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