Joe Keery and Maya Hawke in Stranger Things Image via Netflix By Jiminna Shillingford Published Oct 3, 2026, 9:33 PM EDT Jiminna Shillingford is an avid reader and a passionate storyteller. She is obsessed with all things TV, from anime and romantic fantasy to action-packed series. With that deep affection, Jiminna longs to share her excitement with all her readers through the Collider platform as a TV author. Through her writing she has created stories and blog posts of amazing book recommendations, showcasing her love of writing. Jiminna's goal is to inspire others to discover and embrace their love of stories in all of its forms. Sign in to your Collider account Add Us Summary Generate a summary of this story Like Like follow Follow followed Followed Listen Thread 3 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 The expansive library of sci-fi shows is ever-growing, but what has already been brought to TV screens deserves to be acknowledged, especially the series that are incredibly fun to watch . Those extremely fun sci-fi gems use strange futures, aliens, space travel, alternate worlds, advanced technology, and impossible ideas to create plots packed full of humor, adventure, danger, personality, and style.
Entertaining sci-fi shows like the action-packed cyberpunk adventure Altered Carbon and the cult classic Firefly , which turns space travel into a scrappy outlaw adventure full of sharp banter, found family, humor, and charm, are just two series in the genre that genuinely feel fun and exciting, without ever feeling distant. Compiled on this list are nine of the most fun sci-fi shows of all time that offer viewers genuinely entertaining worlds to escape into.
The cast of Misfits in a locker room in Season 2 Image via Channel 4 This underrated British sci-fi series is a hilariously great time that takes superpowers and somehow makes them chaotic, messy, rude, and completely unpredictable. Misfits follows a group of teenage offenders who gain strange and unique abilities during a freak lightning storm and immediately prove that they are not at all prepared for the intense responsibility.
Misfits wields a reckless energy with a captivating appeal that stems from just how wild and genuinely funny the show gets while keeping up with its sharp sci-fi ideas. The show takes time travel, powers, immortality, body swapping, and other entertaining tropes in the genre and turns them into a complete disaster caused by individuals who barely know how to handle normal life. But what truly makes Misfits a hypnotic good time is its strange ability to feel both dangerous and laugh-out-loud funny, while delivering chaos most shows could only dream of.
Bender with his eyes zoomed in at a bar with Leela and Fry in Futurama. Image via Hulu Futurama is one of the finest sci-fi series of all time simply because it uses its science fiction as playfully as possible . The series centers around pizza delivery boy Fry ( Billy West ), who awakens 1000 years in the future after accidentally falling into a freezer on the job, only to join another, more adventurous delivery service, which hosts a crew of truly odd employees.
Futurama is no doubt one of the most entertaining sci-fi shows ever to exist, because it delivers ideas of the sci-fi genre as truly clever, hilariously silly, and weirdly heartfelt. From robots, time travel, and aliens to parallel…