Desperate Housewives

Series Similar to Desperate Housewives

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

1. The Nine

   2006 · Drama, Mystery · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, also on ABC.

   The Nine is a complex character drama series that will unravel the mystery of what transpired during a bank robbery turned 52-hour hostage situation in Los Angeles. Chronological flashbacks of what happened inside the bank will open each episode, but the heart of the series is how that harrowing experience impacts the key characters in their present day lives as they continue to intertwine, deepen and complicate the connections to one another.

2. Paradise Lost

   2020 · Drama, Mystery · ended92% match

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

   Paradise Lost is about a psychiatrist who moves with her family from California to her husband's hometown in Mississippi only to uncover shameful secrets that irrevocably change the lives of everyone involved.

3. Pushing Daisies

   2007 · Drama, Mystery, Supernatural · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, highly rated (8.1), also on ABC.

   As a young boy Ned discovers that he can return the dead briefly back to life with just one touch. But his random gift isn't without deadly consequences, as he soon finds out. Grown up Ned puts his talent to good use by touching dead fruit and making it ripe with everlasting flavor. He opens a pie shop. But his gift leaves him wary of becoming close to anyone, as beautiful waitress Olive Snook finds out. His life as a pie maker gets more complicated when private investigator Emerson Cod finds out about Ned's secret. Emerson convinces the cash-strapped Ned to help him solve murder cases (and collect a hefty reward fee) by raising the dead and getting them to name their killers.

4. Hidden Palms

   2007 · Drama, Mystery · ended89% match

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Johnny Miller was a happy, well-adjusted 15-year-old with good grades and a roomful of sports trophies until the terrible night a year ago that his father committed suicide. Now, Johnny lives in the surreal, sun-drenched city of Palm Springs with his mother and her new husband. On the outside, Palm Springs is a shimmering paradise of resorts, swimming pools, golf courses and country clubs. But as Johnny learns the secrets that lie just beneath the surface of this seemingly typical neighborhood, he and his family are forced to ask the question: how well do you really know the people who live right next door?

5. Janet King

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, highly rated (8), also on ABC.

   Created as a spin-off from the 2011 legal drama Crownies. Janet King follows the story of Senior Crown Prosecutor Janet King, tracing her journey in Series 1 in the Department of Public Prosecutions to a Royal Commission into Serious Firearm Crime in Series 2 to the National Crime Commission in Series 3.

6. Castle

   2009 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, highly rated (8.2), also on ABC.

   Castle follows Rick Castle who is one of the world's most successful crime authors. But when his rock star lifestyle isn't enough, this bad boy goes looking for new trouble and finds it working with smart, beautiful Detective Kate Beckett. Inspired by her professional record and intrigued by her buttoned-up personality, Castle's found the model for his bold new character whether she likes it or not. Now with the mayor's permission, Castle is helping solve crime with his own twist.

7. The Doctor Blake Mysteries

   2013 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, highly rated (8.1), also on ABC.

   Doctor Lucien Blake returns to Ballarat to once again solve a series of strange and baffling murders, only to find change is afoot, nothing is sacred, and no one is safe.

8. House

   2004 · Drama, Mystery, Medical · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, highly rated (8.7).

   Sink your teeth into meaty drama and intrigue with House, FOX's take on mystery, where the villain is a medical malady and the hero is an irreverent, controversial doctor who trusts no one, least of all his patients.Dr. Gregory House is a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. While his behavior can border on antisocial, Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving the medical puzzles that other doctors give up on. Together with his hand-picked team of young medical experts, he'll do whatever it takes in the race against the clock to solve the case.

9. Eastwick

   2009 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, also on ABC.

   Three very different women find themselves drawn together by a mysterious man who unleashes unique powers in each of them, and this small New England town will never be the same. The series is based on the popular movie "The Witches of Eastwick" and on the novel of the same title by John Updike.

10. Ripper Street

    2012 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended87% match

    Recommended for similar Mystery profile, highly rated (8.1), hidden gem.

    The Whitechapel police fight to bring law to the lawless in the wake of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror.