12 Most Anxiety-Inducing Sci-Fi TV Shows EVER

Theoretically an update of the corny Twilight Zone knock off of the same name from the sixties, the nineties Showtime series The Outer Limits was a bleak and brutal anthology show which set up neat little morality tales with each week, only to pull the rug out from unsuspecting viewers.

Those soldiers who stood up against the generals drugging them into viewing the enemy as beasts in order to make them more amoral killing machines? They're slaughtered by said enemies, who haven't yet realized they're being drugged too.

That scrappy kid who escaped the creepy military school which is implanting microchips in the brains of its student body to ensure their compliance? Yeah, the cops he told are alumni who are in on it and drag him back for his own procedure.

Unremittingly vicious, this singularly dark and nasty anthology show is a cut above others in inducing paranoia, fear, and bone-deep anxiety in even the most seasoned sci fi fan. Watch the skies? More like watch your back.