Rūrangi

Series Similar to Rūrangi

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

1. Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

   2020 · Drama · ended

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

   Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett's masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social distancing guidelines, a new generation of Britain's finest actors star in 10 of Bennett's classic scripts, alongside two brand new Talking Heads penned by the acclaimed writer last year.Talking Heads is a London Theatre Company production for BBC One. All 12 Talking Heads will be available to watch on BBC iPlayer from the evening of Tuesday 23 June.

2. Banshee Origins

   2013 · Drama · ended

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

   Banshee: Origins is a series of webisodes based on the American drama television series produced by Cinemax called "Banshee". The series offers flashbacks in-between the time where Lucas Hood was arrested and when Sheriff Lucas Hood first arrived in Banshee.

3. Gank Your Heart

   2019 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Their meeting was a recipe for disaster, but their romance is sweet. This is a love story between an e-sports gamer and a Tsundere live streamer.

4. American Crime

   2015 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   American Crime is an American anthology crime drama. The series centers on race, class and gender politics. Season 1 follows a racially charged murder and the subsequent trial, while season 2 tells you the story of a sexual assualt with a high school trying to cover it up.

5. The Morning Show

   2019 · Drama · returning

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Nominated for three Golden Globes®, this unapologetically candid drama looks at the modern workplace through the lens of the people who help America wake up. Pull back the curtain on early morning TV.

6. Empathie

   2025 · Drama · returning

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

   Suzanne, a formerly gifted criminologist and now a psychiatrist, confronts us with our own relationship with empathy. Having had a difficult life herself, her unorthodox methods will shake things up at the Mount Royal Psychiatric Institute, where she lands after being strongly advised to leave the police force.

7. Boss

   2011 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Boss is an American political drama television series staring Kelsey Grammer as Tom Kane, the mayor of Chicago, who has recently been diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies, a degenerative neurological disorder.

8. Vida

   2018 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Vida is focusing on two Mexican-American sisters from the Eastside of Los Angeles who couldn't be more different or distanced from each other. Circumstances force them to return to their old neighborhood, where they are confronted by the past and shocking truth about their mother's identity.

9. Sorry for Your Loss

   2018 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   The sudden death of her husband upends and transforms every relationship in Leigh Shaw's life. It also forces her to realize there was a lot about her husband that she didn't know.

10. Friends Like Her

    2024 · Drama · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

    The psychological drama, written by Sarah-Kate Lynch, explores a friendship that turns toxic when a surrogacy deal goes wrong between two best friends who are facing very different futures in Kaikoura when the town is already divided by a catastrophic earthquake.