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Shows that feel likeMaid (2021)

After fleeing an abusive relationship, a young mother finds a job cleaning houses as she fights to provide for her child and build them a better future.

If you loved Maid, the closest series we have are Tracker (2024), Snowfall (2017) and New Amsterdam (2018). All three share Maid's contemplative and hopeful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Unbelievable (2019).

★ 8.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗1 season · Netflixcreated by Molly Smith Metzlercontemplativehopefulgritty
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If Maid hit the spot, these will too

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Tracker
2024– · 4 seasons · CBS
★ 7.2drama · crimeHuluParamount+

The same mix in both: stillness, then hope

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Maid does

Lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw roams the country as a “reward seeker,” using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own fractured family.

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Snowfall
2017–2023 · 6 seasons · FX
★ 8.5drama · crimeHuluDisney+

Both lean on grit more than on drama

Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.

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New Amsterdam
2018–2023 · 5 seasons · NBC
★ 7.9drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Easier on the grit than Maid

The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.

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Blue Bloods
2010–2024 · 14 seasons · CBS
★ 7.7crime · dramaPrime VideoParamount+

Hopeful drama in both cases

A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.

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When They See Us
2019 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 8.8dramaNetflix

Common ground in both: a true story and fight the system

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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Superman & Lois
2021–2024 · 4 seasons · The CW
★ 7.8drama · sci-fi & fantasyMax

Both work the same stillness

After years of facing megalomaniacal supervillains, monsters wreaking havoc on Metropolis, and alien invaders intent on wiping out the human race, The Man of Steel aka Clark Kent and Lois Lane come face to face with one of their greatest challenges ever: dealing with all the stress, pressures and complexities that come with being working parents in today's society.

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MacGyver
1985–1992 · 7 seasons · ABC
★ 7.6drama · action & adventure · crimeParamount+

A streak of grit through both

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's brakes... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.

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3 Body Problem
2024– · 1 season · Netflix
★ 7.5sci-fi & fantasy · mystery · dramaNetflix

The shared currency is hope

Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.

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Black Bird
2022 · 1 season · Apple TV
★ 8.1drama · crimeApple TV+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: a true story

As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.

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Big Little Lies
2017–2019 · 2 seasons · HBO
★ 8.4dramaMax

Both are built on the same subject: domestic abuse

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

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

Both sit in the same gritty register

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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The Glory
2022–2023 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 8.2drama · crimeNetflix

Common ground: social issues

Years after surviving horrific abuse in high school, a woman puts an elaborate revenge scheme in motion to make the perpetrators pay for their crimes.

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