Asian Dramas Like The Peripheral

A government worker discovers a mysterious woman from the future is connected to a dangerous fugitive and the fate of humanity.

If you loved The Peripheral's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, Grid delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

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…

If you loved The Peripheral's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, Steins;Gate 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 dark energy throughout.

Two strangers travel back to 1987 and must prevent a serial murder while hiding their identities.

If you loved The Peripheral's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, My Perfect Stranger delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming.

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

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

A financial crisis expert and a hostage negotiator are forced into a deadly game run by a mysterious organization that controls the outcome of a corporate power struggle.

Both are built around the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A meticulous 2018 detective is hit by a car and wakes up in 1988 as a young cop in a rural city. Trapped between a time he knows nothing about and a case he can't solve, he must fi…

If you loved The Peripheral's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, Life on Mars (Korean) delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be.

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 The Peripheral, it leans hard into conspiracy. The emotional territory — time and fate — is the same. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

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…

If you loved The Peripheral's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, Erased delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

An alien parasite takes partial control of Jeong Su-in's body — but instead of completing its takeover, it forms an uneasy co-existence with her consciousness. As Korean society be…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.