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…
Like Private Eyes, The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty is built around ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world. At its core, it's about found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind. Same warm energy throughout.
2014
20 eps
SBS
Crime Drama Comedy
Four rookie detectives join a violent crimes unit and one discovers his supervisor is connected to his mother's unsolved murder from years ago — forcing him to navigate justice, re…
If you loved Private Eyes's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, You're All Surrounded delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind.
2023
16 eps
MBC
Historical Romance Mystery
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…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: partnership. The pacing is sharp and witty — you'll miss lines if you look away.
2025
12 eps
tvN
Romance Comedy Drama
Two ex-colleagues who had a brief, unspoken almost-relationship years ago find themselves unexpectedly working together again. Neither has moved on as thoroughly as they pretended.…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: second chances. The pacing is sharp and witty — you'll miss lines if you look away.
2025
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
A sharp, underpaid marketing team leader discovers that the charming man she's been confiding in at her neighbourhood café is her company's intimidating new CEO — and worse, he tur…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: second chances. The pacing is sharp and witty — you'll miss lines if you look away.
2023
12 eps
ENA
Comedy Thriller Drama
A recently fired, deeply unlucky middle-aged man decides to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy family for ransom — and discovers, about fifteen minutes into the kidnapping, that the …
Both are built around found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind. The pacing is pure fun — the kind you don't have to feel guilty about.
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 Private Eyes'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 and fun 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 Private Eyes'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.
2021
20 eps
tvN
Crime Comedy Drama
A Korean-Italian mafia consigliere returns to Seoul to recover gold hidden beneath a building, teaming up with eccentric tenants.
Both are built around found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind.
2023
16 eps
MBC
Drama Comedy Romance
Lee Ro-um is a talented con artist with zero empathy — it's not a choice, it's a neurological condition. Han Moo-young is a hot-headed defense attorney who hires her to help him ta…
Like Private Eyes, it leans hard into odd couple. 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.