The Best Science Fiction Shows from 2017


Below is our top ten list of the best Science Fiction Shows which first started broadcasting in 2017.

10. Inhumans


InhumansFirst Aired: 01 September, 2017

Inhumans is a TV series starring Anson Mount, Serinda Swan, and Ken Leung. An isolated community of superhumans fight to protect themselves.


9. Iron Fist


Iron%20FistFirst Aired: 17 March, 2017

Iron Fist is a TV series starring Finn Jones, Jessica Henwick, and Jessica Stroup. A young man is bestowed with incredible martial arts skills and a mystical force known as the Iron Fist.


8. The Mist


The%20MistFirst Aired: 22 June, 2017

The Mist is a TV series starring Morgan Spector, Alyssa Sutherland, and Gus Birney. After an eerie mist rolls into a small town, the residents must battle the mysterious mist and its threats, fighting to maintain their morality and…


7. Star Trek: Discovery


Star%20Trek%3A%20DiscoveryFirst Aired: 24 September, 2017

Star Trek: Discovery is a TV series starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, and Anthony Rapp. Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns…


6. The Defenders


The%20DefendersFirst Aired: 18 August, 2017

The Defenders is a TV mini-series starring Charlie Cox, Krysten Ritter, and Mike Colter. Set a few months after the events of the second season of Daredevil, and a month after the events of Iron Fist, the vigilantes Daredevil,…


5. The Gifted


The%20GiftedFirst Aired: 02 October, 2017

The Gifted is a TV series starring Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, and Sean Teale. In a world where mutated humans are treated with distrust and fear, an institute for mutants battles to achieve peaceful co-existence with humanity.



4. The Handmaid’s Tale


The%20Handmaid%27s%20TaleFirst Aired: 26 April, 2017

The Handmaid’s Tale is a TV series starring Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, and Joseph Fiennes. Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.


3. Dark


DarkFirst Aired: 01 December, 2017

Dark is a TV series starring Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, and Lisa Vicari. A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town, where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four…


2. The Orville


The%20OrvilleFirst Aired: 10 September, 2017

The Orville is a TV series starring Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, and Penny Johnson Jerald. An exploratory ship from Earth faces intergalactic challenges 400 years in the future.


1. Legion


LegionFirst Aired: 08 February, 2017

Legion is a TV series starring Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, and Aubrey Plaza. David Haller is a troubled young man diagnosed as schizophrenic, but after a strange encounter, he discovers special powers that will change his life…