The Blacklist premieres in exactly a month, and it's about time. At Wikia, we love ourselves some paranormal crime and we're always on the lookout for new television that center on it.
If you're not already familiar, here's The Blacklist's premise: For decades, ex-government agent Raymond Reddington (James Spader) has been one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives. Brokering shadowy deals for criminals across the globe, Red was known by many as "The Concierge of Crime." Now, he's mysteriously surrendered to the FBI with an explosive offer: he will help catch a long-thought-dead terrorist, Ranko Zamani, under the condition that he speaks only to Elizabeth Keen, an FBI profiler fresh out of Quantico. For Liz, it's going to be one hell of a first day on the job.
In preparation for the show's release, we thought we'd list a handful of our favorite paranormal television shows. If we've missed any that you think ought to be included, let us know in the comments!
This paranormal procedural, which ran from 1993 until 2002, followed a pair of FBI agents, Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), investigate strange crimes of mysterious origin while inexplicable forces conspire to stop them.
Another paranormal procedural, Fringe centers on an FBI agent named Olivia Dunham, who works with a mentally-unstable scientist to find the scientific explanation behind seemingly inexplicable phenomena.
An absolute classic, Rod Sterling's The Twilight Zone found regular people in extraordinary situations, more often than not with a bizarre, supernatural bent. It ran for five years, from 1959 to 1964.
The Lone Gunmen was a spinoff of The X-Files, focusing on three computer hackers known as The Lone Gunmen who use their computer know-how to investigate shadowy conspiracy theories.
An FBI criminal profile with the bizarre ability to peer into the consciousness of killers begins to work with a shadowy body known as Millennium Group.
An FBI agent is tasked with investigating the meaning and consequences behind a strange occurrence, when everyone on Earth simultaneously blacks out and experiences a short vision of their fate.