (2019). All three share Fallout's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Last Ship (2014).

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If Fallout hit the spot, these will too

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Falling Skies
2011–2015 · 5 seasons · TNT
★ 7.1action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

A ragtag group hauling itself across ruins, arguing about what comes next

The difference: Network alien-invasion drama, family-focused and far more conventional

Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.

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Into the Badlands
2015–2019 · 3 seasons · AMC
★ 7.9action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

A collapsed world rebuilt into feudal fiefdoms and styled to the hilt

The difference: Wuxia choreography drives it — sombre, stylised and light on story

In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West.

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See
2019–2022 · 3 seasons · Apple TV
★ 7.6drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureApple TV+

Civilisation rebuilt centuries on into rules that look strange from outside

The difference: Solemn and mythic — no jokes, no retro Americana, no satire of capital

A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.

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The Last Ship
2014–2018 · 5 seasons · TNT
★ 7.4action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Survivors chasing a fix for the end of the world with the clock running

The difference: Straight military procedural — earnest, contemporary, and free of weirdness

Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.

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The Last of Us
2023– · 2 seasons · HBO
★ 8.4dramaMax

Common ground: life after the end

The difference: Trades the momentum of Fallout for an angle of its own

Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.

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The Witcher
2019– · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.8sci-fi & fantasy · drama · action & adventureNetflix

A hardened wanderer crossing a mutated world where monsters rank second

The difference: Dark fantasy of swords and sorcery, carrying a much heavier tone

Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

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Has Fallen
2024– · 2 seasons · Canal+
★ 6.5action & adventure · war & politicsHulu

Kinetic and epic in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into war & politics than Fallout does

A protection officer and an MI6 operative team up after a terrorist attack. They suspect a mole as they race to thwart a larger conspiracy threatening Paris.

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The Rain
2018–2020 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.3sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

Young survivors crossing a poisoned landscape toward a rumour

The difference: Scandinavian, straight-faced, no jokes at all

After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.

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The Handmaid's Tale
2017–2025 · 6 seasons · Hulu
★ 8.3drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureHulu

A society reorganised around a monstrous idea its people now call normal

The difference: Airless and deadly serious, an intimate horror rather than an adventure

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

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Star Trek: Picard
2020–2023 · 3 seasons · CBS All Access
★ 7.5sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaParamount+

An old hand dragged back into a galaxy that curdled while he was away

The difference: Franchise sci-fi with a moral centre, no wasteland grime or gallows humour

Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.

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Silo
2023– · 4 seasons · Apple TV
★ 8.1sci-fi & fantasy · dramaApple TV+

People living inside a system built on a lie about the surface

The difference: Sombre and enclosed, with none of the retro playfulness

In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

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12 Monkeys
2015–2018 · 4 seasons · Syfy
★ 7.7sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime Video

A wrecked future explained gradually through what caused it

The difference: Time-travel plotting, tightly serialised, no black comedy

The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.

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