2022
10 eps
Disney+
Thriller Sci Fi Mystery
Thirty years ago, a mysterious figure called The Ghost appeared and saved humanity from solar winds that would have destroyed all electronics on Earth — and then vanished. Now a wa…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same cerebral and tense energy throughout.
2021
6 eps
Apple TV+
Sci Fi Mystery Thriller
Ko Sewon is a neuroscientist who developed the technology to sync his brain with the recently deceased — absorbing their memories and emotions to solve mysteries. When his own fami…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.
2025
10 eps
Netflix
Action Thriller Mystery
A mild-mannered bank employee in Seoul wakes one morning to find that he has skills he doesn't know how to explain — hand-to-hand combat, surveillance counter-detection, weapons ha…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same cerebral and mysterious energy throughout.
2023
10 eps
Disney+
Crime Thriller Mystery
A former genius detective, now a reclusive puzzle constructor, is pulled back into an active case when a series of murders with perfectly crafted puzzles left at each scene seems d…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same cerebral and tense energy throughout.
2024
12 eps
MBC
Thriller Mystery Crime
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 …
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.
2011
24 eps
TV Saitama / Crunchyroll
Sci Fi Thriller Drama
A self-proclaimed mad scientist accidentally invents a method of sending messages to the past using a microwave. What starts as gleeful tinkering becomes a nightmare when he realiz…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.
2022
10 eps
Disney+
Sci Fi Thriller Mystery
A government worker discovers a mysterious woman from the future is connected to a dangerous fugitive and the fate of humanity.
The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2024
6 eps
Netflix
Action Thriller Sci Fi
An alien parasite takes partial control of Jeong Su-in's body — but instead of completing its takeover, it forms an uneasy co-existence with her consciousness. As Korean society be…
Like Circle: Two Worlds Connected, it leans hard into sci fi mystery. 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.
2018
16 eps
OCN
Crime Thriller Sci Fi
A meticulous 2018 detective is hit by a car and wakes up in 1988 as a young cop in a rural city. Trapped between a time he knows nothing about and a case he can't solve, he must fi…
Like Circle: Two Worlds Connected, it leans hard into dual timeline. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mysterious energy throughout.
2016
16 eps
tvN
Crime Thriller Mystery
A criminal profiler communicates with a detective from the past via a mysterious walkie-talkie to solve cold cases.
The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.