5 Best Sci-Fi Series to Binge While Waiting for 'Severance' Season 3, Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes
These projects explore complex topics – from the nature of consciousness to the consequences of progress and dark dystopias.
Apple TV+'s masterpiece Severance has left viewers in suspense and we have a long way to go before the release of Season 3.
But what if you can't wait to immerse yourself in this mysterious, technological, and slightly paranoid world? The answer is to find a worthy replacement to help pass the time.
5. 'Homecoming', 2018-2020
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 79%
The main character of Homecoming was a social worker at a special center designed to help war veterans reintegrate into society.
However, the facility, which was supposedly designed to combat PTSD, was, in reality, more like a strange corporate prison with unclear objectives.
In the present day, Heidi works as a waitress and finds it difficult to recall details about her work at the center when real military personnel begin interrogating her.
4. 'Awake', 2012
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 81%
After a devastating car accident, Detective Michael Britten first wakes up in one reality where his wife has died, and the next day in another reality where his child has died and his wife is alive.
Traveling between these realities, he tries to figure out what happened while saying goodbye to the two people he loves most.
Like Severance, this story explores freedom of choice, sacrifice, and how one detail can alter reality.
3. 'Devs', 2020
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 82%
Alex Garland's series has become legendary in the niche genre of technophobic sci-fi. The main character's investigation into her boyfriend's death leads her to uncover the secrets of a strange tech corporation.
Like Severance, it revolves around important and terrifying technology, but it asks different questions: can humanity create its own god, and what would happen then?
If you're a fan of Ben Stiller's series, Alex Garland's project should definitely be on your must-see list.
2. 'Dark Matter', 2024-...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 82%
The dark sci-fi series about parallel universes, starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly, was one of the most prominent of last year. Yet, it was criminally overlooked.
Jason's teaching career has made him a dull man. He has a wife, a teenage son, and a comfortable life. His scientist friend, Ryan, just won an award and invited Jason to a bar. Along the way, however, Jason is kidnapped by an unknown man and taken to a special lab.
Some time later, Jason wakes up to find himself in an alternate reality where his life has taken a different path. Instead of experiencing professional failure, he has become a distinguished physicist who changed the world.
1. 'Counterpart', 2017-2019
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
Howard Silk is a bureaucrat who works for a secret organization based in Berlin. His position is so insignificant that, even after many years of service, he still has no idea what his agency does.
Suddenly, he discovers that the agency maintains contact with a parallel world. The two worlds were once identical, but after establishing contact, they gradually became increasingly dissimilar.
Therefore, Howard has a doppelgänger. He is no ordinary worker, but rather an influential boss conducting a top-secret operation involving inhabitants of both worlds.
