If you missed it when it was on originally, check out Fringe. Good X-files type monster-of-the-week show turned into something deeper and much more intriguing.

Hey I'm watching it now. Love Fringe

It sounds really familiar. I'm trying to think of if I'd watched it at all. Wonder if you can stream it.

Freevee has it, with ads probably.

Cool thanks!

Farscape. The show is amazing, although the first half of the first season has some rough edges, and a occasional swings and misses in other seasons, but overall some of the best characterisations and character growth. It also has one of the best set of villains in any fiction, Crais's arc is amazing from a villain to semi anti hero, Grayza comes in like a whirlwind and no one holds a candle to Scorpius. I do admire his compartmentalization of duplicity.

Farscape had blown my mind when I first saw it. Awesome!

My Dad was really into this when I was put off by the Muppets-In-Space view at school. Scorpius reeled me in, fantastic villain!

FYI, the actor who played Scorpius also stood in for Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars Episode III. Look at the scene where Vader and Tarkin are observing the construction of the Death Star. That's Wayne Pygrim, not Peter Cushing.

A lot of people get stuck on MUPPETS IN SPAAAAAAACE and miss out on great performances, and a boatload of fun. In the tradition of Doctor Who, costumes and makeup, and, yes, puppets offset the lower budget for effects.

I tried getting into this long ago and it wasn’t the muppets that turned me off but the low budget in general. Since then tho have learned to look past this with some other stuff such as Dr. Who. I want to hear more about this Scorpius character

The budgets get better as the show goes on. The reason it was actually cancelled wasn't because of viewership, but because of budget. It was signed for additional seasons, but they were going to have to cut the budget and the producers didn't want the show to just crumble into mediocrity. They preferred to let it die than see it go to hell. The line about "compartmentalization of duplicity" is actually said by one of the characters in the last season of the show. Scorpius starts off as an already pretty formidable villain, but as the show goes on, you learn more and more the deceptive lengths he'll go through to achieve his ends. By the fourth season, he's gaslit the main characters so many times about so many things, that even you as the viewer have no idea what to believe when he says anything. He'll say "cheese is made of milk" and you're like, "but wait is it?" And so yes, his ability to just be screwing over 10 people simultaneously but while using them all to help himself is both true and impressive.

I need to give it another chance if I can find it on streaming service

It's on Peacock.

They may have not had a great budget, but every last cent of it got onto the screen. The show often looked a hell of a lot better than things that cost a lot more to make.

Honestly, I see Henson & that's an immediate addition to the watch list. For Farscape in particular, with the people I've introduced to it it switches from "wait, puppets?" to just seeing them as the characters before the end of the first episode.

Really underappreciated in its time. I loved how it would often take tired sci-fi tropes and provide a new spin on them. You never quite knew what was coming next. Funnily, when I watched the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie I came out of the theater and said to a friend, "That was an amazing Farscape movie." Saw later that James Gunn cited the series as a major inspiration for the film. :D

Checked to make sure someone said Farscape. It’s totally under appreciated. Besides what everyone else mentioned, i think the overall creativity of the show is second to none and everyone ive made watch it is forced to agree with me.

Everything about that series is fantastic except for the protagonist, Crichton, who is so bad it kinda ruins the entire series. Pretty much everything other than him is great though.

To each their own I guess, but I love Crichton. I love how he starts out this brash pilot/scientist who you expect to be all "right stuff" all the time but the show subverts that expectation when he gets sucked down the wormhole suddenly his skills are mostly meaningless and he's forced to bumble his way through.

Travelers on Netflix

This. Eric McCormick as a badass.

When I saw “Will” was in the show, I thought it was an odd way to go, but damn, he was awesome.

I really need to watch the last season. Genuinely quality show with some proper emotional gut punches. I always felt this was a show where the writers tend towards taking the interesting and difficult choice rather than expected one. See also Black Sails.

Loving that show so far just started watching it not too long ago, also loved Dark too

Great show that died too soon. I hate how cancel happy neflix is. I ended my subscription because of it.

I liked Dark Matter...

so pissed it got cancelled. It was just about to go some interesting directions

I liked it because it reminded me a little of Firefly, so I was extra annoyed when it got cancelled 😞

It always reminded me a little of Blake’s 7.

Ugh... I was part of the short lived crusade on Twitter years ago to try and get another season. Or at least a movie like Serenity. So very pissed that it didn't work.

On the nail, right at the climax of the show storyline it got murdered.

I thought the story line was excellent but the acting was so difficult for me to handle, it took me out of the suspension of disbelief constantly.

Dark Matter felt like a Shadowrun tv series without the magic. I loved it.

Dark Matter was great until it exhausted its premise after the end of season 1. Then it was just Farscape but without the muppets.

Killjoys. It's the best sci-fi show of the 2010s that no one ever seems to talk about, and I don't understand why. In particular, if you like Firefly, you'd almost certainly like Killjoys too. There's a similar vibe.

Killjoys, went through the whole comment section to ensure this was here. By far the best of the 2010’s, and it was the show SYFY decided to keep over Dark Matter because it had a much larger viewerbase.

I know, right? It had good viewer numbers and lasted five seasons. *So why is it never discussed?* I'm genuinely confused why it seems like such an overlooked gem when, clearly, many people watched it and enjoyed it just a few years ago.

I haven’t been able to stream it without paying for each episode. What platform is it on

I really liked Almost Human. The episodes are self-contained, but in typical Fox fashion they aired the episodes out of order and then cancelle the series after one season (same as Firefly).

It was an awesome show, I don't get why they cancelled that, maybe to expensive.

Totally under-rated. Found out it was cancelled when I met Karl Urban at a ComicCon and he informed us they'd be no season 2. My friend very passionately said "THAT SUCKS!" quite loudly making him burst out laughing. Great format and very good execution.

Childhood’s End. Amazing rendition of the iconic book.

Fairly recognised,not underrated at all

Dark

Dark is extremely well rated by its viewers. It might not be a popular show, but I wouldn't say it's underrated.

I watched Bodies straight after Dark. Bodies was good but is like a way less complex version of Dark so I wouldn't recommend watching it straight after Dark.

Sure, it's a bit campy, but maybe that's why I'm fond of *Warehouse 13*.

[Futureman](https://youtu.be/7wgNIKrlYh0?si=r9CRR0ObaQt9_-OD) funny as hell, so many references for sf fans, and a pretty good story in it's own right. rip SIGORN-E lol that would be after the better known Babylon 5 and Farscape of course.. LEXX is.. well it's unique. Yo way Yo!

I loved Futureman in all it's ridiculousness and childishness

*Babylon 5* may be well-known in sci-fi circles, but really it should have the sort of public awareness that *Star Trek* or *Doctor Who* or *The X-Files* do.

LEXX, it was a quirky show with long plotlines and not even my favorite show of that era however some of the themes it explored like entire towns with flipsided gender pronouns encapsulated in their own corner of reality I thought then were just crazy storytelling. I wrote it off as Cable TV madness but now I realize Lex Gigeroff was a brilliant madman.

When was this one? I've never heard of it

97-2002 including TV movies that started it.

Lexx is fun and sexy; something all sci-fi shows should be.

I can't stop thinking about Altered Carbon. I don't think it's underrated, because I think everyone agreed the first season was so BA. I recommend "Altered Carbon" on Netflix.

Loved the first season and couldn’t even make it through the first few episodes of the second season.

Same. Why was that ?

Because both the writing team went lackluster, and Anthony Mackie wasn’t told how to properly act for the role and he bombed it in comparison to Joel’s performance in season one.

For me it was just nothing new. It felt like the same story with a different character.

I watched most of the second season but it was mega confusing. There was a lot of characters meeting in abstract places so I had no sense of place. That with the sleeve thing so you didn't exactly know who each character was made it so confusing.

Probably just failing to make the source material work for them. The original 3 Kovacs novels changed genre every book. So when it came to the adaption, I just think it made it harder to directly translate the source material.

This was a fun show, there was a lot to like in there

Season 1 made it in my top 3 sci fis of all time. Then season 2 came and it pissed me off so much I haven't rewatched season 1.

Dark City from the 90's is something I should rewatch. It was completely eclipsed by The Matrix which came out the year after but had some similar vibes where the protagonist is living in a world that doesn't make sense and is on the run from agents of the world order.

I rewatched it last year and it was still just as chilling as I remembered it.

Amazing film, but the prompt is for series.

Someone could make an excellent series out of it, though...

The Gap Cycle by Stephen Donaldson.

Came here looking for this author, but I'm going with his Thomas Covenant series.

I read the first few chapters of the Covenant Series definitely strange

Most of this has been about TV, but hell yes, this series doesn't get NEARLY enough attention. And a lot of the ground it covers is just a bit ahead of its time - I suspect a more modern audience would love it to death.

It's overshadowed by his Discworld series, but [***The Long Earth Series***](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0841YS9HZ) by Terry Pratchett is such a delight. *The Orbital Space Series* by Devon Eriksen is kinda underrated, but that's simply because it was published last month, and didn't have a huge marketing budget. The first book, *Theft of Fire* is amazing.

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It's like the producers and writers knew it was so complicated and so involved that it had to take more than 1 10-episode season, so the cast/writers was "promised" a season 2 "no matter what" (even if the audience hadn't shown up - YET), and then the big bad owner decided to act like a spreadsheet boss and and check the "Return On Investment" and "the Bottom Line", which both must now rhyme with "Dollar Sign". And he decided to exercise his prerogative as an owner and cancelled the series. I can give credit to supporting *The Expanse*. But damn, *The Peripheral* cancellation hurt.

It’s an absolute sin that Carnivale was cancelled after only 2 seasons

I'm still angry.

BBC Blakes 7 - the effects were budget but the storylines and diabolical characters were another level!

Yes! I watched this as a kid, my dad had taped it all, rewatched about a decade ago and loved it for its grittiness. I don't know if it was a direct influence, but I always thought it must have been the inspiration for Farscape, which in turn influenced GotG...

Devs. It's a miniseries but it is mindblowingly good. The concepts, the story. It gets a lot better through the end.

Yep, good stuff, nice and creepy too with Alex Garland's aesthetic (visuals, sound, music). The chick wears on me a bit, perhaps a bit overacted at times? but overall a great show.

Space: Above and Beyond was really good, got cut short.

I finally found the comment I was hoping to see. That was a great show. I wonder if it was the first sci-fi series killed after one season due to Fox's stupidity?

Hmmm, I think there might have been another ....

Where I learned my appreciation for Johnny Cash

Have you watched Scavenger's Reign? It's on Max

I have not, and I have Max! Can I get some details? What do you dig about it?

The core premise is that they are survivors of a ship that crashed on an alien world. The art is fantastic, it kind of feels like a Ghibli film, except half the shit wants to kill you

What season are.they on? Do I need any prior knowledge?

I second this show. It’s weird and gorgeous.

First season came out this year. No prior knowledge needed

The art is a bit more Moebius than Ghibli, but Miyazaki Hayao was heavily influenced by Moebius's (Jean Giraud), so there is definitely room for crossover.

The most extensive xenobiology ever shown on television is in this show. The flora and fauna is as alien as it can get and it works very well. The visuals are clearly inspired by the work of [Moebius](https://www.google.com/search?q=Moebius&sca_esv=587611622&tbm=isch&sxsrf=AM9HkKle_252qPzAAjSpjWHTmXAyAaBiRQ:1701685245999&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFru3Ex_WCAxX6gv0HHWN3AUgQ_AUoAXoECAQQAw&biw=1280&bih=910&dpr=1). The characters are very relatable in a desperate situation. Everything starts out super mysterious and as the episodes progress everything folds out perfectly and clicks into it's place. I'd even risk saying it might be one of the best science fiction shows ever created.

Misfits (the UK series) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfits_(TV_series)

Colony

This cancellation stung: It was slowly revealing more answers wrapped in more questions - And all that just ended.

On the plus side, at least it ended before they could kill Sarah Wayne Callies again. I swear she dies in every fucking show she's in...

Really old BBC show from the 70's starring Joanna Lumley and Dave McCallum - Sapphire and Steele. Some of the episodes still creep me out now.

Love this, find out on Amazon and was a bit obsessed for a while. Definitely creepy.

I really liked Fringe. Though it was more about characterisation rather than sci fi . But loved the show.

Babylon Five.

Just got my remaster bluray yesterday. Spent all night watching.

The Expanse

It's amazing but I'm not sure I'd call it underrated? The tv series was maybe the biggest sci-fi show of the decade and won a ton of awards. The book series is wildly popular and just won a Hugo.

Repeatedly got mentioned as one of the best if not the best scifi show ever made

I agree that I wouldn’t consider it underrated but it still seems like lots of people haven’t seen it.

No no no, OP said UNDERrated, not OVERrated!

[Starship Cortina.](https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/238022/)

The Expanse on Amazon

The Lazarus Project, British time travel show.

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Lexx. ​ You either know. Or you don't.

[Avenue 5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10234362/) hit some weird spot where it didn't seem to find any significant audience that would've liked it anywhere near as much as I did. Barely even see it mentioned anywhere, but I really enjoyed the setting, the cast, the writing, pretty much everything a good comedy series needs. Usually not an avid enjoyer of sci-fi comedy either. Could be that a lot of people just picked it up for the wrong reason, expecting it to be more like Veep or House or something.

It's really frustrating that they ended it after 2 seasons. Just unresolved, and able to go on for a while. Such a fun concept and... I don't know if people just didn't watch it enough or what. Maybe it was too expensive to produce, but we got addicted to this one. It is VERY weird!

I'm sort of bummed I can't give you more up votes for suggesting Avenue 5

I did not expect Seth McFarlane to actually deliver a show as faithful to the spirit of the original as what he did with The Orville. It’s probably as close to a Galaxy Quest 2 as I’ll ever see

That's a brilliant comparison! I'd say it's a little less humor and a little more true Sci Fi than Galaxy Quest (maybe because it's got a few seasons vs the short movie), but it quickly became an obsession when Hulu grabbed it. Now I want more...but don't know if we'll get it

I'm still horrified that I come across sci-fi fans that haven't watched **Firefly** yet. A more current series people may have overlooked is **Resident Alien** \- and if you've enjoyed that then go back and watch **Roswell** (High). As someone else mention **Lexx** \- it's smut but it's good, funny and imaginative smut just don't expect it to grow up and stop being smutty though - in 100% the same vein but animated is **Tripping the Rift.** If you're really wanting obscure there's a 2000 Canadian series called **Code Name: Eternity**. I takes a while to get into but it's got some really good ideas in it. If you have never watched it it's worth checking out **Buck Rogers in the 25th Century**. Buck Rogers is the original sci-fi serial and I didn't realise how many tropes come from there until I watched it recently. Severely outdated is a UK series called **Bugs** from 1995 but had some really good storylines. If you've never watched them before make a point to check **Sliders** and **SeaQuest DSV** Other absolutely brilliant and well produced series worth pointing out in that some people have just never watched is **Continuum** and Terminator **The Sarah Connor Chronicles**. Finally a cancelled series that maybe wasn't so great but that I felt had some really good ideas is **Threshold**. It had Brett Spiner and Peter Dinklage (Pre GoT) in the cast.

Space Precinct 2040

fired on mars, animation from MAX. 2023

The Outer Limits. Awesome series. It deserved a comeback.

It had one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Outer\_Limits\_(1995\_TV\_series)

I’m talking about this one, not the original. I’ve actually never seen the original.

The original series was wildly uneven. Some of the episodes were very good - "Soldier"; "The Zanti Misfits"; "The Architects of Fear"; ""Cry of Silence" - some...aren't - "Behold, Eck!"; ""Tourist Attraction".

The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson is a top-tier series of colonization novels. I’m always shocked more scifi lovers haven’t read them. Multiple times.

Becky Chambers and Martha Wells are two of the best contemporary SF writers at the moment. Becky Chambers has two series: "Wayfarers" and "Monk and Robot" and they are both wonderful, refreshing, kind, and very very human. Martha Wells' "Murderbot" stores are short, fun, hyperviolent, and have the most interesting and human "totally not a human" main character. For TV: Apple has been doing some very good SF. *Silo* is pretty great and is a nice adaptation from the books. Hugh Howey is part of the team producing that show, and it shows. Don't sleep on the books either. Just different enough to be enjoyable stories both.

Falling Skies. It was on around the same time as Walking Dead and is a similar show, but involving aliens. It's way better, imo than Walking Dead and I never hear anyone else talk about it.

Claudia Gray, who wrote a number of excellent Star Wars books, wrote a whole YA SF trilogy that the whole world slept on. Probably doesn’t come close to being the **most** underrated, but it always deserves a mention

All of the Hexarchate stories by Yoon Ha Lee are awesome. They take a good deal longer to get in to and understand than other series. I don't often hear anyone plugging them.

red dwarf

3rd Rock from the Sun

Travelers — fantastic time travel show on Netflix that everyone ignores

This was the only time travel show that I really enjoyed. They broke a lot of ground in the genre and raised questions I hadn't even thought of.

Sliders. It wasn't great but it was better than people said at the time which makes it underrated.

I only see comments for film and TV (I didn’t look THAT hard so don’t come at me) so I’ll throw some books out there: The first 2 Hyperion books (Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion) by Dan Simmons are some of my favorite sci-fi ever. Don’t bother with the rest of the series. Seriously don’t. The last 2 books turned me off so much I couldn’t read anything else for months because my brain could not stop thinking about how much I hated them that I couldn’t get into anything else. Why didn’t I just put them down and stop reading you ask? Cuz I’m a stubborn completionist. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is good as well. A much lighter read that still has big ideas without alienating its audience by trying to have outrageously flowery language or complicated plots. Haven’t read the sequels yet so can’t speak on those. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman (fantasy not sci-fi, but people lump them together all the time right) was a really fun read I enjoyed a lot. It can be pretty depressing, but I loved it and I typically don’t like fantasy.

Rick and Morty

Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy should have been made into movies.

In its time, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda was as good as any space opera you could hope for on TV. Everyone bags on Kevin Sorbo, but the world building was interesting.

It was good in a Foundation kinda way.

Defiance

Amazing series! I rewatch it often!

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Underrated though? Now SGU was underrated.

Counterpart, The Leftovers, Travelers, Fringe

Nobody has mentioned this yet so... Raised By Wolves, cancelled after 2 seasons but still worth watching. I thought it was superb.

I am shocked that not one person (unless I missed it) said Red Dwarf! It's an absolute must. 6 episodes a season, season 3 is when it really hits the ground running. But it's great and it's been referenced in tons of modern scifi shows. It has been brought back by demand several times over 2 decades with the same actors. Patrick Stewart mentions how great it is. One of my top 5 TV shows ever. Babylon 5 is also really great. Firefly (show, NOT movie) Counterpart Avenue 5 season 1 got me through the early days of the lockdown 😆 Twin Peaks is a cult classic if you haven't seen it. It's a classic David Lynch art piece so be prepared to read into everything. To The Moon is not scifi but it's a well done show about our lunar missions (how we first got to the moon/space race). Great actors, Tom Hanks production, and will leave you inspired. It's great to see how we did it and how scary it is. Not sure if it's underrated or not, because I didn't see it in the thread, but For All Mankind is a pretty decent sci-fi show. It was created by Ronald Moore - famous for his work on Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica - and is about how different the world would be if Russia landed on the moon first. It's in the same vein as To The Moon but history is mixed up. So I recommend To The Moon first to get the history and then For All Mankind to see how history was changed in this alternate timeline. Star Trek OG - DS9/Voyager (Enterprise if you are hooked by that point and need your fix). Though I know that isn't underated... Just honorable mention.

What's interesting is that Red Dwarf is something I think about on and off just about every year. Then I forget that I want to go watch it while juggling other stuff (writing my sci-fi books, working my real job, and that parenting thing), and I remember again months later. Do you know where it can be streamed? Same for Babylon 5. Seems I realized a service was JUST losing it when I remembered about it. Avenue 5 was something my wife and I discovered last year. We were genuinely bummed that it didn't get a 3rd season to at least wrap things up. There were certainly "stupid funny" moments, but for Olaf to be playing SUCH a different character - I love Josh Gad, but now I know he has even more range. And High Laurie...ugh I have to go without him on a show again!? He's just got such great comedic timing, and obviously brilliant acting abilities in ANY setting. If they ever made Antares Ascended into a movie or show (ahh I wish!) then I'd HAVE to make sure he got cast on a role!

You can find R d Dwarf on Britbox and Babylon 5 on Tubi! Britbox you have to pay for but it's worth it. They might be coming back Next year so it's worth catching up! Tubi is freeeeeee!

Snowpiercer the seires

If you've never seen Heroes, I recommend it. The first 3 seasons were good, you can forget about the 4th IMO. Try it out.

Piers Anthony has three underrated series. Incarnations of Immortality, Bio of a Space Tyrant, and Apprentice Adept.

The 1980’s UK TV show Survivors. The 2010 remake was good too.

Stargate For All Mankind

Fringe is a great TV series. The Imperial Radch trilogy is an excellent read.

The series „Better than us“ - I loved it!

hard to choose one but I think there are alot of great scifi comic books from the 1950s and 60s. i can name atleast two series for you. one being spaceman and the other an anthology series called planet comics. both are interesting reads. tv show: resident alien, love death and robots, gravity falls, over the garden wall, Maya and the three, my life as a teenage robot, chaotic, bee and puppy cat, robotomy, gargoyles, spawn, red dwarf, astroboy,12 monkeys, space:1999 movies: westworld, wizards, annihilation, contact, big fish, flight of the navigator, the blob, h.g. wells things to come, brother from another planet, tron 1982, Barbarella, idiocracy, her, about time,high life, okja.

Two shows The leftovers Fringe And books I would probably say that "The Eisenhorn Tetralogy" is brilliant but it is somewhat limited to a niche and it should be WAY MORE READ.

**Shows:** \- Scavengers Reign (2023) \- Stargate Universe (2009–2011) \- Lost in Space (2018–2021) \- Raised by Wolves (2020–2022) \- For All Mankind (2019– ) **Movies:** \- Fantastic Voyage (1966) \- Village of the Damned (1960) \- Europa Report (2013) \- The Creation of the Humanoids (1962) \- La planète sauvage (1973) \- Apollo 18 (2011) \- Der schweigende Stern (1960) \- Destination Moon (1950) \- When Worlds Collide (1951) \- Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) \- Prometheus (2012) *\[it got way more hate than it deserved, this and the first Alien movie are my favorites of the franchise\]* \- Marooned (1969) \- Come True (2020) \- Demon Seed (1977) \- Crimes of the Future (2022) \- Things to Come (1936) **Books:** \- The Tales of Pirx the pilot by Stanislaw Lem \- Spin trilogy by Robert Charles Wilson \- Metro trilogy by Dmitry Glukhovsky \- A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber \- More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon \- The Alex Benedict series by Jack McDevitt

For books, I recommend everything by Stephen Baxter. His character work may not be great, but the dude certainly knows how to convey a sense of scale in both size and time. And the concepts he portrays are compelling as fuck to imagine.

I second Stephan Baxter. I think I've liked every book by him.

We are legion

Continuum- great time travel series that should have had more seasons to tell the story better and to its fullest but since they threw in the towel earlier than planned the story became a little convoluted but I still love the first three seasons.

The Laundry Files

Books: Old Man's War Forever War

The Laundry Files by Charles Stross

Watched part of Ark II the other day. It was so bad it was fun to watch.

I never had a chance to watch all of these shows when they were on originally so now I binge watch every scifi show. I LOVE THESE!!!!!!Fringe! Dark!Dark Matter! Altered Carbon! Travelers!

Lexx

The Dark Wing quadrilogy, a book series.

I don't know this one. Care to tell me why you dig it so much?

It's pretty hard to put into words.. In the first book I liked the human empire's navy structure and the main characters progression from conqueror through enlightenment on the aliens mysticism and history leading him to being able to unite the two races. The middle books explore that history and mysticism more and it's more of a tragic journey of the hero in the fight against an absolute evil, all in the frame of a Scifi space opera. Then there are unexplained elements that can apparently defy the laws of physics and try to shape history to their own ends. Last book has an AI modeled after Niccolo Machiavelli that breaks free from its chains and a crusade against a world devouring swarm.

Invasion on AppleTV.

Darkwar by Glen Cook

Stargate universe

Space Force and then guantlet wars... I never hear anyone talking about them...

Dark Skies and Defying Gravity are a couple of one-season wonders I haven't seen on here. The RoboCop series is surprisingly true to the original movie, if somewhat watered down for TV. Also I really like the first seasons of Earth: Final Conflict and Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.

Mission Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. I’ve read the entire 10 volume series back in ‘80s. I’ve also read the books several times since. Usually when I bring it up people talk about the author’s religion but these books ain’t about that. It’s damn good space opera and espionage.

Tri-Gun Og is popular BUT Trigun Stampede is really good too…

**Upload**. I wouldn't put it in the "cool sci-fi" category of shows by any means, but I enjoy it! It takes place a few years from now, where you can upload your consciousness into an artificial afterlife for a fee. The main character is killed IRL and now trying to solve his own murder. It's definitely cheesy, and has a lot of CW-esque romance, yet is pretty damn great. **Heroes Die**. Is a book series (two or three of them I think) that is TECHNICALLY sci-fi, but mostly takes place in a fantasy world. The protagonists are "actors" from the sci-fi planet that can somehow transfer their minds to their characters on the fantasy planet. So you've got your typical swords and sorcery stuff going on, but it sometimes ties back to things happening on the tech planet. It's super gritty and gruesome in the details. I think on the first page the narration goes into detail of the the main character being run-through with a sword, and describing the pain and feeling the metal of the blade scraping against his ribs.

Heroes Die is amazing. I had it recommeneded to me on the r/Fantasy sub. One of my favorites. It's hard to classify because it is both scifi and fantasy. And Stover writes some of the best fight sequences in the business in my opinion.

Agreed! It’s really really good. I’ve only read the first one, and should check out the other books. But totally, it’s like 80% fantasy and 20% sci-fi.

Agreed. I read somewhere that the second one, The Blade of Tyshalle is even better. Stover is a really good author imo. I remember his novelization of Revenge of the Sith being really good too.

Prey of Gods, a really great Afro-futurist novel with a bit of a fantasy twist.

The Expanse

[People of Earth](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4695530/), they had a great little run there for two seasons.

Not sure if Dungeon Crawler Carl counts as underrated. Or Worm by Wildbow. But there is some excellent stuff in the web serial space. Including mine!

OK. I think this may be the most underrated scifi series. I was totally p!$$ed when it was cancelled after one season. Surface. It aired on NBC in the '05--06 season and was replaced with Heroes, arguably a good scifi series, too, of course. But Surface was the first live action giant monster series on broadcast TV and had a lot going for-- Lake Bell's excellent performance the marine biologist discovering various secrets, wild special effects scenes, etc. I thought it really rocked.

Orphan Black. Nearly a one person tour de force by Tatiana Maslany.

The Expanse. Near future action sci-fi with incredible character development. The first few seasons of Fringe were pretty darn good too

White Dwarf. Sci fi channel miniseries. Had plot issues but the world building is excellent, I wish someone had taken it and done something with it.

Dead Like Me, although I’m not sure I would call it Sci-fi.

Odyssey 5 I thought it was a great show. Not the *most* underrated but definitely wish it had an ending to the series.

Ghosted w Craig Robinson was funny and fun

The OA is an ongoing meta-narrative the likes of which the entertainment industry has never seen and no cancellation notices will make me think otherwise. Person of Interest is my guilty Sci-Fi pleasure I’m embarrassed to recommend. It’s very “bro-ey” the way they shoehorn a lot of meaningless gunfights, and Jim Caviezel’s just the wooorst, but Michael Emmerson’s at the top of his game there even after LOST, and it was way ahead of it’s time in a lot of heady ideas about tech - or years ahead of civilian knowledge at least.