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Shows that feel like3 Body Problem (2024–)

Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.

If you loved 3 Body Problem, the closest series we have are Superman & Lois (2021), Tracker (2024) and New Amsterdam (2018). All three share 3 Body Problem's contemplative and hopeful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Eureka (2006).

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Superman & Lois
2021–2024 · 4 seasons · The CW
★ 7.8drama · sci-fi & fantasyMax

One thread runs through both: inspirational

The difference: Easier on the twists than 3 Body Problem

After years of facing megalomaniacal supervillains, monsters wreaking havoc on Metropolis, and alien invaders intent on wiping out the human race, The Man of Steel aka Clark Kent and Lois Lane come face to face with one of their greatest challenges ever: dealing with all the stress, pressures and complexities that come with being working parents in today's society.

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Tracker
2024– · 4 seasons · CBS
★ 7.2drama · crimeHuluParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: inspirational

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than 3 Body Problem does

Lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw roams the country as a “reward seeker,” using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own fractured family.

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New Amsterdam
2018–2023 · 5 seasons · NBC
★ 7.9drama

Contemplative and hopeful in the same breath

The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.

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Blue Bloods
2010–2024 · 14 seasons · CBS
★ 7.7crime · dramaPrime VideoParamount+

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: Leans harder into crime than 3 Body Problem does

A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.

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Maid
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 8.3dramaNetflix

Hopeful sci-fi & fantasy in both cases

After fleeing an abusive relationship, a young mother finds a job cleaning houses as she fights to provide for her child and build them a better future.

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Snowfall
2017–2023 · 6 seasons · FX
★ 8.5drama · crimeHuluDisney+

Contemplative mystery, and it commits to that

Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.

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Supergirl
2015–2021 · 6 seasons · CBS
★ 6.2drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: thoughtful

Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until she has to reveal them during an unexpected disaster, setting her on her journey of heroism.

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Devs
2020 · 1 season · Hulu
★ 7.6sci-fi & fantasy · drama · mysteryHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: anxious

Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.

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Eureka
2006–2012 · 5 seasons · Syfy
★ 7.9sci-fi & fantasy · comedy · drama

Common ground: scientist

The sleepy Pacific Northwest town of Eureka is hiding a mysterious secret. The government has been relocating the world's geniuses and their families to this rustic town for years where innovation and chaos have lived hand in hand. U.S. Marshal Jack Carter stumbles upon this odd town after wrecking his car and becoming stranded there. When the denizens of the town unleash an unknown scientific creation, Carter jumps in to try to restore order and consequently learns of one of the country's best kept secrets.

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War of the Worlds
2019–2022 · 3 seasons · Canal+
★ 6.5sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien invasion

When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world. As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction?

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Only Murders in the Building
2021– · 6 seasons · Hulu
★ 8comedy · mystery · crimeHuluDisney+

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.

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Wayward Pines
2015–2016 · 2 seasons · FOX
★ 7.3drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyHulu

Cerebral where it counts, dreamlike underneath

Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.

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