What to Watch After Vincenzo: Three K-Dramas That Hit the Same Note
If Vincenzo left you craving revenge with teeth, these three follow-ups keep the anger sharp and the payoff personal.
Vincenzo works because its revenge is never clean. Vincenzo Cassano (Song Joong-ki) comes home for hidden gold and ends up tied to people Babel Group treats as disposable. Hong Cha-young chooses the fight with him, Jang Han-seok turns cruelty into sport, and Jang Han-seo gets trapped inside power he never fully controls. The appeal is dread, duty, class friction, and the relief of watching corrupt people finally meet consequences.
1. The Glory
Same cathartic revenge register as Vincenzo. 2022, Netflix.
Pick The Glory if the Babel Group takedown was the part you needed most.
This is the colder road out of Vincenzo. Kim Eun-sook’s 2022 Netflix drama follows a bullying survivor who spends 17 years planning revenge against five tormentors who walked away free. The match is obvious: revenge, betrayal, dread, isolation, and a cathartic ending. The difference is temperature. Vincenzo lets revenge wear sharp suits, black comedy, and mob logic. The Glory strips that down to patience, memory, and a wound that never got to close.
That makes it a strong next watch if you liked Vincenzo’s refusal to forgive Babel simply because time had passed. Vincenzo and Cha-young fight corruption in public; this target is more private, slower, and more severe. The pacing is slow-burn instead of plot-dense, so do not expect the same rush. Expect the same hunger for consequences.
It also suits anyone who liked how Vincenzo made revenge feel moral without pretending it was gentle.
2. Itaewon Class
Same revenge-and-class-friction lane as Vincenzo. 2020, JTBC / Netflix.
Pick Itaewon Class if you wanted Vincenzo’s anger, but with more found-family heat.
Gwang-jin’s 2020 JTBC / Netflix drama follows a wronged high schooler who builds a single Itaewon pub into a rival of the Jangga food empire over 15 years. That gives it three clean overlaps with Vincenzo: revenge, duty, and plot-dense pacing, with a cathartic ending waiting at the far end. It also shares the class-friction pleasure of watching people without inherited protection challenge an empire that assumes it can outlast them.
The register is less dread-soaked than Vincenzo. It carries awakening and found-family energy where Vincenzo keeps reaching for menace and punishment. That variety helps. After 20 episodes of Babel rot, you may want another long revenge path that still leaves room for chosen people, business grit, and the stubborn belief that a life can be built while a grudge is being paid off.
This is the pick for viewers who wanted the payback, but also wanted to breathe between rounds.
Read the Itaewon Class review →
3. My Royal Nemesis
Same antagonist-dyad and class-friction spark as Vincenzo. 2026, Netflix.
Pick My Royal Nemesis if you liked the way Vincenzo and Cha-young turned conflict into partnership.
Netflix’s 2026 drama follows a Joseon-era villainess who wakes up in modern Seoul inside the body of a struggling actress and tangles with a chaebol heir. The shared taste node is not mafia revenge. It is the antagonist-dyad engine: two sharp people testing each other, misreading each other, and slowly becoming useful to each other’s survival.
That makes it the lighter curveball after Vincenzo. It still has class friction, plot-dense movement, awakening, and a hopeful-open ending, but the revenge score is lower and the romance-longing is higher. If Han-seok gave you the thrill of a dangerous opponent and Cha-young gave you the pleasure of a partner who can keep up, this is the pick that shifts those instincts into a more playful modern-fantasy lane.
It is for the part of you that liked the insults, the tests, and the sense that attraction begins as strategy.
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What you actually want next
If you wanted punishment and patience, pick The Glory. If you wanted revenge against a class machine with more warmth around the edges, pick Itaewon Class. If you wanted the spiky partner energy and class collision more than the body count, pick My Royal Nemesis. Or browse by mood at quizfandom.com/find-your-next-kdrama.
Those are three different cravings, not three copies of the same meal. Stay cold, go scrappy, or choose the flirtier fight. The right answer depends on which part of Vincenzo followed you out of the finale.