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Shows that feel likeDeath Note (2006–2007)

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?

If you loved Death Note, the closest series we have are Luther (2010), Dexter (2006) and Behind Her Eyes (2021). All three share Death Note's twisty and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Cruel Summer (2021).

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If Death Note hit the spot, these will too

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Luther
2010–2019 · 5 seasons · BBC One
★ 8.4crime · drama · mysteryMaxHulu

A brilliant mind and its opposite number, locked in a private duel

The difference: Street-level London crime, no game and no rules

A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

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Dexter
2006–2013 · 8 seasons · Showtime
★ 8.6crime · drama · mysteryParamount+

A killer maintaining a flawless surface while working beside the police

The difference: Sunlit Miami pulp with a wry narrator, and far less mind-game

Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.

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

Someone playing a long game that only makes sense at the end

The difference: One tight thriller with a very strange final move

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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Cruel Summer
2021–2023 · 2 seasons · Freeform
★ 7.4mystery · dramaHulu

The same preoccupation in both: psychological thriller

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than Death Note does

Taking place over three summers - 1993, 1994, 1995 - in a small Texas town, a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.

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Revenge
2011–2015 · 4 seasons · ABC
★ 7.8drama · mysteryHulu

An elaborate plan executed behind a faultless public face

The difference: Hamptons soap; social ruin rather than judgement from a notebook

When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay.

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Yellowjackets
2021– · 4 seasons · Showtime
★ 7.7drama · mysteryNetflixParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: psychological thriller

The difference: Easier on the ideas than Death Note

This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.

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Hannibal
2013–2015 · 3 seasons · NBC
★ 8.5drama · crimeNetflixPrime Video

Two brilliant minds circling each other over a trail of bodies

The difference: Lush, gory, and slow — mood matters more than the chess match

Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

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Sharp Objects
2018 · 1 season · HBO
★ 8crime · drama · mysteryMax

Both land twists and unease at once

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Death Note does

Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.

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Legion
2017–2019 · 3 seasons · FX
★ 8.1action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaHulu

Cerebral where it counts, dreamlike underneath

The difference: Leans harder into action & adventure than Death Note does

David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.

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ERASED
2016 · 1 season · Fuji TV
★ 8.4animation · drama · mysteryHulu

A supernatural gift used to redirect who lives and who dies

The difference: Warm and grieving where this is cold — a rescue, not a reign

Satoru Fujinuma is a struggling manga artist who has the ability to turn back time and prevent deaths. When his mother is killed he turns back time to solve the mystery, but ends up back in elementary school, just before the disappearance of his classmate Kayo.

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Servant
2019–2023 · 4 seasons · Apple TV
★ 7.4drama · mysteryApple TV+

A household arrangement with something inexplicable quietly running it

The difference: Claustrophobic domestic horror in a single house

A Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door for a mysterious force to enter their home.

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★ 8crime · dramaNetflix

Two things both keep coming back to: murder and serial killer

This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.

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