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Shows that feel like The Undeclared War (2022–2026)

If you loved The Undeclared War, the closest series we have are The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020), For All Mankind (2019) and Silo (2023). All three share The Undeclared War's bleak and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

In the post-pandemic world of 2024 during an upcoming British general election involving the UK’s first Black Conservative prime minister, a leading team of analysts at the heart of the UK’s NSA-style spy agency GCHQ attempt to ward off a cyber-attack on the country’s electoral system.

7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗2 seasons · Channel 4created by Peter Kosminskybleakcontemplativecerebraldreamlike
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If The Undeclared War hit the spot, these will too

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The Walking Dead: World Beyond
2020–2021 · 2 seasons · AMC
4.6drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Two things both keep coming back to: cliché and embarrassed

A heroic group of teens sheltered from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world receive a message that inspires them to leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross-country journey to find the one man who can possibly save the world.

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

The same preoccupation in both: politics

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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Silo
2023– · 4 seasons · Apple TV
8.1sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Both are built on the same subject: politics

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

The same mix in both: bleakness, then stillness

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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7.7sci-fi & fantasy · drama

One thread runs through both: cliché

The difference: Missing the bleakness of The Undeclared War

Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead... And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they've ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive – or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?

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Snowpiercer
2020–2024 · 4 seasons · TNT
6.9sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Both land ideas and dream logic at once

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 Rain
2018–2020 · 3 seasons · Netflix
6.3sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Drama with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

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

Sci-fi & fantasy built on stillness, twice over

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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12 Monkeys
2015–2018 · 4 seasons · Syfy
7.7sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Both lean on ideas more than on war & politics

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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The Walking Dead: Dead City
2023– · 3 seasons · AMC
7action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Dreamlike drama in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into action & adventure than The Undeclared War does

Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

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Gen V
2023–2025 · 2 seasons · Prime Video
7.6action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: absurd

The difference: Sits closer to action & adventure than The Undeclared War does

At America's only college for superheroes, gifted students put their moral boundaries to the test, competing for the university's top ranking, and a chance to join The Seven, Vought International's elite superhero team. When the school's dark secrets come to light, they must decide what kind of heroes they want to become.

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The Man in the High Castle
2015–2019 · 4 seasons · Prime Video
7.9sci-fi & fantasy · drama

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

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.

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