If You Liked Designated Survivor, Watch These Next
Finished Designated Survivor (2016) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Designated Survivor, most of them are drama, war & politics.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Homeland(2011)
7.6DramaWar & PoliticsCrimeAlso drama and war & politics
CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.
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2.Zero Day(2025)
6.9DramaWar & PoliticsAlso drama and war & politics
A former U.S. President is called out of retirement to find the source of a deadly cyberattack, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies.
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3.Foundation(2021)
7.7Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso drama
Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.
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4.Lioness(2023)
8.3DramaWar & PoliticsAlso drama and war & politics
Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, is tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives.
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5.House of Cards(2013)
8.0DramaAlso drama
Betrayed by the White House, Congressman Frank Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power. Blackmail, seduction and ambition are his weapons.
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6.The Comey Rule(2020)
6.9War & PoliticsDramaAlso war & politics and drama
An immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, which divided a nation. This two-part biopic tells the story of two powerful figures, Comey and Trump, whose strikingly different personalities, ethics and loyalties put them…
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7.Death by Lightning(2025)
7.3DramaCrimeAlso drama
The story of James Garfield, who rose from obscurity to become America's 20th President — and Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated him.
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8.Paradise(2025)
7.6CrimeDramaAlso drama
The tranquility in a serene, wealthy community inhabited by some of the world's most prominent individuals explodes when a shocking murder occurs and a high stakes investigation unfolds.
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9.The Day of the Jackal(2024)
8.3DramaAction & AdventureMysteryAlso drama
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in…
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10.11.22.63(2016)
7.8DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama
An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
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11.The Lazarus Project(2022)
7.1Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAction & AdventureAlso drama
George wakes up to find himself several months in the past before being recruited for the Lazarus Project – a secret organization that turns back time when the world is at threat of extinction.
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12.Severance(2022)
8.4DramaMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
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13.Dirty John(2018)
6.8DramaCrimeAlso drama
Anthology series in which each season is based on a true crime story featuring an epic tale of love gone wrong.
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14.The Diplomat(2023)
7.6DramaWar & PoliticsAlso drama and war & politics
Amid an international crisis, a US diplomat contends with her high-profile job as ambassador to the UK and her strained marriage to a political star.
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15.Bodyguard(2018)
7.8CrimeDramaWar & PoliticsAlso drama and war & politics
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
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16.24(2001)
7.8Action & AdventureDramaCrimeAlso drama
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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17.Rabbit Hole(2023)
7.1DramaMysteryAlso drama
Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations.
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18.Emergence(2019)
6.9DramaMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama
A police chief takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.
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19.Show Me a Hero(2015)
7.0CrimeDramaWar & PoliticsAlso drama and war & politics
Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing to be built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, racism, murder and politics.
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20.Tyrant(2014)
6.7DramaWar & PoliticsAlso drama and war & politics
The story of an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. Bassam "Barry" Al Fayeed, the younger son of the dictator of a war-torn nation, ends a self-imposed 20-year exile to return to his homeland, accompanied by his American wife and children, for his nephew's wedding.…
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