Bad Monkey

Series Similar to Bad Monkey

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

1. Irreverent

   2022 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Irreverent is a fish out of water drama that follows criminal mediator Paulo Keegan as he flees Chicago and the United States after a mediation gone wrong and assumes the identity of Reverend Mackenzie "Mack" Boyd. Paulo posing as "Mack" finds himself trapped in Clump, Australia - a small, eccentric beach town in Far North Queensland hundreds of miles away from civilization and phone reception. In order to stay alive, "Mack" must keep the wool over the town's eyes and play the role of devoted Reverend, while desperately searching for an exit strategy before his past catches up to him.

2. Hap and Leonard

   2016 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Set in the late 1980s, Hap and Leonard is a darkly comic swamp noir story of two best friends, one femme fatale, a crew of washed-up revolutionaries, a pair of murderous psycho-killers, some lost loot and the fuzz. Based on the novels by Joe R. Lansdale, the six-hour series event follows Hap Collins, an East Texas white boy with a weakness for Southern women, and Leonard Pine, a gay, black Vietnam vet with a hot temper. When Hap's seductive ex-wife Trudy resurfaces with a deal they can't refuse, a simple get-rich-quick scheme snowballs into bloody mayhem. Chock full of eccentric characters, Hap and Leonard provides a country twist on the classic mystery thriller.

3. Teenage Bounty Hunters

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Twin sisters Sterling and Blair balance teen life at an elite Southern high school with an unlikely new career as butt-kicking bounty hunters.

4. Comrade Detective

   2017 · Comedy, Action, Crime · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   Comrade Detective is a one-of-a-kind cop show and comedy set in 1980's Romania. True to its nostalgic inspiration, the series is presented in Romanian and dubbed in English--as a Romanian show of that time would have been.

5. The Gentlemen

   2024 · Comedy, Action, Crime · returning92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile.

   When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to an enormous weed empire — and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.

6. Get Shorty

   2017 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended92% match

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

   Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 1990 New York Times bestselling novel, Get Shorty is the story of Miles Daly, who works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film.

7. The Good Bad Mother

   2023 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended92% match

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

   A single mom who has been widowed at a young age, Yeong-soon runs a pig farm, and raises her son Kang-ho by herself. She becomes a "bad mother" - hard on her son because she doesn't want him to grow up penniless nor powerless. Thanks to her discipline, Kang-ho grows up to be a prominent prosecutor, but loses his memory due to an unfortunate accident and becomes a 7-year-old again. Young-soon decides to become a "bad mother" again for Kang-ho in this comforting and touching comedy series that tracks the journey of recovery between mother and son.

8. Backstrom

   2015 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, hidden gem.

   The series follows Detective Everett Backstrom, an unhealthy, offensive, irascible - albeit brilliant - detective who sees the worst in everyone, and he's usually right.

9. Terriers

   2010 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended92% match

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

   Terriers is an American comedic drama television series. Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack, in an unlicensed private investigation business. The series is set in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, although it is portrayed as a distinct town, with Dolworth having once been a member of the fictional Ocean Beach Police Department. The duo, both struggling with maturity issues, solve crimes while avoiding danger and responsibility.

10. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

    2009 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended92% match

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

    The first BBC drama to be filmed entirely on location in Botswana, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a charming story chronicling the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a Motswana woman who starts up the country's first female-owned detective agency. Based on the novels by Alexander McCall Smith.