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Shows that feel likeOrphan Black (2013–2017)

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

If you loved Orphan Black, the closest series we have are Snowpiercer (2020), Altered Carbon (2018) and Travelers (2016). All three share Orphan Black's contemplative and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The 4400 (2004).

★ 8.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗5 seasons · Spacecreated by Graeme Mansoncontemplativecerebraldreamlike
8 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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If Orphan Black hit the spot, these will too

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Snowpiercer
2020–2024 · 4 seasons · TNT
★ 6.9sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime VideoHulu

The same hand behind both of them: Graeme Manson

More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.

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Altered Carbon
2018–2020 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.9sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: brothers and sisters

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.

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

Both land stillness and ideas at once

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

Dreamlike drama in both cases

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

Both lean on stillness more than on sci-fi & fantasy

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

Drama with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

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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V
2009–2011 · 2 seasons · ABC
★ 6.8sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Dreamlike sci-fi & fantasy, and it commits to that

A re-imagining of the 1980s miniseries about the world's first encounter with an alien race in which the aliens call themselves The Visitors, and have a seemingly friendly agenda that may or may not be a cover for something more malevolent.

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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Shadow Hunter
2005–2006 · 1 season · Space
★ 7.3sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Sci-fi & fantasy with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

A documentary series about the paranormal, hosted by Darryll Walsh, a ghost hunter, best-selling author and doctor of parapsychology.

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

A streak of dream logic through both

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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The 4400
2004–2007 · 4 seasons · USA Network
★ 7.3drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Both play drama straight

4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained healing touch. A government agency is formed to track the 4400 people after one of them commits a murder.

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

The same sci-fi & fantasy instincts

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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