Asian Dramas Like Bates Motel

Based on true events, Korea's first criminal profiler navigates bureaucracy to build a profiling unit in the 1990s.

The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Sum is an antisocial app developer who built Somebody — a dating app that matches people based on deep psychological profiles. When a beautiful, dangerous man named Yun Oh starts u…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A woman tells a small lie to impress someone, and that lie spirals into an entirely fabricated identity — a stolen name, stolen credentials, stolen life. Anna is a slow-burn psycho…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Three children accidentally film a murder. They decide to use the footage as leverage. The man they're blackmailing is smarter than they expect. What follows is a tightly construct…

The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A Korean-American woman builds an elaborate false identity as a high-society luxury brand executive, targeting the ultra-wealthy elite of Seoul. When her fabricated persona — and t…

If you loved Bates Motel's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, The Art of Sarah delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A detective becomes addicted to drugs after being injected during an investigation, uncovering a drug cartel tied to his past.

The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A young man from the countryside moves into a goshiwon — a budget housing complex where residents live in rooms barely bigger than a coffin. His neighbor is magnetic, generous, and…

Like Bates Motel, Hell Is Other People is built around narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason. Same unsettling and psychological energy throughout.

A justice-seeking rookie cop and a detective hunt a serial killer while questioning if psychopathy is genetic.

If you loved Bates Motel's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Mouse delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Two separate summers, two isolated motels, two men whose quiet lives are obliterated by the arrival of a mysterious woman. A slow-burn dual-timeline mystery spanning 2000 and 2024,…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A detective wakes up in a hospital with no memory, covered in someone else's blood, and holding a wedding ring that isn't his. As he reconstructs his identity, every clue suggests …

If you loved Bates Motel's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Black Out delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.