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Browse - Most popular shows featuring: dystopianx
Silo
Men and women live in a giant silo underground with a lot of regulations which they think are supposed to protect them from the toxic and ruined world on the surface.
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale, based on the 1985 bestselling novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood, will debut its first season on Hulu in 2017. Moss will play Offred, a one of the caste of Handmaids who are forced into sexual servitude by the male-dominated Gilead totalitarian regime as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world.
The Man in the High Castle
Producers Ridley Scott and Stewart Mackinnon bring us a startling depiction of an alternate history as imagined by author Philip K. Dick in his best-selling novel; a world in which Nazi Germany and Japan were victorious in World War II. The year is 1962 and the Axis Powers occupy the United States, where fascism rules and the few surviving Jews hide under assumed names.
Y: The Last Man
Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's award-winning comic is finally coming to live-action. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic world where almost every male has died except for one.
Terra Nova
In the year 2149 the planet earth is a mess, most of the plant and animal life has become extinct. Scientists can't reverse the damage but find a way to travel back to prehistoric times to save the human race.
Brave New World (2020)
Brave New World imagines a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself.
Incorporated
Incorporated is an espionage thriller set in a dystopian future where companies have unlimited power. Sean Teale (Reign) stars as Ben Larson, a rising star in a mega-corporation called Chrysalis who is determined to climb the rickety, bloodstained ladder of success in order to find and rescue the woman he loves - and will tromp on anyone who gets in his way.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
CD Projekt Red and the Trigger studio join forces with Netflix for an anime series composed of 10 episodes in the universe of the game Cyberpunk 2077. The series will be directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Blade Runner - Black Lotus is an upcoming 13-episode anime series based on the Blade Runner franchise. Produced by Sola Digital Arts with Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama as directors of all episodes. Shinichiro Watanabe - director of Blade Runner Black Out 2022 - is serving as a creative producer.
It takes place in 2032, between Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. Some characters from the movies will feature.
Cleverman
The six-episode series is set in the near future where a group of non-humans battle for survival in a world where humans feel increasingly inferior to them and want to silence, exploit and kill them. The central story revolves around two estranged indigenous brothers who are forced together to fight for their own survival. Otherworldly dreamtime creatures also emerge into this real world dystopian landscape.
Black Knight
In a dystopian 2071 devastated by air pollution, the survival of humanity depends on the Black Knights - and they're far from your average delivery men.
Blood Drive
Set in a near-apocalyptic future in Los Angeles, Blood Drive centers on Arthur Bailey, a former cop who is now working for a private security company. He partners with a dangerous femme fatale who has an agenda of her own.Arthur deplores the violence that is encouraged among his peers. Bailey sincerely wants to help make this arid, quake-ravaged and dystopian world a better place, but during an investigation, he is forced to join the Blood Drive, an underground death race in which the cars run on human blood.
The Feed
In the near future, people's brains are directly connected to The Feed. Every interaction, every emotion, every memory can be shared instantly.
Tom and Kate, a millennial couple, are trying to resist their addiction to The Feed. Tom’s father invented The Feed, but Tom fears it, especially when he learns of his father's plans to expand it. Then, something – or someone – starts accessing people's minds through The Feed and "taking" them over.
People's loved ones wake up as someone else, someone who wants to kill them.
Tengoku Daimakyou
Within the safety of the walls, youths are raised in a nursery-style setting by robots. While life there may appear stale on the surface, the children are full of potential and curiosity. In many ways it is like a slice of heaven. The outside world is a hell-scape. It is almost entirely void of anything mechanical and is now inhabited by bizarre, yet powerful super-natural beings.
Maru, with the aid of Kiruko, is out there crisscrossing what was once Tokyo for heaven. But after searching for so long, maybe heaven is more of an untenable dream than a potential reality.
Omniscient
Omniscient 'is set in the near future, where every citizen is constantly followed by a small (almost imperceptible) drone. The machine feeds a supercomputer with data, to which nobody has access. Crime rates are almost zero, since criminals know for certain that they will be captured. The Omniscient System seems perfect until a young woman named Nina discovers a murder, but the crime is not reported by the System. Now it's up to her to find out what he's trying to hide.
The Lottery
Set in a world where women have stopped having children, 100 embryos are successfully fertilized, and a national lottery is held to decide the surrogates. Government interests and power begin to dominate one of the most personal and basic elements of humanity: the right to have a family.
Psycho-Pass
The series takes place in the near future, when it is possible to instantaneously measure and quantify a person's state of mind and personality. This information is recorded and processed, and the term "Psycho-Pass" in the anime's title refers to a standard used to measure an individual's being. The story centers around the "enforcement officer" Shinya Kougami, who is tasked with managing crime in such a world.
Chained Soldier
The battle fantasy is set in a world where a demonic gate has unleashed monsters known as Shūki. A special peach tree is able to give special powers, but only to women. The story begins when a down-on-his-luck boy named Yūki Wakura meets Uzen Kyōka, a girl who has gained the power of the peach, and is the captain of the 7th Anti-Demon Squad.
Curfew
The sees contestants race through the night from London to Scotland in their "pimped-out" vehicles to win the ultimate prize - freedom from the totalitarian government curfew that controls their lives.
Festning Norge
In the year 2037, an enormous wall surrounds Norway, where its people enjoy privileged and sheltered lives in a self-sufficient Nordic paradise. But when a deadly pandemic breaks out, the inhabitants soon realise that the wall intended to protect, is instead holding them prisoner.
Masters of Science Fiction
Masters of Science Fiction will feature works from some of the brightest authors of science fiction, from Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein and HG Wells.
SAND LAND: THE SERIES
(The anime series will feature unreleased clips from the SAND LAND anime film, famous scenes from the original manga, and a new story created by Toriyama that continues from the film.)
In a futuristic world known as Sand Land, the only river that fed the whole world has suddenly dried up and the only source of drinking water is in the possession of the king who does not hesitate to charge exorbitant prices. Demons and humans live together in this drought world until Sheriff Lao informs Beelzebub of the possible existence of a fountain, which could provide for both humans and demons. Beelzebub and his friend Thief decide to accompany him in search of this resource.
A Thousand Suns
An anthology of a mind-bending sci-fi shorts that explore visions of humanity's past, present and future.
DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION
As the world is threatened by the sudden appearance of a mysterious alien mothership, best friends Koyama Kadode and Nakagawa "Ontan" Oran carry on about their high school life. But as they grow up, they face existential questions, learning adulthood's complexities and that the true threat may not be from above.
Helgoland 513
A small community of survivors of an apocalypse that has overrun the rest of the world and plunged it into chaos is holed up on Germany's only offshore island.
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