15 fantastic series for those who are tired of everyday life and want to dive headlong into a "parallel reality"

This year promises to be a golden time for fans of TV series. Everyone — from DC to Netflix — releases promising novelties, among which fantastic series stand apart, and all because high-quality works in this genre come out infrequently. Their creators face a difficult task: to create a new, most believable and atmospheric space, to which the viewer will want to return again and again.

We invite you to dive into the world of cyberpunk and dystopias, where people create colonies on other planets, a parallel universe can easily fit in a closed room, time travel is real, and superpowers are something taken for granted.

At the end of February, the premiere of the series based on the comic book series of the same name took place. Do you recognize Sofia Lillis, the young star who played Beverly Marsh in the film adaptation of the cult novel "It" by Stephen King? Here she plays a high school girl named Sydney. The usual teenage problems of the main character are aggravated by the presence of supernatural abilities. Sydney tries to cope with them, but everything gets out of control.

"Raising Dion" is a superhero and super—dramatic series with a famously twisted plot: Nicole Reese lost her husband and is now raising a son named Dion alone. It's not easy for her to live as it is, and then the boy reveals a bunch of superpowers of different scales — from turning invisible to controlling the elements.

The series was filmed in the now popular genre of docudrama — a "hybrid" genre of feature films. In form it is a documentary, in fact it is a work of art. In "Mars" the plot alternates with interviews with the leading minds of the planet.

The production is handled by the National Geographic TV channel, and the plot is based on the book by Steven Petranek "How we will Live on Mars." According to the plot in 2033 on The first manned expedition will go to Mars. 6 people will create the first human settlement on the red planet. But, as usual, dangers and trials await them. Fans of "Gravity", "Interstellar" and "Martian" will be delighted.

The action of the series will take us 179 years ahead — the year is 2199. An orphan girl named Jax enters the space academy and tries to start a new life. In an educational institution, she is taught to protect the planet from alien threats, but then the past catches up with the heroine and terrible secrets begin to surface. Jax understands that she has a special purpose, but what is it — to save the universe or destroy it?

A ghost starts up in a local bookstore, and a nightmare begins for ordinary people and happiness for a literature teacher — book heroes come to life. 4 friends have to deal with the ghost, but for this you need to understand what exactly keeps him in our world. The heroes are waiting for puzzles and secret messages.The series can be watched by the whole family: follow the exciting adventures of friends and carefully track all the clues — who knows, maybe you will be the first to solve the mystery?

Fans of the "Black Mirror", pay attention to this series. The plot revolves around the sudden disappearance of a brilliant programmer. How it happened and who is to blame is a mystery shrouded in darkness, which the girl's friends are trying to solve. Their perseverance is rewarded — they find clues that indicate the approach of a global technological crisis.

The series combines different genres: detective, mystery and science fiction in one bottle. The plot tells about a girl named Mifanvi Thomas. One day she wakes up in the rain and doesn't remember who she is or what happened.

It turns out that the girl has superpowers, is connected with a secret unit of British intelligence, and she also receives messages-hints ... from herself from the past. It seems that she expected something to happen to her, and carefully prepared for it. It remains to find out who is behind the murders.

The series is an adaptation of Nick Clark's book Windo about the influence of corporations. In the near future, people's brains are directly connected to the ubiquitous social network called "Stream". Memories, thoughts, feelings of people — everything can be instantly shared with each other. And according to the law of the genre, one terrible day the "Stream" goes out of order and humanity is waiting for a real nightmare.

The city in the series is really strange — it is divided in two, there are rich and poor, but there is no middle class at all. The first, as usual, is good: they have modern gadgets, the best medicine, and the second can't sit still and are looking for adventures. You are waiting for 6 exciting stories with different plots, but they are all interconnected.

There are countless films and TV series based on the novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, among them this three-part film from the BBC differs in that the main story in the plot was a love story. George escapes from a failed marriage to his beloved Amy.They want to start a new, happy life, but the aliens have a different opinion — they have been planning an invasion for a long time and intend to destroy humanity. The series has a gloomy atmosphere of foggy England of the early twentieth century, the viewer, along with the characters, feels the growing horror.

A French series with a sudden combination — it's about love and time travel. Vincent is over 30, and everything seems to be normal in life, but only he has an idea fix — he dreams of returning Louise, his former lover.

Not just dreaming, he's obsessed with this idea. One day, a courier brings him a package — a box without a bottom, through which you can travel in time. The box takes Vincent back to those happy times when he and Louise were still together. This is a chance to fix everything. Do you think he will use it? A kind of "Butterfly effect" with a French fleur.

In February, the long-awaited premiere of the series took place, and I must say, it turned out to be a dynamic and atmospheric thriller. The plot starts with a mediocre scene — a mother with three children moves to a family estate in the wilderness to start a new life.

But we all know what kind of life begins in such places. So this time the children discover a portal to another reality, the power of which is in the magic keys. It is they who grant their owners extraordinary abilities. I would like to enjoy life, but only someone is hunting for the keys.

In the future, there is only one habitable place on Earth called New Babylon. In order not to be bored by the locals, a vocal competition is held annually. While preparations are underway, one of the participants discovers an ancient archive and learns something that will forever change her world, and along the way, the world around her. A huge layer of culture was hidden from the residents, and now the heroine has to convey her discoveries through music and dance, and incredible adventures await her on the way.

The series is based on comics about the superhero team of the same name. The team was interesting: a racer who crashed in an accident, a pilot who received a radiation charge, a psychopath with 64 personalities inside, a disfigured actress, a cyborg guy and a mad scientist at the head of it all. They all met and found a new meaning of life for themselves, and an application for their abilities.

In March, an atmospheric and dynamic series about IT specialists started. The main character Lily Chan is a computer engineer. She works for an advanced technology company engaged in quantum computing. But one day life takes a sharp turn — her boyfriend disappears.

Lily begins her own investigation and, in an attempt to find traces of the crime, stumbles upon a secret development unit run by the mysterious Forest. The girl is sure that they are involved in what happened, and indeed, the IT company hides many secrets.