15 Best Sci-Fi TV Shows Of The 2010s

12. DC's Legends Of Tomorrow

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If we've learned anything from Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, Netflix's Daredevil and the first two seasons of Arrow, it's that modern superheroes are usually at their best in a world of darkness and despair. It's something of a status quo that we've come to accept because gritty and realistic narratives make the colourful world of comic books seem a little more plausible.

Yeah, well, leave it to a bunch of time-traveling misfits to shatter the status quo.

DC's Legends of Tomorrow takes some of the Arrowverse's most popular secondary characters and sticks them together in a time-traveling time-ship so that they can make their way across history and preserve the timeline - only for them to end up destroying it in the process.

A case of truly making lemonade out of lemons, the serious first season was an experiment that just kind of existed before the show dropped logic altogether and turned it into a wacky parody of what it once was.

An unapologetically fun adventure, Legends of Tomorrow was an unexpected gem that outshone its more-famous parents multiple times, making it the best superhero show on TV for about two or three years running.

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