Programming the FutureFrom 9 11 to COVID 19, the twenty first century looks increasingly dystopian and so do its television shows. Long form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian extrapolations to spotlight the possibility of building a