Shows Like Dr. Brain

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 grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.

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 dark energy throughout.

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

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 grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Hiroshi Odokawa is a walrus who drives a taxi in a city populated entirely by anthropomorphic animals. He's antisocial, blunt, and an excellent conversationalist with customers he'…

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

Two families become entangled when a school bullying incident triggers a collapse of carefully maintained facades. As the truth unravels through the perspectives of mothers, father…

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

Two parallel timelines unfold simultaneously: in 2017, a college student investigates his brother's disappearance and encounters a woman who may not be human; in 2037, a detective …

Both navigate the same emotional territory: memory and identity. Same cerebral and dark 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.

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 the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

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 navigate the same emotional territory: memory and identity. Same cerebral and intense energy throughout.