TV Shows Like House of Cards
If you like House of Cards, here are 10 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
Netflix · Drama · House of Cards is ended
House of Cards works because Frank Underwood is a monster you cannot look away from. He breaks the fourth wall, addresses the audience directly, and in doing so makes us his accomplices. The show is less interested in whether Frank will get caught than in how far a sufficiently ruthless person can go when he treats every institution, every relationship, and every principle as a tool. That cynicism about American political life is the engine. The corruption is not incidental; it is the point.
The best shows like House of Cards
1. Silo
Silo runs on the same fuel as House of Cards: a society held together by lies, and one person determined to find out what is actually true. The corruption here is structural rather than personal, built into every law and custom of the underground community, which gives it a particular dread. If you liked watching Frank Underwood expose the gap between what institutions claim to be and what they actually do, Juliette's investigation will feel very familiar.
Stream on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel
Renewed100%
2. The Night Agent
The Night Agent stays squarely in the Washington world that House of Cards made its home, with conspiracies running through the White House and the people at the bottom of the food chain paying the price for what people at the top decide. It moves faster than House of Cards and is more of a straight thriller, but the political paranoia and the sense that nobody in power can be trusted are very much intact. It is a good pick if you want the same setting with more propulsion.
Stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Likely Cancelled35%
3. The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal shares House of Cards' interest in people who are exceptionally good at what they do and completely indifferent to the rules everyone else follows. The Jackal operates with a cold, methodical intelligence that Frank Underwood would recognize, and the cat-and-mouse structure gives the show a similar pleasure of watching someone think several moves ahead. The political stakes behind the assassinations add a layer that keeps it from being a simple action series.
Likely Renewed90%
4. Paradise
Paradise puts the American presidency and a circle of the world's most powerful people at the center of a murder mystery, which is close territory for any House of Cards fan. The isolated, wealthy community setting means secrets stay contained and pressure builds quickly, and the show uses flashbacks to layer in revelations the way House of Cards layered in Frank's schemes. It is tense and interested in what the powerful will do to protect themselves.
Stream on Hulu
Likely Renewed72%
5. Severance
Severance relocates the House of Cards obsession with hidden control to a corporate office where the employees literally do not know what they do for a living, because their memories have been surgically split. The company in charge is opaque, self-serving, and willing to do genuinely disturbing things to keep its workers compliant, which should feel recognizable. It is quieter and weirder than House of Cards, but the sense of a system designed to keep certain people in the dark while others pull the strings is the same.
Stream on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel
Likely Renewed72%
More on shows like House of Cards
Fans of House of Cards tend to want a few specific things from their next show. They want systems, not just individual bad actors. They want the sense that the official story is a lie and that power moves through channels you cannot see until someone starts pulling on a thread. They want at least one character who is smarter than the room and knows it. And they are comfortable with darkness. They do not need a hero, only a perspective.
The five recommendations here serve those appetites in different ways. Silo and Severance both take the hidden-power premise and move it into genre territory, but they keep the political core. In Silo, an underground society is governed by rules nobody is allowed to question, and the corruption is baked into the infrastructure itself. Severance goes smaller and stranger, making a workplace the site where a company surgically manages what its employees are allowed to know and remember. The Night Agent and The Day of the Jackal are more conventional thrillers, but both are genuinely good at plotting and both are interested in how governments use and discard people. The Night Agent keeps everything inside the Washington world House of Cards fans will recognize. The Day of the Jackal moves across Europe and centers on a hitman rather than a politician, but the machinery of state violence is very much present. Paradise is the wildcard: a post-apocalyptic murder mystery set among the world's most powerful people, with the U.S. presidency in the mix and secrets stacked on secrets.
None of these shows are quite as cold-blooded as House of Cards at its best, but each of them takes seriously the idea that power is not given; it is taken, and the taking is rarely clean.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like House of Cards?
- Silo is the most popular show similar to House of Cards in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like House of Cards still on the air?
- Of the 10 shows similar to House of Cards listed here, 1 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like House of Cards?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.