The Eternaut is Netflix's first Argentine original series and one of the most ambitious science-fiction productions ever mounted in Latin America. Directed by Bruno Stagnaro, it adapts El Eternauta, the legendary 1957 graphic novel by writer Hector German Oesterheld and artist Francisco Solano Lopez that holds near-mythic status in Argentina.
Ricardo Darin, the country's most celebrated actor, stars as Juan Salvo, an ordinary man thrust into an extraordinary nightmare when a silent, deadly snow begins falling over Buenos Aires, killing instantly anyone it touches and knocking out power across the city. As Salvo and a small band of survivors improvise makeshift protection and venture into the frozen streets, they realize the snow is only the opening move of a vast and terrifying alien invasion.
Released in 2025, the series became a global phenomenon and one of Netflix's most-watched non-English titles, praised for its craft, its scale, and the way it grounds cosmic horror in ordinary human solidarity. Its resonance is deepened by the history of its source material and its author, and a second season has been confirmed. It is streaming on Netflix.
Merlin is about a teenage magician who learns his trade from Magister Gaius. It is his discovery of his abilities that the show centers around and viewers find the idea intriguing to see how he learns how to concentrate his new powers for the sake of good. Plenty of humor along the way keeps this program from becoming a documentary and the likeable characters make for fun television. Special effects are in play to make Merlin's talents appear even more fascinating. Merlin becomes a squire to noble Arthur, the crown prince and has more opportunities to put his magic to work. King Uther Pendragon hates magic and has subsequently outlawed it from his kingdom, but his son Arthur is the one Merlin must worry about and keep his magical capabilities a secret or fear execution. An imprisoned dragon tells Merlin he has a destiny to fulfill and that means staying alive at any cost. Talented young Colin Morgan plays Merlin and Bradley James as Prince Arthur head up an extremely talented cast in the magical world of Camelot.
Another successful crossover from British television to North American is found in Being Human. The premise of the show involves showing how different yet similar we all are and how a vampire and a werewolf can live with a ghost and all get along. Any time a combination like this one comes to the TV you can imagine how scary dark and brooding it may be but there is a lot of humor in this show as well, making it well worth watching. Aidan (Sam Witwer) is a vampire who works as a nurse in a hospital in Boston. He began his career as a prince of darkness during the Revolutionary War back in the 1860's and with a job in a hospital they might want to watch out for the blood supplies. Josh (played by Sam Huntington) happens to be a werewolf working in the same hospital as an orderly as his day job. Sally (Meaghan Rath) became a ghost after her unfortunate death and now haunts the house she had planned to live in when she got married. Now Aidan and Josh rent the house and find it to be haunted by Sally.
Clark Kent grew up in Smallville and before he became Superman he was a normal average kid who just happened to discover his hidden talents which were super powers. The DC Comic character we all grew up with, Superman, has been portrayed as a super powerful entity from the planet Krypton who, after landing on earth, grew up in the Midwest as a normal boy and went on to work as a reporter for the Daily Planet. Early Clark Kent is seen as an average in school, very handsome boy who has friends and plays pranks just like every other boy in Kansas. Tom Welling (Cheaper By The Dozen, The Fog) plays Clark Kent at a period in his life where he is just realizing his magical gifts and super powers. Based on the comic book character, Clark is eager to show his adopted parents how useful he can be in a wide variety of ways and this brings about many humorous situations on the show. This TV version of the ever popular comic book series has been extremely successful and highly entertaining.
Doctor Who TV Show is a BBC science fiction program which is revolving around a man referred to as "˜the Doctor' who claims to travel to space in what appears to be a blue 1950s police cruiser. However "˜the Doctor' is an alien time traveler that does what no one else has...He goes into outer space to investigate problems and battle mysterious monsters to undo any wrong that has been done. Doctor Who TV Show is the longest running program in the history of the world, because the story keeps on going, even if it is being redone by someone else.
It takes two to tango, likewise two topnotch police officers to take on supernatural cases. Meet the sleuthing duo of Warehouse 13 TV Show. U.S. Secret Service agents, Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) and Peter Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) get an odd promotion after saving the life of the president. They get assigned to Warehouse 13"”a state-run, well-hidden facility that keeps alien souvenirs, mythical relics and all sorts of hard-to-explain artifacts. Warehouse 13 TV Show features their caseworks together. Although this sci-fi series portrays the lives of American special agents, it has been entirely shot in Toronto, Quebec, Montreal and other parts of Canada.
In this make-believe world, geniuses and scientists co-exist in a town in Pacific Northwest, called Eureka. The American sci-fi series, Eureka TV Show, follows the lives of the brilliant townsfolk who mostly work for the Global Dynamics research center. All is not always well, even in the midst of scientists. Odd accidents (spurred by various scientific experiments) seem to always find their way in Eureka TV Show. There to save the day is the town's super-hero that does not even own a super-IQ. He is Jack Carter (played by Colin Ferguson), the local sheriff, who manages to solve one dangerous mystery after another.
Sliders TV show is an American science fiction television series. Sliders TV show follows a group of travelers as they use a wormhole to "slide" between different parallel universes. The wormhole is referred to as an Sliders TV show is an American science fiction television series. Sliders TV show follows a group of travelers as they use a "Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky bridge" wormhole to "slide" between different parallel universes.
