Altered Carbon can be clunky at times, but its visual candy and entertainment value hoist you through the exposition and heavy-handed social commentary. Initially, Kovacs' story involves solving a murder, before he goes on a quest to unravel what happened to his own lost love. This sees investigator and ex-soldier Takeshi Kovacs transported into the body of Joel Kinnaman in season 1 and Anthony Mackie in season 2. Altered Carbon (2018-2020)

Altered Carbon is set in a cyberpunk world where human consciousnesses can be transferred into different bodies.

Black Box (2020)

For those missing Black Mirror, this will go some way to filling that gap. Black Box follows a father who tries to piece his life back together after a car accident. He agrees to an experimental procedure that leads him to the darkest recesses of his mind.

While a little dated -- a gratuitous underwear scene and a change in ethnicity for Khan -- Into Darkness is a rollicking trip. The gang on the USS Enterprise travels to the forbidden zone in space to rescue an endangered species. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

The second Star Trek movie in the rebooted franchise beams up a terrific adventure with a memorable villain in Benedict Cumberbatch's Khan.

They found that on a day when the school asked pupils and teachers to wear blue in support of two police officers who were recently shot and killed, the teacher instead wore a Black Lives Matter t-shirt.

In the draft of the family education promotion law, guardians will be reprimanded and ordered to go through family education guidance programs if prosecutors find very bad or criminal behavior in children under their care.

Beijing has exercised a more assertive paternal hand this year, from tacking the addiction of youngsters to online games, deemed a form of "spiritual opium," to clamping down on "blind" worship of internet celebrities.

Arrival stars Amy Adams as a linguist who suffers a personal tragedy in the past. Arrival is a complete package, with performances, cinematography and writing that are... Arrival (2016)

Before Dune, Denis Villeneuve directed another immense sci-fi classic. When mysterious extraterrestrial spacecraft hover over Earth, she's recruited to make contact -- with completely unexpected life-changing results.

The 100 in question are a generation of juvenile detainees sent to Earth to determine whether it's habitable post-apocalypse. 100 percent give this one a go. There's a reason this post-apocalyptic series scored seven seasons: The 100 brings rich world-building and moral dilemmas that push the stereotypical characters into unique, compelling places. The 100 (2014-2020)

If The 100 looks like your standard teen drama, prepare to have your expectations exceeded.

A sci-fi noir, Dark folds time travel, conspiracies and estranged families into a generation-spanning story kicked off by a child's disappearance. If those kinds of meticulously crafted layers are what you're after in your storytelling, settle in. All three seasons of Dark's meditative look at time travel and its effect on human nature are waiting to hit you at full force. Dark (2017-2020)

Germany's answer to Stranger Things deliberately takes its time before stepping into completely compelling and original places.

The resourceful pair chase down the potentially extraterrestrial origins of a mysterious audio frequency. The Vast of Night (2019)

This low-budget indie has surprisingly high production values, impressive performances and inventive camerawork to help tell the story of two teenagers in '50s New Mexico.

Quinn and the school's principal Annemarie V. Sciove both admitted to the parents in a meeting in February 2022 that they knew Rosenquist was peddling this mentality in the classroom, the lawsuit claims.

"There are many reasons for adolescents to misbehave, and the lack of or inappropriate family education is the major cause," said Zang Tiewei, spokesman of the Legislative Affairs Commission under the National People's Congress (NPC).

If you jibe with Sense8's diverse characters, you'll fall head over heels for this earnest and sensual sci-fi drama. Not only do these windows into vastly different lives teach tolerance, but the "sensates" can also tap each other's skills when facing a sinister organization hunting them down. Sense8 follows eight strangers from across the world who discover they're mentally and emotionally linked. Sense8 (2015-2018)

From the creators of The Matrix comes another story that plays with reality.

Monsters (2010)

This British sci-fi comes from Gareth Edwards, who went on to direct Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and 2014's Godzilla. Monsters follows a couple attempting to cross an "Infected Zone" teeming with giant tentacled monsters. His mastery of atmosphere, wonder and beauty is on show here, all on a shoestring budget.