Sisyphus: The Myth

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

1. Reborn Rich

   2022 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile, highly rated (8), also on jTBC.

   After ten years, a loyal employee is framed for embezzlement, then murdered by his employers, only to be reborn as their youngest son, with a yearn for revenge guiding his hostile takeover.

2. The King: Eternal Monarch

   2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended92% match

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

   The Devil is released into the human world and soon opens a door into a parallel world. The Devil asks if he lived a better life in the other world, if he could live in the other world. Against the Devil's question, Korean Emperor Lee Gon tries to close the door to the parallel world and South Korean Detective Jung Tae Eul tries to protect the lives of people and the person she loves.

3. Destined with You

   2023 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended86% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, highly rated (8), also on jTBC.

   The irresistible romance between a civil servant who obtains a forbidden book that was thoroughly sealed 300 years ago and a popular lawyer who becomes a victim of the forbidden book.

4. Paradise Lost

   2020 · Drama, Mystery · ended85% match

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

   Paradise Lost is about a psychiatrist who moves with her family from California to her husband's hometown in Mississippi only to uncover shameful secrets that irrevocably change the lives of everyone involved.

5. Tower Prep

   2010 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended83% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile.

   In this s.f. series, teenagers with unique superhuman abilities are taken from their homes without their consent and brought to Tower Prep, a unique academy cut off from the outside world where they are raised in an isolated environment. They are given an education, trained in the use of their powers, and encouraged to fit in... whether they want to or not. Some try to escape, and even fewer succeed.

6. Through the Darkness

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended83% match

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

   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.

7. Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

   2016 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended82% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Guardians are always whom we fear. Surely not this time. A guardian living in Seoul in 2016 is the sexiest chick magnet. More than a hundred years old in reality, he hangs out with the young. But not many people know that he is hollow inside. He has been searching for the ‘goblin bride' for decades, but she is no where to be found. Then one day, he keeps getting summoned by Eun-tak. There, he sees the Reaper, not knowing that they are to become roommates. That's where the story begins. A Goblin, trying to protect a girl who should have been dead a long time ago. A Reaper, desperately wanting to take the girl to complete his task.

8. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

   2015 · Drama, Fantasy · ended82% match

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

   Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is set during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return. So begins a dangerous battle between two great men.1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. However, scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains — the reclusive and skillful Mr. Norrell. His displays of magic soon thrill the nation. In London, he raises the beautiful Lady Pole from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French.Soon the cautious and fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. While trying to secure his beloved Arabella's hand in marriage, he meets a vagabond, the magician of Threadneedle Street, Vinculus, who tells him he is destined to be a great magician. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrell. A dangerous battle ensues between the two great men. Their obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts will cause more trouble than they can imagine.

9. The Dresden Files

   2007 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended82% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile.

   The Dresden Files chronicles the cases of no ordinary detective. Harry Dresden is a wizard, the only one listed in the Chicago phone book. He's got a handle on the crimes that can't be solved by anyone else. Paranormal? No problem. Dresden deals in all matters of supernatural threats. If you need a little hocus pocus or some other worldly advice, Dresden's your man.

10. School 2017

    2017 · Drama, Mystery · ended82% match

    Recommended for similar Mystery profile, hidden gem.

    A coming-of-age story about the lives of 18-year-old high school students who are valued according to their ranking in school. Despite their frustrations, they find out how to make their own way in this world that seems to be a stagnant cycle of school and home.