
Shows that feel likeDark Desire (2020–2022)
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).
If Dark Desire hit the spot, these will too

Secrets between friends weaponised, and someone always watching
The difference: High-school scale over seven seasons, with the adult heat stripped out

An affair that turns out to be somebody's carefully laid trap
The difference: One tight limited series with a genuinely strange ending

Sex, class and a death that makes everyone a suspect
The difference: Teenagers at school, told across many more seasons

The same two preoccupations: dark, and intimate
The difference: Takes it somewhere less warm than Dark Desire does

A relationship that turns out to have been surveillance
The difference: Cool, cerebral sci-fi; grief in place of passion

Desire narrated by the person who is the actual danger
The difference: Inside the predator's head, and darkly funny about it

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

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

A family dismantled by what they suspect about someone they love
The difference: Parental dread and courtrooms, no affair

An investigation where the obvious explanation cannot be true
The difference: Slow supernatural crime with no erotic charge

The same mix in both: twists, then stillness
The difference: Easier on the warmth than Dark Desire

Both keep coming back to the same thing: cynical
The difference: Leans harder into sci-fi & fantasy than Dark Desire does
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