The Pact

Series Similar to The Pact

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

1. Glue

   2014 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Bafta-winning writer Jack Thorne's compelling eight-part drama series about murder and secrets set in the English countryside.

2. Mayflies

   2022 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC iPlayer.

   Everyone has a Tully Dawson - the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, Jimmy and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth - a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has the worst kind of news, and a request that will test their friendship, love, and loyalty to the limit…Mayflies is a memorial to youth's euphoria and to everyday tragedy. A tender goodbye to an old union, it discovers the joy and the costs of love.

3. Lost Boys & Fairies

   2024 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC iPlayer.

   Lost Boys & Fairies follows Gabriel, a singer and artiste-extraordinaire at Cardiff's queer club-space ‘Neverland' and his partner Andy, as they adopt their first child. But Gabriel has a history and he will need to embark upon a journey of self-discovery and attempt to repair his relationship with his dad before he can truly begin to parent 7-year old Jake.

4. The Queen's Gambit

   2020 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).

   Chronicling the life of an orphan chess prodigy, the story - set during the Cold War era - follows Beth Harmon from the age of eight to twenty-two, as she struggles with addiction in a quest to become the greatest chess player in the world.

5. Sherwood

   2022 · Drama, Crime · returning

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. 

6. Unorthodox

   2020 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Unorthodox tells the story of a young woman, who leaves her strict Orthodox Jewish community and an arranged marriage in New York City to live a secular life in Berlin.

7. Lessons in Chemistry

   2023 · Drama · ended

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

   Set in the early 1950s, Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott, whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a society deeming that women belong in the domestic sphere, not the professional one. When Elizabeth finds herself pregnant, alone and fired from her lab, she musters the ingenuity only a single mother has. She accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives - and the men who are suddenly listening - a lot more than recipes... all the while craving a return to her true love: science. 

8. Three Families

   2021 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   In 2019, Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law was lifted. This two-part dramatisation tells the compelling real stories of the families behind the controversial campaign.

9. Amazing Grace

   2021 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Amazing Grace is centred on midwife Grace and her passionate colleagues at an unconventional birth centre attached to a major city hospital. A fierce advocate for her pregnant mothers-to-be, Grace's dubious work/life balance is about to get even more chaotic when a new arrival at the birth centre changes her life forever.

10. Olive Kitteridge

    2014 · Drama · ended

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

    Based on Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Olive Kitteridge tells the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of a woman whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and a staunch moral center.