50 Shows Like Wayward Pines (2015) to Watch When You're Done
Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world.
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If you loved Wayward Pines (2015) by M. Night Shyamalan, 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 Hemlock Grove, Kingdom, Locke & Key. 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.
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Kingdom
2019 · Lee Sang-baek
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Locke & Key
2020
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Happiness
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Nine Perfect Strangers
2021 · Molly Allen
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Midnight Mass
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Lost
2004 · Jean Higgins
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2008
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Squid Game
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Ghost Whisperer
2005
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The Strain
2014
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The Originals
2013 · Julie Plec
The Vampire Diaries spin-off that follows the Mikaelsons, a family of millennia-old, power-hungry vampires who want to reclaim the city they built, New Orleans, and dominate all those who have wronged
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Pretty Little Liars
2010 · Charles Grant Craig
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2024 · Gareth Neame
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The Night Agent
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Sleepy Hollow
2013 · M. Raven Metzner
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Z Nation
2014 · Karl Schaefer
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Under the Dome
2013 · Steven Spielberg
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Preacher
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2018 · Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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Castle Rock
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2016 · Zal Batmanglij
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Vagabond
2019
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13 Reasons Why
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The Terror
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Dark Desire
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Haven
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In common: Drama · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Humans
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2018 · Robert Zemeckis
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