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Shows that feel likeMarvel's Agent Carter (2015–2016)

It's 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life - Steve Rogers.

If you loved Marvel's Agent Carter, the closest series we have are Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013), Marvel's Runaways (2017) and Doom Patrol (2019). All three share Marvel's Agent Carter's contemplative and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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

★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗2 seasons · ABCcreated by Stephen McFeelycontemplativecerebraldreamlike
10 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Disney Plus
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If Marvel's Agent Carter hit the spot, these will too

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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013–2020 · 7 seasons · ABC
★ 7.5drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureDisney+

Spies doing Marvel's ground-level work while the movies take the glory

The difference: Modern gadget-team sprawl — seven seasons, none of the period charm

Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.

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Marvel's Runaways
2017–2019 · 3 seasons · Hulu
★ 6.8action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Underestimated heroes working against an establishment holding all the power

The difference: Teen-soap rhythms — parents, crushes, and secrets over spycraft

Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other must unite against a common foe – their parents.

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Doom Patrol
2019–2023 · 4 seasons · DC Universe
★ 7.7sci-fi & fantasy · dramaMax

Both land stillness and ideas at once

The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities — but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The Chief, who brought them together to investigate the weirdest phenomena in existence — and to protect Earth from what they find.

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Marvel's Jessica Jones
2015–2019 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.8sci-fi & fantasy · dramaDisney+

A woman doing hard investigative work while men underestimate her at every turn

The difference: Noir trauma and menace — far darker than Peggy's pulp adventure

After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City.

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Marvel's The Defenders
2017 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 7.2sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · crimeDisney+

Street-level Marvel heroes working a shadowy conspiracy together

The difference: A quick crossover event — team banter over character building

Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist join forces to take on common enemies as a sinister conspiracy threatens New York City.

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Sense8
2015–2018 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.2sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

Common ground: secret agent

One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."

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Marvel's Inhumans
2017 · 1 season · ABC
★ 4.9drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureDisney+

A corner of the Marvel universe well away from the headline heroes

The difference: Famously the MCU's low point — stiff, cheap, and cancelled fast

After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where their surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity around them may prove to not only save them, but Earth itself.

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Marvel's Iron Fist
2017–2018 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.4action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

A hero reclaiming their place in a world that moved on without them

The difference: Muddled and slow — the weakest of the Netflix Marvel run

Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny.

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Loki
2021–2023 · 2 seasons · Disney+
★ 8.2drama · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

A stylish retro-flavored bureau of secrets, missions, and dry wit

The difference: Timeline metaphysics pile up where Peggy keeps it human-scaled

After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.

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The Magicians
2015–2020 · 5 seasons · Syfy
★ 7.6drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Drama with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity.

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Travelers
2016–2018 · 3 seasons · Showcase
★ 8drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Both lean on stillness more than on sci-fi & fantasy

Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.

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Locke & Key
2020–2022 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.3sci-fi & fantasy · drama · mysteryNetflix

Drama built on ideas, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Marvel's Agent Carter does

After their dad's murder, three siblings move with their mom to his ancestral estate, where they discover magical keys that unlock powers — and secrets.

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