If You Liked The Expanse, Watch These Next
Finished The Expanse (2015) 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 The Expanse, most of them are drama, mystery, sci-fi & fantasy.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Star Trek: Picard(2020)
7.2Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.
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2.Invasion(2021)
7.1Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them.
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3.Outcasts(2011)
6.3DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Seeking the chance to build a better future, a group of courageous pioneers departs Earth for Carpathia, a newly discovered planet in a distant galaxy. Led by President Richard Tate and his core team of Stella, Cass and Fleur, the pioneers settle in the town of Forthaven, creating a society there alongside…
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4.Defiance(2013)
6.8DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
In the near future, planet Earth is permanently altered following the sudden—and tumultuous—arrival of seven unique alien races. In the boom-town of Defiance, the newly-formed civilization of humans and aliens must learn to co-exist peacefully.
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5.Emergence(2019)
6.9DramaMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and mystery
A police chief takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.
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6.Falling Skies(2011)
7.1Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy 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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7.Battlestar Galactica(2004)
8.2Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
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8.Alien: Earth(2025)
7.3Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.
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9.Star Trek: Discovery(2017)
6.9Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.
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10.Ascension(2014)
6.6Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
In 1963, the U.S. government launched a covert space mission sending hundreds of men, women and children on a century-long voyage aboard the starship Ascension to populate a new world. Nearly 50 years into the journey, as they approach the point of no return, a mysterious murder of a young woman causes the ship’s…
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11.Penny Dreadful: City of Angels(2020)
6.8Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaCrimeAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Rooted in the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the Devil, this saga explores an exciting mix of the supernatural and the combustible reality of 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension.
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12.The Tomorrow People(2013)
6.9DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
The story of several young people from around the world who represent the next stage in human evolution, possessing special powers, including the ability to teleport and communicate with each other telepathically. Together they work to defeat the forces of evil.
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13.Raised by Wolves(2020)
7.5Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.
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14.The Changeling(2023)
6.3MysteryDramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso mystery and drama
Apollo and Emma's love story is a fairy tale—until Emma mysteriously vanishes. Bereft, Apollo finds himself on a death-defying odyssey through a New York City he didn't know existed.
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15.Mr. Mercedes(2017)
7.2MysterySci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso mystery and sci-fi & fantasy
A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again.
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16.12 Monkeys(2015)
7.4Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human…
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17.The Man in the High Castle(2015)
7.5Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.
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18.The 100(2014)
7.9Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy 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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19.Travelers(2016)
7.6DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible…
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20.Star City(2026)
7.7DramaSci-Fi & FantasyWar & PoliticsAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Step into a thrilling chapter inspired by For All Mankind. Same alt-history universe. Different perspective: the Soviet Union's. Go behind the Iron Curtain with the cosmonauts, engineers, and intelligence officers who risked it all in the race for the Moon.
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