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Shows that feel likeEvil (2019–2024)

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.

If you loved Evil, the closest series we have are The Exorcist (2016), Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022) and Archive 81 (2022). All three share Evil'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 The Alienist (2018).

★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗4 seasons · CBScreated by Michelle Kinggrittycontemplativetwistydread
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video
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If Evil hit the spot, these will too

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

Both are built on the same subject: priest

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Evil does

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

One thread runs through both: horror

The difference: Trades the grit of Evil for an angle of its own

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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Archive 81
2022 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 7.3drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

The same mix in both: stillness, then twists

The difference: Sits closer to sci-fi & fantasy than Evil does

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.

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

Dread-soaked drama in both cases

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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Twin Peaks
1990–2017 · 3 seasons · ABC
★ 8.7drama · mysteryParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: possession

The difference: 29 years apart, and the 1990s show

The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.

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The Alienist
2018–2020 · 2 seasons · TNT
★ 7.7drama · crime · mystery

Both rooted in New York City

New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: horror

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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Chucky
2021–2024 · 3 seasons · USA Network
★ 7.2crime · comedy · mysteryPrime VideoPeacock

Common ground: possession

After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies — and allies — from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins.

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The Night Of
2016 · 1 season · HBO
★ 8.4crime · drama · mysteryMax

Crime built on grit, twice over

After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.

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Elementary
2012–2019 · 7 seasons · CBS
★ 7.9drama · mystery · crimePrime VideoHulu

Mystery with a pulse of grit, in both cases

A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

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The Chestnut Man
2021–2026 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.6drama · crime · mysteryNetflix

Both lean on stillness more than on crime

At a grisly murder scene sits a figurine made of chestnuts. From this creepy clue, two detectives hunt a killer linked to a politician's missing child.

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The Undoing
2020 · 1 season · HBO
★ 7.4drama · crime · mysteryMax

Twisty drama, and it commits to that

Grace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family.

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