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Shows that feel likeVikings (2013–2020)

The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.

If you loved Vikings, the closest series we have are The Last Kingdom (2015), The Pacific (2010) and Band of Brothers (2001). All three share Vikings' contemplative and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Into the Badlands (2015).

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If Vikings hit the spot, these will too

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The Last Kingdom
2015–2022 · 5 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.5action & adventure · drama · war & politicsNetflix

The same era from the other shore — Saxons versus Danes

The difference: One warrior's oath-torn path

A show of heroic deeds and epic battles with a thematic depth that embraces politics, religion, warfare, courage, love, loyalty and our universal search for identity. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people combined their strength under one of the most iconic kings of history in order to reclaim their land for themselves and build a place they call home.

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The Pacific
2010 · 1 season · HBO
★ 8.3drama · action & adventure · war & politicsMax

Warriors ground down by campaigns far from home

The difference: WWII realism, no sagas

Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

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Band of Brothers
2001 · 1 season · HBO
★ 9.4drama · war & politicsMax

Brothers-in-arms across a long campaign, counting who is left

The difference: Real history, told with reverence and no myth-making

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

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SEAL Team
2017–2024 · 7 seasons · CBS
★ 7.9action & adventure · drama · war & politicsNetflixParamount+

Brotherhood forged in repeated combat

The difference: Modern military procedural

Military drama following the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high stakes missions our country can ask of them.

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Into the Badlands
2015–2019 · 3 seasons · AMC
★ 7.9action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

A warrior culture with codes, feuds and beautifully staged violence

The difference: Martial-arts fantasy in a post-collapse world

In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West.

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Shōgun
2024– · 1 season · FX
★ 8.6drama · war & politicsHuluDisney+

Ambition, faith and politics settled by men with swords

The difference: Feudal Japan, and the manoeuvring matters more than the battles

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

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Has Fallen
2024– · 2 seasons · Canal+
★ 6.5action & adventure · war & politicsHulu

The same mix in both: momentum, then scale

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Vikings

A protection officer and an MI6 operative team up after a terrorist attack. They suspect a mole as they race to thwart a larger conspiracy threatening Paris.

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The Witcher
2019– · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.8sci-fi & fantasy · drama · action & adventureNetflix

Action & adventure with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Vikings does

Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

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Game of Thrones
2011–2019 · 8 seasons · HBO
★ 9.2sci-fi & fantasy · drama · action & adventureMax

One thread runs through both: king

The difference: Leans harder into sci-fi & fantasy than Vikings does

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

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Lioness
2023– · 3 seasons · Paramount+
★ 7.8drama · war & politicsParamount+

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, is tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives.

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The Handmaid's Tale
2017–2025 · 6 seasons · Hulu
★ 8.3drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureHulu

A society whose religion licenses what is done to people

The difference: Dystopian and modern, told entirely from the victim's side

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

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The Last Ship
2014–2018 · 5 seasons · TNT
★ 7.4action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

War & politics built on momentum, twice over

Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.

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