Shows Like Burning Stars

A stuntman investigates a plane crash that kills his nephew and uncovers a massive government conspiracy.

Like Burning Stars, it leans hard into espionage. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

Set in 1920s Manchuria during Japanese colonial rule, a group of Korean independence fighters and outlaws converge on a lawless frontier. When their paths collide amid brutal gunfi…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.

An audacious heist of the newly formed Unified Korea Mint: a masked crew of desperate people, each with nothing left to lose, takes hundreds of hostages and demands the impossible …

The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.

The legendary story of Gil Dong, a man born with supernatural strength to a slave mother, who rises from oppressed commoner to folk hero — robbing from corrupt nobles to give to th…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.

Teenagers with supernatural powers discover their parents are former government agents, igniting old conflicts.

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

Ren Ruyi is a former spy who has seen too much and feels too little — or so she tells herself. Ning Yuanzhou is a general tasked with escorting her across a dangerous journey neith…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

Li Changge is a Tang Dynasty princess who escapes a massacre and vows revenge on the uncle who destroyed her family. To survive, she must navigate the world of the Eastern Turkic K…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.

Three high school students with superhuman genetic abilities try to live quiet, ordinary lives — unaware their retired parents are ex-government operatives with dangerous pasts. Wh…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.

A Joseon crown prince, forced to wear a mask to survive a conspiracy that controls the water supply, must outwit a powerful merchant guild monopolising the nation's most essential …

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.

In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, a ruthless officer hunting a legendary masked resistance fighter discovers the mask's identity — and must choose between loyalty to empire and jus…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.