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Shows that feel likeDark Desire (2020–2022)

Married Alma spends a fateful weekend away from home that ignites passion, ends in tragedy and leads her to question the truth about those close to her.

If you loved Dark Desire, the closest series we have are Pretty Little Liars (2010), Behind Her Eyes (2021) and Elite (2018). All three share Dark Desire's twisty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Devs (2020).

★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗2 seasons · Netflixcreated by Leticia López Margallitwistycontemplativewarm
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video
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If Dark Desire hit the spot, these will too

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Pretty Little Liars
2010–2017 · 7 seasons · ABC Family
★ 7.3drama · mysteryMaxHulu

Secrets between friends weaponised, and someone always watching

The difference: High-school scale over seven seasons, with the adult heat stripped out

Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they begin receiving messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.

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Behind Her Eyes
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 7.2mystery · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

An affair that turns out to be somebody's carefully laid trap

The difference: One tight limited series with a genuinely strange ending

A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife.

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Elite
2018–2024 · 8 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.1crime · mystery · dramaNetflix

Sex, class and a death that makes everyone a suspect

The difference: Teenagers at school, told across many more seasons

When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
2024– · 3 seasons · BBC Three
★ 6.8drama · crime · mysteryNetflix

The same two preoccupations: dark, and intimate

The difference: Takes it somewhere less warm than Dark Desire does

Five years after the death of schoolgirl Andie Bell, Pippa Fitz-Amobi sets out to uncover what really happened to her. Sal Singh, Andie's boyfriend, admitted to the murder before taking his own life, but Pip doesn't believe he's responsible and teams up with Sal's brother Ravi to uncover the truth. If Sal Singh isn't a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from finding out the truth?

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Devs
2020 · 1 season · Hulu
★ 7.6sci-fi & fantasy · drama · mysteryHulu

A relationship that turns out to have been surveillance

The difference: Cool, cerebral sci-fi; grief in place of passion

Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.

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You
2018–2025 · 5 seasons · Lifetime
★ 7.6mystery · crime · dramaNetflix

Desire narrated by the person who is the actual danger

The difference: Inside the predator's head, and darkly funny about it

A dangerously charming, obsessive man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of women who fascinate him.

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The Boarding School: Las Cumbres
2021–2023 · 3 seasons · Prime Video
★ 6.5drama · mysteryPrime Video

Desire, cruelty and rumour tangled up in one closed-off place

The difference: Teenagers in a gothic school, with real menace out in the woods

In an inaccessible place between the mountains and isolated from the world, a school is located next to an old monastery. The students are rebellious and problematic young people who live under the strict and severe discipline imposed by the center to reintegrate them into society. The surrounding forest is home to ancient legends, threats that are still valid and that will immerse them in terrifying adventures.

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The Watcher
2022– · 1 season · Netflix
★ 6.5drama · mysteryNetflix

A comfortable life invaded by suspicion until nobody can be trusted

The difference: Suburban paranoia from a real case, with no erotic charge to it

Ominous letters. Strange neighbors. Sinister threats. A family moves into their suburban dream home, only to discover they've inherited a nightmare.

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Defending Jacob
2020 · 1 season · Apple TV
★ 7.7drama · mystery · crimeApple TV+

A family dismantled by what they suspect about someone they love

The difference: Parental dread and courtrooms, no affair

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 · crimeMax

An investigation where the obvious explanation cannot be true

The difference: Slow supernatural crime with no erotic charge

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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One of Us Is Lying
2021–2022 · 2 seasons · Peacock
★ 6.9drama · mysteryPeacock

The same mix in both: twists, then stillness

The difference: Easier on the warmth than Dark Desire

The story of what happens when five high schoolers walk into detention and only four make it out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.

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Resident Alien
2021–2025 · 4 seasons · USA Network
★ 8sci-fi & fantasyNetflixPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: cynical

The difference: Leans harder into sci-fi & fantasy than Dark Desire does

Crash-landed alien Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Arriving with a secret mission, he starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. As he does, he begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his mission and asking the big life questions like: “Are human beings worth saving?” and “Why do they fold their pizza before eating it?”

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