Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Series Similar to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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

1. Teen Wolf

   2011 · Drama, Romance, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Supernatural profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Always an outsider and often unnoticed, Scott McCall yearns to be recognized in some small way that takes him out of his typical state of high school anonymity. When his best friend, Stiles, convinces him to go into the woods one night to join a police search for a dead body, Scott encounters a creature in the darkness. Narrowly escaping an attack with a vicious bite in his side, the next day brings strange surprises for Scott at school and his life will never be the same.MTV's reboot of the classic 1980s cult movie Teen Wolf.

2. Preacher

   2016 · Drama, Western, Supernatural · ended

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

   Based on the popular cult comic book franchise of the same name, Preacher is a supernatural, twisted and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that causes him to develop a highly unusual power. Jesse, his badass ex-girlfriend Tulip and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy come together, and when they do, they are thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between.

3. Angel

   1999 · Drama, Action, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Supernatural profile, highly rated (8.1).

   "If you need help, then look no further. Angel Investigations is the best. Our rates are low but our standards are high. When the chips are down, and you're at the end of your rope you need someone that you can count on. And that's what you'll find here, someone that will go all the way, no matter what. So don't lose hope. Come on over to our offices and you'll see that there's still heroes in this world."Angel was the spin-off series of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". It aired from 1999 to 2004. Angel runs a private invetigation bureau and fights demons, Wolfram & Hart and all other existing evil in Los Angeles. There were several crossovers and many guest appearances from "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" during its five season run.

4. The Originals

   2013 · Drama, Romance, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Supernatural profile, highly rated (8.2).

   The Originals is a spin-off show from the supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries. It is based in the city of New Orleans where the originals represent the original vampires. The show is primarily based around conflict between vampires, werewolves and witches in the city.

5. Supernatural

   2005 · Drama, Action, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Supernatural profile, highly rated (8.3).

   This haunting series follows the Winchester brothers as they crisscross the lonely and mysterious back roads of the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, hunting down every evil supernatural force they encounter along the way.

6. A Discovery of Witches

   2018 · Drama, Romance, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Supernatural profile.

   Brilliant historian Diana Bishop is a witch denying her own heritage. But when she unexpectedly calls up an ancient, bewitched manuscript from Oxford's Bodleian library, one that was thought by the creatures to be lost and could answer the mysteries of their existence, she finds herself thrown into the heart of a dangerous mystery – and into the path of the enigmatic geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont.Matthew is driven to solve the looming threat of the creatures' decline and extinction, but their unlikely alliance to find the book before it falls into the wrong hands – and their deepening relationship – threatens to violate age-old taboos and shake the fragile peace that exists between the species.

7. Wynonna Earp

   2016 · Drama, Western, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Supernatural profile.

   Based on the IDW Comic, Wynonna Earp follows Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter as she battles demons and other creatures. With her unique abilities, and a posse of dysfunctional allies, she's the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.After years away, Wynonna Earp has traveled back to her home town of Purgatory to reluctantly take on the role destined for Wyatt Earp's heir: Demon protector. Her enemy: Revenants, the resurrected (and twisted) souls of the criminals Wyatt Earp once took down. Using only her wits and her wit, Wynonna, along with sister Waverely, associate Agent Dolls and Wyatt's cursed-with-immortality-best-friend Doc Holliday, must try to stop the Revenants from taking over the town - and escaping into the world.

8. Charmed

   1998 · Drama, Romance, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Supernatural profile, highly rated (8.2).

   The discovery that they are descendants of a long line of witches finds three sisters battling demons and warlocks - and occasionally each other.When the beautiful Halliwell sisters inherit a house from their grandmother and discover a secret "Book Of Shadows," they learn that they each have a unique power. The strong-willed Prue can move objects, reserved Piper is able to freeze time, and the uninhibited Phoebe sees the future. Individually, each is strong, but it is only by putting aside their differences and banding together as the "Power of Three" that they will be able to protect the innocent and vanquish evil.

9. True Blood

   2008 · Drama, Romance, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Supernatural profile.

   True Blood is a horror/drama based on a series of novels called The Southern American Vampires Mysteries. It focuses on Sookie Stackhouse and her various encounters with vampires and other supernatural beings. The show is centred in the small town of Bon Temps in Louisiana. The show focuses heavily on the co-existence of humans with vampires. The show also touches on several other controversial issues involving equal rights, violence, discrimination and religion.

10. The Magicians

    2015 · Drama, Adventure, Fantasy · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama profile.

    Based upon Lev Grossman's best-selling books, The Magicians centers around Brakebills University, a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthdox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real - and poses grave danger to humanity.