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Shows that feel like1883 (2021–2022)

Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.

If you loved 1883, the closest series we have are 1923 (2022), Yellowstone (2018) and Godless (2017). All three share 1883's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Godfather of Harlem (2019).

★ 8.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗1 season · Paramount+created by Taylor Sheridancontemplativegritty
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If 1883 hit the spot, these will too

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1923
2022–2025 · 2 seasons · Paramount+
★ 8.3drama · westernParamount+

Both are Taylor Sheridan's work, and they rhyme

Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.

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Yellowstone
2018–2024 · 5 seasons · Paramount Network
★ 8.6western · dramaPeacock

The same hand behind both of them: Taylor Sheridan

Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton, the family defends their property against constant attack by land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first National Park.

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Godless
2017 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 8.2western · dramaNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: miniseries

A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

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Deadwood
2004–2006 · 3 seasons · HBO
★ 8.6western · crime · dramaMax

Common ground: wild west

The difference: Sits closer to crime than 1883 does

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

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When They See Us
2019 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 8.8dramaNetflix

One thread runs through both: miniseries

Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park.

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Unbelievable
2019 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 8.3drama · crimeNetflix

Both land stillness and grit at once

After a young woman is accused of lying about a rape, two female detectives investigate a spate of eerily similar attacks.

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Black Bird
2022 · 1 season · Apple TV
★ 8.1drama · crimeApple TV+

Drama built on stillness, twice over

As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.

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The Penguin
2024 · 1 season · HBO
★ 8.6drama · crimeMax

Gritty western, and it commits to that

With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first, Oz must confront his enemies and his own demoralizing reputation as "the Penguin."

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Dexter: New Blood
2021–2022 · 1 season · Showtime
★ 8drama · crimeParamount+

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, we find him living under an assumed name in the small town of Iron Lake, New York. Dexter may be embracing his new life, but in the wake of unexpected events in this close-knit community, his Dark Passenger beckons.

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Boardwalk Empire
2010–2014 · 5 seasons · HBO
★ 8.5crime · dramaMax

The same preoccupation in both: historical

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.

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Godfather of Harlem
2019–2025 · 4 seasons · Epix
★ 8.1drama · crimeHulu

Both lean on grit more than on western

Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.

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MobLand
2025– · 2 seasons · Paramount+
★ 8.3crime · dramaParamount+

Both know what they want from drama

Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.

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