K-Drama
2023
10 eps
Disney+
Crime Thriller Mystery
Why you'll love this
Nine seemingly unconnected murder cases turn out to share a single brilliant mind behind them. Nine Puzzles has Sherlock's love of the puzzle — the pleasure of watching a detective connect the dots that no one else sees — with a criminal intellect that matches the investigator move for move. The deduction sequences are legitimately impressive.
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 designed specifically…
K-Drama
2017
16 eps
tvN
Crime Thriller Legal
Why you'll love this
A prosecutor who literally cannot feel emotions because of brain damage teams with a warm detective to uncover a conspiracy. Stranger has Sherlock's core dynamic: the logician and the empath, each indispensable. The prosecutor's cold genius and the detective's human insight mirror Holmes and Watson so precisely it feels intentional.
An emotionless prosecutor and an empathetic detective team up to uncover corruption within the prosecution.
K-Drama
2021
16 eps
JTBC
Thriller Mystery Crime
Why you'll love this
Two detectives who read each other perfectly circle a serial murder case where neither is sure who the real suspect is. Beyond Evil has Sherlock's pleasure of watching brilliant minds work — except here the brilliance is mutual, and the cat-and-mouse plays both ways. Extraordinary.
Two detectives in a small town become suspects and investigators in a serial murder case linked to the past.
K-Drama
2020
16 eps
tvN
Thriller Mystery Supernatural
Why you'll love this
A detective who can read people's memories partners with a profiler to hunt a serial killer. Memorist gives its detective a literal superpower for observation and deduction — Sherlock's mind palace made manifest — and builds its cases around the pleasure of watching him use it against an adversary who knows he's coming.
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 impossible to predict.
K-Drama
2022
16 eps
tvN
Crime Thriller Mystery
Why you'll love this
A crime novelist uses his writer's pattern-recognition to investigate what he believes is a covered-up murder. Adamas has Sherlock's civilian-genius-investigates dynamic — a brilliant outsider using different mental tools than the police, seeing things they miss, and getting into danger because he keeps being right.
Twin brothers — a crime novelist and a prosecutor — separately infiltrate the same powerful chaebol family to find the evidence that will prove their stepfather was framed for murder. As they dig deep…
K-Drama
2023
12 eps
Netflix
Thriller Crime Drama
Why you'll love this
A woman enters the world of social media celebrity and must navigate an ecosystem of hidden identities and staged performances. Celebrity has Sherlock's interest in the performance of identity — reading people through the gaps between what they show and what they are. A modern-register mystery for the parasocial age.
Seo A-ri was an ordinary woman working retail until a celebrity's impulsive post made her an influencer overnight. As she navigates the cutthroat world of Korean social media elites — where every alli…
K-Drama
2026
8 eps
Netflix
Crime Mystery Thriller
Why you'll love this
A detective investigates art-world murders where the crime scenes are staged as performances. The Art of Sarah has Sherlock's aesthetic intelligence — the detective who reads art and symbolism as evidence, who enters the killer's mind through their creations. The intellectual sparring between investigator and perpetrator is pure Sherlock DNA.
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 then her supposed bod…