10 Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Shows To Debut In 2019

1. The Boys

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Action packed, emotional and absolutely diabolical, the Boys was everything modern viewers want from a sci-fi or fantasy show. What’s more impressive, it was another genre redefining take on what it means to be a superhero. And in many ways, it felt like a more accurate depiction of what the world would really look like if superheroes were real.

Here we find the heroes or sups, being commercialized by a powerful corporation that uses them to build up its own coffers and exert influence elsewhere. Even politicians struggle to deal with their increasing power. And as always, powerful companies operating super powered individuals are never just about saving lives and protecting society. Underneath the capes and PR, lies a far darker truth.

Most of these heroes being murderous maniacs who could not care less about the people they are meant to protect. However, all is not lost. Because here to challenge their hegemony over the world, are the Boys. A group of ex-cons, secret agents, science experiments and people who had everything taken away from them by these so-called heroes.

Hughie, Billy, Marvin, Frenchie and Kimiko take on the machine and somehow hold their own despite the overwhelming odds. In the end, their sheer ferocity and perseverance, and Billy’s desire for Vengeance, helps tear a major hole in the pillar holding Vought together. As Homelander, having discovered the truth about his son, takes his anger out against the one he had been loyal to for so long.

All and all, the show was a perfect commentary on how modern day commercial machines function and can exploit the lives of the common people, combining that with just enough CGI carnage to make it the best sci-fi/fantasy show to debut in 2019.

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After battling Galactus and pinning Hulk Hogan in the main event of Wrestlemania, I've taken a break from living in fantasy worlds, to focus on writing about them. I'm a comic book geek, a wrestling mark, a break dancer, and a scientist. One of those things may not be true.