Asian Dramas Like Dark Matter

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

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. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

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

A man in 2020 and a woman in 2019 are mysteriously connected by a one-minute daily window across time, working together across the temporal gap to change both their fates.

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

Satoru Fujinuma has an involuntary ability: he gets sent back in time moments before a disaster, just far enough to prevent it. When his mother is murdered, the ability sends him b…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A detective discovers time travel exists and that his murdered mother traveled from the future to give birth to him.

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mind bending and romantic energy throughout.

Li Shiqing boards a city bus and watches it explode. Then she wakes up on the same bus at the same time, doomed to repeat the explosion until she figures out how to stop it. Xiao H…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A government worker discovers a mysterious woman from the future is connected to a dangerous fugitive and the fate of humanity.

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same mind bending energy throughout.

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…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

An investigative journalist known for exposing corporate corruption discovers that her latest target — a pharmaceutical empire hiding fatal drug trial data — is connected to her ow…

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.