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Shows that feel likeLioness (2023–)

Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, is tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives.

If you loved Lioness, the closest series we have are Shōgun (2024), Vikings: Valhalla (2022) and SEAL Team (2017). All three share Lioness' contemplative and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is 12 Monkeys (2015).

★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗3 seasons · Paramount+created by Taylor Sheridancontemplativebleak
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video
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If Lioness hit the spot, these will too

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Shōgun
2024– · 1 season · FX
★ 8.6drama · war & politicsHuluDisney+

Duty and sacrifice inside ruthless power games

The difference: Feudal Japan epic

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

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Vikings: Valhalla
2022–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.4action & adventure · drama · war & politicsNetflix

Warriors serving causes bigger than themselves

The difference: Norse saga action

In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make history.

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SEAL Team
2017–2024 · 7 seasons · CBS
★ 7.9action & adventure · drama · war & politicsNetflixParamount+

Operators balancing missions and home

The difference: Network military procedural

Military drama following the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high stakes missions our country can ask of them.

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The Last of Us
2023– · 2 seasons · HBO
★ 8.4dramaMax

A hardened protector and the mission that humanizes them

The difference: Post-apocalyptic road

Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.

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Sweet Tooth
2021–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.7drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Someone sent into danger to protect people they barely know

The difference: Post-apocalyptic fable, warm and hopeful

On an epic adventure across a postapocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's part human and part deer searches for family and home with a gruff protector.

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Raised by Wolves
2020–2022 · 2 seasons · HBO Max
★ 7.4sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Contemplative where it counts, bleak underneath

The difference: Sits closer to sci-fi & fantasy than Lioness does

After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.

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Has Fallen
2024– · 2 seasons · Canal+
★ 6.5action & adventure · war & politicsHulu

War & politics with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Lioness does

A protection officer and an MI6 operative team up after a terrorist attack. They suspect a mole as they race to thwart a larger conspiracy threatening Paris.

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Snowpiercer
2020–2024 · 4 seasons · TNT
★ 6.9sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime VideoHulu

A system that spends people and calls it necessity

The difference: Class-war sci-fi on a train, broader and pulpier

More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.

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The Man in the High Castle
2015–2019 · 4 seasons · Prime Video
★ 7.9sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflixPrime Video

Deep-cover work where the cover starts becoming the person

The difference: Alt-history espionage, slower and stranger

Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.

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12 Monkeys
2015–2018 · 4 seasons · Syfy
★ 7.7sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime Video

An operative carrying an assignment that will consume them

The difference: Time-travel sci-fi, propulsive and much less bleak

The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.

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

The human cost of service, unflinchingly told

The difference: WWII company history

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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The Last Kingdom
2015–2022 · 5 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.5action & adventure · drama · war & politicsNetflix

Loyalty tested between two worlds

The difference: Saxon-Dane epic

A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.

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