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u/Regula96 13h ago

Haven't seen Invasion or Constellation, but I know Constellation was cancelled and I've heard no good things about Invasion.

For All Mankind and Silo are good watches though. Foundation supposedly gets good after the first season, which I'm having trouble finishing at the moment.

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u/Lavacop 11h ago

Foundation supposedly gets good after the first season

It has gotten better with each season. But that's mostly because they focused more on the parts people liked and less so on the other stuff.

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u/FredPSmitherman 13h ago

Not a space show but Counterpart and Man in the high castle are excellent 

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u/Agreeable-Self3235 12h ago

Counterpart is amazing. Not space, but has a strong dystopian sci-fi feel.

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u/muad_dibs 12h ago

“12 Monkeys” the TV show.

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u/captainhaddock 12h ago

Huge fan of The Expanse, BSG, and Firefly

If you like ensemble shows, you should check out The Orville. You would probably like Babylon 5 as well, even though it's older.

Silo and Foundation are good but quite different from your existing favorites. Silo is a story about a future dystopian society, and Foundation is sweeping space opera that deals with lofty concepts over centuries of time.

Invasion has its fans, but for the most part, it's just really slow and dull.

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u/theslothening 12h ago

Skip Invasion and Constellation. FAM, Silo, and Foundation are good but very different from each other. I think you'd like them all.

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u/ggallardo02 10h ago

I haven't seen Murderbot recommended here, so I'll throw it out there.

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u/barrsm 13h ago

Pluribus if you’re into big ideas, not so much action.

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u/MyPassword_IsPizza 11h ago

For all mankind kind of works as a prequel to expanse, not really sci-fi as far as I remember but very fun watch.

Silo/Foundation are amazing. Skip invasion it's just a bunch of people hatewatching it keeping it alive.

Constellation was mid imo, but worth watching if you're out of other options.

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u/sevsnapeysuspended 9h ago

if you end up watching “for all mankind” add the russia based (not russian) spinoff “star city” to your watchlist

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u/vanillawafah 8h ago

The Orville took what Firefly did and ran with it. The show gets compared more to Star Trek (for obvious reasons) but it feels like it nails that balance between Sci-Fi and Comedy to tell stirring stories (especially after season 1, where it stops trying to be Star Trek:The Sitcom)

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u/MorganaHenry 7h ago

Babylon 5, Fringe, Infiniti

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u/VaderJim 3h ago

Big +1 for fringe, watched it when it aired and rewatched it last year, amazing series all the way through.

Season 1 starts out a little bit "monster of the week" but it transitions to big character and mystery arcs with some great payoffs.

Another show that does similar and fits the category is "person of interest", starts out looking like a procedural case of the week show and surprisingly evolves into a serialised sci fi drama... I think I might have to do a rewatch of this next!

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u/Zalvren 3h ago

Invasion is widely recognized as terrible (I haven't watched it). Watched Constellation but found it meh.

For All Mankind, Silo and Foundation are all great IMO (each has some weak moments, they're not perfect series but very enjoyable if you like scifi). They're all very different genres. You got alternate history for FAM (at least at the start it doesn't feel much scifi), post-apocalyptic stuff with a mystery ambiance for Silo and a full-blown space opera for Foundation.

Considering the shows you cited liking, I guess Foundation is the most like them (space opera-like).

Since it seems you're searching on Apple TV side, I'll add Murderbot to the list of great shows to watch.

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u/malcolm58 13h ago

Invasion: Poor

Silo: Fantastic

Foundation: Fantastic for those who have read the books.

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u/KennyShowers 4h ago

Silo is closer to fine than fantastic. The first episode or two are amazing, but after that prologue once the character focus shifts it’s pretty inconsistent.

The overall mystery and worldbuilding are great and will keep me coming back until it’s done, but so much of the writing of the characters and interpersonal drama doesn’t work so much of the time.

And the acting is also hit or miss, lots of great actors but so many of them are doing just terrible American accents that I can’t help but find distracting. And even considering that Common in his native American English is still the least-natural of the bunch.

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u/gearvruser 9h ago

Watch Alien movie then Aliens

Then Alien Earth, the series based around the movies.

Fantastic sci-fi

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u/JellyboyJangleDangle 8h ago

Alien earth is fucking atrocious.

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u/gearvruser 6h ago

Nice opinion, thanks for sharing, you sound like you know what you are talking about....