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Shows that feel like The Agency (2024–)

If you loved The Agency, the closest series we have are IT: Welcome to Derry (2025), Slow Horses (2022) and The Fall of the House of Usher (2023). All three share The Agency's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Covert CIA agent Martian is ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind unexpectedly reappears, their romance reignites, pitting his career, his real identity and his mission against his heart while hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.

7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗2 seasons · Paramount+created by Jez Butterworthcontemplativetwisty
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If The Agency hit the spot, these will too

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IT: Welcome to Derry
2025– · 2 seasons · HBO
7.9drama · mystery

One thread runs through both: grim

In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.

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Slow Horses
2022– · 6 seasons · Apple TV
8.3crime · drama · mystery

London shapes both of them

The difference: Sits closer to crime than The Agency does

Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

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The Fall of the House of Usher
2023 · 1 season · Netflix
7.9mystery · drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then twists

To secure their fortune — and future — two ruthless siblings build a family dynasty that begins to crumble when their heirs mysteriously die, one by one.

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The Watcher
2022 · 1 season · Netflix
6.5drama · mystery

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Ominous letters. Strange neighbors. Sinister threats. A family moves into their suburban dream home, only to discover they've inherited a nightmare.

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The Boarding School: Las Cumbres
2021–2023 · 3 seasons · Prime Video
6.5drama · mystery

Twisty mystery in both cases

In an inaccessible place between the mountains and isolated from the world, a school is located next to an old monastery. The students are rebellious and problematic young people who live under the strict and severe discipline imposed by the center to reintegrate them into society. The surrounding forest is home to ancient legends, threats that are still valid and that will immerse them in terrifying adventures.

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The Haunting of Bly Manor
2020 · 1 season · Netflix
7.4mystery · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

After an au pair's tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the estate's chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling tale.

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The Night Manager
2016– · 2 seasons · BBC One
8drama · mystery · crime

The same two preoccupations: spy, and spy thriller

Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, Pine must himself become a criminal.

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A Shop for Killers
2024–2026 · 2 seasons · Disney+
8drama · action & adventure · mystery

Mystery built on twists, twice over

A niece who lost her parents and grew up in the hands of an uncle who runs a shopping mall faces a new truth after her uncle's sudden death.

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Kingdom
2019–2020 · 2 seasons · Netflix
8.3drama · mystery

The drama is handled with the same confidence

In this zombie thriller set in Korea's medieval Joseon dynasty which has been defeated by corruption and famine, a mysterious rumor of the king’s death spreads, as does a strange plague that renders the infected immune to death and hungry for flesh. The crown prince, fallen victim to a conspiracy, sets out on a journey to unveil the evil scheme and save his people.

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ERASED
2016 · 1 season · Fuji TV
8.4animation · drama · mystery

Mystery approached the same way

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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Ludwig
2024– · 2 seasons · BBC One
8.1mystery · crime · drama

The same drama instincts

John Taylor lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of 'Ludwig'. When his identical twin, James, disappears off the face of the earth, John takes over his brother's identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts.

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Midnight Mass
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
7.7mystery · drama

Both working the same mystery territory

The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.

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