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Shows that feel like Awaken (2026–)

If you loved Awaken, the closest series we have are Unorthodox (2020), Beauty in Black (2024) and The Pitt (2025). All three share Awaken's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Apple TV and others, checked against today's data.

During World War II, photographer Chen Kailai unexpectedly becomes involved in an underground resistance mission to stop the Japanese army’s secret biological experiment. Taking up his fallen mentor’s codename, he joins fellow spies in a perilous fight to expose the enemy’s crimes and prevent a viral catastrophe.

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Unorthodox
2020 · 1 season · Netflix
8drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage and is taken in by a group of musicians — until her past comes calling.

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Beauty in Black
2024– · 3 seasons · Netflix
5.7drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A stripper's fate takes a turn when she crosses paths with the wealthy, dysfunctional family behind a cosmetics dynasty and a devious trafficking scheme.

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The Pitt
2025– · 3 seasons · Max
8.9drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The staff of Pittsburgh's Trauma Medical Center work around the clock to save lives in an overcrowded and underfunded emergency department.

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Big Little Lies
2017–2019 · 2 seasons · HBO
8.4drama

Both play drama straight

The tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.

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When They See Us
2019 · 1 season · Netflix
8.8drama

Both are drama through and through

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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Hijack
2023– · 2 seasons · Apple TV
7.3drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Expert negotiator Sam Nelson is in for the ride of his life—and so is everyone on board with him—after a group of hijackers take control. Sam will try every move in his playbook to take them down...as the stakes grow higher by the second.

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The Morning Show
2019– · 5 seasons · Apple TV
8.1drama

The same drama instincts

A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.

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The Newsroom
2012–2014 · 3 seasons · HBO
8.6drama

Drama approached the same way

A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.

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Band of Brothers
2001 · 1 season · HBO
9.4drama · war & politics

Both are working the same pair: world war ii, 1940s

The difference: Sits closer to war & politics than Awaken does

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

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Ray Donovan
2013–2020 · 7 seasons · Showtime
8.3drama

Both working the same drama territory

Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.

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Billions
2016–2023 · 7 seasons · Showtime
8.3drama

Drama in the same key

Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.

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Hercai
2019–2021 · 3 seasons · atv
6.6drama

Both know what they want from drama

Miran is seeking revenge for his parents death so he plans to marry daughter Reyyan from the family who were responsible for that. Unexpectedly he falls in love with Reyyan. Will this change the plan?

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