Shows Like Upper Ground

A detective investigating a series of staged suicides becomes the primary suspect in her own case when evidence is planted against her. To prove she didn't commit the crime, she ha…

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

A forensic psychiatrist consulting for the police on a serial case begins to suspect her suspect is protecting something — or someone — more dangerous than himself. The investigati…

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

A former social media investigative journalist — who got too close to the truth and lost everything — returns to the work as an independent contractor for law firms and NGOs. She u…

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

Three people with shattered lives — a detective whose wife was murdered, an internal affairs officer whose career was destroyed by corruption, and a crime profiler caught in the mi…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: truth and corruption. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A disgraced former detective with a traumatic past becomes the unlikely investigator when a string of high-profile murders of powerful corrupt men seems to serve a brutal, poetic j…

Both are built around systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. Same atmospheric and dark energy throughout.

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…

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. Same atmospheric and dark energy throughout.

Detectives Oh Joo-hyun and Kang Do-chang return for a second season, this time investigating a sensational murder case tied to a powerful political figure and a media empire willin…

Both are built around systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

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…

Like Upper Ground, it leans hard into whistleblower. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A detective wakes up in a hospital with no memory, covered in someone else's blood, and holding a wedding ring that isn't his. As he reconstructs his identity, every clue suggests …

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

A detective with a rare supernatural ability to read memories by touch teams up with a cold but brilliant criminal profiler to hunt a serial killer whose methodical crimes seem imp…

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.