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Sep 15, 2024 · Vote up the television series that do the best job of incorporating dystopian elements and themes, however non-traditionally. Latest additions: Goodbye Earth, Fallout. Most divisive: Adventure Time. Over 3.7K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The 65+ Best Dystopian TV Series.
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- The Prisoner (1967 to 1968) Creator: Patrick McGoohan. “Have you not realised that there’s no way out?” , the ever-changing administrator ‘Number Two’ asks ‘Number Six’ (Patrick McGoohan), who, after his surprise resignation from a job in the secret service, has been abducted to the isolated Village (in fact Portmeirion in northern Wales).
- Threads (1984) Director: Mick Jackson. First screened, like Cartier’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, on the BBC, and released, significantly, in the same year envisaged for Orwell’s austere allegory, Mick Jackson’s pre-, mid- and post-apocalyptic drama imagines Britain stripped of its underpinnings in a flash, and shifting from initial authoritarianism to outright anarchy, and finally to a backward scavenger agrarianism.
- Twin Peaks (1990 to 1991, 2017) Creators: Mark Frost and David Lynch. When FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) first arrives in Twin Peaks, a logging community in Washington State “five miles south of the Canadian border”, he sees an American idyll: the fresh mountain air, the pine smell, the old-fashioned decency of the locals (and even of the good-natured police), and the perfect quality of the coffee and pie in the archetypal diner.
- Serial Experiments Lain (1998) Director: Ryutaro Nakamura. The 13 episodes, or ‘layers’, of Ryutaro Nakamura’s anime came out at a time when the internet was still in its relative childhood – when fears of what we might be losing of ourselves to our avatars and the ether were coupled with pre-millennial anxieties about an impending bug that might bring the whole system crashing down.
Oct 8, 2024 · Rated 4.2, the series captivates the audience with its unique take on identity and agency. Explore more of its mind-bending reality here. Closing Thoughts. These eight dystopian TV series offer a rich tapestry of stories that challenge and entertain, illuminating society, culture, and humanity's potential paths through the lens of speculative ...
Electric City (web series). 2012–present. Created by Tom Hanks, the series begins after the world has ended. Electric City represents peace and security in the midst of rubble. Even though it seems to be an orderly utopia, there are still secrets, back-alley dealings, daring chases and murder.
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