Friendly Rivalry

Series Similar to Friendly Rivalry

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

1. Boku Dake ga Inai Machi

   2017 · Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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   After finding his mom killed, Satoru's time-traveling ability takes him back 18 years for a chance to prevent her death and those of three classmates.

2. ¿Quién mató a Sara?

   2021 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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   His sister was killed in a freak "accident", for which he was blamed. While trying to find what actually happened, Alex Guzmán will uncover the darkest secrets of the Lazcano family, stopping at nothing until everyone is held accountable.

3. Through the Darkness

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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

   Through the Darkness is about a criminal profiler who struggles to read the minds of serial killers. Song Ha Young is a criminal profiler. He is calm and has charisma. He digs up cases and looks deeply into the human mind.

4. God's Gift: 14 Days

   2014 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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

   Kim Soo Hyun experiences the unfathomable when her daughter is kidnapped and murdered. Discovering a miraculous ability to go back in time exactly two weeks before the event, Soo Hyun races against the clock to unravel the plot and save her daughter. But when a private investigator sheds new light on the crime, Soo Hyun uncovers a secret far more treacherous than she could have ever imagined.

5. Wisting

   2019 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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   A notorious serial killer manages to escape from the Larvik police, well helped by a mysterious accomplice who has been cheating on the police for years. Detective William Wisting and his team must now stop both, before more lives are lost.

6. Cuando nadie nos ve

   2025 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · returning

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   During Holy Week in 2024 in Morón de la Frontera, a village in Seville located next to the U.S. army base area, the American way of life coexists naturally with the traditions of the Andalusian countryside. Lucía Gutiérrez is a Civil Guard sergeant investigating the unusual suicide of a neighbor and strange events that occurred during the first Easter procession. Magaly Castillo is a U.S. Army special agent sent to the Morón de la Frontera base to find out the whereabouts of a missing American soldier who seems to be linked to the hidden business of Colonel Seamus Hoopen, head of the base area. The lone military policeman, Sergeant Andrew Taylor, accompanies Magaly in her investigations and they soon discover that the two investigations are connected and the case is far more complex than they had assumed, involving both Morón residents and American military personnel from the nearby base.

7. The Glory

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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   Moon Dong Eun had to drop out of school because of school violence. Since then, she has lived with thoughts of revenge. Years later, her main abuser got married and gave birth to a child. The former victim becomes this child's homeroom teacher when he goes to elementary school. So begins her long and difficult path of revenge. It targets not only the main offender, but also all those who watched the violence, but did nothing. Joo Ye Jung is a carefree and smiling guy. Instead of being the fairy prince Dong Eun, he decides to become the means of her revenge.

8. Sapphire and Steel

   1979 · Science-Fiction, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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   All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.The series centres on a pair of inter-dimensional operatives: Sapphire and Steel. They are two of several Elements that assume human form to investigate strange events.

9. Day and Night

   2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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

   The usually carefree Guan Hong Yu gets accused of having murdered a whole family. To clear his younger twin brother's charge, the team leader of the criminal investigation department Guan Hong Feng wants to take on this case, but since he's a relative, he's not allowed to participate in the investigation. A new team leader named Zhou Xun is assigned and ends up seeking Hong Feng's help. Zhou Xun and Hong Feng as his "consultant" uncover a number of cases together. However, Hong Feng has a secret: one of the twin brothers has fear of the dark phobia, so the "Hong Feng" appearing at the police station during the day and at night is actually not the same person. Together, the twins secretely try to find out the truth about the "family extinction murder case".

10. Squid Game

    2021 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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    Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.