Shows that feel likePretty Little Liars (2010–2017)
If you loved Pretty Little Liars, the closest series we have are One of Us Is Lying (2021), SKAM (2015) and Desperate Housewives (2004). All three share Pretty Little Liars' contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Behind Her Eyes (2021).
If Pretty Little Liars hit the spot, these will too
Two things both keep coming back to: high school and teen drama
The difference: Trades the warmth of Pretty Little Liars for an angle of its own
Teenage friendship groups where the social stakes feel like life and death
The difference: Norwegian and naturalistic — no thriller, no villain
A community where every woman is hiding something and someone is watching
The difference: Suburban adults, comic and much more knowing
A young death that makes everyone in town a suspect
The difference: Adult, quiet and devastating, over in one season
YA longing where one summer's secrets reshape every friendship
The difference: No mystery engine — just the love triangle, played sincerely
The same mix in both: stillness, then twists
The difference: Leans harder into sci-fi & fantasy than Pretty Little Liars does
Glossy secrets and betrayals unspooling one cliffhanger at a time
The difference: Adult affairs and Spanish-language melodrama, not teenage friendship
An anonymous voice broadcasting the secrets of a closed teenage world
The difference: Manhattan wealth and no mystery, just cruelty
A killer targeting one friend group and using their secrets
The difference: Straight slasher, with kills on screen
Contemplative drama in both cases
The difference: Easier on the warmth than Pretty Little Liars
Adolescent life reshaped by something that makes private feelings public
The difference: Korean, melancholy and quiet, with no threat
High school cruelty laid bare through messages from someone gone
The difference: Heavy and painful about real harm — no escapist gloss to soften it
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