Shows that feel like13 Reasons Why (2017–2020)
If you loved 13 Reasons Why, the closest series we have are Time (2021), Broadchurch (2013) and Carrie (2026). All three share 13 Reasons Why's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Alienist (2018).
If 13 Reasons Why hit the spot, these will too
Both are working the same pair: suicide, mental illness
The difference: Easier on the twists than 13 Reasons Why
One death, and a whole town's private guilt slowly turned over
The difference: A police investigation led by adults, restrained and free of shock tactics
Both are built on the same subject: high school
The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than 13 Reasons Why does
A school with a secret and a death count nobody will explain
The difference: Japanese horror anime — supernatural, and much more frightening
A young death that turns a whole community into suspects
The difference: Parents and courtrooms, adult and restrained
Piecing a tragedy together from what people would rather not say
The difference: 1896 period detection, adult and formal
School cruelty exposed by someone who has made it their mission
The difference: Thai anthology with a supernatural avenger, colder and stranger
The same preoccupation in both: high school
The difference: Leans harder into crime than 13 Reasons Why does
One thread runs through both: depression
Contemplative where it counts, twisty underneath
Assault treated as the centre of the story rather than a plot beat
The difference: Procedural, adult, and it resets every week
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