What are some good sci-fi shows that are interesting?

[Stiltball]

Lost Room. Miniseries. A cop finds a hotel key that opens a door to anywhere. A hotel room lost in time and space.

Your interesting description enticed me to look at a trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfWrECLnFYU


- yeah, looks good especially with the added frisson of his missing daughter.

[Cupofchar]

you could have a browse down these- might include things that don't immediately to mind.

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/gu ... -tv-shows/

https://www.listchallenges.com/sci-fi-l ... i-tv-shows

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/ ... -time.html

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here's a discussion on foreign language scifi shows which could be interesting

https://www.reddit.com/r/television/com ... _tv_shows/

[Little Tin Hat]

This looks interesting - has any of you seen it?

12. World On A Wire (Germany, 1973)
Another fascinating Fassbinder oddity rescued from obscurity by the Criterion Collection, this three-and-a-half hour TV miniseries was adapted from Daniel F. Galouye’s 1964 novel, Simulacron-3 (also the basis for 1999’s The Thirteenth Floor). It follows junior programmer Klaus Löwitsch as he takes over a top-secret computer simulation program after his mentor dies under mysterious circumstances. Designed to create a virtual-reality world where live people can be inserted into the simulated existence of one of 9,000 “identity units” via electrode-studded helmets, the program’s troublesome glitchiness begins to affect Löwitsch’s real life after he zaps himself inside in order to talk to “Einstein,” the one virtual person whose awareness of his own artificiality is integral to the program’s operation. Thematically wedding the sci-fi premise to the “consequences of power” theme ever looming in Fassbinder’s oeuvre (and designed with the director’s signature visual style—at one point there are musclemen doing Olympic rings exercises in a pool while a Marlene Dietrich lookalike croons to partygoers), World On A Wire is a statically intellectual Matrix, suffused with Alphaville’s philosophical slant on the genre.

https://youtu.be/YvlQ8TQsmQA

another interesting one from the same web page

17. Paranoia Agent (Japan, 2004)
The late Japanese animation director Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Paprika) made this mold-breaking, 13-episode anime series, which uses a near-anthology show format, with a vast array of characters who take turns at center stage, linked by a mysterious, bat-wielding street assailant called Li’l Slugger. It adds up to a dense, somewhat metaphysical investigation into the nature of mass hysteria in the multimedia age. The series was first shown in the U.S. in a dubbed-into-English version broadcast on Adult Swim, but has since been issued on DVD with an optional Japanese vocal track.

https://youtu.be/LBv42_TOmtA

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

Not sure I would describe Paranoia Agent as sci-fi. Paprika was, great film.

[Cupofchar]

primeval had it's moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMufKOVt_io

[Cosumar]

The new series of Battlestar Galactica would be perfect for you. Can't believe it wasn't mentioned yet.

Babylon 5 is great, even if they first season is a little rough at times for those starting out

[Anollasia]

Futurama

It's funny, it can be emotional, and it has clever science and math jokes (but also less specialized jokes that are enjoyable).

[Borovan entered the region as he]

The magicians

[Ther Sul Citzpacia]

Trying to remember a couple more - but came across sense 8 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/sense8/s01/ might have something that you're looking for - is it a hive mind though?

There was a tv series, which cost a fortune at the time, I can't recall the name of which I liked.

what I can remember is

1. over half the world's population suddenly dropped dead or disappeared or something so plabes crashed etcetc

2. there was some group who left ?black/green/red- some bleedin' colour hand ?posters? at various locations

what was it???????????????????????????

there were some old ones worthy of a mention - the invaders and lost in space.

I also seem to remember liking time tunnel.

of the gerry anderson stuff- thunderbirds, stingray, joe 90(I liked the way he had the skills/knowledge implanted for a short time), fireball xl-5.

Sapphire and Steel had a good premise in being agents sent to fix problems in the fabric of existence or whatever.

Primeval was also interesting.

[Ther Sul Citzpacia]

Found it- Flashforward - trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XVeYwHJJq8

A suggestion I received was The Leftovers - trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLT3YUALJno

which was also interesting

at least i won't be hitting my head against the wall over the next few days trying to remember it.