15 Best Time Travel Shows on Netflix You Should not Miss Watching

'Rick and Morty' centers on the misadventures of cynical mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his loving but anxious grandson Morty Smith, who divide their time between domestic life and interdimensional adventures that occur across an infinite number of realities.

They frequently travel to other planets and dimensions through portals and on Rick's flying saucer. Rick and Morty's overall plot is based on two opposing ideas: domestic family drama and an alcoholic grandfather entrapping his grandson in mischief.

Since season one, Rick and Morty have been a rating success, with viewership doubling and tripling over the course of their first six episodes. The third season concluded with the highest viewership figures in Adult Swim history, a rise of 81 percent over the second season.

"Black" Mirror' is a British anthology television program which is created by Charlie Brooker. Each episode explores a different genre, although most of them are science fiction-infused dystopias that are set in the near future.

The Twilight Zone-inspired television series makes technological commentary on current social issues. With the executive producer Annabel Jones heavily involved, Brooker writes the majority of the episodes.

The show has garnered favorable reviews and is regarded as one of the top television shows of the 2010s by numerous critics. The program won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie three times in a row with "San Junipero," "USS Callister," and "Bandersnatch."

Stranger Things is one of the most popular teen dramas in recent times. It, of course, is not fully a time travel concept since the beginning, but you will get its touch as the series matures. 

Time travel does indeed occur in the Stranger Things universe, but not in the manner that fans had anticipated according to the fourth season. Eleven's quest to restore her powers involves using time travel in one manner or another. The Nina Project uses Eleven's ancient memories from Hawkins Lab to enable time travel.

The show takes place in the 1980s in the fictitious little town of Hawkins, Indiana. Although the neighboring Hawkins National Laboratory purports to do scientific research for the US Department of Energy, it actually conducts covert paranormal and supernatural operations, some of which use human test subjects.

They unintentionally opened a doorway to "the Upside Down," another dimension. The unwitting citizens of Hawkins begin to experience catastrophic effects from the presence of the Upside Down.

Stranger Things garnered an average audience in the United States of 14.07 million people between the ages of 18 and 49 during its first 35 days of distribution, according to Symphony.

This placed it behind the first season of Fuller House as the third-most watched season of Netflix original content in the United States at the time. 

The Umbrella Academy is a superhero television show based on the Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá-penned and Dark Horse Comics-distributed comic book series of the same name.

It centers on a dysfunctional family of adopted sibling superheroes who come together to unravel the mystery of their father's demise and the threat of an impending apocalypse. It was created for Netflix by Steve Blackman and developed by Jeremy Slater.

With this shift in time, the plot keeps exciting and enjoyable. As viewers are reminded, the diverse cast we love so much faced very different life situations in the 1960s based on their differences, such as orientation or race, touching on the discrimination/injustices faced by these communities even today. It discusses significant themes that are pretty relevant to today's current events.

Critics gave the series high marks for each of its three seasons, and it has won numerous awards and nominations, including six for the Emmys.

The dark fantasy drama television program Supernatural was developed by Eric Kripke in the United States. On September 13, 2005, The WB initially aired it. It later appeared on The CW, the network that succeeded The WB.

The television show follows the two brothers as they pursue demons, ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural things. Sam Winchester is portrayed by Jared Padalecki, and Dean Winchester is portrayed by Jensen Ackles. Warner Bros.

Supernatural is a cult series that has a devoted following. They frequently post about the show online and have created fanfiction on a variety of character pairings, including Wincest (the romance between brothers Dean and Sam Winchester) and Destiel (the romance between Dean Winchester and Castiel). This has been brought up by the writers numerous times throughout the series, most notably in the 200th episode, which mentions Wincest, Destiel, and Sastiel.

The show's initial season received generally mixed reviews from critics, but as the series went on, the reception from them improved, with future seasons getting more generally favorable reviews.

The first episode of Jeff Rake's American supernatural drama television series Manifest aired on NBC on September 24, 2018.

It focuses on the passengers and crew of a commercial airliner who unexpectedly surface after going missing for five and a half years and were thought to have passed away.

Josh Dallas, Athena Karkanis, J. R. Ramirez, Luna Blaise, Jack Messina, Parveen Kaur, Matt Long, Holly Taylor, Daryl Edwards, and Ty Doran are among the actors who appear in it.

Upon its debut, the series received a generally favorable reception from critics. The first season has a 56% approval rating on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 6.2/10 based on 39 reviews.

According to the website's summary of reviews, "Manifest's attempts to mix supernatural mystery and melodrama mainly succeed thanks to its well-chosen cast — albeit it could use a few more distinctive qualities." Based on 15 reviews, the weighted average review site Metacritic gave the series a score of 55 out of 100, classifying the reviews as "mixed or average."

The OA is a science fiction, supernatural, and fantasy-themed American mystery drama television program. On December 16, 2016, Netflix released it. 

This is Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij's third project together; they also created, and executive produced it. The two seasons of the show each have eight episodes, and it is made by Anonymous Content and Plan B Entertainment, with almost all of the episodes being directed by Batmanglij.

At the 2017 GLAAD Media Awards, The OA was up for Outstanding Drama Series. A Writers Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama nomination for the episode "Homecoming" in 2018 went to Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij.

The 29th Actors and Actresses Union Awards in 2020 included Paz Vega as a nominee for Best Female Performance in an International Production.

Based on the ongoing Diana Gabaldon novel series of the same name, Outlander is a historical drama television series that made its Starz debut on August 9, 2014. 

It was created by Ronald D. Moore and featured Caitrona Balfe as Claire Randall, a former military nurse in Scotland who was sent back in time to 1743 in 1945.

If we talk about the major storyline, Claire Randall served in the Second World War. There she meets Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a dashing Highland warrior from Gabaldon's fictionalized Clan Fraser of Lovat, who falls in love with him, and they are married. As a result, she gets involved in the Jacobite uprising.

The series as a whole has an average score of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 76 out of 100 on Metacritic.

Over 5.1 million multiplatform people watched each of the first eight episodes on average. In July 2015, Josef Adalian of Vulture identified Outlander as one of the series responsible for Starz's growing success versus rivals like Showtime.

He cited Outlander's high ratings, its "loud online fans, and a slew of think pieces connected to its feminist spins on the action genre."

Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns created the American superhero television program The Flash, which is now running on The CW. It is based on the DC Comics character The Flash, a costumed crime-fighter with the ability to move at superhuman speeds, as played by Barry Allen.

It is an offshoot of Arrow and takes place in the same made-up world known as the Arrowverse.

The show centers on Grant Gustin's character Barry Allen, a crime scene investigator who develops superhuman speed and utilizes it to battle criminals, including those who have also developed superhuman skills.

An American science fiction streaming television show called Lost in Space follows the exploits of a family of space colonists whose ship deviates from its intended trajectory.

The plot of the show revolves around humans departing Earth for a colony in the Alpha Centauri system in the face of a worldwide disaster. The colonists must flee in a smaller Jupiter spacecraft after their main colony ship, the Resolute, is attacked by aliens, but they are launched into a wormhole and crash land on a planet similar to Earth.

According to 75 reviews on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the first season had a 68% approval rating, with an overall average rating of 6.43/10.

In this television program, a doctor venture through time and space to prevent the end of the world.

Along the way, he meets a lot of interesting individuals and embarks on numerous thrilling adventures. You will undoubtedly spend hours enjoying this exciting and engaging presentation.

The exploits of The Doctor, a Time Lord who goes by the name "the Doctor," are chronicled in Doctor Who.

He stole a TARDIS and fled Gallifrey, the home of the Time Lords, leaving it behind on an unidentified planet. The TARDIS has a "chameleon circuit" that enables it to mimic the look of nearby objects as a disguise.

But because of a flaw, it will always look like a blue British police box.

The science fiction drama 'Travelers' stars Eric McCormack, Mackenzie Porter, Jared Abrahamson, Nesta Cooper, Reilly Dolman, and Patrick Gilmore.

It revolves around the last remaining humans finding a technique to transfer consciousness back through time right into people living in the 21st century. 

These "travelers" take on the identities of seemingly random people hundreds of years in the future. They are also secretly working together in teams to complete assignments in order to prevent a horrific future for humanity.

With an ensemble cast that includes big names like Sean Penn, Natascha McElhone, LisaGay Hamilton, Hannah Ware, Keiko Agena, and Rey Lucas, the television drama series 'The First,' tells the story of a group of astronauts preparing to become the first humans to visit Mars.

It centers on a group of individuals who go back in time to stop the destruction of the future.

They quickly learn, though, that the future is not what they had anticipated, and they must struggle to preserve their own lives.

You will be on the edge of your seat while watching this episode since it is so dramatic and suspenseful.

Developed by Howard Overman, Kyle Hunter, and Ariel Shaffir for Hulu, 'Future Man' is an American comedy series that premiered on Netflix on November 14, 2017.

Josh Futturman, a janitor, beats his favorite and previously unbreakable video game, Biotic Wars, when all of a sudden, Tiger and Wolf, the game's two major characters, arrive and ask Josh to join them in defending the planet from the true Biotic Wars. To alter the future, Josh and his colleagues go across time.

Season 1's approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 82% based on 39 reviews, with an average score of 7.08 out of 10. The cast's engaging chemistry and a sense of humor that is just dumb enough to lighten the sci-fi load enhance Future Man's nostalgia-driven premise, according to the website's critical consensus.

It has a weighted average score of 70 out of 100 on Metacritic, which indicates "generally good reviews" based on the opinions of 20 reviewers.

Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese collaborated on the creation of the science fiction thriller television series Dark. It aired from 2017 to 2020 over three seasons.

In the wake of a child's disappearance, the story follows residents from the fictional German community of Winden as they look for the truth. In order to uncover a sinister multigenerational time travel plot, they trace ties between four separated families. The show investigates the existential consequences of time and how it affects the nature of people. 

In the German village of Winden, children begin to disappear, exposing the broken relationships, double lifestyles, and dark pasts of four families there and unraveling a mystery that spans four generations.

A number of publications have ranked Dark as one of the finest TV shows of the years 2017, 2019, and 2020, as well as of the 2010s, 21st century, and overall. It has garnered positive reviews from critics.