Awake

Series Similar to Awake

If you enjoyed Awake, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Emergence

   2019 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Emergence centers around a police chief who takes in a young child that she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child's identity is at the center of it all.

2. Nowhere Man

   1995 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Unknown forces conspire to erase the identity of photographer Thomas Veil and without warning, every aspect of his life is erased during the course of one evening. His wife acts as if he's a stranger, his credit cards are suddenly invalid, his keys no longer fit the door to his home and in one way or another, his family and friends are silenced. Completely alone, Veil sets out on a desperate cross-country quest for an answer while eluding his powerful and unknown enemy. His only clue to the possible motivation behind the harrowing ordeal is the disappearance of one of his photographs, "Hidden Agenda", which depicts the execution of natives in a war-torn Third World country.

3. Reverie

   2018 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, also on NBC.

   This grounded new thriller follows Mara Kint, a former hostage negotiator and expert on human behavior, who became a college professor after facing an unimaginable personal tragedy. But when she's brought in to save ordinary people who have lost themselves in a highly advanced virtual-reality program in which you can literally live your dreams, she finds that in saving others, she may actually have discovered a way to save herself.

4. The Dead Zone

   2002 · Drama, Fantasy, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Based on the characters and story from the best-selling novel by Stephen King, The Dead Zone is a unique psychological thriller that combines a rich mix of the paranormal, action, and a continuing quest for justice.

5. The Lost Room

   2006 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8).

   A mysterious event at the Sunshine Motel caused ordinary things in Room 10 to transform into indestructible objects with extraordinary powers. Detective Joe Miller discovers the dangerous potential of these objects when his daughter becomes lost in the room. His only hope of saving her is to find The Key, but shadowy figures will stop at nothing to keep it - and the other objects - for themselves.

6. I Hear Your Voice

   2013 · Drama, Fantasy, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Bold, Sassy, thick-faced and comical Jang Hye Sung is a female lawyer, which doesn't have a bit of concept or manners and finds it difficult to find any enthusiasm in her job.

7. Intruders

   2014 · Drama, Fantasy, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Thriller profile.

   A contemporary, chilling, paranormal tale set in the moody Pacific Northwest, the series spins a fascinating and complex web of drama. As strange, apparently unrelated events start happening, multiple story-lines - a missing wife, an assassin covering his crimes, a child on the run - begin to intertwine to reveal a conspiracy that will forever change our understanding of human nature.

8. Emerald City

   2017 · Drama, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, also on NBC.

   Swept up into the eye of a tornado, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale is transported to another world - a mystical land where an all-powerful ruler governs over one kingdom, has outlawed magic, and faces not only the wrath of a growing cauldron of witches but a looming disaster brought on by a mythical force. Epic, romantic and fantastical, Emerald City is an empowering tale of a young woman finding her true strength and identity even as she battles to bring a divided world together.

9. Our Zoo

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Our Zoo is a drama series based on the true story of the Mottershead family who, in the face of staunch opposition and huge personal sacrifice, founded Chester Zoo in the 1930s.

10. Medical Investigation

    2004 · Drama, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem, also on NBC.

    Dr. Stephen Connor and Dr. Natalie Durant are members of a mobile medical team from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who are summoned in a heartbeat to scope out -- and hopefully snuff out -- outbreaks of unexplained and fearful diseases. When people are suffering from a mysterious and deadly illness which turns them blue, the team must work to put the pieces together to find the source of this potentially deadly epidemic.