'Scavengers Reign' and 4 Other Best TV Series About Scientists, Ranked by IMDb
From biopics of world-famous inventors to fantastic stories about gifted researchers who encountered the unexplained.
Science can be fascinating, especially when you learn complex terms by watching TV shows. Unlike school textbooks, TV series about scientists don't offer dry facts, they offer gripping stories about people who are changing – or trying to destroy – the world.
5. 'Leonardo', 2021
IMDb Score: 7.2/10
In 1506, the renowned artist Leonardo da Vinci was arrested for allegedly poisoning his model, Caterina da Cremona. Officer Stefano Giraldi handled the case. The suspect begins his story from the beginning – from the day he met Caterina in Verrocchio's workshop.
She was invited to one of the life-drawing sessions and appeared before the students as Diana. While the others painstakingly depicted the ideal on canvas, Leonardo was interested in essence itself.
With equal meticulousness, he studied other aspects of life, from the flight of birds to the nature of light. After all, he was not just an artist but also a scientist, engineer, and inventor.
4. 'Three-Body', 2023
IMDb Score: 7.6/10
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Investigator Shi Qiang is assigned an unusual case: renowned scientists around the world are committing suicide due to disillusionment with their profession. His investigation leads him to a private club called The Frontiers of Science, which only scientists can join.
All of the deceased were members of this organization. Shi Qiang asks the esteemed physicist Wang Miao to join the society and help him uncover the truth and Miao reluctantly agrees. Soon, the club's leader strongly recommends that Wang Miao cease his nanotechnology research.
Currently, there are two large-scale adaptations of Liu Cixin's bestseller: a 30-episode Chinese science fiction series and an eight-episode Netflix series.
3. 'Eureka', 2006-2012
IMDb Score: 7.9/10
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Marshal Jack Carter and his daughter, Zoe, are involved in a car accident en route to Los Angeles. They are forced to stop in a strange little town called Eureka while their car is being repaired.
The town has a high concentration of geniuses, as well as many mysterious and incredible events. The only thing missing is a sheriff to clean up the mess left by the scientists. Jack is offered a position as a law enforcement officer and readily accepts.
2. 'Lessons in Chemistry', 2023
IMDb Score: 8.2/10
In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott had a master's degree in chemistry. However, due to gender discrimination, she worked as a lowly lab assistant – washed dishes for mediocre scientists and brewed coffee for them in beakers.
In her free time, she enjoyed cooking, but with a scientific approach: she didn't simply follow recipes, she turned each dish into an experiment. Her life changes after she meets Calvin, a talented scientist who offers to share his lab with her so they can conduct chemistry experiments together.
Gradually, feelings blossom between the two colleagues. Their collaboration could lead to a scientific discovery, but Elizabeth decides to leave the research center for television.
1. 'Scavengers Reign', 2023
IMDb Score: 8.6/10
Several escape pods were launched from the damaged interstellar cargo ship Demeter 227. Only a few reach the surface of the planet Vesta intact, and they end up far apart.
A couple of months later, survivors Sam and Ursula manage to transmit a landing command to the defunct ship after adapting some local plants and animals for technical purposes.
This improves their chances of survival on the inhospitable planet and of sending a distress signal. Meanwhile, Vesta teems with predators that try to consume or form a symbiotic relationship with the humans.
