5 TV Shows To Watch If You Like Sheriff Country

If you're already hooked on "Sheriff Country" after just one season, you're in the right place. Below, TVLine is outlining five shows similar to the CBS drama that will satisfy all your crime drama cravings. 

"Sheriff Country" premiered in October 2025, wrapping its freshman run in May 2026. The show follows Sheriff Mickey (Morena Baccarin), who was first introduced to viewers in "Fire Country" Season 2 as Sharon Leone's stepsister, as she juggles law enforcement duties with the challenges of mothering her daughter Skye (Amanda Arcuri). Plus, she's dealing with her ex-con father Wes (W. Earl Brown), who is an off-the-grid marijuana grower, throwing a little chaos into her personal and professional life. 

Whether you love watching the inner workings of a small-town sheriff's office, or you tune in for all the relationship drama — familial and romantic — among Mickey and the gang, there's something for you to love in the list below. So what are you waiting for? Get scrolling! And once you're finished, hit the comments with any of your favorites that we missed!

We'd be fools not to include "Fire Country," the flagship series in the franchise, on this list — and fools we are not! 

Set in the same universe as "Sheriff Country," the Max Thieriot-led series follows the inner workings of Cal Fire's Station 42 and Three Rock, a minimum-security prison where inmates are trained to help fight fires. It centers on Bode Leone (Thieriot) as he tries to carve out his own legacy at 42, where he has teamed up with his parents Sharon (Diane Farr) and Vince (Billy Burke). 

The connections to "Sheriff Country" are obvious. For starters, Mickey and Sharon are inherently linked as sisters, which comes with plenty of shared drama and trauma. Secondly, like Mickey's daughter Skye, "Fire Country" protagonist Bode has a dark past of his own, having struggled with addiction earlier in his life. All in all, "Fire Country" has plenty of familiar dynamics at play — small-town politics, life or death emergencies, and complex work/family relationships — so if you're digging "Sheriff Country," the flagship series is a no-brainer. 

(All four seasons are streaming on Paramount+.)

If you love watching family drama play out alongside the familiar beats of a procedural, but also love a good hoedown, may I introduce you to "Longmire"? The Western crime thriller, which is adapted from Craig Johnson's "Walt Longmire Mysteries" novels, centers on a Wyoming sheriff (Robert Taylor) who investigates local crimes, often needing to collaborate with the town's local Indian reservation. He's assisted by his friend Henry Standing Bear (Lou Diamond Phillips), a member of the Cheyenne tribe, to work with tribal police.

When we first meet Longmire, we learn he is also grieving the death of his wife. His adult daughter Cady (Cassidy Freeman) comes to town to be by his side as he continues to recover from the loss. The parent-child relationship at the heart of the series is reminiscent of Mickey and Skye's, and Longmire's work unraveling the town's biggest mysteries amid small-town politics mirrors Edgewater's own interconnected nature. The dots practically connect themselves!

(All six seasons are streaming on Paramount+.)

The CW's "Walker, Texas Ranger" reboot stars "Supernatural" vet Jared Padalecki as the titular law enforcement agent, Cordell Walker, who starts out in the pilot as a husband and father but soon becomes a widowed dad to two teenagers after his wife Emily (fellow "Supernatural" vet Genevieve Padalecki) is murdered. 

Following the tragedy, Walker goes on an undercover assignment that takes him away from his kids for 10 months. When he returns to Texas, he must face the heaviness of all he's been through — and the disordered family dynamic he's left in his wake. Will his children trust him again? Does he have what it takes to be a parent? Overall, Walker is more spiritually akin to Wes than Mickey in "Sheriff Country," as his own actions have created chaos around him. Plus, perhaps "Sheriff Country" Season 2 will be even more similar to "Walker" now that we know Eva Santos (Rachel Ticotin) is Mickey's estranged mother, who similarly left her family behind to chase her career.