Asian Dramas Like Murdoch Mysteries

In the Tang Dynasty, three very different people become entangled in a murder investigation that reaches into the highest levels of imperial power. Gao Bingzhu is a low-level offic…

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

Li Lianhua, the former leader of one of the most feared martial arts sects, now wanders jianghu as a peddler selling pies, pretending to be ordinary, dying slowly from a poison he …

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

Chu Chu is a young forensic examiner — a coroner who investigates crimes through the bodies of the dead — in a world where her work is considered low-status and where being a woman…

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. Same warm and intelligent energy throughout.

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…

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

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…

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

Goo Hae-ryung becomes one of the first female royal historians in Joseon — a role so scandalous that the king's advisors lose their minds over it. She's assigned to chronicle the r…

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

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. Same intelligent energy throughout.

In Joseon, a widowed noblewoman who secretly runs the kingdom's most successful matchmaking service and a widowed court official who needs a match arranged for political reasons te…

Same warm and witty energy throughout.

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…

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

Su Ci disguises herself as a man to become a constable — a detective in ancient China — in a world where women are not supposed to investigate anything. Pei Yanzhi is the genius in…

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