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Shows Like The Borgias

If The Borgias worked for you because of its power plays, elite rivalry, and high-stakes ambition, start with Boardwalk Empire, Peaky Blinders, and Babylon Berlin. The list leans toward drama and crime stories with a similar sense of status-driven drama. It prioritises shared tone and story shape rather than relying on broad genre matching alone.

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Why The Borgias fans may like these shows

If you enjoyed The Borgias, try Boardwalk Empire, Peaky Blinders, and Babylon Berlin. These recommendations focus on drama and crime shows that share power, money and strategic conflict and a similar storytelling rhythm.

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The closest TV shows to watch after The Borgias

Each recommendation includes the reasoning behind the pick, so you can see why it may suit fans of The Borgias.

Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire is a strong follow-up to The Borgias because it offers power, money and strategic conflict and a comparable sense of status-driven drama. Shared genre fit: Crime and Drama Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician…

Peaky Blinders

Peaky Blinders is a strong follow-up to The Borgias because it offers power, money and strategic conflict and a comparable sense of status-driven drama. Shared genre fit: Drama and Crime Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

Babylon Berlin

Babylon Berlin is a strong follow-up to The Borgias because it offers power, money and strategic conflict and a comparable sense of status-driven drama. Shared genre fit: Drama and Crime Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Deadwood

Deadwood is a strong follow-up to The Borgias because it offers power, money and strategic conflict and a comparable sense of status-driven drama. Shared genre fit: Crime and Drama Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless…

Hell on Wheels

Hell on Wheels is a strong follow-up to The Borgias because it offers power, money and strategic conflict and a comparable sense of status-driven drama. Shared genre fit: Drama Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a…

Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks is a strong follow-up to The Borgias because it offers power, money and strategic conflict and a comparable sense of status-driven drama. Shared genre fit: Drama Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that…

Spider-Noir

Spider-Noir is a strong follow-up to The Borgias because it offers power, money and strategic conflict and a comparable sense of status-driven drama. Shared genre fit: Drama and Crime Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, Ben Reilly, an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York, is forced to grapple with his past life as the city's one and only superhero.

The Queen's Gambit

The Queen's Gambit is a strong follow-up to The Borgias because it offers power, money and strategic conflict and a comparable sense of status-driven drama. Shared genre fit: Drama Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul is a strong follow-up to The Borgias because it offers power, money and strategic conflict and a comparable sense of status-driven drama. Shared genre fit: Crime and Drama Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make…

Fargo

Fargo is a strong follow-up to The Borgias because it offers power, money and strategic conflict and a comparable sense of status-driven drama. Shared genre fit: Crime and Drama Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Perry Mason

Perry Mason is a strong follow-up to The Borgias because it offers power, money and strategic conflict and a comparable sense of status-driven drama. Shared genre fit: Drama and Crime Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and…

Bridgerton

Bridgerton is a strong follow-up to The Borgias because it offers power, money and strategic conflict and a comparable sense of status-driven drama. Shared genre fit: Drama Recommendation graph signal: this title appears close to the anchor show in recommendation data. In practical terms, Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.

What makes a good show like The Borgias?

A good replacement for The Borgias is not just another show in the same broad genre. The best matches keep the parts viewers remember most: power plays, elite rivalry, and high-stakes ambition, a sharp and intense atmosphere and status-driven drama. That is why the ranking combines several signals before a title reaches the final list.

How these recommendations are chosen

Audience behaviour: Reddit-style co-mentions and pair signals help identify shows viewers naturally compare or recommend together. Recommendation graph: TMDB recommendation data helps identify titles that sit close to the anchor show. Story fit: genre overlap, semantic keywords and concept-specific guardrails reduce lazy matches that share only a surface-level category. Quality control: vote average, vote count, popularity and freshness checks help remove weak or low-confidence titles from public SEO pages.

Editor's verdict

The strongest starting point is Boardwalk Empire, Peaky Blinders, and Babylon Berlin because the list balances similarity, quality and viewer behaviour. For best results, choose the recommendation that matches the part of The Borgias you liked most: tone, characters, setting, mystery, tension or long-form payoff.

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What should I watch after The Borgias for more power and money drama?

Start with Boardwalk Empire, Peaky Blinders, and Babylon Berlin if you want more ambition, strategic rivalry and high-status drama built around power plays rather than action spectacle.

Are these shows similar to The Borgias because of finance alone?

No. The ranking looks beyond a business setting and favours series that share the same mix of pressure, status, ego and long-running conflict.

Why do fans of The Borgias often end up watching these next?

They usually respond to power plays, elite rivalry, and high-stakes ambition, so the page prioritises series that recreate that feeling instead of just matching on industry keywords.

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