Bodkin

Series Similar to Bodkin

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

1. BrainDead

   2016 · Drama, Comedy, Thriller · ended

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

   BrainDead is a comic-thriller set in the world of Washington, D.C. politics that follows Laurel, a young, fresh-faced Hill staffer who discovers two things: the government has stopped working, and bugs are eating the brains of congress members and Hill staffers. The daughter of a Democratic political dynasty who left Washington, D.C. to become a documentary filmmaker, Laurel is pulled back into the family business when her brother, Luke, the Democratic whip Senator from Maryland, needs her help running his senate office. On the Hill, Laurel becomes unlikely friends with Gareth, the smart, hardworking Legislative Director to a top Republican, Senator Red Wheatus. Her other allies include Gustav, an eccentric genius who is the first in D.C. to recognize that something sinister is attacking the Capitol, and Rochelle, a medical student who teams up with Laurel and Gustav to protect and defend the citizens of D.C. from an untimely fate. As the tiny bugs continue to multiply, Laurel and her allies must work quickly to identify the other-worldly creatures, stop their infiltration and ultimately save the world.

2. Dead Still

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   Dublin, 1880. The practice of memorial portraiture is at the height of its popularity – that is, the portrait photography of the recently deceased. As renowned memorial photographer Brock Blennerhasset expands his business with the help of his would-be actress niece Nancy Vickers and assistant Conall Molloy, someone with more sinister designs is getting in on the death photography game. A serial killer is cashing in on the sordid, developing taste for ‘snuff' imagery – pictures of people in their death throes. The murders escalate and Detective Frederick Regan of the Dublin Metropolitan Police suspects that Ireland may have its first serial murderer at large. As Blennerhasset becomes a possible suspect and his family is put in harm's way, they must track down the serial killer before he strikes again.

3. Bad Sisters

   2022 · Drama, Comedy, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Set in the breath-taking coast of Ireland, Bad Sisters follows the lives of the Garvey sisters, who are bound together by the premature death of their parents and a promise to always protect one another. The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for each other. When their brother-in-law winds up dead, his life insurers launch an investigation to prove malicious intent - and set their sights on the sisters, all of whom had ample reason to kill him.

4. The Outlaws

   2021 · Drama, Comedy, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   The Outlaws follows seven strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a Community Payback sentence in Bristol.At first, they seem like archetypes we can easily pigeonhole, but gradually we see behind their façades, understand their hidden depths, and what made them the people they are today. We are reminded that no one is all good or all bad. Everyone has a story.As their unlikely new friendships intersect with their complicated private lives, The Outlaws must unite to protect one of their own from Bristol's most dangerous criminal gang.

5. Departure

   2019 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Amid a background of personal tragedy, the brilliant Kendra Malley is recruited on both sides of the pond to investigate a series of devastating, yet mysterious mass transportation incidents.

6. The Tourist

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   In the glowing red heart of the Australian outback, a British man is pursued by a vast tank truck trying to drive him off the road. An epic cat and mouse chase unfolds and The Man later wakes in hospital, hurt, but somehow alive. Except he has no idea who he is. With merciless figures from his past pursuing him, The Man's search for answers propels him through the vast and unforgiving outback.

7. It's a Sin

   2021 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Ritchie, Roscoe and Colin are young lads, strangers at first, leaving home at 18 and heading off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy… and walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores. Year by year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new virus starts as a rumour, then a threat, then a terror, and then something that binds them together in the fight.It's the story of their friends, lovers and families too, especially Jill, the girl who loves them and helps them, and galvanises them in the battles to come. Together they will endure the horror of the epidemic, the pain of rejection and the prejudices that gay men faced throughout the decade.

8. Boots

   2025 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Netflix.

   They're underdogs, misfits — and if they can survive basic training, Marines.

9. Brief Encounters

   2016 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Take four women all struggling to find happiness and fulfilment, add a touch of glamour, gutsy humour and a desire to improve their lot in life and Brief Encounters is born.Set in the early ‘80s, the six-part series introduces Steph, Pauline, Nita and Dawn as unlikely entrepreneurs who begin to sell exotic lingerie - to the dismay (and often delight) of their loved ones.The series is inspired by chapters telling the story of the early days of the Ann Summers party plan business found in Good Vibrations, Jacqueline Gold's memoir.

10. Not Safe for Work

    2015 · Drama, Comedy · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

    Katherine, a civil servant, is reluctantly relocated from London to Northampton as part of public sector cuts. Recently divorced and troubled by secrets in her past, her relocation may just be the last straw for her.Things are made even more difficult for Katherine when she meets her new co-workers: Anthony, who is cited in Katherine's divorce papers, so their relationship is complicated to say the least. The perma-wasted Danny, a chancer who has somehow found himself managing Katherine's new office after he pretended to be a devout Muslim. Struggling to work around his fondness for drink and drugs, he's constantly led astray by his feisty PA, Angela, a terrible influence. Jenny, irrepressibly and irritatingly upbeat. Jenny is a ball of energy with a relentlessly sunny disposition that hides a profound vulnerability. Meanwhile Nathanial, is naïve and well meaning, trying his best to do his job, but never quite certain what his job actually involves. Shell-shocked Jeffries, head of Human Resources and responsible for Katherine and Danny's relocation. She's as surprised as everyone else to find herself on the receiving end of her own wave of cuts. Behind her stoical and affable nature, and with her own problems at home, she's as lost as everyone else..