Counterpart

Series Similar to Counterpart

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

1. Utopia

   2013 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.4).

   Utopia based initially around a small group of people who find a rare manuscript of the same name. This leads the group to be targeted by a large organisation with little knowledge of the manuscript's relevance or importance.

2. Orphan Black

   2013 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.6).

   Orphan Black is about Sarah, an outsider and orphan whose life changes dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman, "Beth", who looks just like her. Sarah takes her identity, her boyfriend and her money. But instead of solving her problems, the street-smart chameleon is thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery. She makes the dizzying discovery that she and the dead woman are clones... but are they the only ones? Sarah quickly finds herself caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy, racing to find answers.

3. Fringe

   2008 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.6).

   When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport and the passengers and crew have all died grisly deaths, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate. After her partner is nearly killed during the investigation, a desperate Olivia searches frantically for someone to help, leading her to Dr. Walter Bishop, our generation's Einstein. There's only one catch: he's been institutionalized for the last twenty years, and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son Peter in to help. When Olivia's investigation leads her to a manipulative corporate executive, she and her team will discover that what happened on Flight 627 is only a small piece of a larger, more shocking truth and will explore the blurring line between the possible and the impossible.

4. The Code

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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

   Stretching from the spectacular red desert of Australia's outback to the cool corridors of power in Canberra, The Code tells the story of two very different brothers who are handed information those in the highest political echelons will kill to keep secret.

5. House of Cards

   2013 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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

   Based on the BBC miniseries of the same name, House of Cards follows Francis Underwood, the politician's politician – masterful, beguiling, charismatic and ruthless. He and his equally ambitious wife Claire will stop at nothing to ensure their ascendancy. This wicked political drama slithers beneath the curtain and through the back halls of greed, sex, love and corruption in modern Washington D.C.

6. Deutschland

   2015 · Drama, Action, Thriller · ended

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

   Deutschland is a coming-of-age spy thriller, which unfolds just as the Cold War between East and West comes to a head. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24-year-old East German native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.

7. Mr. Robot

   2015 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8.3).

   Mr. Robot follows Elliot, a young programmer who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and as a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroads when the mysterious leader of an underground hacker group recruits him to destroy the firm he is paid to protect. Compelled by his personal beliefs, Elliot struggles to resist the chance to take down the multinational CEOs he believes are running (and ruining) the world.

8. 24

   2001 · Drama, Action, Thriller · ended

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

   Jack Bauer, agent of CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) faces threats against his country and himself in this action packed show. Each season contains of one day, each episode shows one hour of Jack Bauer's day. 24 is the only action show in real time and gained a lot of fans during the years with this concept.

9. Rubicon

   2010 · Drama, Thriller, Espionage · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Rubicon is a conspiracy thriller set in a NYC-based government intelligence agency, API, where nothing is what it seems. The series focuses on a beleaguered analyst, Will Travers, who, faced with a shocking tragedy, begins to uncover clues that point to a complex and sinister conspiracy.

10. The Expanse

    2015 · Science-Fiction, Thriller, Mystery · ended

    Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.7).

    A thriller set two hundred years in the future, The Expanse follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.