Looking on Netflix, every sci-fi show has the tag "Dystopian". I suspect there is a very big opportunity for a show-runner who can imagine stepping outside that mold.
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Soviet fiction often prided itself on being hopeful and uplifting compared to American fiction which could only think of war and conflict :) But by 70s-80s a lot was dystopia disguised. E.g. brave earthlings fighting dystopia on a planet somewhere.
The two Russian Sci-Fi works that I remember reading offhand I would classify as both dystopian (Roadside Picnic and We) ... but Russians kind of have an excuse, so, okay.
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Yup, and both are more-or-less from a time of disillusionment. Most others (can’t for the life of me remember the names even though I read a ton of sci-fi as a kid) were more about miscommunication, challenges in unknown worlds and culutres, or just “what if sci-fi but at home"
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And now I realize I miss that kind of sci-fi, especially on TV. Someone said that Star Trek TNG was the last large series based on hope.
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