Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy TV Shows, Ranked

Science fiction and fantasy series ranked on reception rather than budget hype, from long-running epics to single-season standouts.

The 25 highest-rated sci-fi & fantasy series right now

1
Stranger Things (2016)
SeriScore 194102.7Audience 8.6/10 Netflix
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
2
INVINCIBLE (2021)
SeriScore 61613.4Audience 8.6/10 Prime Video
Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father's tutelage.
3
Rick and Morty (2013)
SeriScore 41103.1Audience 8.7/10 Hulu
Follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on adventures across the universe.
4
Arcane (2021)
SeriScore 30822.8Audience 8.7/10 Netflix
Amid the stark discord of twin cities Piltover and Zaun, two sisters fight on rival sides of a war between magic technologies and clashing convictions.
5
X-Men '97 (2024)
SeriScore 29829.0Audience 8.7/10 Disney+
The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.
6
Regular Show (2010)
SeriScore 15571.6Audience 8.6/10 HBO Max
The surreal misadventures of two best friends - a blue jay and a raccoon - as they seek to liven up their mundane jobs as groundskeepers at the local park.
7
The Originals (2013)
SeriScore 14144.9Audience 8.6/10 Netflix
The Vampire Diaries spin-off that follows the Mikaelsons, a family of millennia-old, power-hungry vampires who want to reclaim the city they built, New Orleans, and dominate all those who have wronged them.
8
Hazbin Hotel (2024)
SeriScore 10563.8Audience 8.6/10 Prime Video
In attempt to find a non-violent alternative for reducing Hell's overpopulation, the daughter of Lucifer opens a rehabilitation hotel that offers a group of misfit demons a chance at redemption.
9
Gravity Falls (2012)
SeriScore 8150.6Audience 8.6/10 Disney+
Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.
10
The Amazing World of Gumball (2011)
SeriScore 5975.6Audience 8.5/10 HBO Max
The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved in various shenanigans around the city, during which he interacts with various family members: Anais, Richard, and Nicole Watterson, and other various citizens.
11
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)
SeriScore 4897.2Audience 8.8/10 [object Object]
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
12
The Owl House (2020)
SeriScore 4088.1Audience 8.7/10 Disney+
Luz, a self-assured teenage human girl, accidentally stumbles upon a portal to a magical new world where she befriends a rebellious witch, Eda, and an adorably tiny warrior, King.
13
Wizards of Waverly Place (2007)
SeriScore 2842.5Audience 8.6/10 Disney+
Alex, Justin and Max Russo are not your ordinary kids - they're wizards in training! While their parents run the Waverly Sub Station, the siblings struggle to balance their ordinary lives while learning to master their extraordinary powers.
14
Over the Garden Wall (2014)
SeriScore 2093.1Audience 8.6/10 HBO Max
Two brothers, Wirt and Greg, find themselves lost in the Unknown; a strange forest adrift in time. With the help of a wise old Woodsman and a foul-tempered bluebird named Beatrice, Wirt and Greg must travel across this strange land, in hope of finding their way home. Join them as they encounter surprises and obstacles on their journey through the wood.
15
I Am Not an Animal (2004)
SeriScore 612.0Audience 8.6/10 [object Object]
I Am Not An Animal is an animated comedy series about the only six talking animals in the world, whose cosseted existence in a vivisection unit is turned upside down when they are liberated by animal rights activists.
16
Shadow Hunter (2005)
SeriScore 333.9Audience 8.5/10 [object Object]
A documentary series about the paranormal, hosted by Darryll Walsh, a ghost hunter, best-selling author and doctor of parapsychology.
17
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (2023)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.8/10 [object Object]
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s mortality. She takes on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends’ dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace with the nature of life and death? Frieren embarks on her quest to find out.
18
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.7/10 [object Object]
Disregard for alchemy’s laws ripped half of Edward Elric’s limbs from his body and left his brother Alphonse’s soul clinging to a suit of armor. To restore what was lost, the brothers seek the Philosopher’s Stone. Enemies and allies – the corrupt military, the Homunculi, and foreign alchemists – will alter the Elric brothers course, but their purpose will remain unchanged and their bond unbreakable.
19
Attack on Titan (2013)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.7/10 [object Object]
100 years ago, the last remnants of humanity were forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that roamed the land outside their fortress. Only the members of the Scouting Legion dared to stray beyond the safety of the walls – but even those brave warriors seldom returned alive. Those within the city clung to the illusion of a peaceful existence until the day that dream was shattered, and their slim chance at survival was reduced to one horrifying choice: kill – or be devoured!
20
Hunter x Hunter (2011)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.7/10 [object Object]
Gon, a young boy who lives on Whale Island, dreams of becoming a Hunter like his father, who left when Gon was still young.
21
Death Note (2006)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.6/10 [object Object]
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?
22
Ranma ½ (1989)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.6/10 [object Object]
Ranma Saotome, a teenage martial artist, and his father Genma travel to the 'cursed training ground' of Jusenkyo in China. There, despite the warnings of the Chinese guard, they fall into the cursed springs. From now on, whenever Ranma is doused in cold water, he turns into a girl and a cute, well-built redhead at that. Hot water changes him back into a man again, but only until the next time. To make matters worse, his father engages him to Akane Tendo, a girl who hates boys.
23
JUJUTSU KAISEN (2020)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.6/10 [object Object]
Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.
24
InuYasha (2000)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.6/10 [object Object]
Kagome Higurashi is a modern day young girl who lives with her family by the old Higure shrine. Unbeknownst to Kagome, she is the reincarnation of priestess Kikyo and posseses the "Jewel of Four Souls" (the Shikon jewel). One ill-fated day, Kagome locates an ancient well near her home and is abruptly transported through the well and into a feudal Japan, inhabited by demons. There, she encounters Inuyasha, son of a powerful demon father and a human mother, who is pinned to a tree by an enchanted arrow.
25
Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
SeriScore 0.0Audience 8.6/10 [object Object]
At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight back with terrifying bio-mechanical weapons known as the Evangelions. Watch as Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the rest of the mysterious shadow agency Nerv battle to save earth from total annihilation.