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Shows that feel likeThe Man in the High Castle (2015–2019)

Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.

If you loved The Man in the High Castle, the closest series we have are Silo (2023), Snowpiercer (2020) and The Handmaid's Tale (2017). All three share The Man in the High Castle'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 For All Mankind (2019).

★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗4 seasons · Prime Videocreated by Frank Spotnitzcerebraldreamlikecontemplativebleak
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Hulu

If The Man in the High Castle hit the spot, these will too

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

A sealed society built on lies, and the slow peeling back of the truth

The difference: One underground setting — the world never opens up

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

A rigid order maintained by force, and the cost of pushing back against it

The difference: Blunt class allegory on rails — louder and pulpier

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

Ordinary people surviving inside a regime that rewrites what's normal

The difference: Intimate and unrelenting — one woman's ordeal, not a chessboard of powers

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

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

A doomed timeline and the desperate work of bending history back

The difference: Propulsive time-loop plotting over slow-burn atmosphere

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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For All Mankind
2019– · 5 seasons · Apple TV
★ 8.1drama · sci-fi & fantasy · war & politicsMaxApple TV+

History nudged off course, then followed decade by decade with total rigor

The difference: Hopeful where High Castle suffocates — this divergence inspires

Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.

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Sweet Tooth
2021–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.7drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

A remade America crossed on foot, strangeness waiting in the ruins

The difference: Storybook warmth — this apocalypse comes with a soft heart

On an epic adventure across a postapocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's part human and part deer searches for family and home with a gruff protector.

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War of the Worlds
2019–2022 · 3 seasons · Canal+
★ 6.5sci-fi & fantasy · drama

A cold, quiet apocalypse where survival is mostly dread and waiting

The difference: Wanders and stalls — a premise stretched thinner each season

When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world. As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction?

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

Cerebral where it counts, dreamlike underneath

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

Survivors moving through an emptied world where every stranger is a risk

The difference: Teen-drama stakes — smaller ideas, prettier apocalypse

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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1899
2022 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 7.3mystery · drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: dystopia

The difference: Leans further into mystery

When mysterious events change the course of an immigrant ship headed for New York in 1899, a mind-bending riddle unfolds for its bewildered passengers.

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

An old order failing, and weary idealists deciding what's worth saving

The difference: Franchise nostalgia carries it — uneven until the final season

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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The Silent Sea
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 6.9drama · sci-fi & fantasy · mysteryNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

During a perilous 24-hour mission on the moon, space explorers try to retrieve samples from an abandoned research facility steeped in classified secrets.

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