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Shows like True Detective 2014
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 True Detective
Shows closest to True Detective
Serial Experiments Lain 1998Also grave, contemplative and open-ended
Angels in America 2003Also overwhelming, contemplative and grave
The Leftovers 2014Also contemplative, overwhelming and open-ended
Dekalog 1989Also contemplative, grave and earnest
Hannibal 2013Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
Midnight Mass 2021Also grave, contemplative and overwhelming
Legion 2017Also grave, contemplative and overwhelming
Too Old to Die Young 2019Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
Station Eleven 2021Also contemplative, grave and meticulous
Penguindrum 2011Also overwhelming and open-ended
The Underground Railroad 2021Also grave, contemplative and overwhelming
Sharp Objects 2018Also contemplative, grave and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Books
ねじまき鳥クロニクル 1997Also grave, contemplative and meticulous
The hour I first believed 2008Also earnest, overwhelming and contemplative
Confession of the lioness 2012Also grave, contemplative and earnest
Films
The Laramie Project 2002Also grave, contemplative and earnest
2073 2024Also grave, contemplative and bleak
Pulse 2001Also contemplative, grave and earnest
Games
Always Sometimes Monsters 2014Also grave, contemplative and earnest
Beckett 2018Also grave, contemplative and bleak
The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition 2015Also contemplative, grave and earnest
Albums
- Fever Ray 2009Also grave, meticulous and bleak
- Forever Changes 1967Also grave, earnest and meticulous
- Maxinquaye 1995Also grave, earnest and bleak
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