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Shows like Serial Experiments Lain 1998
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Serial Experiments Lain
Shows closest to Serial Experiments Lain
True Detective 2014Also grave, contemplative and open-ended
Legion 2017Also grave, contemplative and open-ended
Revolutionary Girl Utena 1997Also grave and open-ended
The Haunting of Hill House 2018Also grave, contemplative and earnest
The Third Day 2020Also grave, bleak and open-ended
The Haunting of Bly Manor 2020Also grave, contemplative and earnest
Texhnolyze 2003Also grave, contemplative and earnest
The Narrow Road to the Deep North 2025Also grave, contemplative and earnest
Too Old to Die Young 2019Also grave, bleak and open-ended
Station Eleven 2021Also contemplative, grave and earnest
Sharp Objects 2018Also grave, contemplative and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Films
2073 2024Also grave, contemplative and bleak
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
Midsommar 2019Also contemplative, grave and bleak
Books
Veniss underground 2003Also grave, open-ended and bleak
Arkham Asylum 1920Also grave, bleak and earnest
Confession of the lioness 2012Also grave, contemplative and earnest
Games
Scorn 2022Also grave, open-ended and bleak
Beckett 2018Also grave, contemplative and open-ended
Dujanah 2017Also grave, contemplative and open-ended
Albums
- Maxinquaye 1995Also grave, character-led and earnest
- Solitude 2019Also grave, contemplative and character-led
- 22, a Million 2016Also grave, character-led and contemplative
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