Series like Better Call Saul

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   Breaking Bad

   Same creator

   2008 · Crime · Drama

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   Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

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   • the same creator
   • strong shared themes: albuquerque, new mexico and criminal lawyer
   • similar audience response

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   Pluribus

   Same creator

   2025 · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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   The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.

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   • the same creator
   • strong shared themes: albuquerque, new mexico and dark comedy
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   Battle Creek

   Same creator

   2015 · 60 min · Comedy · Drama

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   In this mismatched buddy cop dramedy, an amazingly handsome, happy-go-lucky FBI agent is paired with a local, hard scrabble Michigan homicide detective. As they solve crimes together, their polar opposite methods only slightly outweigh their disdain for each other.

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   • the same creator
   • a principal cast member
   • a closely matched era

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   For Life

   Similar atmosphere

   2020 · 43 min · Crime · Drama

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   A prisoner becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared themes: lawyer and legal drama
   • shared network: Sony Pictures Television

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   The Lincoln Lawyer

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   2022 · Crime · Drama

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   Hotshot LA defense attorney Mickey Haller will do whatever it takes to win as he navigates the criminal justice system from his trademark Lincoln.

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   Tulsa King

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   2022 · Crime · Drama

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   New York mafia capo Dwight "The General" Manfredi is released from prison after 25 years and exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a crew.

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   Justified: City Primeval

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   2023 · Crime · Drama

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   Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens is now based in Miami, balancing life as a marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. A chance encounter on a Florida highway sends him to Detroit and he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent sociopath who’s already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest once and wants to do so again.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared network: Sony Pictures Television

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   Accused

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   2023 · Crime · Drama

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   In this crime anthology series, viewers discover how an ordinary person got caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another, until it’s too late to turn back. Told from the defendant’s point of view, each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared network: Sony Pictures Television

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   Damages

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   2007 · Crime · Drama · Mystery

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   Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler. The plot revolves around the brilliant, ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes and her protégée, recent law school graduate Ellen Parsons. Each season features a major case that Hewes and her firm take on, while also examining a chapter of the complicated relationship between Ellen and Patty. The first two seasons center around the law firm Hewes & Associates. Later seasons center more on Patty and Ellen's relationship as Ellen begins to distance herself from Hewes & Associates and begins an independent career.

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   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared themes: lawyer and legal drama
   • shared network: Sony Pictures Television

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    Mayans M.C.

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    2018 · Crime · Drama

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    Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the Cali/Mexi border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp.

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    • a closely matched era
    • similar audience response

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