you'll love
2007
92 eps
Drama Historical Romance
Anti Hero Secret Past
The brilliant but enigmatic Don Draper navigates the glamorous and cutthroat world of 1960s Madison Avenue advertising while concealing a hidden past. A gorgeous dissection of Amer…
Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same atmospheric and melancholic energy throughout.
you'll love
2022
Historical Drama
Period Drama Upstairs Downstairs
Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same elegant energy throughout.
you'll love
2024
8 eps
Paramount+ / Sky
Drama Historical Romance
Confined Setting Decades Spanning
A Russian aristocrat is placed under house arrest for life in a luxury Moscow hotel in 1922. He is not to leave the building. Over the next thirty years, the world reorganizes itse…
Same melancholic and elegant energy throughout.
you'll love
2020
Drama Historical
Prodigy Protagonist Underdog Story
Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely.
you'll love
2012
36 eps
Crime Mystery Drama
Genius Detective Period Setting
The origins of the beloved Detective Inspector Morse — a brooding, opera-loving, crossword-solving Oxford detective in the 1960s–70s. Beautifully crafted mysteries with period atmo…
Same atmospheric and melancholic energy throughout.
you'll love
2022
16 eps
Comedy Drama Historical
Odd Couple Female Empowerment
A passionate feminist pairs with a bottom-of-the-barrel magazine publisher to create the first erotic magazine for women — and somehow, it changes the world. Sharp, funny, and genu…
Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely.
you'll love
2021
Apple TV+
Comedy Romance Drama
Fish Out Of Water Class Aspirant
1984 Acapulco. Young Maximo lands his dream job at the most glamorous resort in Mexico, convinced it's his ticket to a better life. Told in warm retrospect by his older self, it's …
Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely.
you'll love
2016
Historical Drama Biographical
Biographical Drama Political Intrigue
Same melancholic and elegant energy throughout.
you'll love
2014
40 eps
Drama Historical
Visionary Entrepreneur Genius Engineer
Set against the dawn of the personal computer revolution in 1980s Texas, HACF follows engineers, visionaries, and entrepreneurs who chase the future with everything they have and l…
Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely.
you'll love
2015
3 eps
Comedy Romance Drama
Semi Autobiographical Romantic Misadventures
Dev, a 30-year-old actor in New York, navigates career uncertainty, modern dating, family, food, and what it means to be a first-generation American. Aziz Ansari's semi-autobiograp…
Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same melancholic energy throughout.