If you love Margaret Atwood’s speculative fiction but you’ve already watched “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments,” give the miniseries “Alias Grace” a try (and, if you feel so inclined, grab a copy of the novel as well). Adapted from Atwood’s underrated 1996 novel by Sarah Polley — who went on to win an Academy Award for another adaptation, 2022’s “Women Talking” — and directed by “American Psycho” visionary Mary Harron, “Alias Grace” centers around the titular Grace Marks (Sarah Haddon), an accused murderer. As Dr. Simon Jordan (Edward Holcroft) sits down to speak with Grace and get to the bottom of her alleged crimes — something that some of her defenders think will set her free from a lengthy prison sentence — the audience follows her story along with him and tries to figure out if she’s guilty or innocent.

Told through the lens of Simon’s investigation and interrogation, we learn about Grace’s relationship with a fellow maid, Mary Whitney (Rebecca Liddiard), her former employer Thomas Kinnear (Paul Gross), and his housekeeper Nancy (Oscar winner and “True Blood” star Anna Paquin). Across six episodes, you’ll be pushed and pulled in every direction as you try to understand what happened to Grace, what she did, and why … and you’ll be absolutely gripped by every second of it. Though “Alias Grace” is a Canadian production crafted by CBC Entertainment, you can stream it stateside on Netflix. 

In “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments,” men control the republic of Gilead; “The Society,” a series that only ran for one short season on Netflix in 2019, takes the total opposite approach. In showrunner Christopher Keyser’s story, teen girls take control of, well, a makeshift society in their town of West Ham, Connecticut after everyone else in the town mysteriously vanishes.

The premiere of “The Society” introduces us to protagonist Allie Pressman (Kathryn Newton), who lives in the shadow of her naturally confident older sister Cassandra (Rachel Keller) when a group of high schools that includes Allie and her best friend Will LeClair (Jacques Colimon). Before they can leave town, their transport turns around and all of the teens realize that not only has every other person in the town vanished, including the adults, but their phones don’t work anymore and they have no way of interacting with the outside world. From there, Cassandra tries to rally the teens together to build a new society.

“The Society” only made it for one season because the COVID-19 pandemic prevented it from picking cameras back up for a sophomore season, but throughout its ten episodes, it’s unbelievably fascinating to watch these teenagers try to keep their small society running, procure food, and even treat some serious medical conditions (one of Allie’s friends is pregnant, and Cassandra has a dangerous heart condition that requires medical intervention). Even though it never got a chance to truly conclude its story, it’s still worth checking out “The Society” if you’ve ever watched “The Testaments” and wondered what it might be like if Agnes and Daisy were in charge.

The film adaptation of Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore’s game-changing DC comic “Watchmen,” which came out in 2009 and was directed by Zack Snyder, didn’t do this incredible story much justice. Thankfully, ten years later, Damon Lindelof — known for “Lost” and “The Leftovers” — revived “Watchmen” with a limited series for HBO starring Regina King, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Tim Blake Nelson, and Jean Smart. Though the TV version of “Watchmen” doesn’t tell the exact same story as the movie or even the comic, Lindelof smartly crafted a new story within the same world, including characters from the comic like Doctor Manhattan (Abdul-Mateen II), Silk Spectre (Smart), and even Ozymandias himself, though he goes by the name Adrian Veidt (Jeremy Irons).

King stars as Angela Abar, a detective with the Tulsa Police Department who’s also a masked figure known as Sister Night (in this universe, a coordinated attack on Tulsa’s police force by a white supremacist group led to all officers being masked to protect their identities). Across nine stunning episodes, Lindelof and directors like Nicole Kassell (who worked with Lindelof on “The Leftovers”) and Stephen Williams (a “Lost” veteran) bring this sharp new story to life — and Cord Jefferson, who went on win an Oscar for his “American Fiction” screenplay in 2024, co-wrote some of the episodes with Lindelof as well. Don’t sleep on “Watchmen” just because the 2009 movie underwhelmed; this series is a phenomenal dystopian drama packed with astounding performances and absolutely gorgeous storytelling.

Adapted for the small screen from Naomi Alderman’s 2016 novel by Alderman herself alongside Raelle Tucker, Claire Wilson, and Sarah Quintrell, “The Power” tells a story that would likely please the women of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments” — the story of women across the world developing unnatural and extremely intense powers that they can use against men. Specifically, teenage girls start gaining the ability to electrically shock people using their fingertips, and then they’re able to gift their power to older women … resulting in this “power” becoming spread across the entire globe.

With Toni Collette, “Moana” star Auliʻi Cravalho, John Leguizamo, and “Ted Lasso” standout Toheeb Jimoh as members of the main cast — as Seattle mayor Margot Cleary-Lopez, Margot’s daughter Jos, Margot’s husband Rob Lopez, and journalist Tunde Ojo, respectively — “The Power” packs a lot of starpower and tells Alderman’s fascinating speculative story perfectly. If you think women in Gilead should definitely be able to electrocute anybody with the literal snap of a finger, don’t miss out on “The Power,” which is an Amazon Prime original series.

As for “The Testaments” and “The Handmaid’s Tale,” you can stream both shows on Hulu now.