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Shows that feel likeArchive 81 (2022)

An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.

If you loved Archive 81, the closest series we have are The Exorcist (2016), Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022) and Preacher (2016). All three share Archive 81's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Discovery of Witches (2018).

★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗1 season · Netflixcreated by Rebecca Sonnenshinecontemplativetwistycerebraldreamlikedread
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If Archive 81 hit the spot, these will too

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The Exorcist
2016–2017 · 2 seasons · FOX
★ 7.9mystery · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: supernatural

The difference: Trades the ideas of Archive 81 for an angle of its own

Follow the lives of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.

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★ 7drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Contemplative and twisty in the same breath

Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.

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Preacher
2016–2019 · 4 seasons · AMC
★ 7.9sci-fi & fantasy · mystery · dramaPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

A preacher sets out on a mission to make the almighty himself confess his sin of abandoning the world. With his best friend Cassidy, an alcoholic Irish vampire, his love Tulip, a red blooded gun towing Texan, and the power of genesis, an unholy child born from an angel and a devil, Jesse gives up everything to set the world straight with its creator.

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American Horror Story
2011– · 13 seasons · FX
★ 7.9drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime VideoHulu

One thread runs through both: cult

An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

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Evil
2019–2024 · 4 seasons · CBS
★ 7.7crime · drama · mysteryParamount+

Drama with a pulse of dread, in both cases

The difference: Easier on the ideas than Archive 81

Skeptical forensic psychologist Kristen Bouchard joins priest-in-training David Acosta and technology expert Ben Shakir as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to assess for a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.

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Supernatural
2005–2020 · 15 seasons · The WB
★ 8.4drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime VideoPeacock

Common ground: paranormal

When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

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Hellbound
2021–2024 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.6drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: cult

Unearthly beings deliver bloody condemnations, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.

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The Shannara Chronicles
2016–2017 · 2 seasons · MTV
★ 7.1action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Both land ideas and dream logic at once

The difference: Leans harder into action & adventure than Archive 81 does

A young Healer armed with an unpredictable magic guides a runaway Elf in her perilous quest to save the peoples of the Four Lands from an age-old Demon scourge.

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A Discovery of Witches
2018–2022 · 3 seasons · Sky One
★ 7.7sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

Contemplative sci-fi & fantasy in both cases

Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.

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

Common ground: supernatural horror

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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Shadowhunters
2016–2019 · 3 seasons · Freeform
★ 6.5action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyHulu

Mystery built on ideas, twice over

When Clary Fray's mother has disappeared, Clary joins a band of Shadowhunters; demon killing hunters, and gets caught up in a plan to save the world.

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Constantine
2014–2015 · 1 season · NBC
★ 7.5action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

Dreamlike drama, and it commits to that

A man struggling with his faith is haunted by the sins of his past but is suddenly thrust into the role of defending humanity from the gathering forces of darkness.

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