10 Shows to Watch If You Like VisionQuest

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Following the events of WandaVision (and, slightly more tangentially, Agatha All Along), VisionQuest returns to the story of Marvel’s favorite synthetic being — an artificial creation who fights supervillains and ponders the nature of his own existence, rather than more typical AI pursuits like creating deep fakes.

White Vision (the character, not the political agenda) is a copy of the Vision who died two Avengers movies ago. He’s living within his own mind on a fantasy country estate while on the run from bounty hunters and in pursuit of his semi-fictional son. In that spirit, here are 10 more science fiction shows that involve artificial people and/or elaborate constructed realities.

Humans (2015–2018)

In the near-future world, highly advanced “synths” are commonplace, doing the work that regular humans can’t be bothered with. These beings are treated as entirely disposable sources of cheap labor, despite their apparent burgeoning humanity. The first season introduces the Hawkins family, who buy (on sale) a domestic servant synth named Anita (Gemma Chan); mom Laura is a little uncomfortable with the arrangement, especially when she finds her husband having sex with Anita, who has her own complicated backstory. Humans interrogates the ways humans always seem to find excuses to dehumanize others, which is just the type of thing that sci-fi is pretty great at.

Stream Humans on Peacock, Prime Video, and Tubi.

Murderbot (2025–)

One of the smartest recent shows is a dark comedy based on the Hugo Award-winning book series by Martha Wells. Alexander Skarsgård plays the title’s hilariously deadpan robot, a private “security construct” who has managed to hack its way through its own programming and gain free will — which it mostly wants to use to binge its favorite streaming shows. It can’t just run off for fear of drawing attention, but the self-named Murderbot (it’s being ironic, kinda) is content to do the bare minimum when assigned to a team of naive hippie researchers who don’t see the need for a killer security robot — at least, not until they’re enmeshed in a complicated capitalist plot in which they’re all just cogs.

Stream Murderbot on Apple TV+.