3 Body Problem, Netflix’s newly released sci-fi epic series has been trending on Netflix since it premiered.
Packed full of physics, mystery, and alien threats, the eight-episode series tracks a global mystery across time, with scientists mysteriously dying a foreboding countdown showing up for others, and the discovery of something in 1960s China having universal repercussions.
If you’re down watching season one and loved the series then check out these five shows like ‘3 Body Problem’ streaming on Netflix:
1) The Signal (2024)
Originating out of Germany, The Signal is a brand-new four-part series about a scientist aboard the International Space Station who disappears after discovering something incredible and leaves clues for her family back on Earth to solve. Florian David Fitz, Peri Baumeister, Yuna Bennett, Nilam Farooq and Hadi Khanjanpour star.
2) The Umbrella Academy
This superhero series mixes sci-fi elements and complicated family dynamics, which is to say that it pretty much has everything.
The Umbrella Academy centers around an estranged family of adopted, superpowered siblings who reunite after their father dies. The fourth and final season of the series is set to premiere this year on August 8.
3) Black Mirror
It simply wouldn’t be a list of sci-fi shows without Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror. Black Mirror is an anthology television series based on The Twilight Zone and uses technology to comment on contemporary social issues. The anthology show features a world in various stages of dependency on technology.
4) Dark
Dark doesn’t reveal itself all at once. Set in Germany, a small German town is set on a frantic hunt searching for two missing children while their sins and secrets are exposed among the four families, along with their past and present intertwined. This mind-bending thrill ride takes you on a journey to witness our existing world in a whole new perspective.
5) Love, Death & Robots
With a wide range of animation styles on display, Love, Death & Robots makes for a truly unique viewing experience.
In a futuristic retirement community staffed by robotic helpers, the house-cleaning ‘Vacuubot’ of an elderly woman named Jeanette malfunctions and becomes increasingly aggressive. She contacts the automated customer support, but the solutions given prove unhelpful.
