
Shows that feel likeDeath Note (2006–2007)
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).
If Death Note hit the spot, these will too

A brilliant mind and its opposite number, locked in a private duel
The difference: Street-level London crime, no game and no rules

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

Someone playing a long game that only makes sense at the end
The difference: One tight thriller with a very strange final move

The same preoccupation in both: psychological thriller
The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than Death Note does

An elaborate plan executed behind a faultless public face
The difference: Hamptons soap; social ruin rather than judgement from a notebook

Both are built on the same subject: psychological thriller
The difference: Easier on the ideas than Death Note

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 land twists and unease at once
The difference: Sits closer to crime than Death Note does

Cerebral where it counts, dreamlike underneath
The difference: Leans harder into action & adventure than Death Note does

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

A household arrangement with something inexplicable quietly running it
The difference: Claustrophobic domestic horror in a single house

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