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you'll love
2018
10 eps
TBS Japan
Thriller Crime Drama
Case Of The Week Forensic Investigation
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 Elementary's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Unnatural delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind.
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you'll love
2020
48 eps
iQiyi
Historical Mystery Bromance
Buddy Detective Bromance
Tang Fan is a scholar-official with an exceptional eye for crime in the Ming Dynasty, partnered with Sui Zhou, a military commander whose methods are blunt where Tang Fan's are cle…
If you loved Elementary's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. Same warm and character driven energy throughout.
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you'll love
2022
16 eps
MBC
Action Crime Drama
Forced Partnership Multi Agency Team
A pragmatic detective, a fiery firefighter, and a sharp paramedic are thrown together by circumstance and forced to work as a team across jurisdictions none of them were trained to…
If you loved Elementary's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, The First Responders delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind. Same warm energy throughout.
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you'll love
2023
12 eps
Netflix
Thriller Crime Drama
Fish Out Of Water Murder Mystery
Seo A-ri was an ordinary woman working retail until a celebrity's impulsive post made her an influencer overnight. As she navigates the cutthroat world of Korean social media elite…
Both are built around a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else.
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2022
16 eps
KBS2
Crime Thriller Mystery
Detective Duo Conspiracy
Detectives Oh Joo-hyun and Kang Do-chang return for a second season, this time investigating a sensational murder case tied to a powerful political figure and a media empire willin…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: partnership.
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2023
24 eps
iQiyi
Crime Mystery Romance
Disgraced Detective Unlikely Partnership
A disgraced detective who was expelled for going too far forms an unofficial investigative partnership with a female lawyer who needs information that official channels won't provi…
Same smart energy throughout.
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you'll love
2015
24 eps
Hunan TV
Crime Romance Thriller
Genius Detective Patient Heroine
Bo Jinyan is a genius criminal profiler — arrogant, socially impossible, and the best at what he does. Jian Yao is a recent graduate who applies to be his assistant as a way to pra…
Like Elementary, it leans hard into genius detective. Same smart energy throughout.
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2020
11 eps
TBS Japan
Thriller Crime Drama
Detective Duo Opposites Attract
The Mobile Investigative Unit 404 consists of two detectives who couldn't be more different: Ibuki, who acts on instinct and charges at problems head-on, and Shino, who thinks four…
If you loved Elementary's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, MIU404 delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else.
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2025
12 eps
Netflix
Thriller Mystery Drama
Maverick Investigator Digital Forensics
A former social media investigative journalist — who got too close to the truth and lost everything — returns to the work as an independent contractor for law firms and NGOs. She u…
Same smart energy throughout.
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you'll love
2017
10 eps
TBS
Drama Romance Mystery
Found Family Mysterious Past
Four strangers — a young woman unhappily married, a failed violin prodigy, a cellist with unclear motivations, and a woman with an uncertain past — share a mountain house in Karuiz…
If you loved Elementary's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Quartet delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind. Same warm energy throughout.