Asian Dramas Like Call the Midwife

Five doctors who have been friends since med school navigate hospital life, love, and their band practice.

If you loved Call the Midwife's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Hospital Playlist delivers exactly that. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A brilliant but eccentric surgeon mentors two young doctors at a small countryside hospital.

Like Call the Midwife, it leans hard into medical cases. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Queen Im Hwa-ryeong has spent decades surviving the palace with her sons alive — which was harder than it sounds, because the palace is a place where children die of political inco…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: motherhood. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Tang Yishu is a textile mill worker who dies and wakes up forty years earlier, with memories of everything that went wrong. She has the chance to save the people she lost, build th…

The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Five families in a Seoul neighborhood navigate life, love, and growing up in the late 1980s.

If you loved Call the Midwife's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Reply 1988 delivers exactly that. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A queen fights to protect her sons in a brutal royal competition to become the next crown prince.

Both navigate the same emotional territory: motherhood. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

Set in the tangerine orchards of Jeju Island, two people fall in love across multiple decades — from the 1960s through the present. A sweeping, multigenerational saga about ordinar…

The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A tyrant king, threatened by conspirators, secretly replaces himself with a peasant clown who looks exactly like him. As the clown impersonates the king and begins to genuinely gov…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: compassion. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A disgraced royal physician exiled for using unorthodox methods finds new purpose in a remote village, treating patients' emotional and psychological wounds in a society that doesn…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: community. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A court lady who refuses to surrender her freedom falls in love with the crown prince destined to become king.

Like Call the Midwife, it leans hard into period drama. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.