The Bequeathed (2024)

Awaken is also a thriller/mystery with a detective trying to find out the mystery of what happened in a small village and how events from the past tie into the present.

Both shows explore a crime in a country side/ village lole setting and also share a common theme of familial relations.

After the death of an unknown uncle, a woman inherits a burial ground and finds herself in the center of a string of murders and dark secrets.

Both dramas deal with people that are confronted with. place in the countryside, and a connected murder/disappearance. Both dramas have something suspicious going on in that village and a past that is somehow interlinked with the main characters lives. Both face some sort of shamanism/supernatural occurrences. Both dramas deal around a family that has a very mysterious past which gets more and more discovered throughout the drama.
Most of all, both dramas give of similar vibes.

In both dramas the same actors plays lead characters. Both are thriller where the female lead has a past/family connections that is interlinked with the happenings in the drama. Apart from that the dramas are a lot different. Nonetheless, if you enjoyed the acting of the leads in Trolley, The Bequeathed will be a nice continuation.

Both dramas give off the same eerie and sinister atmosphere. Both take place in a more rural area where something happens that forces the leads to confront their family/past. And in both dramas that is connected to the course. Both give off a very similar vibe.

Complicated relationships, mystery, suspense, shocking past, etc. .............................................................................................................................................................................................

The Village: Achiara's Secret

Achiara is a quiet, peaceful village with hardly any crime But on her first day of school there, English language instructor Kim So-yoon discovers a buried corpse. As the townspeople speculate on the identity of the dead person and the reason she was killed, So-yoon and policeman Park Woo-jae become determined to solve the mystery.

? Relationship is the main focus.

Same Genre
They explore darker themes of with tensions, suspense, and complexity.
Character Driven
They prioritize character driven storytelling, where emotional depth and interpersonal relationships are the plot. Both leads navigate through moral dilemmas.
Short
Both are rather short dramas with The Bequeathed being 6 episodes and The Frog being 8.