If you’ve ever made the mistake of saying sequels were never good, it’s because you’ve missed many of the best spin-offs, sequels, and prequels to some of the best series ever. The great classics on the small screen give way to other titles that are not only up to par, but in many cases even better than their predecessor.
The Good Fight has become an essential for critics, Frasier was one of the best series of the nineties and there is no shortage of stories that complete the characters that we have already enjoyed for years. Vampires, teenagers in love or superheroes before having superpowers are some of the protagonists that we find in series for all tastes, for all audiences, for any occasion.
Frasier
Cheers was one of the best sitcoms in history and one of the most famous. And in the legendary bar series, Frasier Crane was a regular character. Years later, in 1993, he premiered his own television show and it became a success with five consecutive Emmy Awards for best comedy and one of the best spin-offs we can remember, with the greatest success and most acclaimed by critics. Until very recently we could see Frasier in Spain through the Atresmedia Neox channel, although now it is not available on any streaming platform and you will have to download it.
Frasier takes us to the story of Dr. Frasier Crane, a doctor who has just divorced and will return to his hometown where he will have to live with his father, convalescing after being shot, and with his therapist, Daphne. Frasier Crane will have to endure the drama of his divorce, living with peculiar characters and starring in all kinds of funny situations that we could see on television for more than ten years.
Fear the walking dead
The Walking Dead is one of the essential zombie series, with more than 100 episodes available and almost a religion for lovers of this genre. But if you’ve already seen all the seasons, Fear the Walking Dead is one of the best current spin-offs, based on the original and that tells us what the world was like while the zombie apocalypse was spreading that devastates everything. When Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma, everything has changed. But we do not know how the first steps of the zombies in the invasion have been. In this prequel they tell us this story.
Fear the Walking Dead has five seasons and more than 50 episodes and tells us what the city of Los Angeles was like as the characters realized what was happening and how the zombie apocalypse was progressing, what was happening during these moments and how the danger was growing. And to find out what it was like and what life was like, the protagonist is a family that will live through all kinds of moments of anguish and terror but that will also have to face misinformation from the media, military control, misinformation from the authorities, or an escape attempt. .
See Fear the walking dead on Amazon Prime Video
The Originals and Legacies
If we could only choose one series of vampires in the story, which one would you choose? Vampire Chronicles would probably be on the list of many fans of the bloodsucker genre. One of the great classics that you can see on HBO in its entirety and with more than 170 episodes available, but it also has two of the best spin-offs: The Originals and Legacies. The Originals is a series that maintains the essence of the previous one and that introduces us to the original vampires, the first generation vampires. Here we have Klaus Mikaelson as the first protagonist and it all starts when he has to leave Mystic Falls and return to New Orleans to meet Marcel, his former protégé. The Originals was available on Netflix until very recently but is no longer available on the streaming platform, unfortunately for fans. Even so, we leave you the direct link below in case the series is visible again and you want to enjoy its four seasons.
Legacies is one of the best sequels to a vampire series and you can watch it in its entirety on HBO. This is one of the best spin-offs available, the second of the Vampire Chronicles and with Hope Mikaelson, daughter of Klaus and Hayley, as the protagonist. It is inevitable that Legacies maintains the essence of the classic series: a teenage series of vampires, high school, dark magic, classic drama. A title with airs to Harry Potter but also to the mythical Buzzy Cazavampiros. Hope Mikaelson is the protagonist of this sequel that is set two years after the events of The Originals. In Legacies, Hope goes to the Salvatore School and there she will have to share a class or hallways with vampires, witches or werewolves, but she will also have to learn to control her supernatural impulses while living with and coping with all the usual dramas of age.
Better Call Saul
Breaking Bad is possibly one of the best series in history or one of the most relevant. And it was in this title that we met one of the most peculiar and charismatic characters on television: Saul Goodman, a con man and rogue lawyer. Goodman has his own production, a prequel that tells us about his life before appearing in the mythical story of Walter White and that is one of the best spin-offs available on Netflix. A title in which there is no lack of intelligence and black humor in each of the episodes that already form up to three seasons on the streaming platform, although some more have been released and are not available.
Better Call Saul tells us what Saul Goodman was like before he was Saul Goodman. That is, we will meet James McGill, a lawyer who wants to show how much he is worth (especially to his brother) and that he deserves a place in society. James McGill will try, in any way, to become somebody. But he will end up becoming a peculiar failure but with great intelligence and an enormous capacity to always get away with it and win over all kinds of delinquents and criminals.
Watch Better Call Saul on Netflix
The Good Fight
If you think that sequels were never good, it’s because you haven’t seen The Good Fight, not only one of the best spin-offs on television, but a series that practically surpasses the previous one, the original. The Good Fight is the sequel to The Good Wife, the series of lawyers with Alicia Florrick as the protagonist. Now, Diane Lockhart takes the central role and this sequel will focus on her life after losing all her savings in a huge financial scandal. A title totally focused on today’s world, with cases close to everyday reality. An intelligent, social and effective series in which there is no lack of characters full of charisma and power that will be in the Reddick and Boseman law firm, in the cases of each episode, in the internal problems of their characters.
As we said, in the sequel to The Good Wife, Alicia Florrick is not the protagonist, but instead takes over from her colleague Diane Lockhart at a difficult moment in her life in which she has lost all her savings and will have to join a new law firm in Chicago where she will once again practice as a lawyer, she will face new cases or live with all kinds of characters that make the series essential. Luca Quinn, Maia Rindell or Marissa Gold complete an ensemble cast where the protagonists will leave us with sublime dialogues or brilliant moments in what is one of the best productions in recent years, whether you like the legal profession or not, whether you are interested in law firms or not, Whether you like this type of series or not.
Watch The Good Fight on SkyShowtime
Young Sheldon
Surely you’ve ever seen Big Bang Theory, even if it’s finding a single episode on television. Sheldon Cooper is the main character, a fan of science and with problems relating to others. The prequel introduces us to an adorable nine-year-old Sheldon Cooper who will make us laugh with a character we want to hug all the time but who will make us nervous for being excessively intelligent. More than everyone around him. Available on Movistar Plus and with three seasons already released, it is one of the best spin-offs if we are looking for something fun and easy to watch. It is a prequel in which SHeldon is still a child and which seeks to tell us what the childhood of one of the most popular sitcoms of recent years was like.
Nine-year-old Sheldon Cooper lives in Texas with his father, mother, brother, and twin sister Missy. He doesn’t fit in with his brother and his father, lovers of sports and American football. His mother tries to protect him excessively and his sister is too sincere. But Sheldon has a unique mind and goes to high school with much older classmates, which leads to all sorts of comical situations. A fun, entertaining and curious series with episodes of only 22 minutes in total.
See Young Sheldon on Movistar Plus+
