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Shows that feel like Abyss (2026–)

If you loved Abyss, the closest series we have are The Day of the Jackal (2024), The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) and IT: Welcome to Derry (2025). All three share Abyss' twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

The long-standing peace of a conservative small town is shattered by the appearance of an online novel "Abyss." Many plot points bear a striking resemblance to a cold case from years ago that has never been made public. Li Cheng, a passionate and righteous rookie police officer, engages in a series of high-stakes battles of wits with various suspects. He unravels the mystery, revealing the truth buried beneath heartbreaking kinships and friendships.

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The Day of the Jackal
2024– · 1 season · Sky Atlantic
8.1drama · action & adventure · mystery

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Abyss does

An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.

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The Haunting of Bly Manor
2020 · 1 season · Netflix
7.4mystery · drama

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

After an au pair's tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the estate's chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling tale.

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IT: Welcome to Derry
2025– · 2 seasons · HBO
7.9drama · mystery

Twisty mystery in both cases

In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.

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Wayward Pines
2015–2016 · 2 seasons · FOX
7.3drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasy

Mystery of the same temperament

Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.

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The Haunting of Hill House
2018 · 1 season · Netflix
8.5mystery · drama

Mystery approached the same way

Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

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The Alienist
2018–2020 · 2 seasons · TNT
7.7drama · crime · mystery

Cut from the same mystery cloth

New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.

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The Terror
2018–2019 · 2 seasons · AMC
7.8mystery · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Both working the same mystery territory

A chilling anthology series featuring stories of people in terrifying situations inspired by true historical events.

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Slow Horses
2022– · 6 seasons · Apple TV
8.3crime · drama · mystery

Both play mystery straight

Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

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Lovecraft Country
2020 · 1 season · HBO
7.1drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasy

The same mystery instincts

The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.

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Another
2012 · 1 season · KNB
7.5animation · drama · mystery

Mystery in the same key

When Kouichi arrives at his new school, he immediately senses something frightening in the atmosphere of his new class, something that no student wants to talk about and that seems to be related to a mysterious and silent girl.

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Defending Jacob
2020 · 1 season · Apple TV
7.8drama · mystery · crime

The mystery is handled with the same confidence

A family's lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.

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The Outsider
2020 · 1 season · HBO
7.6drama · mystery · crime

Both are mystery through and through

When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.

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