Asian Dramas Like Six Feet Under

A husband plotting to murder his wife to be with his mistress has his scheme unravel spectacularly when his wife discovers the plan — and decides to turn the tables in the most ter…

Like Six Feet Under, it leans hard into dark comedy. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A young autistic man and his ex-convict uncle run a trauma cleaning service, uncovering stories of the deceased.

Both navigate the same emotional territory: death and family. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Two brothers use forbidden alchemy to try to resurrect their dead mother. It goes catastrophically wrong — one loses his body entirely, the other loses limbs. Now they search for t…

If you loved Six Feet Under's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

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 the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A Korean-Italian mafia consigliere returns to Seoul to recover gold hidden beneath a building, teaming up with eccentric tenants.

If you loved Six Feet Under's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Vincenzo delivers exactly that. Same darkly comedic energy throughout.

A young soldier is assigned to a unit that captures military deserters, uncovering systemic abuse in the army.

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

Eun-gyeol is a CODA (child of deaf adults), growing up communicating between two worlds. When he stumbles through a music shop and finds himself transported back to 1995, he meets …

Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Five mothers whose children attend the same elite elementary school form a reluctant friendship, as their picture-perfect lives begin unraveling to reveal jealousy, ambition, and b…

Like Six Feet Under, it leans hard into dark comedy. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Tanjiro Kamado returns home to find his family slaughtered by demons and his sister Nezuko turned into one. Rather than kill her, he joins the Demon Slayer Corps to find a cure — f…

If you loved Six Feet Under's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Yuji Itadori, an unnaturally strong high schooler, swallows a cursed finger belonging to the King of Curses and becomes a vessel for an ancient evil. Now enrolled in a school for s…

If you loved Six Feet Under's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Jujutsu Kaisen delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — death and identity — is the same. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.