2022
10 eps
Disney+
Thriller Sci Fi Mystery
Thirty years ago, a mysterious figure called The Ghost appeared and saved humanity from solar winds that would have destroyed all electronics on Earth — and then vanished. Now a wa…
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same cerebral and tense energy throughout.
2023
20 eps
Disney+
Action Thriller Sci Fi
Teenagers with supernatural powers discover their parents are former government agents, igniting old conflicts.
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same epic and emotional energy throughout.
2023
6 eps
Netflix
Action Sci Fi Thriller
In a post-apocalyptic Korea where only deliverymen can move between territories, a legendary courier fights oppression.
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2024
12 eps
Netflix
Drama Thriller Sci Fi
An asteroid is going to hit Earth in 200 days. Most institutions have collapsed. A middle school teacher stays in her small town to protect her students while the world outside the…
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2011
24 eps
TV Saitama / Crunchyroll
Sci Fi Thriller Drama
A self-proclaimed mad scientist accidentally invents a method of sending messages to the past using a microwave. What starts as gleeful tinkering becomes a nightmare when he realiz…
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same cerebral and emotional energy throughout.
2022
10 eps
Disney+
Sci Fi Thriller Mystery
A government worker discovers a mysterious woman from the future is connected to a dangerous fugitive and the fate of humanity.
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2024
12 eps
Disney+
Thriller Sci Fi Action
The CEO of a groundbreaking lab-grown meat company becomes a target of powerful food industry forces and a shadowy conspiracy that threatens to destroy everything she has built.
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. Same cerebral and tense energy throughout.
2021
6 eps
Apple TV+
Sci Fi Mystery Thriller
Ko Sewon is a neuroscientist who developed the technology to sync his brain with the recently deceased — absorbing their memories and emotions to solve mysteries. When his own fami…
Same cerebral and emotional energy throughout.
2021
6 eps
Netflix
Thriller Horror Sci Fi
Supernatural beings appear to condemn humans to hell, sparking a religious movement and societal chaos.
The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2021
50 eps
MBS / Crunchyroll
Action Drama Thriller
Takemichi Hanagaki, a washed-up 26-year-old, learns his middle-school girlfriend was killed by a gang called the Tokyo Manji Gang. He time-leaps back to middle school and tries to …
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.