TV series about alternative reality

TV series about alternative reality
List of the best TV series about alternative reality according to viewers: The Plot Against America, Motherland: Fort Salem, Time After Time, Black Mirror, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Timeless, The Boondocks, Axe Cop, Touch, For All Mankind.

In the top there are new series of 2021, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA

An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA, Canada

Set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the government to fight for their country, the series follows three young women from basic training in combat magic into early deployment.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:58

A young H.G. Wells time travels to modern day New York City in pursuit of the charismatic—yet secretly psychopathic—Dr. John Stevenson, better known as "Jack the Ripper," following the doctor's brazen escape from the Victorian London authorities.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:43

    A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:57

    When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

    A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, cartoon
    CountryUSA, South Korea
    Duration00:22

    When Robert “Granddad” Freeman becomes legal guardian to his two grandsons, he moves from the tough south side of Chicago to the upscale neighborhood of Woodcrest (a.k.a. "The Boondocks") so he can enjoy his golden years in safety and comfort. But with Huey, a 10-year-old leftist revolutionary, and his eight-year-old misfit brother, Riley, suburbia is about to be shaken up.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, cartoon
    CountryUSA

    Axe Cop is an animated series based on the webcomic of the same name. It premiered on Fox on July 21, 2013, as a part of the channel's Animation Domination HD programming block. The series aired 6 11-minute episodes in its first season, which will later expand to half-hour episodes should the show be renewed for a second season.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    Martin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted son has the ability to see things that no one else can and the patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryUSA

    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.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration00:43

    FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration00:22

    Ugly Americans is an American animated sitcom created by Devin Clark and developed by David M. Stern. The program focuses on the life of Mark Lilly, a social worker employed by the Department of Integration, in an alternate reality version of New York City inhabited by monsters and other creatures. Daniel Powell serves as executive producer and Aaron Augenblick is supervising producer and animation director. Ugly Americans aired on Comedy Central from March 17, 2010 to April 25, 2012 with a total of 31 episodes over two seasons.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:04

    A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:35

    Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrefantastic, action, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration04:30

    A detective investigates a mysterious motel room, which acts as a portal to an alternate universe.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrefantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    Set in the not-too-distant future, this comedy anthology explores the issues of everyday life in the metropolis of Weird — stories that can only be told through the prism of sci-fi and comedy.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, adventure, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan

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    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, cartoon, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:11

    Superjail! is an American animated television series produced by Augenblick Studios the first season and Titmouse, Inc. the second and third season. The series follows the events that take place in an unusual prison. The pilot episode aired on television on May 13, 2007, and its first season began on September 28, 2008. Superjail! is characterized by its psychedelic shifts in setting and plot and extreme graphic violence, which give the series a TV-MA-V rating. These elements are depicted through highly elaborate animated sequences, which have been described as "baroque and complicated and hard to take in at a single viewing". A fourth season was confirmed on David Wain's Twitter.

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    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryRussia

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    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic
    CountryUSA

    Land of the Giants is an hour-long American science fiction television program lasting two seasons beginning on September 22, 1968, and ending on March 22, 1970. The show was created and produced by Irwin Allen. Land of the Giants was the fourth of Allen's science fiction TV series. The show was aired on ABC and released by 20th Century Fox Television. The series was filmed entirely in color and ran for 51 episodes. The show starred Gary Conway and Don Marshall. Author Murray Leinster also wrote three novels in 1968 and 1969 based on the television series.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrecomedy, short
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:06

    Fantasy and reality collide when a surprisingly diverse group of online video-game addicts struggle to balance the game with personal relationships.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, France

    Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, cartoon, detective, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration00:24

    Lain is an avant-garde anime influenced by philosophical subjects such as reality, identity, and communication. The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescent girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network similar to the Internet.

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    Genrethriller, fantasy
    CountryRussia

    The picture unfolds in an alternative history at the beginning of the 20th century. The monarchy of Europe and the higher nobility consist of those who hide their true origin and secretly rule the world. The young anarchist Karamora, who lost her beloved in a fight with representatives of a secret organization, decides to challenge the centuries-old rule of the nobility, avenge lost love and try to change the world. Gathering like-minded people, he declares war.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrefantasy, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    When a gateway opens to a parallel universe in modern-day Korea, a king must step into another world in search of answers to a long-unanswered mystery.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:25

    Akira Fudo learns from his best friend Ryo Asuka that demons will revive and reclaim the world from humans. With humans hopeless against this threat, Ryo suggests combining with a demon. With this, Akira becomes Devilman, a being with the power of demon but with a human heart.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantasy, drama, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan

    Ai, a young girl with shut-in tendencies, who tries not to interact with others. She keeps one of her eyes hidden behind her hair. One day, she happens to stop by a deserted arcade, where she meets "Aka." Spinning the gacha at their urging, she acquires a "Wonder Egg," and from that moment, her fate begins to change...

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan

    Long ago in the mountains, a fighting master known as Gohan discovered a strange boy whom he named Goku. Gohan raised him and trained Goku in martial arts until he died. The young and very strong boy was on his own, but easily managed. Then one day, Goku met a teenage girl named Bulma, whose search for the mystical Dragon Balls brought her to Goku's home. Together, they set off to find all seven and to grant her wish.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration00:25

    Edward and Alphonse Elric are two brothers gifted with the ability of alchemy, the science of taking one thing and changing it into another. However, alchemy works on the theory of Equivalent Exchange -- for something to be created, something else of equal value must be sacrificed. When their mother dies, Edward decides to do the unthinkable -- bringing her back to life by breaking one of Alchemy's biggest taboos and performing Human Alchemy. Thinking they have nothing more to lose, he and Alphonse make their attempt -- but something goes horribly wrong. In the process, Alphonse loses his body and Edward loses his leg. Ed manages to save Al by attaching his spirit to a suit of armor, but at the cost of his arm and leg.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration04:30

    Tin Man is a 2007 four and a half hour miniseries co-produced by RHI Entertainment and Sci Fi Channel original pictures that was broadcast in the United States on the Sci Fi Channel in three parts. The first part aired on December 2, and the remaining two parts airing on the following nights. It was released to DVD on March 11, 2008; the same year it was rebroadcast in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Starring Zooey Deschanel, Neal McDonough, Alan Cumming, Raoul Trujillo, Kathleen Robertson, and Richard Dreyfuss, the miniseries is a continuation of the classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with science fiction and additional fantasy elements added. It focuses on the adventures of a small-town waitress named DG who is pulled into a magical realm called the O.Z., ruled by the tyrannical sorceress Azkadellia. Together with her companions Glitch, Raw, and Cain, DG journeys to uncover her lost memories, find her true parents, and foil Azkadellia's plot to trap the O.Z. in eternal darkness. Costing $20 million to produce, the first part of miniseries was the highest-rated program in its timeslot, with 6.4 million viewers; the miniseries itself would be the highest-rated miniseries of 2007. It was nominated for nine Emmy awards, winning one, and was also nominated for a Critics' Choice Award. Critics gave it mixed reviews, with some praising the acting, soundtrack, and visual effects, while others found it overly grim and bleak.

    Markimdb: 8.8
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration00:22

    Years ago, the fearsome pirate king Gol D. Roger was executed, leaving a huge pile of treasure and the famous "One Piece" behind. Whoever claims the "One Piece" will be named the new pirate king. Monkey D. Luffy, a boy who consumed one of the "Devil's Fruits", has it in his head that he'll follow in the footsteps of his idol, the pirate Shanks, and find the One Piece. It helps, of course, that his body has the properties of rubber and he's surrounded by a bevy of skilled fighters and thieves to help him along the way. Monkey D. Luffy brings a bunch of his crew followed by, Roronoa Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Tony-Tony Chopper, Nico Robin, Franky, and Brook. They will do anything to get the One Piece and become King of the Pirates!..




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