The First
Sep 14, 2018
Creator: Beau Willimon
Networks: Hulu, Channel 4
This American-British drama Television series portrays members of a team of astronauts as they become the first humans to visit Mars. The story focuses not only on the astronauts, but also on their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on Earth. While the series can be honest to the point of polarizing its audience, choices made by multiple astronauts challenge the accepted notions of personal responsibility and heroism. Soft-touch technology upgrades are so subtly integrated into the storytelling these new-age glasses, cars, and phones should be used to teach future sci-fi writers how to incorporate their imagined machines.
The innocents
Aug 24, 2018
Creator: Simon Duric Hania Elkington
This is a British supernatural television series created by Hania Elkington and Simon Duric. The series premiered on August 24, 2018, on Netflix. Two teenagers, June and Harry, run away together and June starts displaying abilities that throw them down a dangerous path as he has the power to shift between bodies; unlike most superheroes, though, she can barely control her gift and seeks to keep it hidden.
Altered Carbon
Feb 2, 2018
Creator: Laeta Kalogridis
Society has been transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the lone surviving soldier in a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned — on ice — for centuries until Laurens Bancroft, an impossibly wealthy, long-lived man, offers Kovacs the chance to live again. In exchange, Kovacs has to solve a murder … that of Bancroft himself.
The Gifted
Oct 2, 2017
Creator: Matt Nix
The Gifted is an American television series created for Fox by Matt Nix, based on Marvel Comics’ X-Men properties. It is connected to the X-Men film series, set in an alternate timeline where the X-Men have disappeared. The show is produced by 20th Century Fox Television in association with Marvel Television, with Nix serving as showrunner. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and “solid” viewership. In January 2018, the series was renewed for a 16-episode second season, scheduled to begin airing on September 25, 2018.
Lost in Space
Apr 13, 2018
Creator: Irwin Allen
This American science fiction television series based on a re imagining of the 1965 series of the same name following the adventures of a family of space colonists whose spaceship veers off course. Lost in Space absolutely represents fresh ground for Netflix, at least in terms of its potential reach.
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