2022
16 eps
MBC
Action Crime Drama
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 NCIS'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 the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. Same engaging and warm energy throughout.
2018
10 eps
TBS Japan
Thriller Crime Drama
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 NCIS's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Unnatural delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it.
2020
11 eps
TBS Japan
Thriller Crime Drama
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 NCIS's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, MIU404 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 tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2025
8 eps
Disney+
Thriller Mystery Drama
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 tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2022
16 eps
JTBC
Crime Thriller Drama
Detectives Kang Do-chang and Oh Ji-hyuk return to investigate a case that links a cold-blooded murder to a high-profile politician with the connections to bury it. The sequel deepe…
Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2025
12 eps
Netflix
Thriller Mystery Drama
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…
Like NCIS, it leans hard into case of the week. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2020
48 eps
iQiyi
Historical Mystery 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 NCIS'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 the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2024
12 eps
ENA
Crime Thriller Action
An elite traffic investigation unit — staffed by cops with too much ambition, too much trauma, and zero social skills — investigates accidents that turn out to be murders. When a n…
If you loved NCIS's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Crash 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 sharp and witty — you'll miss lines if you look away.
2014
21 eps
MBC
Romance Thriller Crime
A rookie prosecutor with a relentlessly positive attitude joins the Special Investigations unit and clashes with her cold, arrogant senior — who turns out to be connected to a case…
Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. Same engaging and tense energy throughout.
2015
8 eps
OCN
Crime Thriller Mystery
An elite FBI-trained detective joins Korea's first Missing Persons Crime Investigation Unit, tackling meticulously crafted disappearance cases that reveal the dark psychology behin…
Like NCIS, it leans hard into case of the week. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.