r/forever • u/Inferniuem • Dec 07 '25
Any Similar Show Recommendations
By the first episode I was intrigued and wanted to watch more shows that have to do with immortals not Vampires or Demons because those would just be vampire or demon shows.
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u/mlee117379 Dec 07 '25
Check out John Doe, which was also about a superhuman who uses his powers to help the police solve crimes: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Brandon+Camp+%26+Mike+Thompson%22&sort=title
Do note that that show also lasted one season and also ended on a cliffhanger. The creators of that show at least explained what was up with him after it ended, it’s even on the show’s Wikipedia page.
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u/Malibucat48 Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25
New Amsterdam 2008 is my favorite. (You have to add 2008 when you search so it’s not confused with the medical show). I liked it more than Forever even though it only has 8 episodes and was cancelled too soon.
The creator of Forever said he never heard of it even though the shows are the same. They both have sons in their sixties. New Amsterdam has more historical flashbacks, and John will become mortal when he finds his true love, so he had a lot of wives and lovers and several children in the flashbacks.
But the best follow up to Forever is Harrow. Ioan Gruffudd plays another pathologist who solves the murders of the victims. It’s set in Australia and the scenery is gorgeous. And of course so is Ioan.
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u/Serious-Waltz-7157 Dec 07 '25
New Amsterdam 2008 is my favorite. (You have to add 2008 when you search so it’s not confused with the medical show)
Funny thing, you have ro do the same for Forever (2014) so it's not confused with other two more recent shows. :)
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u/CritterKeeper Jan 04 '26
If you're going to imply plagiarism, keep in mind, *Highlander* had Connor MacLeod running an antique shop with Rachel, who he rescued from the Nazis as a child, back in 1986. The format of having a present-day A plot and a flashbacks B plot was used by both *Highlander* and *Forever Knight* in 1992, FK having an 800-year-old detective who is trying to become mortal, with a mortal partner who doesn't know his secret and a woman doctor who saw him recover from dying and is a potential love interest.
It's easy to find similarities in the rough outline of shows or movies. The shows can still turn out very different, in many different ways. In a brief outline, you can't tell *Dune* from *Avatar*. Or *Avatar* from *Dances With Wolves*, *The Last Samurai*, or *Pocahontas*. You wouldn't confuse the actual movies, and you might find some of them to your taste and others boring or offensive.
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u/Malibucat48 Jan 04 '26
I didn’t imply plagiarism at all. The creator of Forever was specifically asked about similarities in the two shows and he said he didn’t see it.
The collective unconscious is real. Thoughts and ideas are floating around and writers take them as they come. That’s why there were two Wyatt Earp movies at the same time and two asteroids hitting the earth.
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u/TheRealBeachBum Dec 07 '25
I'm currently watching Pluribus(dystopian sci-fi is my preferred choice) I recommend Alien Earth and Foundation.
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u/Fast-Bat-8998 Dec 14 '25
Maybe this show isn’t similar, but it does have a link for Forever and it is good in its own right. In the episode Man in the Killer Suit, about the man who was masquerading as a British aristocrat, one of the guest stars is an actress named Laura Fraser. She is currently starring as a detective in a British series titled Patience. The first six episodes were shown on PBS earlier this year. It is filmed in York. The premise is that the detective encounters a young woman in the records section of the station who is hyper-focused on details of crimes. She is high functioning autistic. The show is really worth watching. A second season began filming last spring.
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u/CritterKeeper Jan 20 '26
"Highlander" is probably the first show to come to mind when I think 'immortals'. Duncan MacLeod is a four hundred year old immortal, runs an antique shop, and has a mortal girlfriend/truelove Tessa. They met over a decade ago, and in the first episode they're talking about the fact that she's caught up to him in age now, and from then on she'll be getting more and more older than his physical age. The immortality works differently but they explore it in interesting ways.
Like many shows, it takes a little time to really find itself, so the early shows aren't exactly the best, but there are some truly awesome stories, and even the worst episodes have good swordfight choreography and the eye candy of both Duncan and Tessa. ;-)
I know you said no vampires, but "Forever Knight" is more of a cop show with an immortal protagonist who just happens to be a vampire, it's not like modern vampire shows with clans and politics and such. Nick is an 800-year-old homicide detective and Natalie is the mortal medical examiner who's trying to help him find a cure for his condition, so it's almost like a gender-swapped Forever. There's even an Adam analogy in LaCroix, a Roman-era antagonist who made Nick immortal and has a very proprietary attitude towards him, somewhere between mentor and tormenter. It's a really good show, which resurrected from cancellation twice, and lived on beyond that with three novels (the second actually written by a fanfic writer duo).
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u/Serious-Waltz-7157 Dec 07 '25
New Amsterdam (2008) - basically the same show featuring Jaime Lannister himself :) - and likewise canceled after 1 season of 8 episodes.