If you are a gamer or just love cyberpunk, digitalization, and series such a Mr. Robot or Westworld, I’m pretty sure that you’ll fall in love with these 10 series on Netflix. So, let us start the game! 🤖🎮
#01 Altered Carbon (2018-2020)
Watch it if you love: digitized world and clones
Plot: Set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored, a prisoner returns to life in a new body and must solve a mind-bending murder to win his freedom.
Cast: Joel Kinnaman | Anthony Mackie
Seasons: 2
Country: USA
Fun fact: Joel Kinnaman had to undergo 90 min of make-up every morning to cover up all his body tattoos.
>Pause. There is an animated Japanese movie on Netflix too. It is called Altered Carbon: Resleeved (2020), there reawakened Takeshi Kovacs must protect a teenage tattooist named Holly, living on the planet Latimer.
#02 Love, Death & Robots (2019-)
Watch it if you love: robots and animation
Plot: A collection of animated short stories that span various genres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comedy.
Cast: Scott Whyte | Nolan North
Seasons: 1
Country: USA
Fun fact: At the beginning of each episode, the three-sign logo of the series changes into signs that hint at the story in the episode.
#03 Alice in Borderland (2020-)
Watch it if you love: gamers and survivors
Plot: An aimless gamer and his two friends find themselves in a parallel Tokyo, where they're forced to compete in a series of sadistic games to survive. Everything is so Japanese and so Tokyo-ish!
Cast: Kento Yamazaki | Tao Tsuchiya
Seasons: 1
Country: Japan
Fun fact: This is a retelling of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", with the characters' names reflecting their role in the story: Ryohei Arisu – Alice, Yuzuha Usagi – White Rabbit, etc.
#04 High Score (2020)
Watch it if you love: Sega and Nintendo
Plot: It’s a documentary! High Score features interviews and segments around the creation and development of video games in the 1980s and 1990s. Traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life.
Cast: Charles Martinet | Rebecca Ann Heineman
Seasons: 1
Country: USA
Fun fact: The series is narrated by Charles Martinet, the voice actor for Super Mario, owned by Nintendo and created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.
#05 Black Mirror (2011-)
Watch it if you love: future and pop culture
Plot: An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.
Cast: Daniel Lapaine | Hannah John-Kamen
Seasons: 5
Country: UK
Fun fact: Brad Pitt said he would do an episode of Black Mirror if there was one Netflix show he could be on.
#06 OmniScient (2020-)
Watch it if you love: drone and code
Plot: In a city where citizens are monitored 24/7, a tech employee must outsmart her surveillance drone in order to investigate a murder.
Cast: Carla Salle | Jonathan Haagensen
Seasons: 1
Country: Brazil
Fun fact: Nina Piexoto is a young woman who lives in a near-future city in which every resident is followed around by a tiny, almost imperceptible drone made by Omniscient. So... If you think Facebook and Google have too much of our personal information, think twice.
#07 Kiss me first (2018)
Watch it if you love: virtual world and online game
Plot: A lonely video game addict new to the online world of Azana meets a confident party girl with a dark secret. Enter a New Reality!
Cast: Tallulah Haddon | Simona Brown
Seasons: 1
Country: UK | USA
Fun fact: Jack is a boy in reality, while his avatar Jocasta is a girl in the game. In real-life, Jack/Jocasta is portrayed by Misha Butler, who is a transgender actor.
#08 Osmosis (2019)
Watch it if you love: techies and Tinder
Plot: In near-future Paris, a new dating app called Osmosis matches singles with their soulmates by mining their brain data, but decoding true love comes at a price.
Cast: Agathe Bonitzer | Hugo Becker
Seasons: 1
Country: France
Fun fact: The production company reportedly spent a budget of 8 million euros for the first season, with each episode costing €1 million.
#09 Better than us (2019-)
Watch it if you love: bots and killer robots
Plot: In 2029, robots have become an ordinary part of human life - they help raise children, work as personal drivers, security guards, and lovers. And one family on the brink of splitting up becomes the owners of a cutting-edge robot being sought by a corporation, homicide investigators, and terrorists.
Cast: Paulina Andreeva | Kirill Käro
Seasons: 2
Country: Russia | UK
Fun fact: The book being read by Fyodor Lavrov's character at the beginning of S01 E06 is 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' by Philip K Dick, which is the novel that Blade Runner (1982) is based on.
>And now it’s time for the next level! In fact, no one list of cyberpunk is possible without a one (actually, two...) movies from Netflix. It’s not a series, but it’s the most serious film of the cyberpunk genre ever. Yup, it’s Blade Runner!
#10 Blade Runner (1982)
Watch it if you love: classics and androids
Plot: In the early twenty-first century, the Tyrell Corporation, during what was called the Nexus phase, developed robots, called "replicants", that were supposed to aid society, the replicants which looked and acted like humans. A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Cast: Harrison Ford | Rutger Hauer
Seasons: two-part movie
Country: USA
Fun fact: The "snake scale" seen under the electron microscope was actually a marijuana bud (at around 47 min).
#10+ Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Watch it if you love: Blade Runner 1 and future noir
Plot: 30 years after the events of Blade Runner (1982), a new Blade Runner, L.A.P.D. Officer "K" (Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for 30 years.
Cast: Harrison Ford | Ryan Gosling
Seasons: two-part movie
Country: USA | UK | Canada | Hungary | Spain | Mexico
Fun fact: To portray the blind character of Niander Wallace (Jared Leto) decided to fit himself with opaque contact lenses that made it impossible for him to see.
🤖 The game is over! 🤖
To be continued… Read about the top 10 sci-fi series on Netflix: https://read.cash/@FOODMENT./top-10-sci-fi-series-on-netflix-55a5f5a2
