If You Liked Z Nation, Watch These Next
Finished Z Nation (2014) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Z Nation, most of them are mystery, action & adventure, drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The Walking Dead(2010)
8.1Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso action & adventure and drama
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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2.Black Summer(2019)
6.9Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAction & AdventureAlso drama and action & adventure
In the dark, early days of a zombie apocalypse, complete strangers band together to find the strength they need to survive and get back to loved ones.
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3.Fear the Walking Dead(2015)
7.6Action & AdventureDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.
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4.The Last Ship(2014)
6.9Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso action & adventure and drama
Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.
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5.The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon(2023)
8.0Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
After washing ashore in France, Daryl struggles to piece together how he got there and why, as he navigates a fractured, walker-infested landscape to find his way home. During his journey, Daryl has to protect a young boy, Laurent, who is seen as a messiah, while facing new, dangerous walker variants and the "Power…
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6.The Walking Dead: Dead City(2023)
7.9Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso action & adventure and drama
Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
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7.The Passage(2019)
7.0Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
A post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only person able to stop the ensuing crisis.
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8.The Strain(2014)
7.5Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team,…
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9.The 100(2014)
7.9Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
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10.Van Helsing(2016)
7.0MysterySci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureAlso mystery and action & adventure
Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is humanity’s last hope to lead an offensive to take back what has been lost.
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11.Station Eleven(2021)
7.0DramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
The survivors of a devastating flu attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew – while holding on to the best of what’s been lost.
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12.The Purge(2018)
6.9MysteryCrimeDramaAlso mystery and drama
Set in a dystopian America ruled by a totalitarian political party, the series follows several seemingly unrelated characters living in a small city. Tying them all together is a mysterious savior who’s impeccably equipped for everything the night throws at them. As the clock winds down with their fates hanging in…
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13.Falling Skies(2011)
7.1Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen…
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14.Tales of the Walking Dead(2022)
6.9DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and action & adventure
An episodic anthology series focused on both new and established characters set in the world of "The Walking Dead."
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15.Lost(2004)
8.0MysteryAction & AdventureDramaAlso mystery and action & adventure
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
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16.Arrow(2012)
6.8CrimeDramaAction & AdventureAlso drama and action & adventure
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
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17.Fallout(2024)
8.1Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird,…
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18.The Walking Dead: Red Machete(2017)
7.0Action & AdventureDramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso action & adventure and drama
Follow the path of the red-handled weapon from its innocent beginnings, as it lands in the hands of survivors good and evil, familiar and new.
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19.Swamp Thing(2019)
7.4MysterySci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso mystery and drama
CDC researcher Abby Arcane investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but she soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the murky marsh, no one is safe.
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20.The Unit(2006)
7.4Action & AdventureDramaAlso action & adventure and drama
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
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