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20 Shows to Watch If You Loved Severance
By Jordan A. · · 4 min read
Severance hit a nerve that most TV can't reach. It's cold, it's quiet, and it makes you feel watched even when you're sitting on your own couch. When the credits rolled on the finale, a lot of us closed our laptops and just stared at the wall for a minute. Finding something that scratches that same itch is harder than it sounds, because it isn't really about office settings or sci-fi premises. It's about tone.
Here are twenty shows worth your time if Severance left a hole. I've grouped them loosely by what part of Severance they echo, so you can pick by what you're actually missing.
If you loved the creeping dread
The Leftovers is the obvious first pick and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Damon Lindelof made a show where nothing explains itself and that's the whole point. Three seasons, every one better than the last.
Dark is the German time-travel show that rewards notes. It's not warm, it's not flashy, and it treats its audience like grown-ups. The ending lands harder than most shows ever attempt.
Mr. Robot is the closest thing to Severance in tone that already existed. Rami Malek playing a man who can't trust his own head, in an office that might be the villain. The camera work alone puts it on this list.
Devs from Alex Garland is eight episodes of tech-bro spirituality that sneaks up on you. It's slower than Severance and even colder.
If you loved the workplace horror
Better Off Ted is a sitcom. I know. Stay with me. It's a three-camera comedy about a corporation that's openly evil and the people who work there anyway. It's the funny mirror of Severance and it's genuinely smart.
Counterpart stars J.K. Simmons as two versions of the same bureaucrat across parallel worlds. It's a spy show wearing an office drama's clothes.
Station Eleven doesn't take place in an office, but it carries the same feeling of people trying to make meaning inside a system that's already broken. The finale is one of the best hours of TV in the last five years.
If you loved the mystery-box pull
From is a horror show about a town you can't leave. It sounds goofy on paper and it absolutely is not. By the end of season one you will be yelling at your screen.
The OA got cancelled too soon and that's a crime. Two seasons of the weirdest, most sincere sci-fi on streaming.
Lost still holds up if you know what you're signing up for. Skip the bad parts. You know which ones.
Outer Range is a neo-western with a hole in the ground that shouldn't exist. Josh Brolin is great. The show doesn't always know what it wants to be, and that's kind of its charm.
If you loved the clean, unsettling aesthetic
Utopia (the UK original, not the American remake) looks like a picture book and reads like a knife. Bright yellow everything, terrible things happening.
Black Mirror is uneven by design, but the best episodes sit in the exact mood Severance lives in. Start with "White Christmas" and "San Junipero."
The Peripheral has the same glossy near-future texture and a story that keeps opening new rooms.
If you loved the slow burn
Rectify is a show about a man released from death row after twenty years. It moves like poetry. Four seasons, zero filler.
Top of the Lake is Jane Campion directing Elisabeth Moss in a small town where everyone is lying. Cold, wet, beautiful.
The Night Of is an eight-episode miniseries that treats its crime story as a character study first. Riz Ahmed is a quiet wrecking ball.
If you just want something smart and a little weird
Maniac is a one-season wonder from Cary Fukunaga. Emma Stone and Jonah Hill inside a pharmaceutical trial that keeps glitching.
Tales from the Loop is Amazon's quietest show and one of its best. Small-town science fiction told like a folk tale.
Homecoming season one with Julia Roberts is a thirty-minute-episode masterclass.
If all of this feels like a lot to sort through, that's fair. It's why we built BingeNext for TV in the first place. Tell it you loved Severance, add a second show you liked, and you'll get a ranked shortlist across every streaming service you pay for. No scrolling, no same ten thumbnails.
Severance isn't a show you replace. But you can get close, and these twenty are the closest anyone's managed so far.
Topics covered: severance, mystery, psychological, sci-fi, slow-burn
About the author
Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and writes every guide on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu, and he still tests every pick the hard way: by watching it.