Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield in Stranger Things Season 4 looking tense standing near a car with the door open. Image via Netflix By Michael Block Published Jul 29, 2026, 11:01 PM EDT Michael Block is a 14 time GLAM Award nominated writer, producer, and host of the podcast Block Talk. Throughout his time in the entertainment industry, he has worked on and off Broadway as a stage manager, written several produced plays, critiqued hundreds of theatrical performances, drag and cabaret shows, and has produced events randing from drag competitoons to variety concerts! On Block Talk, he interviews nightlife personalities, covers the wide world of entertainment through features, ranking episodes, and recaps ALL of Drag Race, as well as Dragula and Survivor. He has interviewed hundreds of RuGirls that span the globe at DragCon NYC, DragCon LA, and DragCon UK. In his free time, he makes one-of-a-kind jewelry and gift baskets with his mom. He is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community. Sign in to your Collider account Add Us Like Like follow Follow followed Followed Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap As time goes on and technology evolves, both in our reality and in entertainment, the caliber of science fiction storytelling has gotten stronger. In fact, as much as we love sci-fi films, television has slowly been bypassing cinema as the place for peak sci-fi content. With the ability to take more time to explain and explore, television's recent bevy of sci-fi shows is better than ever . The past ten years are complete proof.
The titles on the list are among the best sci-fi shows out there . From epic sci-fi horror thrillers that blew up pop culture to a brand new Star Wars story that rivaled its big screen predecessor. These series have taken us to space, introduced us to extraterrestrial hiveminds, and showed us what living life in a 144-story silo in a dystopian future might be like. Science fiction has pushed the bounds of storytelling to places unimaginable . And we couldn't be happier.
Lee-Pace in Foundation series. Image via Apple TV As you'll notice quite often on this list, lifting a project from a source material often leads to excellent content. First up is a series based on novels once believed to be "unfilmable": Foundation . Based on Isaac Asimov's epic stories , the three-season thriller chronicles a band of exiles who try to save humanity after Hari Seldon ( Jared Harris ) predicts the unavoidable collapse of the 12,000-year-old Galactic Empire. The mission is to rebuild civilization. Thus, he creates the Foundation on the remote planet Terminus to preserve human knowledge . The century-spanning story centers on the conflict between the ruling imperial Genetic Dynasty via the clones of Emperor Cleon ( Lee Pace ), and the Foundation, including Gaal Dornick ( Lou Llobell ), a prodigy who helps develop the plan, and Salvor Hardin ( Leah Harvey ), the warden of Terminus, as they navigate the predicted fall. Created by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman , Foundation balances epic, galaxy-spanning storytelling and staggering visual production value with deeply personal character arcs and intense political philosophy.
Foundation is a masterful and poetic space opera that tackles grand themes like the cyclical nature of empires, psychohistory, destiny, and the survival of human knowledge over thousands of years. The seri…