The best alternatives to The Wire that you can see on Netflix

Usually, this is a bit of a backroom editor, I spend quite a few minutes looking for the best series that fit the work described in the title, but I didn’t need to think about this first recommendation. If we talk about truthfulness and exposition of a real situation, although sweetened with the necessary dramatic tone, Orange is the new black is the series most similar in approach to The Wire. If you want to know what a women’s prison is like, through the memory of one of them, this work is essential.

• The year 2013
• Seasons: 7
• Available chapters: 91
• Average duration: 50 minutes

Homeland

Another series that bets on sobriety, no fireworks that could be typical of styles more similar to heist movies. However, it begins with one plot and ends with a different one, which is Homeland. The story of a soldier who returns from Iraq to discover that he is being watched by the United States security forces, as he is suspected of having been converted to the terrorist cause, is simply a distraction to tell us about how the CIA has had to learn on the fly to channel an era of sensitive information in every corner.

• The year 2011
• Seasons: 8
• Available chapters: 96
• Average duration: 50 minutes

Mindhunter

To speak of this television series is to speak with capital letters of one of the best works that Netflix has left us in recent years, and it is not for less considering that David Fincher is the figure who pulls strings behind the stage. If you want to know how a relationship between the most bloodthirsty and cruel serial killers and their psychological profiles, which would later serve to detect behavior patterns and avoid greater evils, began to be established, this series should offer you great answers.

• Year: 2017
• Seasons: 2
• Available chapters: 19
• Average duration: 50 minutes

House of Cards

It is impossible to speak of sobriety, stage presence, and masterfully linked scripts without naming this television series, of the disgraced Kevin Spacey, who embroiders the role of a congressman in the United States and whose climb to the Oval Office is a masterful lesson in technique cinematographic and fine artist’s pulse. The breaking of the fourth wall, that gesture in which the actor speaks directly to the spectators, is the definitive wink for you to join his cause, even though you end up hating his figure.

• The year 2013
• Seasons: 6
• Available chapters: 73
• Average duration: 50 minutes