Are you so excited for the new Harry Potter TV show that you can’t wait for it to start? We’ve rounded up the best fantasy TV shows to scratch that itch while you wait. Boycotting the new Harry Potter TV show and looking for something else to watch instead? We’ve rounded up the best fantasy TV shows that have nothing to do with that universe. Yes, it’s the same list.
From classic elves and wizards to modern-day vampire psychics and apocalypse warriors with telekinetic powers, these supernatural beings and their adventures into the realms of demons, ghost, ghouls, and interpersonal drama will have you believing in magic and binge-watching for hours. There’s comedy (Sabrina The Teenage Witch), drama (Game of Thrones), and more action, suspense, and romance than any Tumblr GIFset can adequately capture.
So take a look at our favorite spooky, spiritual, and enchanted series, streaming wherever you are.
Sabrina The Teenage Witch
With a talking cat, a wardrobe to die for, and magical powers literally at the tip of her finger, Sabrina Spellman pretty much had everything you could ever want or need to tackle high school in this delightful TGIF ’90s staple.
Watch on Hulu
Game of Thrones
Fantasy for grown-ups! It’s bloody, it’s perv-y, it’s really good until the last couple seasons. Powerful families scheme and spar to take control of a divided kingdom in this drama that leans heavy into sex and warfare but has plenty of dragons, zombies, and magical shape-shifting, too.
Watch on Max
House of the Dragon
Set two hundred years before the events of GoT, we see the rise of the Targaryens. The prequel has no ice zombies but way more dragons.
Watch on Max
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
The most expensive television show of all time pulls its source material from the appendices of the books to mixed results. Some storylines feel like fascinating Middle Earth folklore and others a bit like filler, but the visuals are uniformly stunning.
Watch on Prime Video
Doctor Who
Perhaps one of the most-defining shows of UK television, this sci-fi adventure reinvents itself every few years.
Watch on Disney Plus
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Interview With The Vampire
Anne Rice’s campy, gothic novels become overtly queer in a lustful adaptation that’s less Twilight and more True Blood.
Watch on AMC+
The Leftovers
One of the bleakest series of all time is also one of the most profound, following the devastated survivors of a Rapture-like event.
Watch on Max
The Magicians
If you’ve ever heard someone talking about a Hogwarts-for-adults series…this is what they meant. Magic college!
Watch on Prime Video
The 100
A post-Armageddon sci-fi adventure that’s more exciting than grueling.
Watch on Prime Video
Penny Dreadful
Old-school monsters like Frankenstein and Dorian Gray collide in Victorian London in this cult hit.
Watch on Prime Video
Pushing Daisies
How thematically appropriate that this beloved dramedy was gone too soon! Lee Pace plays Ned, who can restore life to the dead with a single touch, and puts his powers to good use helping solve murders.
Watch on Netflix
School Spirits
If you’ve ever felt like you’d rather be dead than go to school, or that homeroom is as dull as purgatory, well, meet Maddy, a ghost haunting her own high school.
Watch on Pluto
Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
It’s that demon-hunting show with the tattoos that came from incestuous Harry Potter fanfic that was also a Lily Collins movie. It’s so bad it’s good.
Watch on Apple TV
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Supernatural
There’s a reason this monster-fighting procedural ran for approximately a million episodes and basically invented Tumblr.
Watch on Prime Video
The Vampire Diaries
It’s a vampire-boy human-teen-girl love triangle but see, the difference is that this time, both of the boys are vampires.
Watch on Max
The Umbrella Academy
Based on the hit comic written by the guy from My Chemical Romance, TIU follows super-powered siblings who are as screwed up and dysfunctional as they are essential for saving the world.
Watch on Netflix
Outlander
The sexiest and most romantic show…ever? An absolute obsession for its fans, this bodice-ripper is about the passionate love story between a 20th-century nurse and the 18th-century Scot she meets after supernatural forces put her in his path.
Watch on Netflix
Outlander: Blood of My Blood
A prequel to the hit based on Diana Gabaldon’s novels, this series (SPOILER) also involves time travel.
Watch on Starz
The Wheel of Time
Before shelling out for the rights to LotR, Amazon tried to compete with GoT with The Wheel of Time, based on Robert Jordan’s novels about female channelers of a cosmic unifying power.
Watch on Prime Video
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Into every generation, a slayer is born. And every generation must discover the vampire-fighting amazingness of Buffy for themselves.
Watch on Hulu
Angel
Some people like the LA-set spin-off of Buffy even more! Not us, but some people.
Watch on Hulu
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The Worst Witch
Mildred Hubble is the clumsiest student at Miss Cackle’s academy, constantly getting herself into all kinds of magical trouble!
Watch on Netflix
Lucifer
The devil himself is an irresistibly sexy nightclub owner (just go with it) helping solve homicides in modern-day Los Angeles (listen…just go with it).
Watch on Netflix
What We Do In The Shadows
Based on the critically acclaimed mockumentary, this blood-sucking take on a Friends-style coven of roommate vamps is less spooky, more hilarious.
Watch on Hulu
Shadow and Bone
A sprawling war epic based on Leigh Bardugo’s massively popular Six of Crows series is set in the unique Grishaverse, where supernatural power collides with gunfire in spectacular fashion.
Watch on Netflix
Wednesday
Wednesday Addams solves mysteries and avoids her classmates at the creepy, altogether kooky Nevermore Academy.
Watch on Netflix
