10 Shows to Stream If You Like Spider-Noir

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Credit: Spider-Noir, Prime Video

This is Streamalikes, where you can find a curated list of recommendations to stream based on what you already like.

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I’m tempted to refer to Spider-Noir as the most unexpected Spider-Man spinoff, but given the franchise includes live-action takes on Morbius and Madame Web, I’m not so sure it qualifies. Spider-Man Noir began as an alternate universe lark in the comics before graduating to a supporting role in the greatest Spider-movie of all, the animated Into the Spider-Verse, where he was voiced by Nicholas Cage. The actor reprises his role in the new live-action Prime Video series, to deliriously entertaining (if surprisingly serious) results.

Frankly, if we’re going to continue to be inundated with Marvel content, more weird shit like this is fine by me, but I’m not too sure there are many other shows that completely align with “Nicholas Cage plays Spider-Man, but in the 1940s.” Therefore, when it comes to recommending streamalikes, I’m offering up these 10 other franchise reboots and reimaginings that take the weirder path, offering off-the-wall versions of beloved characters and concepts.

Perry Mason (2020–2022)

With Widow’s Bay signaling a full Matthew Rhys renaissance, it’s worth going back to this addictive odd duck of a show that places the Perry Mason of print, film, and television into a dark and gritty Depression-era prequel (I’m not familiar with the Erle Stanley Gardner source novels, but gather they don’t go nearly as hard as this show). Rhys is fabulous as the brilliant but hard-living defense lawyer, who is going through a divorce while still facing trauma from the Great War. He’s hired to investigate the case of a kidnapped and mutilated child, one which ends up having ties to crooked cops, local business leaders, and politicians in 1932 LA. Juliet Rylance co-stars as no-nonsense legal secretary Della Street, with Tatiana Maslany as a creepy evangelist. Stream Perry Mason on HBO Max.

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020)

Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) is an old-school witch living in a household that’s not at all unlike the Addams family: two witchy aunts (played by Miranda Otto and Lucy Davis) alongside her warlock cousin (Chance Perdomo) and her loyal familiar, Salem the cat, all of them living their supernatural lives just out of view of the local normies. Cannibalism, human sacrifice, and blood rituals abound, so while there’s a Wednesday-esque sense of humor here, it goes quite a bit harder than the ’90s show or the old-school Archie comics. Stream Sabrina on Netflix.

Titans (2018–2023)

This venerable DC franchise started out as the kid-oriented Teen Titans comics of the 1960s and evolved into a more mature concept by the 1980s, but it is best known via the long-running (nine seasons over 16 years, and counting) Teen Titans Go! animated series, aimed at younger teens. This reimagining takes the concept — former sidekick Robin leads a team of young heroes — ages up the characters, and adds sex, extra violence, and endless drama as the (reluctant) team battles demons, assassins, and daddy issues (Batman should not be allowed near children).