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Shows that feel likeScorpion (2014–2018)

Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru.

If you loved Scorpion, the closest series we have are Reacher (2022), Marvel's Luke Cage (2016) and S.W.A.T. (2017). All three share Scorpion's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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

★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗4 seasons · CBScreated by Nick Santorakineticepiccontemplativegritty
9 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Hulu
Stream it:Paramount+ ↗

If Scorpion hit the spot, these will too

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

An outsider with unusual abilities solving what officials cannot

The difference: Physical and grounded, one man, no team of geniuses

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

Kinetic where it counts, epic underneath

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

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S.W.A.T.
2017–2025 · 8 seasons · CBS
★ 7.2crime · action & adventure · dramaNetflixPrime Video

A specialist unit dropped into whatever the city cannot handle that week

The difference: Grounded police work with real weight — no genius shortcuts or gadget saves

A Los Angeles S.W.A.T. sergeant is assigned to lead a highly skilled unit in the community where he grew up. Torn between loyalty to the streets, where the cops are sometimes the enemy, and allegiance to his brothers in blue, he strategically straddles the two worlds.

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

Procedural comfort: a competent crew, a ticking clock, done by the hour

The difference: Sober and case-driven — no oddball chemistry, no cheerfully absurd stunts

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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Hawaii Five-0
2010–2020 · 10 seasons · CBS
★ 7.4crime · drama · action & adventureNetflixParamount+

A hand-picked task force whose bickering matters as much as the mission

The difference: Sun, surf and gunfights — brawn and location over lab-coat problem solving

Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.

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9-1-1: Lone Star
2020–2025 · 5 seasons · FOX
★ 7.4drama · action & adventure · crimeHulu

High-stakes rescues balanced against the crew's messy personal lives

The difference: Emergencies and emotion rather than puzzles — a firehouse, not a think tank

Nearly 20 years ago, Owen Strand was the lone survivor of his Manhattan firehouse on 9/11. In the wake of the attack, Owen had the unenviable task of rebuilding his station. After a similar tragedy happens to a firehouse in Austin, Owen, along with his troubled firefighter son, T.K., takes his progressive philosophies of life and firefighting down to Texas, where he helps them start anew. On the surface, Owen is all about big-city style and swagger, but underneath he struggles with a secret he hides from the world - one that could very well end his life.

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

Momentum and melodrama up front, plausibility a distant concern

The difference: A Colombian telenovela tragedy — romance and violence, nothing procedural

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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Blindspot
2015–2020 · 5 seasons · NBC
★ 7.3crime · drama · action & adventure

Contemplative and gritty in the same breath

A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller, emblazoned across her back. "Jane," Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed.

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

Competence under pressure with a conspiracy tightening around it

The difference: Grim solo revenge and heavy violence — no ensemble warmth to fall back on

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

A team in a bunker with tech, banter and a fresh crisis every week

The difference: Darker and serialised superhero drama — vigilante angst instead of banter

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

Both lean on momentum more than on action & adventure

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Scorpion does

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

Someone whose unusual wiring is both their gift and their isolation

The difference: Brutal, dim and serialised — Catholic guilt and broken bones, not gadgets

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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