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Shows that feel likeSnowfall (2017–2023)

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.

If you loved Snowfall, the closest series we have are Blue Bloods (2010), Tracker (2024) and Maid (2021). All three share Snowfall's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is MacGyver (1985).

★ 8.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗6 seasons · FXcreated by Eric Amadiocontemplativegrittyhopeful
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

If Snowfall hit the spot, these will too

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

One thread runs through both: inspirational

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

Common ground: inspirational

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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Maid
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 8.3dramaNetflix

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit

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.

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

Both lean on hope more than on drama

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Snowfall does

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

Contemplative crime, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to action & adventure than Snowfall does

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

Drama built on hope, twice over

The difference: Trades the grit of Snowfall for an angle of its own

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

Crime with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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La Reina del Sur
2011– · 3 seasons · Telemundo
★ 7.8drama · crimeNetflix

Common ground in both: drug crime and gangster

After years of blood, sweat and tears, a woman of humble origin ends up becoming a drug trafficking legend, with all that that means...

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Power
2014–2020 · 6 seasons · STARZ
★ 8.1crime · dramaHuluStarz

Both keep coming back to the same thing: drugs

A successful New York entrepreneur lives a double life as the head of a drug empire that serves only the rich and influential, all while wanting to escape the underworld and keep his family safe.

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Only Murders in the Building
2021– · 6 seasons · Hulu
★ 8comedy · mystery · crimeHuluDisney+

Gritty crime in both cases

Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.

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The Americans
2013–2018 · 6 seasons · FX
★ 8.4crime · dramaHulu

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.

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MobLand
2025– · 2 seasons · Paramount+
★ 8.3crime · dramaParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: gangster

Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.

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