If you’re anything like us (and just about anyone in the world right now), you probably binge-watched Netflix’s trending K-drama series, Squid Game, in one sitting (*checks Google for season 2 release date*).
In case that wasn’t enough fiction and gruesomeness for you, here’s five more dystopian-esque series for you to check out on Netflix:
[1]
Alice in Borderland
This Japanese Sci-Fi has got everything you loved out of Squid Game. Sadistic high-stake games? Check. Insane gore? Check. But instead of playing for money, an aimless gamer and his two friends end up in a parallel world where they must play for their lives.
Oh, and if you’re a fan of anime, this popular manga-adapted series is the one for you.
[2]
Black Mirror
Starring a number of A-list celebrities including Miley Cyrus, Jon Hamm, and Bryce Dallas Howard, this chilling Sci-Fi series explores a twisted take on how existing technologies and innovations could evolve to harm humankind. And don’t worry, if you don’t develop “techno-paranoia” by the end of season 1, you definitely will by the end of the 5 seasons available on Netflix.
[3]
The 100
Picture this: a nuclear apocalypse destroys human civilisation. Then picture this: ninety-seven years later 100 space-station residents are sent to this post-apocalyptic Earth filled with new wonders – and dangers – to determine whether it’s habitable.
Pass us the popcorn, we’ve got seven seasons of this Sci-Fi drama to go binge-watch.
[4]
Stranger Things
Stranger Things follows the bizarre (or, as the title suggests: strange) happenings of a small fictional town when a group of friends unpick a number of mysteries after a young boy goes missing. Including, finding a strange girl with paranormal powers.
Supernatural forces and magic? Say less – we definitely get the hype.
(Stranger Things 4 coming in 2022)
[5]
The Walking Dead
Nothing says dystopian-gore quite like zombies.
Set after a zombie apocalypse, The Walking Dead explores the challenges a group of survivors must overcome in order to survive a world overrun by walking-sometimes running-bloodthirsty-corpses.