Netflix has already dropped a handful of huge projects including 2026, including a new addition to its top 10 most-watched movies of all time list in War Machine. The bonkers sci-fi adventure stars Reacher veteran Alan Ritchson, and after earning well over 130 million views since premiering on the platform, the streamer has confirmed that it is working on a sequel to the film. Netflix also found a new Stranger Things replacement series of sorts in The Boroughs, a new sci-fi TV series that was even produced by the Duffer brothers, the creators of Stranger Things. The show was a smash hit, spending weeks in the Netflix top 10, but it didn’t do well enough to earn a second season, and Netflix canceled the show while it was still in the global top 10. The streaming landscape can be brutal for expensive sci-fi and fantasy shows.
Netflix has built out the biggest streaming audience in history, not just because it consistently drops original content with some of the most popular stars in the world, but also because the streamer is always willing to take a chance on older, discarded projects. The latest series to seek redemption on Netflix nearly 10 years after going off the air is The Last Ship, the dystopian sci-fi series starring the late Eric Dane. Netflix added all five seasons of The Last Ship to its platform in America last week, and it swiftly infiltrated the top 10 and has yet to give up its spot as it quietly becomes one of the streamer’s biggest hits of the year. The series is currently #3 on American watchlists, behind only I Will Find You and the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
02
In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
04
How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
05
Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
06
Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
07
Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
08
What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
Is ‘The Last Ship’ Worth Watching?
Fans of sci-fi shows like The Last of Us will certainly find some enjoyment in The Last Ship, but don’t go in expecting there to be a massive zombie outbreak. The pandemic in The Last Ship is more of a deadly outbreak focused on a virus with a 100% fatality rate, meaning it kills all who contract it, and doesn’t turn them into flesh-eating zombies. The show also features some other notable stars, including Ebon Moss-Bachrach of The Bear and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Charles Parnell from Top Gun: Maverick, and even Jocko Sims from New Amsterdam.
Check out all five seasons of The Last Ship on Netflix and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the series.
Release Date
2014 – 2018-00-00
Network
TNT
Directors
Paul Holahan, Jack Bender, Peter Weller, Michael Katleman, Bill Roe, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Bobby Roth, Brad Turner, Greg Beeman, Jann Turner, Jonathan Mostow, Kenneth Fink, Mario Van Peebles, Michael Nankin, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Tim Matheson, Nelson McCormick, Reza Tabrizi, Anton Cropper, Mairzee Almas
Writers
Onalee Hunter, Jill Blankenship, Mark Malone, Hiram Martinez, Nic Van Zeebroeck, Katie Swain, Ira Parker, Cameron Welsh, Josh Schaer, Jessica Butler, Jorge Zamacona, Michael Sussman, Quinton Peeples, Anne Cofell Saunders
