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Shows that feel likeDeadwood (2004–2006)

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.

If you loved Deadwood, the closest series we have are Godless (2017), 1883 (2021) and Banshee (2013). All three share Deadwood's gritty and contemplative 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 ↗3 seasons · HBOcreated by David Milchgrittycontemplative
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Hulu
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If Deadwood hit the spot, these will too

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

The same two preoccupations: sheriff, and outlaw

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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1883
2021–2022 · 1 season · Paramount+
★ 8.6drama · westernParamount+

One thread runs through both: wild west

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.

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Banshee
2013–2016 · 4 seasons · Cinemax
★ 8.4crime · dramaMax

The same preoccupation in both: sheriff

Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests.

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Sons of Anarchy
2008–2014 · 7 seasons · FX
★ 8.5crime · dramaHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: outlaw

The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, often referred to by the acronym SAMCRO, Sam Crow, or simply Redwood Charter. The charter operates both legal and illegal businesses in the small town of Charming, California. They combine gun-running and a garage, and involvement in porn film industry. Clay, the charter president, likes it old school and violent; while Jax, his stepson and the club's VP, has thoughts about changing the way things are done. Their conflict has effects on both the club and their personal relationship, especially when Jax goes on a personal quest to cleanse the SAMCRO name and image.

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Justified
2010–2015 · 6 seasons · FX
★ 8.6crime · dramaHulu

Gritty where it counts, contemplative underneath

A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law. The tale covers his high-stakes job, as well as his strained relationships with his ex-wife and father.

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

Both lean on grit more than on crime

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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The Americans
2013–2018 · 6 seasons · FX
★ 8.4crime · dramaHulu

Contemplative drama in both cases

Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.

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American Crime Story
2016–2021 · 3 seasons · FX
★ 8.4crime · dramaHulu

Western built on grit, twice over

An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.

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

Contemplative western, and it commits to that

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

Both know what they want from crime

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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El Capo
2009–2014 · 3 seasons · RCN
★ 7.2crime · drama

The same drama instincts

El Capo, the most wanted drug dealer in Mexico, has been intercepted while hiding with his trusted men, his wife and his lover. During his escape, he declares war on the government and his own past.

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

The crime is handled with the same confidence

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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