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Shows that feel likeMarvel's Daredevil (2015–2018)

Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.

If you loved Marvel's Daredevil, the closest series we have are Marvel's Luke Cage (2016), Marvel's The Punisher (2017) and Marvel's The Defenders (2017). All three share Marvel's Daredevil's gritty and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Rosario Tijeras (2010).

★ 8.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗3 seasons · Netflixcreated by Drew Goddardgrittycontemplativekineticepic
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If Marvel's Daredevil hit the spot, these will too

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Marvel's Luke Cage
2016–2018 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.2drama · action & adventure · crimeDisney+

A New York neighbourhood defended by one man who actually lives in it

The difference: Cooler, funkier and more relaxed — the fights carry far less pain

Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.

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Marvel's The Punisher
2017–2019 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.4action & adventure · crime · dramaDisney+

Street-level violence with a body count and a conscience arguing about it

The difference: No moral line held — a revenge machine, military rather than Catholic

A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.

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

The same city and the same heroes, finally in one room

The difference: A short crossover — thinner than any of its parts

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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Arrow
2012–2020 · 8 seasons · The CW
★ 7.5crime · drama · action & adventure

A vigilante with a night job, a day identity and a city to save

The difference: Network superhero serial — bloodless fights and much broader plotting

Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.

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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+

A corner of the Marvel world where the plots stay grounded

The difference: Network scale and tone, with no grime and no Catholic guilt

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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FBI
2018– · 9 seasons · CBS
★ 7.1crime · action & adventure · dramaParamount+

Crime worked as a grind, with the city itself a constant presence

The difference: A tidy weekly procedural — no interior life, no moral hangover

The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.

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Person of Interest
2011–2016 · 5 seasons · CBS
★ 8.5action & adventure · crime · sci-fi & fantasyPrime VideoPeacock

The same city underneath both: New York City

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Marvel's Daredevil does

John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 

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

Marvel television reaching for weight it has to earn

The difference: It does not earn it — stilted and inert

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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Watchmen
2019 · 1 season · HBO
★ 8.2drama · crime · sci-fi & fantasyMax

Masks interrogated seriously, in a city with real politics

The difference: Denser, stranger and formally ambitious — not a weekly hero show

Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.

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

A hero uncovering how deep the corruption in their city goes

The difference: Teenagers and parents, softer and slower

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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9-1-1
2018– · 10 seasons · ABC
★ 7.8drama · crime · action & adventureHulu

People running toward the worst nights of strangers' lives

The difference: Emergency-service melodrama, case by case — no villain, no vigilantes

Explore the high-pressure experiences of police officers, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives.

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Rosario Tijeras
2010 · 1 season · RCN
★ 8action & adventure · crime · drama

Violence rooted in one specific neighbourhood, and the price of belonging

The difference: A telenovela romance at heart, in one season — no masks, no heroics

This is the story of the legendary Rosario Tijeras, the beautiful warrior from a slum who fell in love with Antonio and Emilio, two handsome and wealthy young men. Antonio, a young architect, desperately rushes the dying Rosario Tijeras to a nearby hospital. The beautiful Rosario has been shot four times by a hitman. While he waits for his beloved Rosario to be saved from her wounds, Antonio recalls how Rosario, a beautiful teenager, became the murderer Rosario Tijeras. And how he, a dashing young man, makes her his obsession. The woman of his dreams.

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