The Guardian

Series Similar to The Guardian

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

1. Judge John Deed

   2001 · Drama, Legal · ended

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

   Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC that aired from 9 January 2001 – 18 January 2007. Sir John Deed (played by Martin Shaw) is a recently appointed High Court judge who actively seeks justice in the cases before him, while at the same time trying to rekindle an old romance with former pupil Jo Mills QC, who regularly appears in his court.

2. Raising the Bar

   2008 · Drama, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Legal profile.

   A group of young lawyers, all former classmates, find themselves going up against one another as public defenders trying to help the down and out.

3. Burden of Truth

   2018 · Drama, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Legal profile.

   Burden of Truth is an investigative drama about life-altering legal cases. Fast-rising corporate attorney Joanna Hanley returns to her small hometown of Millwood - a prairie town with an industrial past and uncertain future - to represent a major client in a case against some sick high school girls. She dispatches her case quickly and efficiently, crushing the girls and their small-town lawyer - her former high school classmate Billy Crawford. After winning her case, she discovers the girls are sicker than anyone thought. Otherwise healthy young women have been overcome with uncontrollable twitches and seizures, making life unlivable. They need help. Joanna also realizes she may have unresolved personal business in town. Even though she's a successful partner in a big law firm, she can't ignore the feeling that something in her life is not right. She becomes convinced all the answers she's seeking about her broken life can be found in her old hometown. And if she's going to fix herself, she has to start where it all began - with uncovering all of her family's deepest secrets.

4. Judging Amy

   1999 · Drama, Family, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Legal profile, also on CBS.

   Judging Amy is a drama about a single mother who has left New York behind to become a Family Court judge in Hartford, Connecticut. Judge Amy Gray is divorced and raising her young daughter, Lauren. They live with Amy's very opinionated mother Maxine, a social worker who is often at odds with her boss Sean. Amy has reestablished relationships with her younger brother Vincent, her older brother Peter and his wife Gillian. Assisting Amy in the courtroom are her Court Services officer Bruce Van Exel and her eager court-clerk-turned-lawyer Donna Kozlowski. Judging Amy is about three generations of women living together as they confront the personal and professional dilemmas in their changing, challenging lives.

5. Harry's Law

   2011 · Drama, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Legal profile, hidden gem.

   In Season 2, Harry is back with an attitude as she hones her courtroom arguments and winning style. On the heels of Harry's rising reputation, Harry's Law and Fine Shoes starts landing larger cases, and alongside her newfound success, Harry is looking to bring in some new hotshot attorneys to help out the team.

6. The Rainmaker

   2025 · Drama, Crime, Legal · returning

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile.

   Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend. Rudy, along with his boss and her disheveled paralegal, uncover two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client's son.

7. Murder One

   1995 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended

   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).

8. The Good Wife

   2009 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended

   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.

9. Shark

   2006 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended

   Recommended for similar Crime / Legal profile, also on CBS.

   Sebastian Stark, a charismatic, supremely self-confident defense attorney who, after a shocking outcome in one of his cases and a personal epiphany, brings his cutthroat tactics to the prosecutor's office as the head of the Los Angeles District Attorney's High Profile Crime Unit. A group of young prosecutors are about to have the learning experience of a lifetime because, though Stark is seeking to redeem himself, he has no intention of cooling his underhanded approach to cases just because he's now working for the "good guys."

10. Silk

    2011 · Drama, Crime, Legal · ended

    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.