Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Series 2023

Critics Consensus: With its complicated bedrock now established, Foundation spreads its wings in an improved sophomore season that rewards viewers' patience with a brainy sci-fi epic of genuine grandeur.

Starring: Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Lou Llobell, Leah Harvey

Critics Consensus: Houston, there's no problem here -- For All Mankind's fourth season hones in on what the series does best and forges ahead with a thought-provoking revisionist history.

Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Wrenn Schmidt, Coral Peña, Krys Marshall

Critics Consensus: Finally getting the band back together, Picard's final season boldly goes where the previous generation had gone before -- and is all the better for it.

Starring: Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes

Critics Consensus: Just about as gruesomely subversive as its origin series, Gen V builds on The Boys in occasionally chaotic but overall inspired fashion.

Starring: Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway, Asa Germann, Chance Perdomo

Critics Consensus: Boldly going where this hallowed franchise has gone before with effervescent execution, Strange New Worlds' superb sophomore season continues to recapture classic Trek with modern verve.

Starring: Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush

Critics Consensus: Boots Riley's towering imagination looms as large as his supersized hero in I'm a Virgo, an uproarious satire that's given an enormous heart to match by star Jharrel Jerome.

Starring: Jharrel Jerome, Brett Gray, Kara Young, Allius Barnes

Critics Consensus: A faithful adaptation of Rick Riordan's novels, Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a lovingly realized odyssey through adolescence and myth.

Starring: Walker Scobell, Leah Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Jason Mantzoukas

Critics Consensus: Jam-packed with inventive flourishes and grounded by lovable actors, American Born Chinese musters epic elements from Chinese mythology to tell a deeply relatable coming of age story.

Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Ben Wang, Yann Yann Yeo, Chin Han

Critics Consensus: Positively bonkers while undergirded by an intelligent design, Mrs. Davis makes Betty Gilpin a hero for modern times in a highly imaginative mixture of spirituality and technology.

Starring: Betty Gilpin, Ely Henry, Raphael Corkhill, Sam Meader

Critics Consensus: Turning a high concept into a grounded good time, The Big Door Prize realizes its full potential thanks to a lovable cast of relatable characters.

Starring: Chris O'Dowd, Gabrielle Dennis, Josh Segarra, Ally Maki