The journey through time is not over just because you have finished Hulu’s 11.22.63. If you have watched Jake Epping’s mission to stop the Kennedy assassination and his love story in the past, you might be looking for more shows with that same powerful mix. You want series that blend exciting sci-fi concepts, tense thrills, and deep human emotion. From shows that explore tangled timelines to those about the heavy cost of changing history, here are six great series to watch next.
Sci-Fi Series with Time Travel and Emotional Stakes
For fans of 11.22.63, the core appeal often lies in more than just the mechanics of time travel. It is about how changing the past affects personal relationships and creates impossible choices. The following shows master that balance, using sci-fi premises to tell very human stories.
Stranger Things is a natural next watch. While famous for its 1980s nostalgia and supernatural horror, the series shares deep themes with 11.22.63. Both stories involve characters confronting dark forces and historical traumas, asking how much pain from the past you can or should try to erase. The characters in Hawkins learn, much like Jake Epping, that trying to “fix” things can lead to unexpected and dangerous consequences.
If you loved how 11.22.63 turned sci-fi into a morality play, you will appreciate how Black Mirror operates. Many of its standalone episodes deal with technology that alters memory, changes how we see time, or creates alternate realities, always focusing on the human impact.
Travelers is a clever and suspenseful series about consciousness sent back from a ruined future into people in the 21st century. These “travelers” must complete missions to change the path of history while living secret lives in the past. It shares 11.22.63‘s core tension of people out of time working against a clock to alter the future, with the added drama of assuming other people’s identities.
Thrillers Focused on Destiny and Altered Timelines
The idea that the past actively resists change is a key part of 11.22.63. This theme of a fighting, almost living history appears in other thrilling shows, often wrapped in mystery.
The series Dark is a German thriller that masterfully uses time travel within a small-town mystery. When children start disappearing, the investigation reveals secrets tied to a local cave and a time portal, connecting families across multiple generations in the 1950s, 1980s, and 2010s. Its complex, mind-bending plot and serious tone will appeal to anyone who enjoyed the meticulous plotting and high stakes of 11.22.63.
For a show deeply connected to the world of Stephen King, Castle Rock is a great choice. Set in the fictional Maine town that appears in many King stories, it weaves together characters and mysteries from his universe. The show deals with warped timelines, history that repeats itself, and characters who cannot escape the sins of the past. Like the “past” in 11.22.63 that pushes back, Castle Rock presents history as a force that fights against those who try to change it.
Bodies, a recent Netflix series, offers a unique detective twist on the time travel genre. Four detectives in four different time periodsโ1890, 1941, 2023, and 2053โall find the same dead body on a London street. Their separate investigations become linked in a conspiracy that threatens Britain’s future. This police procedural format across time creates a gripping puzzle similar to the historical investigation Jake undertakes.
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Shows Where Love and Time Collide
At its heart, 11.22.63 is also a love story. Jake’s relationship with Sadie Dunhill makes his mission deeply personal and much more difficult. These next series place a powerful romance at the center of their time-travel narratives.
Outlander is the iconic series in this category. It follows Claire Randall, a World War II nurse who is transported from 1945 back to 1743 Scotland. The show explores a central question familiar to 11.22.63 fans: if you know the future, do you have the right or the power to change it? The romance between Claire and Jamie Fraser is the driving force, demonstrating that knowing what is coming does not make preventing tragedy any easier, and often makes the emotional weight heavier.
Undone on Amazon Prime Video uses time travel in a completely different, surreal way. After a car accident, Alma gains the ability to move through time. She uses this to revisit memories and investigate the mystery of her father’s death. The series beautifully blurs the line between destiny and mental illness, asking if time is truly flexible or if Alma is just experiencing trauma in a non-linear way. Its focus on personal history and emotional truth makes it a profoundly intimate partner to 11.22.63.
The recent Apple TV+ series Dark Matter, based on the book by Blake Crouch, also explores a personal journey across realities. Jason Dessen is kidnapped into an alternate version of his life and must travel through different worlds to get back to his true family. This story of fighting to return to a loved one and the haunting question of “what if” captures a similar emotional core as Jake’s struggle between duty and love.
The connection these series share with 11.22.63 proves that the best sci-fi thrillers are about more than gadgets and paradoxes. They use their high-concept premises to ask difficult questions about love, choice, and consequence. Whether you are in the mood for a detective puzzle across centuries, a historical romance, or a mind-bending trip through memory, there is a next perfect journey waiting for you.
