Items9The creator’s order
  1. 1Patriot (2015)Patriot (2015) 8.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 3 Nov 2015An intelligence officer has to maintain cover as an employee of an industrial-piping company while a difficult mission keeps acquiring further practical problems. The deadpan workplace detail makes even a supposedly simple errand feel consequential. John Tavner's competence and distress are…0
  2. 2Mr Inbetween (2018)Mr Inbetween (2018) 8.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 25 Sept 2018Ray Shoesmith's criminal work does not exempt him from parenting, friendship or the ordinary need to be somewhere on time. Scott Ryan gives the character's practical manner enough consistency that small shifts in it matter. The Australian series is terse, funny and capable of sudden severe…0
  3. 3Rectify (2013)Rectify (2013) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 22 Apr 2013Daniel Holden returns home after his conviction is vacated, without receiving a simple new identity to replace the one other people have assigned him. The patient drama gives ordinary conversation and an apparently small decision room to become difficult. There is much less tactical plotting than…0
  4. 4The Americans (2013)The Americans (2013) 8.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 30 Jan 2013Two Soviet intelligence officers have to maintain professional discipline while their American family develops needs the operation cannot neatly contain. A successful deception at work may create an unbearable problem at home. The series shares Saul's interest in people who are extremely good at…0
  5. 5Terriers (2010)Terriers (2010) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 8 Sept 2010An ex-cop and an ex-con try to make an unlicensed private-investigation business work without much financial or emotional margin for error. Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James make friendship part of the problem-solving rather than relief from it. The single season's local mystery grows out of…0
  6. 6Get Shorty (2017)Get Shorty (2017) 8.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 13 Aug 2017A criminal's move into film production makes pitching, budgeting and persuading a difficult collaborator part of the suspense. Miles Daly can solve one problem through intimidation while creating several that require a different kind of judgement. The 2017 television version is a useful choice for…0
  7. 7Task (2025)Task (2025) 7.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired 7 Sept 2025A strained FBI team pursues violent robberies led by a man whose ordinary family responsibilities complicate any quick account of who he is. Brad Ingelsby's 2025 drama stays with the people carrying those conflicting roles. It is much heavier and less playful than Saul, but makes professional…0
  8. 8The Bureau (2015)The Bureau (2015) 8.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 27 Apr 2015An undercover identity is a carefully built professional tool until the person using it cannot easily stop needing the life attached to it. The French intelligence drama gives training, reporting and patient observation tangible weight. The connection is to Saul's fascination with a role becoming a…0
  9. 9Follow the Money (2016)Follow the Money (2016) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 3 Jan 2016The Danish financial-crime series gives ambition practical routes through banks, businesses and people's apparently ordinary work. Its later bank-employee storyline is an especially close companion to Saul's interest in a respectable role becoming a channel for compromise. The focus changes across…0