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Shows like The Shield 2002
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 The Shield
Shows closest to The Shield
Banana Fish 2018Also grave, classical in form and contemporary
El marginal 2016Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Fauda 2015Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Your Honor 2020Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Top Boy 2019Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
The Way 2024Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Homeland 2011Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
Gomorrah 2014Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Parasyte -the maxim- 2014Also contemporary, classical in form and earnest
Death Note 2006Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Ozark 2017Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
Terror in Resonance 2014Also contemporary, grave and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Films
The Hurt Locker 2008Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Udta Punjab 2016Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Captain Phillips 2013Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Books
Death Is Hard Work 2019Also contemporary, classical in form and relentless
Freedomland 1998Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
People Who Eat Darkness 2011Also grave, contemporary and classical in form
Games
Marathon 2026Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Saros 2026Also contemporary, grave and relentless
Fallback 2019Also contemporary, classical in form and grave
Albums
- Ritual Hymns 2022Also grave, earnest and contemporary
- Deaf to Our Prayers 2006Also grave, classical in form and earnest
- Slipknot 1999Also contemporary, grave and earnest
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