you'll love
2026
12 eps
tvN
Thriller Comedy Crime
Fake Scheme Goes Real Dark Comedy
A cash-strapped landlord buried in debt agrees to a 'fake kidnapping' scheme targeting a wealthy real-estate investor — not realizing the target plays a very different game. What b…
Like Beef Season 2, it leans hard into dark comedy. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
you'll love
2019
16 eps
tvN
Comedy Thriller Crime
Mistaken Identity Dark Comedy
Yook Dong-shik is a mild-mannered office worker who accidentally witnesses a murder — and then accidentally picks up the killer's diary. Upon reading it, he becomes convinced he IS…
Like Beef Season 2, it leans hard into dark comedy. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
you'll love
2022
16 eps
JTBC
Thriller Comedy Crime
Found Family Crime Gets Out Of Hand
Three office cleaners at a major investment firm stumble onto insider trading information — and have to decide whether to use it, hide it, or sell it before the people who want the…
Like Beef Season 2, it leans hard into dark comedy. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2025
16 eps
JTBC
Comedy Thriller Drama
Spy Goes Civilian Overqualified Protagonist
A former top intelligence analyst who burned out and quit the NIS takes a temp position as an office intern at a mid-size Seoul company — and discovers her new employer is somehow …
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
you'll love
2022
16 eps
JTBC
Drama Thriller Mystery
Ensemble Female Cast Suburban Secrets
Five mothers whose children attend the same elite elementary school form a reluctant friendship, as their picture-perfect lives begin unraveling to reveal jealousy, ambition, and b…
Like Beef Season 2, it leans hard into dark comedy. The emotional territory — class and identity — is the same. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
you'll love
2019
16 eps
OCN
Fantasy Thriller Comedy
Deal With Devil Redemption Arc
Ha Rip sold his soul ten years ago in exchange for becoming the top songwriter in Korea. Now the devil is calling in the contract — but offers a loophole: find someone else to take…
Like Beef Season 2, it leans hard into dark comedy.
you'll love
2019
40 eps
KBS
Romance Comedy Thriller
Devoted Male Lead Small Town Mystery
A single mom running a bar in a small town is pursued by a devoted police officer while a serial killer lurks.
The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
you'll love
2025
12 eps
tvN
Crime Comedy Drama
Con Artist Family Heist
After a legendary con artist is released from prison, he discovers his estranged daughter has built her own criminal enterprise — one that threatens to eclipse everything he ever p…
The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
you'll love
2022
16 eps
JTBC
Comedy Drama Thriller
Wrong Place Right Time Unlikely Accomplices
A team of office cleaning workers overhear a stock tip that could change their lives — except none of them have any money to invest, any knowledge of how markets work, or any parti…
The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
you'll love
2021
13 eps
TV Tokyo / Crunchyroll
Mystery Drama Comedy
Unreliable Narrator Mystery
Hiroshi Odokawa is a walrus who drives a taxi in a city populated entirely by anthropomorphic animals. He's antisocial, blunt, and an excellent conversationalist with customers he'…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be.