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Shows that feel likeThe Leftovers (2014–2017)

When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.

If you loved The Leftovers, the closest series we have are Carrie (2026), The Society (2019) and Six Feet Under (2001). All three share The Leftovers' contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Time (2021).

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If The Leftovers hit the spot, these will too

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Carrie
2026 · 1 season · Prime Video
★ 7.8mystery · drama · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

Both land ideas and dream logic at once

The difference: Trades the comfort of The Leftovers for an angle of its own

After her father's sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.

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The Society
2019 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 7.1drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

The same mix in both: stillness, then comfort

The difference: Easier on the melancholy than The Leftovers

When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.

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Six Feet Under
2001–2005 · 5 seasons · HBO
★ 8.7dramaMax

Both are built on the same subject: family

When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.

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Time
2021– · 3 seasons · BBC One
★ 8.1drama · crime

Drama with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to crime than The Leftovers does

Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

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This Is Us
2016–2022 · 6 seasons · NBC
★ 8.7dramaHuluParamount+

Contemplative sci-fi & fantasy, and it commits to that

Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

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Lanterns
2026– · 1 season · HBO
★ 7.8drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyMax

Both are Damon Lindelof's work, and they rhyme

Two intergalactic cops, new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, are drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022 · 1 season · Disney+
★ 7sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureDisney+

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

During the reign of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, embarks on a crucial mission to confront allies turned enemies and face the wrath of the Empire.

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

Damon Lindelof directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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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Broadchurch
2013–2017 · 3 seasons · ITV1
★ 8.3crime · drama · mysteryNetflixPeacock

Melancholy drama in both cases

The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

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13 Reasons Why
2017–2020 · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.4drama · mysteryNetflix

One thread runs through both: depression

High school student Clay Jensen lands in the center of a series of heartbreaking mysteries set in motion by a friend's tragic suicide.

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Wayward Pines
2015–2016 · 2 seasons · FOX
★ 7.3drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyHulu

The same preoccupation in both: missing person

Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.

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Another
2012 · 1 season · KNB
★ 7.5animation · drama · mystery

Drama built on ideas, twice over

When Kouichi arrives at his new school, he immediately senses something frightening in the atmosphere of his new class, something that no student wants to talk about and that seems to be related to a mysterious and silent girl.

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