Shows like Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord

If you're drawn to Maul - Shadow Lord for its focus on a ruthless operator methodically consolidating criminal power across a fragmented galaxy, you'll likely find similar ground in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, which share that same morally gray anti-hero navigating lawless territories through calculated scheming rather than brute force alone. The prequel trilogy (Episodes I-III) and The Clone Wars offer the deeper mythological context for how war and political fracture create the power vacuums Maul exploits, though they're considerably slower-paced and less focused on his criminal consolidation specifically. The Eminence in Shadow probably sits closest thematically—same obsession with operating unseen while orchestrating pawns across hostile territory to rebuild an empire from nothing.