50 Shows Like Sherlock (2010) to Watch When You're Done
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Updated June 2026
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This modern update drops Arthur Conan Doyle's detective into 21st-century London, where a brilliant, abrasive Sherlock and his steadfast Watson crack crimes with dazzling deduction. Stylish, twisty and electrically performed, it reinvented the sleuth for a new era. If its clever mysteries and crackling chemistry hooked you, seek out detective series and modern whodunits built on genius, banter and ingenious puzzles.
If you loved Sherlock (2010) by Beryl Vertue, here are 50 TV series that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Dexter: Resurrection, Forever, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Shows Similar to Sherlock
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2025 · Scott Reynolds
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Forever
2014 · Jennifer Gwartz
Doctor Henry Morgan, New York City’s star medical examiner, has a secret. He doesn't just study the dead to solve criminal cases, he does it to solve the mystery that has eluded him for 200 years—the
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · Andrew Dettmann
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The Bridge
2011 · Björn Stein
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My Name
2021
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Luther
2010
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
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Evil
2019
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Lie to Me
2009 · Brian Grazer
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Bates Motel
2013 · Vera Farmiga
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Quantico
2015 · Michael Seitzman
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Sin senos sí hay paraíso
2016 · Yesmer Uribe
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Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area
2022 · Álex Pina
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Brazil Avenue
2012
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Scream: The TV Series
2015 · Tony DiSanto
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The Outsider
2020 · Marty Bowen
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The Night Of
2016 · Steven Zaillian
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The Purge
2018 · James DeMonaco
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Mare of Easttown
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Criminal Minds
2005
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The Mentalist
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The Blacklist
2013 · T Cooper
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Medium
2005
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Elementary
2012
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CSI: NY
2004
Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".
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High Potential
2024 · Kaitlin Olson
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Elite
2018 · Ruben Goldfarb
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White Collar
2009 · Nick Thiel
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Girl from Nowhere
2018 · Ekachai Uekrongtham
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Riverdale
2017 · Jon Goldwater
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Lupin
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In common: Crime · Drama · Mystery
Bosch
2015 · Titus Welliver
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Haven
2010 · Gabrielle Stanton
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In common: Drama · Mystery
Dexter: New Blood
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Law & Order
1990 · Peter Jankowski
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Castle
2009 · Terence Paul Winter
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Chicago P.D.
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Blue Bloods
2010
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Person of Interest
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American Crime Story
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How to Get Away with Murder
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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The Killing
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The Alienist
2018 · Ben Rosenblatt
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Dark
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The Night Manager
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Grimm
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