Asian Dramas Like The Americans

A North Korean defector who built a new identity in the South as a cybersecurity expert is pulled back into the shadow world when a cyberattack with impossible capabilities targets…

Like The Americans, it leans hard into spy thriller. At its core, it's about loyalty tested until it breaks — or proves it won't. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

Bank of Korea officials face a financial crisis that threatens the entire Korean economy — and the decisions made in a few days of panic will determine whether the system survives.…

The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

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…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. 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 The Americans's relentless game of predator and prey where the tables keep turning, 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 energy throughout.

An audacious heist of the newly formed Unified Korea Mint: a masked crew of desperate people, each with nothing left to lose, takes hundreds of hostages and demands the impossible …

If you loved The Americans's relentless game of predator and prey where the tables keep turning, Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area delivers exactly that. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A former genius detective, now a reclusive puzzle constructor, is pulled back into an active case when a series of murders with perfectly crafted puzzles left at each scene seems d…

If you loved The Americans's relentless game of predator and prey where the tables keep turning, Nine Puzzles delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A woman fakes her own death to escape a manipulative first husband and create a new life for herself and her daughter, until a chance encounter with a kind man threatens to expose …

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A spy who needs a fake family for a mission. An assassin who needs a husband. A telepath child who needs parents. None of them know the others' secrets. All of them accidentally be…

Both are built around loyalty tested until it breaks — or proves it won't. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A black ops unit operating outside official Korean government sanction is the only thing standing between a rogue network of intelligence operatives and a bioweapon that could trig…

Both are built around loyalty tested until it breaks — or proves it won't.

Three sisters from a poor Seoul family stumble into a conspiracy involving sixty-nine billion won that the most powerful family in Korea has been moving in secret. Oh In-joo is exh…

If you loved The Americans's relentless game of predator and prey where the tables keep turning, Little Women delivers exactly that. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.