Shows like The Polygamist: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Polygamist (2026) — a drama and soap series created by Akin Omotoso — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Polygamist most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like sexuality, based on novel or book and scandal. 14 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots 2013★ 7.5
Shares: Soap, Drama
Follow the complicated dynamic between the rich and powerful Cryer family and the hired help who work in their opulent Savannah, Georgia, mansion.
Stream in India on Movie Sphere+
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Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong 2014★ 7.5
Shares: Soap, Drama
Follow the relationships of a group of husbands and wives that live and love on the same street. While the neighbors come from very different backgrounds, their lives are similar – raising children, dealing with exes, worrying about money and keeping romance in their relationships. But just below the surface — secrets, lies and deception threaten to destroy what they have built.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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General Hospital 1963★ 5.8
Shares: Soap
Families, friends, enemies and lovers experience life-changing events in the large upstate New York city of Port Charles, which has a busy hospital, upscale hotel, cozy diner and dangerous waterfront frequented by the criminal underworld.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Knots Landing 1979★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Soap
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Dynasty 2017★ 8.0
Shares: Drama, Soap
Follows two of America’s wealthiest families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, as they feud for control over their fortune and their children focusing on Fallon Carrington, the daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington, and her soon-to-be stepmother, Cristal, a Hispanic woman marrying into this WASP family and America’s most powerful class.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Prisoner 1979★ 7.6
Shares: Soap, Drama
Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Painkiller 2023★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Goliath 2016★ 7.6
Shares: Drama
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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The Newsreader 2021★ 7.4
Shares: Drama
An unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change; a star newsreader and an ambitious bisexual reporter join forces in a ruthless 1986 newsroom, as events unfold that will change their lives.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Tell Me Lies 2022★ 7.5
Shares: Drama
When Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. They quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will permanently alter not only their lives, but the lives of everyone around them.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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Tyler Perry's Ruthless 2020★ 8.4
Shares: Drama
A spinoff of "The Oval," follows Ruth Truesdale as she's forced to play nice with a scandalous religious cult of powerful sex crazed fanatics in the hopes of freeing herself and her daughter.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Ambitions 2019★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
A multigenerational family saga centered around one woman who, having recently relocated and intent on revitalizing her marriage, finds herself going head to head with some of the most powerful and deceitful players in the city.
Stream in India on Movie Sphere+
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Reasonable Doubt 2022★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
In this legal drama, you’ll judge Jax Stewart for her questionable ethics and wild interpretations of the law… until you’re the one in trouble. Then you’ll see her for what she is: the most brilliant and fearless defense attorney in Los Angeles who bucks the justice system at every chance she gets.
Stream in India on VI movies and tv
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Good Girls 2018★ 7.8
Shares: Drama
Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Girlfriend 2025★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
Laura has it all: a glittering career, a loving husband, and her precious son, Daniel. But her perfect life unravels when Daniel brings home Cherry, a girlfriend who changes everything. After a tense introduction, Laura becomes convinced Cherry is hiding something. Is she a manipulative social climber, or is Laura just paranoid? The truth is a matter of perspective.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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56 Days 2026★ 7.4
Shares: Drama
When an unidentified body is found in a luxury apartment linked to Oliver Kennedy and his girlfriend Ciara Wyse, Detectives Lee Reardon and Karl Connolly reconstruct the couple's deadly romance across the past 56 days.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Kill Jackie 2026★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
Jackie Price has been living a wealthy, luxurious life for the past 20 years after escaping a dangerous past as an international cocaine dealer. But just as life begins to feel a little boring, she discovers that The Seven Demons, a group of the world’s most terrifying hitmen, have been hired to kill her.
Stream in India on BBC Player Amazon Channel
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The Irrational 2023★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
Alec Mercer is a world-renowned professor of behavioral psychology with a unique insight into human nature who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, corporations and law enforcement. However, he meets his match in a female domestic terror suspect who turns his world upside down.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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The Undoing 2020★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
Grace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Scenes from a Marriage 2021★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
A chronicle of the many years of love and turmoil that bind a contemporary American couple, tracking their relationship as it progresses through a number of successive stages: matrimony, parenthood, infidelity, divorce and subsequent partnerships.
Stream in India on JioHotstar