8 Shows and Movies Like The Terminal List to Watch If You Like The Terminal List

The Terminal List is one of Amazon Prime Video's biggest non-elf hits. According to Nielsen, the Chris Pratt-led military thriller was the No. 2 show across all streaming services the week it was released, behind only Stranger Things. You would think a show this successful would get renewed quickly — maybe even for two seasons — but that's not the case, as The Terminal List has not yet been renewed for Season 2 while Pratt and Amazon negotiate.

Author Jack Carr has written several more novels about vengeance-fueled former Navy SEAL James Reece, and showrunner David DiGilio has plans for how to continue the story. While we anticipate The Terminal List will eventually be renewed, it could be a long time before Season 2 reaches your screen for more military conspiracy action. However, there are plenty of shows to watch in the meantime while you wait for the pickup. If you liked The Terminal List for its gritty fight scenes, straightforward storytelling, and authentic depiction of Navy SEAL culture, we have a (terminal) list of shows for you to watch next. It includes other military dramas, revenge thrillers, and Amazon Prime Video shows based on dad-friendly book series. 

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SEAL Team

SEAL Team is TV's other current drama about Navy SEALs. As you might deduce from its title, the CBS-turned-Paramount+ series follows the members of an elite unit of SEALs led by Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Jason Hayes (David Boreanaz) in their battles at war and at home. It's more of an ensemble show than the Pratt-centric The Terminal List — other members include characters played by Max Thieriot, Jessica Paré, and A.J. Buckley — but it's similarly authentic in its depiction of what it's like to be a SEAL. 

Six

Six is even closer to The Terminal List in structure than SEAL Team is. The action drama, which ran for two seasons on History in 2017 and 2018, tells a season-long story about SEAL Team Six as its members try to carry out a dangerous mission. In Season 1, they're trying to rescue a former SEAL who's been captured by Boko Haram, and in Season 2 they're trying to stop Bosnian terrorists. Six can't quite match The Terminal List's production value, but it does have a similar level of authentic grittiness. Like The Terminal List, Six has respect for the operators who put their lives and sanity on the line, but it doesn't make them uncomplicated, morally upstanding heroes. They're violent men plagued by personal problems who make harsh choices while fighting for their country.  

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

The Terminal List wouldn't exist without Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Amazon's first Department of Defense-based action hit based on a bestselling book series starring a guy who got famous from an NBC comedy. In this case, it's The Office's John Krasinski as the titular CIA analyst, who's plucked from his desk job and thrown into the middle of a war zone because he's the guy who sees patterns where others do not. Unlike Parks and Recreation vet Pratt's James Reece, who's been perfecting violence his whole career, Jack Ryan is not an operator. He's a desk jockey who's willing to get in the mix if it stops terrorists. The things Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan has most in common with The Terminal List are a dedication to technical authenticity (author Clancy's trademark), efficient conspiracy thriller storytelling, and a sense of patriotism. 

The Old Man

The Old Man, FX's spy thriller, stars Jeff Bridges as Dan Chase, a CIA defector who's been living off the grid for 35 years. After he's discovered, he's forced to go on the lam, trying to elude getting captured by Harold Harper (John Lithgow), an FBI agent with whom he has history. The series shares with The Terminal List a somber tone and some tense, violent thrills, though it's much more of a character-driven drama that allows Bridges and Lithgow to show off their considerable acting skills. The Old Man isn't that much like The Terminal List in its specifics, but I'm putting it on the list based on an intuition. The feeling I have is that my dad, a 66-year-old man who enjoyed The Terminal List, would also enjoy The Old Man. If that's true for him, it might be true for you too.

Reacher

Reacher, Amazon's other other action hit based on a series of bestselling novels, shares The Terminal List's sense of bravado and propensity for violent action set pieces, while adding a crucial sense of humor that The Terminal List doesn't have. It's more fun than the deadly serious Terminal List. Hulking dude Alan Ritchson stars as the titular military policeman-turned-drifter who travels around the country getting involved in mysteries he has to solve. He has the mind of a detective and the body of a UFC fighter. Like James Reece, Jack Reacher (They even have similar names! You can't be an Amazon action hero without the initials J.R.) unravels a conspiracy he didn't ask to be part of, and it really pisses him off. 

Marvel's The Punisher

If you're looking for another revenge thriller series, The Punisher is basically The Terminal List though a Marvel filter. Jon Bernthal stars as Frank Castle, a military veteran who devotes his life to getting revenge on the people who killed his family, which happened because people were trying to get to him in order to cover up a sinister government conspiracy. Don't let its superhero milieu give you the wrong idea — The Punisher is probably the show most like The Terminal List on this list. James Reece is pretty much a vigilante antihero whose superpower is being really good at killing people, just like Frank Castle. The Punisher is not quite as grim and gritty as The Terminal List, but it's about as gritty as the erstwhile Netflix Marvel shows ever got. 

Fauda

This explosive Israeli thriller is all about soldiers on opposite sides of a war getting revenge on each other. Co-creator Lior Raz stars as Doron Kavillio, an elite Israeli Defense Force soldier who in Season 1 comes out of retirement to capture Taufiq Hammed (Hisham Suliman), a Hamas fighter whom Doron supposedly killed in his final operation but is still alive and planning attacks. Doron goes undercover to infiltrate Hammed's terror cell, which puts him and his loved ones in grave danger. It's different from The Terminal List in some ways, as it's more directly focused on military operations than straight-up vigilantism, but it's another macho thriller preoccupied with revenge that fans of the genre will enjoy. Season 4 recently premiered on Israeli TV and is expected to arrive on Netflix later this year. 

The Tomorrow War

This list has to include this 2021 movie, which has some major elements in common with The Terminal List. In this one, Chris Pratt plays a former Green Beret — Army, not Navy like in The Terminal List, but still an operator — who gets sent into the future to fight aliens that invade in the year 2048. You have probably gathered by now that The Tomorrow War has sci-fi and comedy elements that are not present in The Terminal List, unless you think the pharmaceutical part of the show's conspiracy is a bit too Jacob's Ladder. But it's packed with Chris Pratt military action, and you don't even have to leave Prime Video to watch it.