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Shows that feel likeStranger Things (2016–2025)

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

If you loved Stranger Things, the closest series we have are ONE PIECE (2023), Pretty Little Liars (2010) and Penny Dreadful (2014). Most of the picks below share Stranger Things' twisty and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is SKAM (2015).

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If Stranger Things hit the spot, these will too

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ONE PIECE
2023– · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.3action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

A tight-knit crew of kids-at-heart facing outsized dangers

The difference: Pirate adventure sunshine, no Upside Down

With his straw hat and ragtag crew, young pirate Monkey D. Luffy goes on an epic voyage for treasure.

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Pretty Little Liars
2010–2017 · 7 seasons · ABC Family
★ 7.3drama · mysteryMaxHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: teen drama

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than Stranger Things does

Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they begin receiving messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.

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Penny Dreadful
2014–2016 · 3 seasons · Showtime
★ 8.2sci-fi & fantasy · drama · mysteryParamount+

Genre nostalgia repurposed into something rich and scary

The difference: Victorian literary gothic, adult

Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.

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Alchemy of Souls
2022–2023 · 2 seasons · tvN
★ 8.7drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureNetflix

Hidden powers, found family, and mounting supernatural stakes

The difference: K-drama romance fantasy

She was named Naksu because wherever she went, a trail of heads followed. She performs the alchemy of souls, magic that can change people's bodies and souls, which is forbidden in Daeho, and ends up being chased. Naksu hurriedly abandons her body and attempts the alchemy of souls on a woman passing by. Jang Wook, the son of the King of Daeho, realizes that Mudeok's soul has been changed and helps her. Jang Wook wants to learn Naksu's martial arts and become a sorcerer, and Naksu, in the body of Mudeok, stays by his side so she can recover her strength.

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Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
2016–2026 · 1 season · TV Tokyo
★ 8.3animation · mystery · action & adventureHulu

An ordinary kid yanked into a world with deadly rules

The difference: Anime time-loop, darker than it looks

Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she's looking for.

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SKAM
2015–2017 · 4 seasons · NRK P3
★ 8.5drama

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

The difference: Trades the momentum of Stranger Things for an angle of its own

The story of young teenagers and pupils from Hartvig Nissens upper secondary school in Oslo, and their troubles, scandals and everyday life. Each season is told from a different person's point of view.

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Dark Desire
2020–2022 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.5mystery · dramaNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Stranger Things does

Married Alma spends a fateful weekend away from home that ignites passion, ends in tragedy and leads her to question the truth about those close to her.

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Sleepy Hollow
2013–2017 · 4 seasons · FOX
★ 7.3drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyHulu

Both are working the same pair: small town life, halloween

Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

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

Common ground: supernatural

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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Moon Knight
2022 · 1 season · Disney+
★ 7.3sci-fi & fantasy · mystery · action & adventureDisney+

Ordinary life cracked open by something impossible

The difference: Identity-bending Marvel, Egyptology

When Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life, he discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.

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Locke & Key
2020–2022 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.3sci-fi & fantasy · drama · mysteryNetflix

One thread runs through both: small town life

After their dad's murder, three siblings move with their mom to his ancestral estate, where they discover magical keys that unlock powers — and secrets.

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Xena: Warrior Princess
1995–2001 · 6 seasons · Syndication
🍅 63%★ 6.8drama · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: supernatural

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who are unable to defend themselves.

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