Through the Darkness

Series Similar to Through the Darkness

If you enjoyed Through the Darkness, 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 · ended

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

   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. Strangers from Hell

   2019 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   Strangers from Hell tells the story of a young man in his 20's, who moves to Seoul for a new job and decides to stay in an ominous dormitory. It is the residents of the dormitory that would creep you out.

3. Law School

   2021 · Thriller, Mystery, Legal · ended

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

   Law School is about the students and professors of South Korea's top law school who get caught up in an unusual case.It follows the case of a murder of a professor at a prestigious law school. Professors and students become suspects in the murder, and the drama will feature its characters making realizations about the law and justice as they search for the killer.

4. Signal

   2016 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · returning

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

   Detectives from the present and a detective from the past communicate via walkie-talkie to solve a long-time unsolved case.

5. Twinkling Watermelon

   2023 · Fantasy, Music, Romance · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Twinkling Watermelon follows a story about CODA, (a deaf child born under deaf parents) a boy born of natural talent for music, and Eun Gyul, crash-landing into an unfamiliar space through a suspicious musical instrument store. Eun Gyul forms the band Watermelon Sugar with the youth he met there and communicates with them through music.

6. The King: Eternal Monarch

   2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

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

   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.

7. Alchemy of Souls

   2022 · Action, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8.1).

   Set in a fictional country called Daeho that does not exist in history or on maps, it is about the love and growth of young mages as they overcome their twisted fates due to a magic spell known as the "alchemy of souls", which allows souls to switch bodies. It follows the story of an elite assassin named Naksu, whose soul is accidentally trapped inside the weak body of Moo Duk—Jang Wook's servant from a powerful and noble family in the country. The young master of the Jang Family, Jang Wook, holds a dark secret about his scandalous birth. He wants the formidable assassin to help change his destiny. 

8. Destined with You

   2023 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

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

   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.

9. Red Sleeve

   2021 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

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

   Red Sleeve tells the record of a royal court romance between the King of Joseon who believes his duty is to his country first above love, and a court lady who wants to protect the life she has chosen.

10. Voice

    2017 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

    Two detectives teamed up to catch a serial killer who murdered their family. Moo Jin Hyuk's life spiraled out of control after his wife was murdered. He starts to put himself together after he meets Kang Kwon Joo, US-graduated voice-profiler, who lost her police father to the same serial killer years before.