Asian Dramas Like Dopesick

A Korean-Italian mafia consigliere returns to Seoul to recover gold hidden beneath a building, teaming up with eccentric tenants.

If you loved Dopesick's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Vincenzo delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — corporate greed and justice — is the same.

A group of police officers at a local dispatch center deal with everyday crimes and personal struggles.

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

A police detective becomes addicted to drugs after being unknowingly exposed, and investigates a drug cartel from the inside while battling his own dependency.

Both navigate the same emotional territory: addiction and justice. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A detective becomes addicted to drugs after being injected during an investigation, uncovering a drug cartel tied to his past.

Both navigate the same emotional territory: addiction. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Nam Joong-do is a principled assemblyman building a career on moral conviction — until a traumatic secret from his wife's past surfaces and threatens to destroy everything. As poli…

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A former professor destroyed by the death of her son at the hands of a drunk driver plots elaborate revenge against the man who walked free. The man's son — now a police detective …

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Mikoto Misumi is a forensic pathologist at the Unnatural Death Investigation Laboratory — a fictional body that investigates deaths too strange, too suspicious, or too politically …

If you loved Dopesick's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Unnatural delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Han Yi-han was once the best thoracic surgeon in Korea — until a powerful pharmaceutical company destroyed his career by framing him for a patient's death. Years later, he returns …

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Based on true events, Korea's first criminal profiler navigates bureaucracy to build a profiling unit in the 1990s.

Like Dopesick, it leans hard into based on true events. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

An honest but struggling detective partners with an experienced but morally flexible colleague to solve a difficult case.

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it.