Orphan Black

Series Similar to Orphan Black

If you enjoyed Orphan Black, 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. Counterpart

   2017 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Counterpart is about a mysterious world hidden beneath the surface of our everyday existence. Howard Silk is a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. When Howard discovers that his organization safeguards the secret of a crossing into a parallel dimension, he is thrust into a shadow world of intrigue, danger, and double cross… where the only man he can trust is his near-identical counterpart from this parallel world. The show explores themes of identity, fate and lost love, posing the eternal question, "what if our lives could have been different?"

3. Wentworth

   2013 · Drama, Crime · ended

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

   Fans of the iconic Prisoner series which pushed boundaries over three decades ago and still today boasts a loyal following worldwide, will remember Bea Smith as gutsy and fearless, ruling Wentworth Correctional Center with an iron fist. But who was Bea Smith before prison? How did a wife and mother from the suburbs become a top dog without rival? Wentworth is a dynamic, often confronting, drama series that begins with Bea's early days in prison. Set in the present day, it is a modern adaptation of Prisoner contemporising legendary characters and their stories for today's audience. This ten-part series takes the viewer inside to an uncompromising environment exploring the politics of women in a world without men, and how such a threatening experience both challenges and often changes those confined and working behind the razor wire.

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. 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.

7. Scandal

   2012 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Everyone has secrets… and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the nation's elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope's team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits", who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.

8. Pluribus

   2025 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · returning

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile.

   The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.

9. Bad Girls

   1999 · Drama, Crime, Romance · ended

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

   Step inside HMP Larkhall and meet the women of G-Wing, who've committed various offences that range from shoplifting to murder. Bad Girls shows what life is like for these women in the 'inside world' and also shows the real-life problems (and maybe behaviour!) of the officers who watch them!

10. Humans

    2015 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Science-Fiction / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.2).

    Humans is set in a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a Synth – a highly-developed robotic servant eerily similar to its live counterpart. In the hope of transforming the way they live, one strained suburban family purchases a refurbished synth only to discover that sharing life with a machine has far-reaching and chilling consequences.