Made for Love is a sci-fi dark comedy-drama series created by Alissa Nutting, Dean Bakopoulos, Patrick Somerville, and Christina Lee. Based on Nutting‘s 2017 novel of the same name, the HBO Max series follows Hazel Green, a young woman who finally escapes her toxic marriage. Still, when she thinks that she is free, she discovers that her husband has implanted a chip in her brain that allows him to track her in real time, read her emotional data, and watch her live. Made for Love stars Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Dan Bakkedahl, Noma Dumezweni, Ray Romano, Augusto Aguilera, and Caleb Foote. So, if you loved the sci-fi elements, thrilling drama, and compelling characters in Made for Love, here are some similar shows you should check out next.
Kevin Can F**k Himself (Netflix, AMC+, Plex, The Roku Channel & Rent on Prime Video)
Kevin Can F**k Himself is a dark comedy-drama series created by Valerie Armstrong. The AMC series follows Allison McRoberts, a seemingly happy housewife who feels that she is trapped in a toxic marriage and her life meaningless. So, she decides to do something about it and change her life. Kevin Can F**k Himself stars Annie Murphy, Mary Hollis Inboden, Eric Petersen, Alex Bonifer, Brian Howe, Raymond Lee, and Candice Coke.
Severance (Apple TV+ & Prime Video Add-On)
Severance is a sci-fi psychological thriller dark comedy-drama series created by Dan Erickson. The Apple TV+ series is set in a world where a biotechnology corporation has invented a way to separate its employees’ memories from their work memories to their home memories. It follows a group of severed employees who begin to suspect their employees of doing something sinister. Severance stars Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Dichen Lachman, Michael Chernus, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Patricia Arquette, and Sarah Bock.
Black Mirror (Netflix & Rent on Prime Video)
Black Mirror is a British sci-fi thriller anthology series created by Charlie Brooker. Inspired by The Twilight Zone, the Netflix series’ episodes feature a self-contained story that revolves around a new piece of technology and how it affects humanity. Black Mirror stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Cristin Milioti, Hayley Atwell, Jon Hamm, Michaela Coel, Jesse Plemons, Tony Kebbell, and Alex Lawther.
Upload (Prime Video)
Upload is a sci-fi comedy-drama series created by Greg Daniels. The Prime Video series is set in the year 2033 when humanity has invented a way to upload their consciousness to a virtual afterlife when they die. It follows Nathan Brown, a young computer programmer who dies and is uploaded to an expensive virtual afterlife by his girlfriend. Upload stars Robbie Amell, Andy Allo, Allegra Edwards, Zainab Johnson, Kevin Bigley, Andrea Rosen, Owen Daniels, and Josh Banday.
Westworld (Rent on Prime Video)
Westworld is a sci-fi Western drama series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Based on the 1973 film of the same name by Michael Crichton, the HBO series is set in a Wild-West-themed amusement park where guests can act out their deepest and darkest fantasies with the help of human-like androids known as “hosts,” but things go horribly wrong when the hosts begin to malfunction. Westworld stars Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Luke Hemsworth, Sidse Babett Knudsen, and Simon Quarterman.
Maniac (Netflix)
Maniac is a sci-fi psychological comedy-drama series created by Patrick Somerville. Based on the 2015 Norwegian TV series of the same name, the Netflix series follows Annie Landsberg and Owen Milgrim, two strangers who are struggling in their daily lives and decide to take part in a mysterious drug trial that claims to fix everything about their minds, but they soon discover that things are not going as planned. Maniac stars Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Justin Theroux, Sonoya Mizuno, Gabriel Byrne, and Sally Field.
Devs (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video)
Devs is a sci-fi techno-thriller drama miniseries created by Alex Garland. The FX series follows Lily Chan, a computer engineer, as she begins working for a computing firm, Amaya because she suspects the CEO of Amaya to be involved in her boyfriend’s death, who died on the first day of his job. Devs stars Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Offerman, Jin Ha, Zach Grenier, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Karl Glusman, and Alison Pill.