Recommend a dystopian series please!

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I’ve watched, and really enjoyed, Black Mirror, Years & Years, and the Handmaids Tale.

Really like stuff that isn’t obviously ‘futuristic’ but is an alternate reality and a little bit dark. Total escapism.

Can anyone recommend other series I might enjoy?

I will also back up Utopia, it’s great. If you can get access to the new twilight zones they’re also definitely worth a watch (I know they’re on sky but I’m not sure where else you’d access them).

Not strictly dystopian but have you tried the BBC’s inside number 9? Like black mirror it’s a series of stand alone stories and very much worth a watch if you like black mirror,

Wild ones (ok maybe not fully dystopia but sort of)
The colonies
Umbrella academy

Korean ones on Netflix. Kingdom (medieval Korea - absolutely stunning landscapes and accurate historical costumes). And Sweet Home (more to it than the average monsters).Both have strong male and female characters and varied age range.

Dark on Netflix

Thanks once again! Really appreciate all your recommendations. A bit of (dystopian) escapism is just what I need

Black Summer?
It’s pretty dark though
Netflix

I second your recommendation for the UK version of Utopia. Genuinely weird and unsettling with a fantastic story.

The OA
The Gift

The Barrier on Netflix, you get used to the dubbing after the first episode.

@Jerseygirl12

The OA The Gift

The OA is brilliant but do be aware it’s incomplete and unlikely to ever be finished. It’s writers planned it for four parts (seasons) but as far as I know there are no plans to make any more. It’s brilliant but I would only recommend the OA with that in mind.

I know , I’m still trying to come to terms with it.

Me too @Jerseygirl12 I wish they’d at least consider turning the last two parts into novels.

The Wave - French drama.on iplayer I think.
On Radio 5 today they were discussing an Icelandic Netflix called Katla which sounded good, set near a volcano.

That would be good, I’m think of starting a petition.

Assuming you don't just want to sit and watch the news (only half-joking), then:

The 100 (if you can get past the first two episodes, which seem to belong in a different show and then ignore some of the plot holes a bit later) - starts 97 years after the Earth became radioactive, with 100 kids being kicked off a space station which is running out of air, and gets more dystopian from there...(Only up to season 5 currently on Prime though I'm sure later seasons have been available elsewhere previously).

Stranger Things - a dystopian take on the 1980s (I was there. I don't remember it looking that glossy. Though it is set in the US).

The Walking Dead/Fear the Walking Dead

Glitch - great Aussie series that hardly anyone seems to have seen, but it's really that little bit different

Haven - initially based on a Stephen King concept, some of it's really far fetched but some of it is good

Travelers - Canadian TV series that nobody but me seems to have seen but has some thought provoking stuff in it (on the surface it's a crime series)

The Rain - only the first two series, though, and it is very YA-fiction in tone

Also, to go a bit more retro:

1970s Survivors, as someone else mentioned, way better than the remake although the remake did update some of the slightly questionable social values (by modern standards)

The Changes - a kids' series from the 1970s, I think it might still be on YouTube and it's seriously out there as a lot of 1970s TV was
Children of the Stones - more supernatural than dystopian but still delightfully odd

The original Twilight Zone (Black Mirror has updated some of the stories)

Also many already mentioned: The Dark; Colony; Snowpiercer; the 3%; the Umbrella Academy; Sweet Tooth...then there are other series that are more in the realms of fantasy like The Witcher, Shadow and Bone, Locke and Key that are also a great "alternative world" fix. Plus some others, like Tribes of Europa, that I can't decide if I enjoyed or not...I'm sure we could all do a nice companion thread to this one on dystopian movies as well!

@Violetparis

The Wave - French drama.on iplayer I think. On Radio 5 today they were discussing an Icelandic Netflix called Katla which sounded good, set near a volcano.

Katla is really good.

I’ve just started 12 Monkeys TV Show again, third time now

Bryonyshcmyony Watched two episodes of Katla on Netflix this evening and loved it.

Love, Death, Robots on Netflix is good - similarish to Black Mirror.

Colony

Handmaids Tale?

Code 8 on Netflix was fab!

Also The Signal and The Giver are pretty good imo!

There’s only been one mention so far for Noughts and Crosses! I really have to second it. So well made, absorbing and thought provoking.

@TooMinty

Love, Death, Robots on Netflix is good - similarish to Black Mirror.

Yes! It’s brilliant