Shows Like Supernatural

Looking for shows like Supernatural? Here are 10 series with the same monster-of-the-week brotherly drama. We picked each title based on shared tone, themes, and emotional feel.

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   1. The X-Files

   1993Sci-Fi

   The X-Files follows FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, a believer and a skeptic, as they investigate unexplained cases involving aliens, monsters, and government conspiracies. It popularized the mix of standalone monster stories and a larger mythology that Supernatural also uses. The tone is more of a procedural, cooler and more cerebral, and the central bond is a professional partnership rather than two brothers, but the case-of-the-week format is very similar.

   Where to watch The X-Files
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   2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

   1997Drama

   Buffy the Vampire Slayer follows a teenage girl chosen to fight vampires and demons, while also dealing with high school, friends, and romance in a California town. Its mix of monster fighting, humor, and a found family will feel familiar to Supernatural fans, especially its blend of jokes and real heartbreak. The heroine is a young woman with a fixed home base instead of brothers on the road, and it leans more on the coming-of-age angle.

   Where to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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   3. Grimm

   2011Fantasy

   Grimm follows a Portland homicide detective who learns he is descended from a line of hunters who can see the creatures hiding among humans. It is close to Supernatural's premise of an inherited family duty to fight monsters, with plenty of folklore-based cases. The twist is that it is also a police procedural, with a home base and a day job, and it treats many creatures as neighbors rather than enemies.

   Where to watch Grimm
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   4. Lucifer

   2016Fantasy

   Lucifer follows the Devil, who abandons his job in hell to run a nightclub in Los Angeles and starts helping an LAPD detective solve murders. Supernatural fans will recognize the playful take on angels, demons, and divine family drama. The show is mainly a lighthearted crime procedural, with its supernatural elements in the background of the cases, so it is breezier and more romantic, with fewer scares.

   Where to watch Lucifer
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   5. Good Omens

   2019Fantasy

   Good Omens follows an angel and a demon, played by Michael Sheen and David Tennant, who have grown fond of life on Earth and team up to stop the coming apocalypse. Its comic spin on heaven and hell, prophecy, and the end of the world overlaps with the mythology of Supernatural's later stories. It is adapted from the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, and it is far more whimsical and British in humor, with almost no horror.

   Where to watch Good Omens
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   6. The Vampire Diaries

   2009Drama

   The Vampire Diaries follows a teenage girl in the small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, who is caught between two vampire brothers. It shares Supernatural's focus on complicated brotherly loyalty, and both were long-running hits on The CW. The difference is that romance and a love triangle drive most of the story here, and it is set in one town with a high school cast rather than following hunters on the open road.

   Where to watch The Vampire Diaries
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   7. Charmed

   1998Fantasy

   Charmed follows three sisters in San Francisco who discover they are powerful witches destined to protect innocents from demons and warlocks. Its blend of siblings who fight, bicker, and protect each other while battling evil makes it a close cousin to Supernatural. The tone is lighter and more soapy, with romance and domestic life mixed in, and the sisters work from their family home rather than a car.

   Where to watch Charmed
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   8. Angel

   1999Fantasy

   Angel follows the vampire with a soul from Buffy the Vampire Slayer as he moves to Los Angeles and opens a detective agency that helps people threatened by demons. Its brooding hero seeking redemption, its noir edge, and its mix of cases and long arcs are close to Supernatural's darker seasons. Because it spins off from Buffy, it helps to know that show, and its focus is atonement rather than family duty.

   Where to watch Angel
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   9. Sleepy Hollow

   2013Fantasy

   Sleepy Hollow follows Ichabod Crane, who wakes up in the modern day and teams with a local police lieutenant to fight the Headless Horseman and other forces tied to an approaching apocalypse. Like Supernatural, it mixes standalone monster cases with biblical end-times mythology. It leans more on American history and Revolutionary War lore, and its fish-out-of-water humor gives it a different flavor.

   Where to watch Sleepy Hollow
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    10. Stranger Things

    2016Sci-Fi

    Stranger Things follows a group of kids in a small Indiana town in the 1980s who search for a missing friend and uncover secret government experiments and a monstrous other dimension. It shares Supernatural's mix of horror, humor, and loyalty among people fighting creatures no one else believes in. The heroes are children and teenagers, the story is serialized rather than case-based, and its 1980s nostalgia sets a different mood.

    Where to watch Stranger Things