Asian Dramas Like Mare of Easttown

A journalist investigating a cold case involving a prominent politician's family disappears. Her younger sister, a civil servant with no investigative experience, starts pulling on…

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 Korean-American woman builds an elaborate false identity as a high-society luxury brand executive, targeting the ultra-wealthy elite of Seoul. When her fabricated persona — and t…

If you loved Mare of Easttown's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, The Art of Sarah 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.

A disgraced former detective with a traumatic past becomes the unlikely investigator when a string of high-profile murders of powerful corrupt men seems to serve a brutal, poetic j…

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 detective investigating a series of staged suicides becomes the primary suspect in her own case when evidence is planted against her. To prove she didn't commit the crime, she ha…

The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A criminal profiler communicates with a detective from the past via a mysterious walkie-talkie to solve cold cases.

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.

Two detectives in a small town become suspects and investigators in a serial murder case linked to the past.

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 con artist discovers a hidden village where the souls of murder victims live, waiting for their cases to be solved before they can pass on. Forced to help them find justice, he t…

Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

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 …

If you loved Mare of Easttown's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Wonderful World delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about 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.

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…

If you loved Mare of Easttown's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Unmasked 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.

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 …

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.