Shows Like The Bad Detective

Bo Jinyan is a genius criminal profiler — arrogant, socially impossible, and the best at what he does. Jian Yao is a recent graduate who applies to be his assistant as a way to pra…

If you loved The Bad Detective's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Love Me If You Dare delivers exactly that. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A financial crimes investigator and a corporate security specialist are assigned to the same major case from opposite sides of a line that keeps moving. Storm Eye is an adult thril…

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

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 systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A tenacious investigative journalist and a prosecutor team up to expose a massive conspiracy that has been buried for decades, threatening the powerful figures who benefit from the…

Both are built around systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

An emergency medicine doctor and a senior police officer fall into orbit around each other through a series of collisions — medical crises, crime scenes, and the accumulated weight…

If you loved The Bad Detective's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Le Coup de Foudre delivers exactly that. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A former hacker turned police university student with illegal skills teams up with his strict, by-the-book professor to investigate cryptocurrency crimes operating right on campus.

Like The Bad Detective, Police University is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A late-night radio talk show host who has built her career on emotional honesty and her listeners' secrets begins receiving calls from someone who knows things they couldn't possib…

If you loved The Bad Detective's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, The Midnight Hour delivers exactly that. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

Ji Yoon-soo was a rising math prodigy in her youth whose career was derailed by a false accusation. Fifteen years later, she's a high school math teacher at an elite school, trying…

If you loved The Bad Detective's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Melancholia delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

Guan Hongfeng and Guan Hongtao are identical twin brothers — one a police detective with an official badge, the other a fugitive wanted for mass murder. The problem: the fugitive i…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: institutional failure. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A detective discovers her seemingly perfect husband may be hiding a dark past connected to serial murders.

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