Recommended Books, TV, Movies

Sci Fi (space):

• • Babylon 5 / Crusade (great series wide story-arc!  Lots of alien species, cultures etc..  Order vs. Chaos vs. Enlightened self-interest vs. Political self-interest)

  • Doctor Who / Torchwood

  • Firefly (Cowboys in space...)

  • The Orville (Comedic 'Trek homage)

  • Star Trek (all series)

  • The Mandalorian (well, it's live action Star Wars...)

  • Andromeda (Post-apocalyptic rebuilding in space)

  • Farscape (Modern day guy flung into a far-away space war)

  • Stargate (all series)

  • The Expanse (Two centuries in the future, a missing person links an asteroid belt detective, the captain of an ice freighter and a diplomat trying to avert a war)

  • Dark Matter (Starship crew wake up with no personal memories)

  • Lexx (a group of misfits inadvertently steal the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two universes)

  • Killjoys (ish) (Bounty hunters (in the future) uncover a centuries old conspiracy that threatens mankind)

SciFi (other)

• • Sanctuary (Mutant/abnormals sanctuary)

  • Dollhouse (mind-wiped humans for hire)

  • Titans (2018) (DC's teen titans, but darker)

  • Doom Patrol (see Titans)

  • Marvel's ... : (If you don't know of the MCU by now, there's no hope)

    • Agents of Shield

    • Agent Carter

    • Netflix's Daredevil/Jessica Jones/Punisher/Luke Cage (to lesser extent Iron Fist and Defenders - watch the bad guys more in those ones)

  • The CW's Arrow-Verse (Arrow, Legends, Flash, Supergirl, Constantine, Black Lightning, Batwoman) (DC's TV universe)

  • Most of the Non-CW DC worlds:

    • Titans

    • Doom Patrol (dark, but so funny!)

  • Continuum (Dystopian future-cop finds herself in the near-modern day.  Can she get back while others try to change her future world)

  • Defiance (Aliens partially terraform the Earth, new multi-species colony towns and politics emerge after the war)

  • Heroes (s1)/Reborn (Another 'Mutants' take)

  • Krypton (The story of the House of El, 200 years before Krypton goes bang)

  • Smallville (Clark Kent going through high-school)

Fantasy

• • Good Omens (Anti-Christ gets lost on Earth as a baby. How is this going to effect the great/ineffable plan concerning heaven's upcoming war against hell)

  • Lucifer (The Devil leaves hell to run an LA nightclub)

  • Lost Girl (Faye are real, and in the middle of a cold war)

  • The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Darker take on the classic teenage witch)

  • Librarians (Hunting Meta-artefacts)

  • Warehouse 13 (Hunting Meta-artefacts)

  • A Town Called Eureka (Everyday cop finds himself in an extraordinary town)

  • Grimm (Brothers Grimm tales might not be so imaginary)

  • Hercules Legendary Journeys & Xena (Such good cheesy TV)

  • Lois and Clark (Easy watching Superman TV series)

Anime:

• • One Punch Man (super hero who has trained so hard that his hair has fallen out, and who can overcome any enemy with one punch)

  • Assassination Classroom (a teacher who can destroy the world, teaching kids how to assassinate him...)

  • My Hero Academia (Heroes high school)

  • Bleach (Soul reapers find an impossible human)

  • One Piece (Pirates... ish. with powers.)

  • Naruto/Boruto (Ninja villages, couple of wars)

  • Blue Devil Exorcist (When the Devil's child is trained as an exorcist)

  • The Devil is a Part Timer (Devil is kicked of the supernatural realm and into ours... and must find a job)

  • Fairy Tail (Naruto, but with magic instead of ninjas)

  • Fullmetal Alchemist (both) (Alchemy is real, and two brothers use a forbidden technique... does this damn the world)

Cartoons

• • Archer (If James Bond was real... and a drunk... with mummy issues... who's mummy runs the spy agency.)

  • The Dragon Prince (Humans are at war with all magical creatures... and two princes must team up with an elf to save the world) [From the creators of the Avatar Series]

  • Avatar the last Airbender / Legends of Kora (the Avatar is the only person who can control all four elements.  He who controls the Avatar, controls the world.  Also, the Avatar is still a kid, and must learn to harness their potential)

  • Justice League & Unlimited (DC's Justice League, based from the original Superman and Batman animated series)

  • Young Justice (DC's sidekicks form their own league)

  • Rick and Morty (Wubalubadubdub.  Megasmart but completely self-absorbed & drunk grandfather takes Morty on multiversal adventures)

  • Samurai Jack (A Samurai nearly beats the ultimate evil, but is sent to the future just before the killing blow.  In the future he continues his fight)

  • Disenchantment (Fairy tale kingdom is not what it seems, and an unlikely friendship of a social if naive elf, tavern hopping princess and mini demon forms) [From the creators of Futurama]

  • Invader Zim (*The* most incompetent alien tries to invade Earth.  Through a post-apocalyptic high school.  Only the smartest dweeb in the class is trying to stop him.  No-one else cares.)

  • South Park (Oh my God, they killed Kenny!)

  • Teen Titans (not Go) (A light take on the Teen Titans.  Reasonable stories and development)

Other:

• • Mythbusters (The only difference between science and mucking about... is writing it down)

  • Blunt Talk (Brit news-host in the USA, complete with man-servant and his support staff are all in their own way special... complete caricatures all round)

  • Red Dwarf (Last human, 3M light years from Earth, with a hologram, mechanoids, and a creature that evolved from his pet cat as company.  And a possibly senile AI running the ship)

  • Sherlock (BBC's latest take on modern Sherlock Holmes)

  • Elementary (American take on modern Sherlock Holmes)

  • Jonathan Creek (Sherlock Holmes-esque)

  • Scrubs (Medical comedy, watch for Perry (mentor) and The Janitor)

  • Chuck (Joe 90 modernised, ish.  Nerd gets a brain dump from a super-spy program, remains a nerd.)

  • Arrested Development (Dysfunctional family)

  • Blackadder (Old brit comedy... really hard to summarise in just a few words)

  • Brittas Empire (How badly, and fataley, *can* you run a leisure centre in England?)

  • Father Ted (Three priests exiled to an island community)

  • Fawlty Towers (The worst hotel manager... so funny)

Not watched but mean to:

• • Altered Carbon

  • BSG (original and remake)

  • Beyond

  • Black Clover

  • Black Mirror

  • Blood and Treasure

  • Chernobyl

  • Class (Doctor Who spinoff)

  • Cobra Kai (original Karate Kid TV continuation)

  • Con Man (Alan Tudyk series)

  • The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

  • Deadly Class

  • Devilman Crybaby (anime)

  • FLCL (anime)

  • The Good Place (this person really shouldn't be in heaven)

  • Hanna

  • Into the Badlands (martial arts)

  • Legion (Xavier's son, mutants)

  • Love, Death + Robots

  • Man in the High Tower (Nazis won WWII and have set up in the USA)

  • Marco Polo

  • Nightflyers

  • Runaways (Mutants?)

  • Orange is the New Black

  • Pennyworth (DC/Batman related)

  • Powerless

  • Powers

  • Preacher

  • Reaper

  • The Rookie (Another Nathan Fillion cop series)

  • Sens8

  • Stan against Evil (Perry from Scrubs fighting demons - not based in Scrubs universe)

  • Stranger Things

  • The Tick

  • The Umbrella Academy

  • Zapped