12 Most Anxiety-Inducing Sci-Fi TV Shows EVER
4. The Twilight Zone
The original and the greatest, this seminal anthology series from legendary genre author Rod Serling provided more than just every ingenious sci fi twist ever ripped off by your favourite films.
The show also offers what remain some of genre TV's most deeply unsettling offerings, with the antiquated effects doing nothing to dull this show's effectiveness and actually adding to its uncanny, otherworldly atmosphere.
Frequently rebooted and never bettered, the original Twilight Zone remains a masterclass in television tension, utilizing its sci-fi trappings to terrify viewers into thinking about the world in a new light and illuminating alternative perspectives through the power of sheer overwhelming fear.