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Best Fantasy TV Shows

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1. Samurai Jack

Aug 10, 2001 • Rated TV-MA

Long ago, in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape shfiting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil. But a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forward to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law. Now, the fool seeks to return to the past and undo the future that is Aku! This cartoon from Dexter's Labratory creator Genndy Tartakovsky tells the story of a great warrior displaced to the distant future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. The world has become a bleak place under the rule of Aku, segregated into fantastic tribes and ruled by Aku's evil robot warlords. Jack travels this foreign landscape in search of a time portal that can return him to his home time so he can "undo the future that is Aku!". Samurai Jack is currently shown around the world on the following networks: Cartoon Network in US, Australia, Hong Kong, Latin America (dubbed into Spanish) and Japan (dubbed into Japanese). YTV in Canada Toonami in UK A total of 52 episodes have been ordered by Cartoon Network. On DVD you can still get the opening Movie (first 3 episodes), and from 4th May 2004, the first 13 episodes will be released in a "Season One" box set. (All releases in Region 1(US/Canada) only) There was a live action movie rumoured to be "in the works" but news of this has dried up, and we don't know its current status.

2. The Underground Railroad

May 14, 2021 • Rated TV-MA

Cora (Thuso Mbedu) and Caesar (Aaron Pierre) escape from a plantation and learn the Underground Railroad is an actual physical underground railway line. But a bounty hunter named Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton) is determined to bring Cora back in this Barry Jenkins adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel of the same name.

3. Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal

Oct 7, 2019 • Rated TV-MA

The prehistoric animated adventure miniseries from Genndy Tartakovsky follows a caveman as he bonds with a tyrannosaurus rex.

4. The Returned

Oct 31, 2013 • Rated TV-MA

People long dead return to a small town including a 15-year old girl (Yara Pilart) killed in a car accident four years ago, a groom (Pierre Perrier) who committed suicide ten years ago, a young murdered boy (Swann Nambotin), and a serial killer (Guillaume Gouix) in this French drama (known as Les Revenants).

5. Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock

Jan 21, 2022 • Rated TV-G

Gobo, Red, Boober, Mokey, Wembley and Uncle Travelling Matt return with new music and adventures in this reboot of the "Fraggle Rock" series.

6. Game of Thrones

Nov 30, 2010 • Rated TV-MA

Adapted from George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy novel series "A Song of Ice and Fire", this series is about a fantasy world where royal houses battle for the Iron Throne.

7. Harley Quinn

Nov 29, 2019 • Rated TV-14

The animated comedy series follows Harley Quinn (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) after her break up with the Joker as she looks to become the "Queenpin" of Gotham and join the Legion of Doom with the help from Poison Ivy (voiced by Lake Bell).

8. Undone

Sep 13, 2019 • Rated 16+

The rotoscope animation from Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg follows 28-year-old Alma (Rosa Salazar) as she seeks answers to her father's death after an accident nearly kills her and discovers an ability to travel through time.

9. Pushing Daisies

Oct 3, 2007 • Rated TV-PG

This romantic comedy shows us the fairy tale-like world of Ned, a man who can bring dead people back to life through the power of his touch. The same touch he must use to "kill" them after no more than a minute or another person will die. With the help of Emerson, a local PI, Ned uses his ability to solve murder cases and cash in on any rewards. But things get complicated when a murder victim turns out to be Ned's long-lost childhood crush and he decides to break the rules and let her live. show is created by Bryan Fuller, who has brought us fantasy series such as Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me. The series shares the quick-witted comedy and darker emotions of Fuller's previous shows.

10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Mar 10, 1997 • Rated TV-14

Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as Buffy Summers, The Chosen One, the one girl in all the world with the strength and skill to fight the vampires. With the assistance of her close friends, Willow (Alyson Hannigan), Xander (Nicholas Brendon), and her Watcher Giles (Anthony Stewart Head), she balances slaying, family, friendships, and relationships.

11. I'm A Virgo

Jun 23, 2023 • Rated TV-14

After years of being hidden away, Cootie (Jharrel Jerome), a 13-foot-tall young Black man leaves to explore the world and meets a superhero named The Hero (Walton Goggins) in this Boots Riley coming of age series.

12. Los Espookys

Jun 14, 2019 • Rated TV-MA

The Spanish-language comedy from Fred Armisen is set in Mexico City where Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco) and his friends Ursula (Cassandra Ciangherotti), her sister Tati (Ana Fabrega) and Andres (Julio Torres) create a business from their passion for horror and gore.

13. Lost

Sep 22, 2004 • Rated TV-14

After Oceanic Air Flight 815 tears apart in mid-air and crashes on a Pacific island on September 22nd 2004, its survivors are forced to find inner strength they never knew they had in order to survive. But they discover that the island holds many secrets, including a mysterious smoke monster, polar bears, housing with electricity and hot & cold running water, a group of island residents known as "The Others," and a mysterious man named Jacob. The survivors also find signs of those who came to the island before them, including a 19th century sailing ship called The Black Rock and the ruins of an ancient statue, as well as bunkers belonging to the DHARMA Initiative -- a group of scientific researchers who inhabited the island in the recent past. Lost has won a Golden Globe, 9 Saturn Awards and 8 Emmy awards.

14. What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

Mar 27, 2019 • Rated TV-MA

Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Nandor's familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) have been living together in Staten Island for hundreds of years when they are visited by their leader about why they are there for: to take over the New World in this comedy based on the 2014 film of the same name.

15. Random Acts Of Flyness

Aug 3, 2018 • Rated TV-MA

The late-night show from Terence Nance will feature a variety of vignettes that include "vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation" to explore topics such as death, romance and history.

16. X-Men '97

Mar 20, 2024 • Rated TV-14

The mutant heroes must carry on after the death of Professor X in the animated series that begins after where X-Men: The Animated Series ended in 1997.

17. The Midnight Gospel

Apr 20, 2020 • Rated TV-MA

Podcaster Clancy is forced to leave his home to interview beings in other worlds after his multiverse simulator malfunctions in this adult animated series co-created by Pendleton Ward and Duncan Trussell.

18. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Aug 30, 2019 • Rated TV-PG

The prequel to the 1982 movie The Dark Crystal follows Gelflings Rian (voiced by Taron Egerton), Brea (voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy) and Deet (voiced by Nathalie Emmanuel) as they set out to to save the world after learning the secret to Skeksis’ power.

19. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Nov 17, 2023 • Rated TV-MA

Scott Pilgrim (voiced by Michael Cera) meets Ramona Flowers (voiced by Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and must defeat her seven exes if he wants to date her in the anime series based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series (2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was also based on them).

20. The Good Place

Sep 19, 2016 • Rated TV-PG

Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) enters the afterlife and discovers they have mistaken her for someone else and she seeks to rectify this with the help of her afterlife mentor Michael (Ted Danson).

21. Star Wars: Visions

Sep 22, 2021 • Rated TV-PG

The anthology series features Star Wars short films from seven anime studios: Kamikaze Douga, Geno Studio (Twin Engine), Studio Colorido (Twin Engine), Trigger, Kinema Citrus, Science Saru, and Production IG.

22. Toy Story That Time Forgot

Dec 2, 2014 • Rated TV-G

The second holiday Toy Story special finds the gang facing off against action figures.

23. Interview With the Vampire

Oct 2, 2022 • Rated TV-MA

Louis de Pointe (Jacob Anderson) tells a reporter about his life in 1900s New Orleans, becoming a vampire companion to Lestat De Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and the arrival of child vampire Claudia (Bailey Bass) in the series adaptation of Anne Rice's novel of the same name.

24. The Legend of Vox Machina

Jan 28, 2022 • Rated TV-MA

The animated fantasy-adventure series about seven adventurers who go on a journey to save Exandria from dark magic after running up a large bar tab in this adaptation of a role-playing game (RPG) campaign.

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