12 Great Crime Dramas Like Tulsa King Fans Should Watch Next – Looper

If you’re looking for the perfect blend of crime fiction and black comedy at the movies, you’d go for a Coen brothers film. The two directors’ work on classics like “Blood Simple” and “No Country for Old Men” has made them legends. Fortunately, one of their best films was later adapted for TV, with the 2014 FX series “Fargo” becoming one of the best-reviewed crime series of the last decade.

Across a set of sporadically released seasons, “Fargo” tells a series of self-contained epics mixing pulp fiction and crime comedy. Taking inspiration from the movie, the world of “Fargo” is full of crooks, mobsters, and dangerous killers, as well as its share of backwoods yokels who get mixed up in their criminal conspiracies. What makes the series so special, however, is how it jumps around in time. Season 2 flits back to the 1970s to tell the story of a frustrated couple who accidentally kill a mobster, for instance, while Season 4 takes a journey to the 1950s when a gang war breaks out between two rival crime families. 

Star-studded ensemble casts fill each season, with Martin Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Billy Bob Thornton, Ewan McGregor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Rock, Timothy Olyphant, and more popping up throughout. Full of dry wit, graphic violence, and plenty of nail-biting thrills and jaw-dropping surprises, “Fargo” has it all and comes with our highest recommendation.