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Shows that feel like Alias (2001–2006)

If you loved Alias, the closest series we have are 24 (2001), BLUE EYE SAMURAI (2023) and Samurai Jack (2001). All three share Alias' kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.

7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗5 seasons · ABCcreated by J.J. Abramskineticepiccontemplativerelentless
Stream it:Disney+

If Alias hit the spot, these will too

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24
2001–2014 · 9 seasons · FOX
8.4action & adventure · drama · crime

Both rooted in Los Angeles

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Alias does

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

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BLUE EYE SAMURAI
2023– · 2 seasons · Netflix
8.7action & adventure · animation · drama

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.

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Samurai Jack
2001–2017 · 5 seasons · Cartoon Network
8.5sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · animation

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

The difference: Missing the stillness of Alias

A great warrior is displaced to the distant future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. The world has become a bleak place under the rule of Aku, segregated into fantastic tribes and ruled by Aku's evil robot warlords. Jack travels this foreign landscape in search of a time portal that can return him to his home time so he can "undo the future that is Aku!".

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Banana Fish
2018 · 1 season · Fuji TV
8.1animation · drama · action & adventure

Kinetic and epic in the same breath

A teenaged gang leader in New York City faces his abuser and rival gangs alongside a photojournalist from Japan as they investigate a deadly new drug.

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Hunter x Hunter
2011–2014 · 3 seasons · Nippon TV
9animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

One thread runs through both: martial arts

The difference: None of the stillness Alias is built on

Gon, a young boy who lives on Whale Island, dreams of becoming a Hunter like his father, who left when Gon was still young.

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Lost
2004–2010 · 6 seasons · ABC
🍅 80%8.3mystery · action & adventure · drama

J.J. Abrams working the same nerve twice

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

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Vinland Saga
2019– · 2 seasons · NHK G
8.8animation · war & politics · action & adventure

The same mix in both: stillness, then relentlessness

For a thousand years, the Vikings have made quite a name and reputation for themselves as the strongest families with a thirst for violence. Thorfinn, the son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, spends his boyhood in a battlefield enhancing his skills in his adventure to redeem his most-desired revenge after his father was murdered.

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Tokyo Revengers
2021– · 1 season · MBS
7.7animation · action & adventure · crime

Both lean on momentum more than on action & adventure

Takemichi Hanagaki is a freelancer that’s reached the absolute pits of despair in his life. He finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had, in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, had been killed by the ruthless Tokyo Manji Gang. The day after hearing about her death, he’s standing on the station platform and ends up being pushed over onto the tracks by a herd of people. He closes his eyes thinking he’s about to die, but when he opens his eyes back up, he somehow had gone back in time 12 years. Now that he’s back living the best days of his life, Takemichi decides to get revenge on his life.

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2009–2010 · 1 season · MBS
9.1animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Epic drama in both cases

Disregard for alchemy’s laws ripped half of Edward Elric’s limbs from his body and left his brother Alphonse’s soul clinging to a suit of armor. To restore what was lost, the brothers seek the Philosopher’s Stone. Enemies and allies – the corrupt military, the Homunculi, and foreign alchemists – will alter the Elric brothers course, but their purpose will remain unchanged and their bond unbreakable.

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Hanna
2019–2021 · 3 seasons · Prime Video
7.6action & adventure · drama

Action & adventure with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Follow the journey of an extraordinary young girl as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is.

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The Shield
2002–2008 · 7 seasons · FX
8.7crime · drama · action & adventure

Drama built on momentum, twice over

The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.

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A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality
2020– · 1 season · bilibili
8.6animation · action & adventure · drama

Common ground: martial arts

A poor and ordinary boy from a village joins a minor sect in Jiang Hu and becomes an Unofficial Disciple by chance. How will Han Li, a commoner by birth, establish a foothold for himself in his sect? With his mediocre aptitude, he must successfully traverse the treacherous path of cultivation and avoid the notice of those who may do him harm. This is a story of an ordinary mortal who, against all odds, clashes with devilish demons and ancient celestials in order to find his own path towards immortality.

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