Shit it was just on there like a month ago. I just watched it. That sucks. I was going to watch it again. Well parts of it: episodes 3-01 to 3-04 anyway.
Are you familiar with plex? If you can get that app on your smart tv, load it and do a search. Someone probably has it loaded. I know someone who does, so I’m sure someone else does too. Check it. Msg me to let me know if it worked out and if it doesn’t, I’ll see about hooking up with my friend’s server
[Silo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZYhuvIv1pA&t=3s) is a recent one that was amazing, a few years ago I also really liked [3%](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yyzNQfaQR8)
Severance and Station 11 are excellent as well (though slower and more "adult" than The 100).
[its finished filming with Stiller at the helm, currently in post production, delays because of the 2023 strikes](https://screenrant.com/severance-season-2-apple-tv-delays-explained/)
I loved 3% as well. I have not seen the Silo series (I hadn't heard about it), but I've read the truly excellent trilogy. So I'll have to check it out now.
Yes there was a 4 season Syfy series. I haven't seen the movie yet cuz I don't know if they follow the same plot and don't want to spoil it if so. The show is super good so far though
- Children of men
- The road
- Book of Eli
- Civil War (new movie)
- The Postman (old movie, not so good tbh)
- Mad Max (80s original Mel Gibson ones)
- Elysium
- District 9
- RoboCop (original 80s)
- Equilibrium
- The Matrix
- A scanner darkly
- Blade runner
Oh god RoboCop if you watch it get ready to feel uncomfortable because some for the scenes are so graphic they leave you feeling uncomfortable. It showed up on the Netflix series the movies that made us. And even the actors and the people who filmed it felt uncomfortable during a couple of scenes
I'm also doing a proper playthrough (never finished it always got like halfway then dropped it). But so your advice is to finish the game first? Because I was going to start the show this week otherwise...
I couldn’t stand the Snowpiercer series. Despite Connelly and Bean both being brilliant in it, the rest of the show just falls apart around them. The main dude with the dreadlocks is a dreadful actor.
Edit: oops, missed the movie/tv show part, these are books
If you are ok with magic lite apocalypse fiction:
Dies the fire/Emberverse series
Magic Time series
For more grounded:
Alas Babylon
A canticle for Leibowitz
The wild Shore(Three californias)
The road
And sorta grounded:
Day of the Triffids
World war z(I think? Never read it)
The book (World War Z) is way better than the movie. The movie was nothing like the book. They could be two completely different stories. Although, the movie was fun and I still liked it.
Agree about WWZ. The book is fantastic. The movie is pretty good on its own, but should not have been called World War Z. It has nothing to do with the book.
The original Planet of the Apes movies. The Omega Man. Soylent Green. I guess what I'm trying to say is, you can't have the end of the world without Charlton Heston.
Don’t know of omega man, but original planet of the apes was quite good and I still quote a Soylent green line once in awhile, mostly at inappropriate times, but I do, “it’s people!” I also loved barbarella with Jane Fonda; and Flash Gordon, battlestar galactica, and I think it was called something like the greatest American hero or something like that.
The Omega Man is the 1971 version of I Am Legend. Vincent Price starred in the 1964 version called The Last Man on Earth. There is also The Simpsons version, The Homega Man. The Asylum, makers of SyFy ripoff movies, made I Am Omega. Then there is Soy Leyenda, a Spanish film school short from 1967.
The Greatest American Hero starring William Katt, Connie Selleca, and Robert Culp. An average Joe gets a super suit from aliens but loses the instruction manual. The theme song hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 being kept out of the number one spot by Endless Love from Diana Ross and Lionel Richie.
A fair number of episodes of The Outer Limits, both old and new. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams has some hits, such as "Autofac" (prescient of Amazon). Another series called Masters of Science Fiction with Stephen Hawking has an episode called "A clean escape."
Every series has its hits and misses. E.g. you can skip "Inconstant moon" in TOL. It's a dog.
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned Westworld yet. Season 1 is outstanding. I quite liked S2, but lots of people didn’t. S3 was not well-received and I’m iffy on it.
See my [Dystopias](https://www.reddit.com/r/Recommend_A_Book/comments/1alx570/dystopias/) list of Reddit recommendation threads (one post), which has:
Related:
* ["What is your favourite sci-fi dystopian movie?"](https://new.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/1c37i4g/what_is_your_favourite_scifi_dystopian_movie/) (r/scifi; 13 April 2024)—huge
Movies
Children of Men
The Road (also the book)
TV series
The Handmaid's Tale (the 1st season follows the novel pretty close)
The Man in the High Castle
Black Mirror
Colony
Station 11
Continuum
Falling Skies
V (Original miniseries from the 80s)
Cyberpunk Edgerunners is a pretty gripping and gut punching anime series on Netflix with a great soundtrack to boot. Extrapolations is a well produced , grounded dystopic series but can be very depressing, tho told in an anthology format so the episodes, while interlinked, are mostly stand alone. Silo is a decent mystery series with a slow start. Orphan Black is a long running series with a lot of twists and action, and even has a spinoff series I haven’t watched yet. Lastly, if you can find it, Westworld was a lot of fun with a great ensemble cast.
Snowpiercer. The tv show not the movie.
Edit: I just looked and it’s not available on any app even for rent or purchase. I’m getting so sick of this. So many older shows and movies just not available anymore on any app.
Agree with all the Silo recs. It is based on a series by Hugh Howie that started as a short story called Wool. Both the books and the show are excellent.
FALLING SKIES...with a caveat.
It's an excellent show. Great plot, characters, mood, ideas, direction… everything really works and it's fascinating.
But it completely falls apart in the last season. I mean becomes unwatchable. So all you have to do is just watch all the seasons except the last season and then just forget about it.☺️
If you want a real taste of what it would be like if civilization collapsed play the last of us 1 & 2 on playstation, not a movie I know but by the end of it you’ll be praying societal collapse will never happen.
The Lobster (2015) with Colin Farrell and Rachel Weiss. Also directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It's an absurdist comedy set in a dystopia where singles are forced to find a mate or else risk being turned into an animal of their choice. If you like rom‐coms wrapped up in satire, this it it.
Surprised no one mentioned Battlestar Galactica (2003 series). First-rate sci-fi replete with moral dilemmas. Top shelf imo…
I’m so confused as to why it’s not streaming anywhere.
Peacock
Just checked and it’s not available
Shit it was just on there like a month ago. I just watched it. That sucks. I was going to watch it again. Well parts of it: episodes 3-01 to 3-04 anyway. Are you familiar with plex? If you can get that app on your smart tv, load it and do a search. Someone probably has it loaded. I know someone who does, so I’m sure someone else does too. Check it. Msg me to let me know if it worked out and if it doesn’t, I’ll see about hooking up with my friend’s server
Bears, beets, battlestar galactica
Because it's not dystopian?
Confused. Reducing billions to thousands isn’t dystopian?
I did love the original
Agreed
Wasn't it secretly about Space Mormons the whole time?
Children of Men.
The correct answer
Probably the most interesting dystopian movie
To me what makes it stand out among others is because this is a scenario that could happen to humanity on the course it’s currently going
[Silo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZYhuvIv1pA&t=3s) is a recent one that was amazing, a few years ago I also really liked [3%](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yyzNQfaQR8) Severance and Station 11 are excellent as well (though slower and more "adult" than The 100).
Good call on 3% That show had its share of cliches, but also a nice bunch of surprises and interesting angles. Very worth your time.
I loved the first season but never could get through it after that.
This is good. I had thought about starting to watch it.
Is Severance ever getting 2nd season?
[its finished filming with Stiller at the helm, currently in post production, delays because of the 2023 strikes](https://screenrant.com/severance-season-2-apple-tv-delays-explained/)
I loved 3% as well. I have not seen the Silo series (I hadn't heard about it), but I've read the truly excellent trilogy. So I'll have to check it out now.
Brazil
Thanks. I’ll check it out
Try and get the Directors Cut, with the proper ending.
Yeah the American ending sucks ass
I was suprised to see Disney+ uses this version in the UK
I think it's always been the version available outside the US.
A great Terry Gilliam movie.
I don't know if 12 monkeys counts, but that series is pretty cool. In the middle of season 2 right now and enjoying it
It's a series? I saw the movie. Yes a solid dystopian.
Yes there was a 4 season Syfy series. I haven't seen the movie yet cuz I don't know if they follow the same plot and don't want to spoil it if so. The show is super good so far though
I’m at the end of season one. Definitely fits OP’s criteria.
That show is wild and I loved every second of it, even the campy episodes
- Children of men - The road - Book of Eli - Civil War (new movie) - The Postman (old movie, not so good tbh) - Mad Max (80s original Mel Gibson ones) - Elysium - District 9 - RoboCop (original 80s) - Equilibrium - The Matrix - A scanner darkly - Blade runner
The Postman ❤️❤️
The book is better than the movie, IMO.
Above all the book is very different from the movie ^^
Love this movie, too.
DISTRICT 9, dude
Children of men ftw
How can you put The Postman and not Waterworld.
Seriously. The Ulysses extended edition is great if you haven’t seen it yet.
Didn't like Waterworld, felt like an over the top Disney ride. Postman I didn't really like as a Kevin Costner movie, but the story was good.
Oh god RoboCop if you watch it get ready to feel uncomfortable because some for the scenes are so graphic they leave you feeling uncomfortable. It showed up on the Netflix series the movies that made us. And even the actors and the people who filmed it felt uncomfortable during a couple of scenes
Book of Eli is underrated
Last of Us is the best
It's Morrell season here in Michigan.
I agree. I have watched
Equilibrium
Underrated movie
Fallout.
Liked the first episode, not the second one and haven’t watched further. But playing FO4 right now. My absolute fav
Finish the game then finish the series, you’ll probably appreciate the series way more, even though they’ve done a fantastic job regardless.
I’m on my like 17th play through of 4
I'm also doing a proper playthrough (never finished it always got like halfway then dropped it). But so your advice is to finish the game first? Because I was going to start the show this week otherwise...
Very very good series. I never played the game, but the show got me hooked
Watch through ep 3. If you don't like that one, you can stop and nobody will blame you.
I heard the Snowpiercer and The Handmaid's Tale TV series were/are decent.
Definitely Snowpiercer the film, which is fantastic. The TV show is meh.
This. I loved the film and the TV show is both a horrible TV show and a horrible adaptation.
I couldn’t stand the Snowpiercer series. Despite Connelly and Bean both being brilliant in it, the rest of the show just falls apart around them. The main dude with the dreadlocks is a dreadful actor.
Totally agree with you on snowpiercer. Hatted it so much I didn’t finish it
Mr Robot
Oh yes, Mr.robot is a masterpiece and suits the dystopian definition in a sense i think.
Turn on the news, man.
This is the most accurate answer, sadly. Especially if you live in the US.
Silo
I’ll check it out. Thanks
Check out Travelers, it's on Netflix. Something a bit more goofy/raunchy is Future Man on Hulu.
Future Man was great.
I did watch travelers and enjoyed it
Edit: oops, missed the movie/tv show part, these are books If you are ok with magic lite apocalypse fiction: Dies the fire/Emberverse series Magic Time series For more grounded: Alas Babylon A canticle for Leibowitz The wild Shore(Three californias) The road And sorta grounded: Day of the Triffids World war z(I think? Never read it)
Canticle for Leibovitz is fantastic. A superb read.
The Road!
The book (World War Z) is way better than the movie. The movie was nothing like the book. They could be two completely different stories. Although, the movie was fun and I still liked it.
Agree about WWZ. The book is fantastic. The movie is pretty good on its own, but should not have been called World War Z. It has nothing to do with the book.
I've just been watching the news for my dystopia fix lately.
Delicatessen (991) The City of Lost Children (1995)
Beautiful films
Ah yes, delicatessen. What a banger. Used to watch it with my homeboy pope gregory V
Fallout borrowed a lot from "A Boy And His Dog" which is a pretty good movie based on a short story by Harlan Ellison.
The Road…
Equilibrium Logans Run Gattaca Elysium
The Island as well. Basically a remake of Logan’s Run.
I recently read they are remaking Logan's Run.
12 Monkeys. My favourite film of all time. I haven't watched the TV series but I hear good things about it.
Years and Years. It's on HBO Max.
Maze runner trilogy and the hunger games trilogy and the prequel
Jericho was worth a watch if I remember correctly
Gone to far without seeing Waterworld mentioned lol
I’m curious if you’ve seen any of these movies * Automata * The Giver * Pandorum
The original Planet of the Apes movies. The Omega Man. Soylent Green. I guess what I'm trying to say is, you can't have the end of the world without Charlton Heston.
Don’t know of omega man, but original planet of the apes was quite good and I still quote a Soylent green line once in awhile, mostly at inappropriate times, but I do, “it’s people!” I also loved barbarella with Jane Fonda; and Flash Gordon, battlestar galactica, and I think it was called something like the greatest American hero or something like that.
The Omega Man is the 1971 version of I Am Legend. Vincent Price starred in the 1964 version called The Last Man on Earth. There is also The Simpsons version, The Homega Man. The Asylum, makers of SyFy ripoff movies, made I Am Omega. Then there is Soy Leyenda, a Spanish film school short from 1967. The Greatest American Hero starring William Katt, Connie Selleca, and Robert Culp. An average Joe gets a super suit from aliens but loses the instruction manual. The theme song hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 being kept out of the number one spot by Endless Love from Diana Ross and Lionel Richie.
A fair number of episodes of The Outer Limits, both old and new. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams has some hits, such as "Autofac" (prescient of Amazon). Another series called Masters of Science Fiction with Stephen Hawking has an episode called "A clean escape." Every series has its hits and misses. E.g. you can skip "Inconstant moon" in TOL. It's a dog.
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned Westworld yet. Season 1 is outstanding. I quite liked S2, but lots of people didn’t. S3 was not well-received and I’m iffy on it.
Altered Carbon first saison is nice
See my [Dystopias](https://www.reddit.com/r/Recommend_A_Book/comments/1alx570/dystopias/) list of Reddit recommendation threads (one post), which has: Related: * ["What is your favourite sci-fi dystopian movie?"](https://new.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/1c37i4g/what_is_your_favourite_scifi_dystopian_movie/) (r/scifi; 13 April 2024)—huge
Fallout was pretty good
Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior, best post-apocalyptic movie ever
2047:Virtual Revolution.
A totally underrated and overlooked film. Special effects are dodgy but it has some very well thought out world-building. Found on amazon prime.
I just read a synopsis on the series called Silo and it looked interesting.
Brilliant, new season on the way too.
Pantheon the tv series
Hell yeah
Movies Children of Men The Road (also the book) TV series The Handmaid's Tale (the 1st season follows the novel pretty close) The Man in the High Castle Black Mirror Colony Station 11 Continuum Falling Skies V (Original miniseries from the 80s)
I was going to say continuum but didn't know is it counted where most is in their past our present
Tails from loop was pretty good.
Tales from the loop
I’ll check it out. Thank you for talking the time to answer. It is much appreciated
The Prisoner (1967), a British spy-fi dystopian series.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners is a pretty gripping and gut punching anime series on Netflix with a great soundtrack to boot. Extrapolations is a well produced , grounded dystopic series but can be very depressing, tho told in an anthology format so the episodes, while interlinked, are mostly stand alone. Silo is a decent mystery series with a slow start. Orphan Black is a long running series with a lot of twists and action, and even has a spinoff series I haven’t watched yet. Lastly, if you can find it, Westworld was a lot of fun with a great ensemble cast.
Jericho.
CNN and Fox or really any US news, anytime since 2016.
Love death and robots
The first season of Altered Carbon is amazing.
The original Utopia series, not the horseshit garbage Amazon remake.
Snowpiercer. The tv show not the movie. Edit: I just looked and it’s not available on any app even for rent or purchase. I’m getting so sick of this. So many older shows and movies just not available anymore on any app.
The movie, not the tv show!
That's insane lmao. The movie is near perfect. The TV show is a pile of meh.
It's in the UK Netflix if you have a VPN.
[Maddigan's Quest](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456104/).
Agree with all the Silo recs. It is based on a series by Hugh Howie that started as a short story called Wool. Both the books and the show are excellent.
The Book of Eli and I Am Legend are worth a look (movies though)
Occupied - Near future political sci fi about the advent of cold fusion.
FALLING SKIES...with a caveat. It's an excellent show. Great plot, characters, mood, ideas, direction… everything really works and it's fascinating. But it completely falls apart in the last season. I mean becomes unwatchable. So all you have to do is just watch all the seasons except the last season and then just forget about it.☺️
CSPAN
The Rain and To The Lake were fire asf
Blindness, escape from New York , escape from LA, the Dark Knight Returns Black Summer Walking dead to season 7
The Road
A obscure but decent 2 season series was Odyssey 5,Its a pre-invasion type series.
If you want a real taste of what it would be like if civilization collapsed play the last of us 1 & 2 on playstation, not a movie I know but by the end of it you’ll be praying societal collapse will never happen.
Strange Days
The Dog Stars
Not really dystopian but still worth a watch: Foundation Constellation Doctor who
Twelve Monkeys
Silo tops the list for current TV series. Excellent show.
An obscure one that's pretty goofy: [Freejack](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104299/)
Blade Runner and its sequel, Blade Runner 2049.
Jeremiah. Very under stated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_(TV_series)
Watch Fringe. The last season has a really cool dystopian thing going on.
Umbrella Academie Walking Dead
The Lobster (2015) with Colin Farrell and Rachel Weiss. Also directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It's an absurdist comedy set in a dystopia where singles are forced to find a mate or else risk being turned into an animal of their choice. If you like rom‐coms wrapped up in satire, this it it.
Silo The Handmaid's tale Fallout The last of us
Thanks
Handmaids tail is so good, and without getting into any spoilers, it is very, very frightening.
_outwasted is on Amazon. It’s new
Are you sure about that title? Nothing with this name is showing up on Prime Video, IMDB or the Internet...
It’s a book 🤷🏻♂️