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Shows that feel likeHomeland (2011–2020)

CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.

If you loved Homeland, the closest series we have are Bodyguard (2018), Mr. Robot (2015) and Designated Survivor (2016). All three share Homeland's paranoid feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Shooter (2016).

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If Homeland hit the spot, these will too

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Bodyguard
2018 · 1 season · BBC One
★ 8crime · drama · war & politicsNetflix

Constant suspicion between two people who cannot afford to trust

The difference: Six taut British episodes, over before the paranoia can settle in

A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.

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Mr. Robot
2015–2019 · 4 seasons · USA Network
★ 8.5crime · drama

A brilliant, unwell lead you can never fully trust to be right

The difference: Hacker paranoia and formal trickery, stranger and far more stylised

A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.

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Designated Survivor
2016–2019 · 3 seasons · ABC
★ 7.4drama · war & politicsNetflix

Washington scrambling after an attack, with plots inside the walls

The difference: Broader and more hopeful — decency wins where Homeland corrodes

Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.

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Hannibal
2013–2015 · 3 seasons · NBC
★ 8.5drama · crimeNetflixPrime Video

An investigator whose gift for reading danger keeps damaging them

The difference: Ornate, dreamlike horror in place of geopolitics and surveillance

Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

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Shooter
2016–2018 · 3 seasons · USA Network
★ 7.5action & adventure · war & politics · drama

An expert operator pulled back in by a conspiracy nobody believes

The difference: Action-forward and much simpler

Bob Lee Swagger is an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president.

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★ 8crime · dramaNetflix

Institutions failing while the danger sits in plain sight

The difference: A true-crime limited series about one killer, grim and airless

This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.

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Luther
2010–2019 · 5 seasons · BBC One
★ 8.4crime · drama · mysteryMaxHulu

A gifted investigator whose demons are the price of the gift

The difference: London murder cases in short bursts, personal rather than geopolitical

A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

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You
2018–2025 · 5 seasons · Lifetime
★ 7.6mystery · crime · dramaNetflix

Gritty and paranoid in the same breath

The difference: Trades the stillness of Homeland for an angle of its own

A dangerously charming, obsessive man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of women who fascinate him.

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Reacher
2022– · 4 seasons · Prime Video
★ 8action & adventure · crimePrime Video

A specialist whose instincts are right when the institution is wrong

The difference: Physical crime cases, and no politics

Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served.

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Sharp Objects
2018 · 1 season · HBO
★ 8crime · drama · mysteryMax

A brilliant woman whose damage is inseparable from her work

The difference: Southern crime drama, slow and interior

Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.

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The Wire
2002–2008 · 5 seasons · HBO
★ 9.3crime · dramaMax

Wiretaps, surveillance and bureaucracies that devour their own people

The difference: Sociological and cool-headed, with no unravelling mind at the centre

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

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The Fall
2013–2016 · 3 seasons · RTÉ One
★ 8.1drama · crimePrime VideoPeacock

A composed woman running a hunt while everything around her frays

The difference: A Belfast manhunt, cold and slow, with no politics anywhere in it

When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.

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