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Series Similar to Scandal

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

1. The Diplomat

   2023 · Drama, Thriller · returning

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   In the midst of an international crisis, a career diplomat lands in a high-profile job she's unsuited for, with tectonic implications for her marriage and her political future.

2. 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.

3. The Code

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended

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

   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.

4. Okkupert

   2015 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   In the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union, due to the fact that the newly elected environmental friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production in the North Sea.

5. Designated Survivor

   2016 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Kiefer Sutherland stars as Tom Kirkman, a lower-level cabinet member who is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack on the US Capitol during the State of the Union, on the highly anticipated series Designated Survivor. In this dramatic thriller, Kirkman will struggle to keep the country and his own family from falling apart, while navigating the highly-volatile political arena and while leading the search to find who is responsible for the attack.

6. Tyrant

   2014 · Drama, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

   Tyrant is a drama that follows a typical American family whose members find themselves embroiled in the geopolitical intrigue of a volatile Middle Eastern country. Barry Al-Fayeed is a California pediatrician who also happens to be the second son of a Middle Eastern dictator. Barry reluctantly agrees to return home with his American family for his nephew's wedding. Events thrust him into the complex and turbulent growing pains of a nation straining to break free from dictatorial rule.

7. Orphan Black

   2013 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8.6).

   Orphan Black is about Sarah, an outsider and orphan whose life changes dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman, "Beth", who looks just like her. Sarah takes her identity, her boyfriend and her money. But instead of solving her problems, the street-smart chameleon is thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery. She makes the dizzying discovery that she and the dead woman are clones... but are they the only ones? Sarah quickly finds herself caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy, racing to find answers.

8. Utopia

   2013 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar 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.

9. 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.

10. La Femme Nikita

    1997 · Drama, Action, Thriller · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller profile.

    Framed for killing a cop, Nikita agrees to work for a secret government agency.