Dramas like
The Uncanny Counter

A misfit team handed abilities, played for warmth. Same pleasure exactly: a small group that turns into a family, powers with rules attached, and a show that would much rather you liked its people than feared its villains, at comfort 5. Difference: a 1990s adventure comedy with far more silliness and none of the moral seriousness about the job.

Slow start Episode 3. The first two hours are loud and shapeless and the powers are played as a gag; from three onward the trio becomes a unit and the 1999 doomsday setting starts doing real work.

A supernatural civil service, with a team and a rulebook. Same structure of a recruit learning the work from colleagues who have done it for years, and the same idea that the job is saving people the world has already written off. Difference: heavy 5, every case is a real despair handled seriously, and none of the noodle-shop comedy survives the move.

Hooks early Episode 2, once the case-of-the-week structure clicks into place.

The found team, plus a mythology that holds. Same warmth from a group assembling around one young man with a gift, and the same appetite for training, rules and fights that escalate on a schedule. Difference: historical fantasy at romance 3 with a far bigger world, and it resets its own stakes between arcs.

Slow start Episode 3, once the training arc starts and the ensemble locks in.

A righteous man, a makeshift crew, and fights that land. Same shape of an unlikely group forming around one stubborn person, and the same combination of real action with jokes, at comfort 4. Difference: nothing supernatural, pace 5, and the target is municipal corruption rather than evil spirits.

Hooks early Episode 2, once the priest, the prosecutor and the detective are stuck in the same room.

Ordinary people carrying abilities they never asked for. Same interest in a school-age holder of a power and the adults quietly arranging their lives around protecting him, with the same warmth under the action. Difference: much bigger, much more violent, and the powers are inherited rather than granted with a job.

Slow start Episode 7, when the show stops being about three kids at school and hands the whole middle stretch to their parents.

Found family as the whole product. Same small unit doing good work in a place nobody notices, and the same young man with nothing who gets taken in and handed something that matters, at comfort 4. Difference: no action and no supernatural anything, so the stakes are private and the register is gentle throughout.

Slow start Episode 3, once the hospice wish-granting team is fully assembled.