Asian Dramas Like Severance

Ko Sewon is a neuroscientist who developed the technology to sync his brain with the recently deceased — absorbing their memories and emotions to solve mysteries. When his own fami…

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

Thirty years ago, a mysterious figure called The Ghost appeared and saved humanity from solar winds that would have destroyed all electronics on Earth — and then vanished. Now a wa…

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

A self-proclaimed mad scientist accidentally invents a method of sending messages to the past using a microwave. What starts as gleeful tinkering becomes a nightmare when he realiz…

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

Satoru Fujinuma has an involuntary ability: he gets sent back in time moments before a disaster, just far enough to prevent it. When his mother is murdered, the ability sends him b…

Same atmospheric energy throughout.

A woman tells a small lie to impress someone, and that lie spirals into an entirely fabricated identity — a stolen name, stolen credentials, stolen life. Anna is a slow-burn psycho…

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

Two parallel timelines unfold simultaneously: in 2017, a college student investigates his brother's disappearance and encounters a woman who may not be human; in 2037, a detective …

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

A man in 2020 and a woman in 2019 are mysteriously connected by a one-minute daily window across time, working together across the temporal gap to change both their fates.

Like Severance, it leans hard into conspiracy. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

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 Severance'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 questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same cerebral and atmospheric energy throughout.

A mild-mannered bank employee in Seoul wakes one morning to find that he has skills he doesn't know how to explain — hand-to-hand combat, surveillance counter-detection, weapons ha…

Like Severance, it leans hard into conspiracy. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same cerebral energy throughout.

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 Severance's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Unmasked delivers exactly that. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.