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Shows that feel likeTwin Peaks (1990–2017)

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.

If you loved Twin Peaks, the closest series we have are Evil (2019), The Exorcist (2016) and Preacher (2016). All three share Twin Peaks' 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 Chestnut Man (2021).

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If Twin Peaks hit the spot, these will too

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Evil
2019–2024 · 4 seasons · CBS
★ 7.7crime · drama · mysteryParamount+

Investigators working cases where the rational explanation keeps failing

The difference: Network procedural, wry and case by case

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.

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

Ordinary domestic life invaded by something old and patiently evil

The difference: Committed straight horror, with none of the small-town quirk

Follow the lives of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.

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

Small-town Americana warped by forces nobody there can name

The difference: Cranked-up violence and comic-book swagger instead of hush and dread

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

A murder whose details are too strange to be coincidence

The difference: Grounded Danish crime, with real answers

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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Supernatural
2005–2020 · 15 seasons · The WB
★ 8.4drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime VideoPeacock

Back-roads America treated as a place where evil genuinely lives

The difference: Fifteen seasons of monster-hunting brothers, broad and case-driven

When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

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Scream: The TV Series
2015–2019 · 3 seasons · MTV
★ 7drama · crime · mystery

A small town undone by a single killing

The difference: Slasher rules and teenagers, no dream logic

What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.

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

Someone drawn so deep into a mystery that reality starts bending

The difference: One tight season of found-footage horror, no time for eccentric locals

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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American Horror Story
2011– · 13 seasons · FX
★ 7.9drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime VideoHulu

Dread and camp swirled until the tone is impossible to place

The difference: Loud and shock-driven, resetting cast and story every season

An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

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★ 7drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Nightmare imagery given room to be beautiful and unsettling at once

The difference: Eight standalone tales — no town to live in, no ongoing case

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

A community coming apart as the inexplicable becomes public fact

The difference: Bleak, angry and social — its subject is faith, not dream logic

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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Bates Motel
2013–2017 · 5 seasons · A&E
★ 8.1drama · crime · mysteryPrime Video

A small town, a motel, and a mother-son wrongness at its heart

The difference: A Psycho prequel — explained, not dreamed

A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.

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Fringe
2008–2013 · 5 seasons · FOX
★ 8.4sci-fi & fantasy · drama · mysteryPrime VideoHulu

Federal investigators following clues past the edge of the explainable

The difference: Grounded in science and family, with cases that get real answers

FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.

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