Dopesick

Series Similar to Dopesick

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

1. Dirty Business

   2026 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (9).

   Based on a decade-long investigation into England's water companies, and telling the real stories of whistleblowers and victims who believe their lives have been destroyed after encountering sewage polluted water, Dirty Business is a major new factual drama investigating one of the biggest potential corporate scandals in British history.Dirty Business follows the story of two unlikely detectives, who notice that the fish in the river running through their idyllic Oxfordshire hamlet are dying. They contact their water company to find out why, and the company's strange and evasive reply sparks an investigation that remains ongoing to this day.

2. The Queen's Gambit

   2020 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).

   Chronicling the life of an orphan chess prodigy, the story - set during the Cold War era - follows Beth Harmon from the age of eight to twenty-two, as she struggles with addiction in a quest to become the greatest chess player in the world.

3. Mrs. America

   2020 · Drama · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on Hulu.

   Mrs. America tells the true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly. Through the eyes of the women of that era - both Schlafly and second wave feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus - the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the 70s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and forever shifted our political landscape.

4. Reckless

   2014 · Drama · ended94% match

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

   Reckless is set in Charleston, S.C., where a gorgeous Yankee litigator and a charming southern attorney must hide their intense mutual attraction as a police sex scandal threatens to tear the city apart.

5. Mother

   2018 · Drama · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).

   This is the story of a woman becoming a mother. Soo Jin is a teacher at an elementary school. She plans to go abroad to study and teaching is just a temporary job. However, she notices that one of her student, Hye Na, is being abused by her mother and uncle at home. Soo Jin or the police cannot do anything because Hye Na doesn't know that she is being abused and says it's all good to people. As Soo Jin meets Ja Young and Seol Ak, the mother and uncle, she decides to save her from those horrible people. She makes an impulsive but sincere decision to become Hye Na's mother. Their story begins unexpectedly, but as Soo Jin and Hye Na start to believe and depend on each other, they become a real mother and daughter.

6. Broken

   2017 · Drama · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Drama series about a well-respected Catholic priest presiding over a large parish on the outskirts of a major city in northern England.

7. The Newsroom

   2012 · Drama · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.4).

   The Newsroom follows the members of a cable news team on their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of a fickle audience, corporate mandates and tangled personal relationships.

8. Flesh and Bone

   2015 · Drama · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Described as a dark and gritty exploration of the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world, Flesh and Bone follows a young ballet dancer, Claire, who has a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York.

9. Mayflies

   2022 · Drama · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Everyone has a Tully Dawson - the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, Jimmy and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth - a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has the worst kind of news, and a request that will test their friendship, love, and loyalty to the limit…Mayflies is a memorial to youth's euphoria and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love.

10. The Virtues

    2019 · Drama · ended93% match

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

    The Virtues is a drama series that's equal parts unlikely love story and an exploration of the conflict between sin and virtue. The story revolves around Joseph, a moral yet troubled man who's lost everything. He finds himself compelled to travel to Ireland to confront demons from a childhood spent in the care system, resulting in savage and brutal consequences. He also crosses paths with a fiery, yet guarded woman, Dinah, who's hiding a secret.