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Shows that feel likeThe Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024)

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?

If you loved The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, the closest series we have are Dark Matter (2024), Travelers (2016) and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022). All three share The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live'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 Swamp Thing (2019).

★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗1 season · AMCcreated by Andrew Lincolncerebraldreamlikecontemplative
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If The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live hit the spot, these will too

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

The same mix in both: ideas, then dream logic

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

Contemplative sci-fi & fantasy in both cases

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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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
2022– · 4 seasons · Paramount+
★ 8.2sci-fi & fantasy · dramaParamount+

Cerebral drama, and it commits to that

Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

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

Common ground: spin off

The difference: Played as action & adventure first

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

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

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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Swamp Thing
2019 · 1 season · DC Universe
★ 7.3mystery · sci-fi & fantasy · drama

The same preoccupation in both: horror

The difference: Leans further into mystery

CDC researcher Abby Arcane investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but she soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the murky marsh, no one is safe.

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The Stand
2020–2021 · 1 season · CBS All Access
★ 5.7sci-fi & fantasy · dramaParamount+

One thread runs through both: horror

In a world mostly wiped out by the plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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Watchmen
2019 · 1 season · HBO
★ 8.2drama · crime · sci-fi & fantasyMax

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

Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.

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

Dreamlike drama, and it commits to that

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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Invasion
2021– · 3 seasons · Apple TV
★ 6.2sci-fi & fantasy · dramaApple TV+

Both work the same stillness

Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them.

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

Both working the same sci-fi & fantasy territory

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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