TV Shows Like Scandal
If you like Scandal, here are 12 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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Scandal works because it never slows down long enough for you to question it. Olivia Pope is one of network television's more interesting protagonists: ruthless, brilliant, morally slippery, and somehow still the person you root for even when she's doing something you know is wrong. The show's Washington D.C. setting gives it a specific texture, where power, image, and survival are the only currencies that matter. The White House is less a symbol of democracy than a pressure cooker where everybody has something to hide, and Olivia and her team are the ones called in to manage the damage.
The best shows like Scandal
1. The Night Agent
If what you loved about Scandal was the White House as a place where nothing is what it seems, The Night Agent delivers that same atmosphere with an action-thriller charge underneath it. An FBI agent and a cybersecurity expert find themselves pulled into a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of government, and the show keeps its plot moving fast enough that you stay off-balance in the best way. It lacks Olivia Pope's particular brand of cool, but the political paranoia is very much intact.
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2. Ray Donovan
Ray Donovan is essentially Scandal with the satire stripped out and a darker, more lived-in grit put in its place. Ray does for Los Angeles's wealthy and powerful what Olivia does for Washington's elite: he makes problems disappear, quietly and by whatever means necessary. The real hook is the same as Scandal's, the fixer who cannot fix himself, and here that irony cuts deeper and gets more painful as the show goes on.
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3. Good Girls
Good Girls is not a political show, but it shares Scandal's interest in women who are more capable of operating outside the law than anyone around them expects. Three suburban women get drawn into crime and find that they are surprisingly good at it, which creates its own set of complications. The tone is lighter than Scandal, with more dark comedy mixed in, but the pleasure of watching women outmaneuver a world that underestimates them is very much the same.
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5. The District
The District stays in Washington D.C., which immediately gives it some of the same atmosphere as Scandal, that sense of a city where politics and power are always running just beneath the surface of any official story. It is a police procedural at heart, slower and more grounded than Scandal, but it takes the personal lives of its characters seriously alongside the cases. Viewers who like Scandal's D.C. setting and its attention to institutional politics will find something familiar here.
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Fans of Scandal tend to want a few specific things from their next show: a fast pace, high stakes that feel personal as well as political, and a protagonist who operates in morally grey territory. The best episodes of Scandal are the ones where the professional and the personal collapse into each other, where fixing someone else's crisis forces Olivia to confront her own. That tension, between control and chaos, competence and vulnerability, is the engine the show runs on. Viewers who get hooked on that are going to be looking for it everywhere.
The recommendations here cover that ground from a few different angles. The Night Agent goes straight for the White House thriller energy, trading Olivia's sharp suits for FBI procedural tension but keeping the conspiracy machinery running at full speed. Ray Donovan is the closest structural cousin to Scandal, a fixer drama that's darker in tone and set on the opposite coast, but built around the same basic irony: the person everyone calls to clean up messes cannot clean up their own life. Good Girls swaps the D.C. elite for suburban desperation, but the core idea, ordinary people who are better at operating outside the rules than they expected, lands in familiar territory. The District stays in Washington and trades politics for police work, a slower and more procedural show but one that captures the city's specific atmosphere. Tyler Perry's Ruthless is the wildest card of the group, a pulpy spinoff with a cult, a conspiracy, and a woman trying to outmaneuver people who have all the power. It shares Scandal's taste for melodrama and secrets, even if the setting is completely different.
None of these shows are exactly Scandal, which is probably the point. The original is a specific combination of network gloss, political paranoia, and one genuinely charismatic lead. But each recommendation picks up at least one thread worth following, and for viewers who burned through Scandal and want that feeling of watching someone very smart navigate a situation designed to destroy them, there is plenty here to work with.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Scandal?
- The Night Agent is the most popular show similar to Scandal in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Scandal still on the air?
- Of the 12 shows similar to Scandal listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Scandal?
- 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.