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Shows that feel likePerson of Interest (2011–2016)

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. 

If you loved Person of Interest, the closest series we have are Reacher (2022), The Wire (2002) and Prison Break (2005). All three share Person of Interest's gritty and 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 Person of Interest hit the spot, these will too

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

A quiet giant with a lethal skill set, unhurried right up until he is not

The difference: Self-contained crime cases, no technology and no larger machine behind it

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

Surveillance as the frame, and the city seen through what it captures

The difference: Social realism, no technology fantasy and no heroes

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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Prison Break
2005–2017 · 5 seasons · FOX
★ 8.3action & adventure · crime · dramaHulu

Kinetic and epic in the same breath

The difference: Trades the ideas of Person of Interest for an angle of its own

Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.

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Westworld
2016–2022 · 4 seasons · HBO
★ 8.4sci-fi & fantasy · western

An artificial mind quietly becoming a person while nobody notices

The difference: Puzzle-box prestige — no weekly cases, and far colder

A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

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

Both land ideas and dream logic at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than Person of Interest does

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: hacker

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Person of Interest does

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

An ex-operative applying military violence to civilian problems

The difference: Marvel, and driven by rage rather than a machine's list

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

The same preoccupation in both: police

The difference: Sits closer to war & politics than Person of Interest does

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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The X-Files
1993–2018 · 11 seasons · FOX
★ 8.6mystery · sci-fi & fantasy · crimeHuluDisney+

The same mix in both: grit, then paranoia

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

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

Getting to people before the worst thing happens to them

The difference: Emergency melodrama, warmer and much broader

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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Marvel's Daredevil
2015–2018 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.6crime · drama · action & adventureDisney+

A city defended by someone the law would arrest

The difference: Marvel street-level, physical and Catholic-guilty

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.

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The Night Agent
2023– · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.4action & adventure · drama · mysteryNetflix

Action & adventure built on momentum, twice over

Brought together by a midnight phone call, an FBI agent and a cybersecurity expert must unravel an ever-growing web of political conspiracies.

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