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Series Similar to Shark

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

1. Law & Order: LA

   2010 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile.

   In the City of Los Angeles, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.

2. The Mentalist

   2008 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8.2), also on CBS.

   Patrick Jane, an independent consultant with the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has a remarkable track record for solving serious crimes by using his razor sharp skills of observation. Within the Bureau, Jane is notorious for his blatant lack of protocol and his semi-celebrity past as a psychic medium, whose paranormal abilities he now admits he feigned. No-nonsense Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon openly resists having Jane in her unit and alternates between reluctantly acknowledging Jane's usefulness and blasting him for his theatrics, narcissism, and dangerous lack of boundaries. Lisbon's team includes agents Kimball Cho, Wayne Rigsby and rookie member Grace Van Pelt, who all think Jane's a loose cannon but admire his charm and knack for clearing cases.

3. The Lincoln Lawyer

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Legal · returning96% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile, highly rated (8).

   Mickey Haller, an iconoclastic idealist, runs his law practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, as he takes on cases big and small across the expansive city of Los Angeles.

4. Goliath

   2016 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile, highly rated (8).

   Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.

5. The Good Wife

   2009 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile, highly rated (8.1), also on CBS.

   The Good Wife follows Alicia Florrick, a wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Pushing aside the betrayal and crushing public humiliation caused by her husband Peter, Alicia starts over by pursuing her original career as a defense attorney.

6. Silk

   2011 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Series about life at the Bar, the dilemmas and problems that modern day barristers have to face, and what it means to become a silk.

7. Life

   2007 · Drama, Crime · ended94% match

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

   A detective gets a second chance after serving twelve years in prison for a crime he did not commit. 

8. Murder One

   1995 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Theodore Hoffman is a prominent defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. After successfully defending the wealthy but suspicious Richard Cross in a lurid murder trial, he is now involved in the defense of Neil Avedon. Neil is a famous young actor who has had severe drug and alcohol problems and was subsequently charged with the murder, after Cross was acquitted. This single case will run an entire television season (interspersed with bits from other cases that the firm is involved in).

9. Killing Time

   2011 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile, hidden gem.

   A 10 part crime drama following the story of Andrew Fraser's rise from small time lawyer to successfully defending the most infamous criminals this country has ever seen, and then his ultimate downfall and imprisonment for five years in maximum security. His clients included Dennis Allen, Jimmy Krakouer, Alan Bond and those accused of the Walsh Street murders. At the top of his game, Fraser commanded a huge salary and lived the dream. But when his cocaine addiction spiralled into a thousand dollar-a-day habit, he lost everything and his life became intertwiined with villains, larrikins and soldiers of justice. He was disbarred, discredited, broken financially and his marriage was destroyed. Caged amongst serial killers and psychopaths, Fraser is forced to reflect on where it all went so wrong, and try to salvage his shattered reputation.

10. The Night Of

    2016 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended92% match

    Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile, highly rated (8.4).

    The Night Of is an eight-part limited series that delves into the intricate story of a fictitious murder case in New York City. The series follows the police investigation and legal proceedings, all the while examining the criminal justice system and the purgatory of Rikers Island, where the accused awaits his trial.Filmed in and around Manhattan, the HBO series is based on the BBC's Criminal Justice, created by Peter Moffat.