TV Shows Like Ozark
If you like Ozark, here are 11 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
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Ozark works because it never lets its characters feel safe, and it never lets the audience feel safe either. Marty Byrde is not a hardened criminal. He is a smart, anxious man who made one terrible deal, and now he is sprinting to stay ahead of consequences that keep multiplying. The tension comes not from shoot-outs but from spreadsheets, family dinners, and conversations where everyone in the room knows more than they are saying. The Ozarks setting does real work too: the lake, the woods, the tight local communities give the show a texture that separates it from the usual urban crime drama.
The best shows like Ozark
1. Sons of Anarchy
Like Ozark, Sons of Anarchy is built around a man trying to steer a criminal organization toward something more legitimate while the people around him keep pulling in the other direction. The show is more overtly violent than Ozark, but the core tension is the same: family loyalty and survival instinct pulling against each other until something breaks. Jax Teller's slow reckoning with who he is becoming will feel very familiar to anyone who spent time watching Marty Byrde.
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2. The Wire
If Ozark made you interested in how criminal enterprises actually function as organizations, The Wire is the show that takes that interest furthest. It follows both the Baltimore police and the drug trade they are trying to dismantle, and it is more interested in systems and institutions than in heroes and villains. The pacing is slow and deliberate, and it pays off in exactly the way Ozark does.
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3. Mayor of Kingstown
Also crime
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5. The Penguin
Also crime · shares the bold theme
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More on shows like Ozark
Fans of Ozark tend to want a few specific things from their next show. They want moral compromise at the center, not the edges. They want ordinary people, or at least people who started ordinary, making choices that drag them deeper into something they cannot escape. They want family relationships under pressure from secrets. And they want a world that feels lived-in, where the criminals have real organizational logic and the stakes are financial and political as much as physical.
The five shows here cover that ground from different angles. Sons of Anarchy and Power both put family loyalty in direct conflict with the demands of a criminal enterprise, though Sons of Anarchy leans harder into the violence of that world and Power into the glamour of it. The Wire is the most structurally ambitious of the group, examining the drug trade as an institution rather than a story about individuals, and it rewards patience in the same way Ozark does. Legends and The Night Manager are both about people operating under cover identities, which gives them the same sense of sustained dread that runs through Ozark: the feeling that one wrong word ends everything.
None of these shows are perfect matches, but together they map the territory Ozark fans tend to enjoy. If the slow-burn domestic tension is what hooked you, Power and Sons of Anarchy will feel most immediately familiar. If it was the systemic, almost bureaucratic nature of criminal life, The Wire is the obvious next stop. And if it was the performance pressure of playing a role while everything collapses around you, Legends and The Night Manager are built almost entirely on that specific anxiety.
More shows like Ozark
Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Ozark?
- Sons of Anarchy is the most popular show similar to Ozark in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Ozark still on the air?
- Of the 11 shows similar to Ozark listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Ozark?
- 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.