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Shows that feel likeYellowjackets (2021–)

This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.

If you loved Yellowjackets, the closest series we have are Cruel Summer (2021), Servant (2019) and Sharp Objects (2018). All three share Yellowjackets' contemplative and twisty 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).

★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗4 seasons · Showtimecreated by Ashley Lylecontemplativetwistyunsettling
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

If Yellowjackets hit the spot, these will too

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Cruel Summer
2021–2023 · 2 seasons · Freeform
★ 7.4mystery · dramaHulu

Both are built on the same subject: psychological thriller

Taking place over three summers - 1993, 1994, 1995 - in a small Texas town, a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.

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Servant
2019–2023 · 4 seasons · Apple TV
★ 7.4drama · mysteryApple TV+

The same preoccupation in both: psychological thriller

A Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door for a mysterious force to enter their home.

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Sharp Objects
2018 · 1 season · HBO
★ 8crime · drama · mysteryMax

Contemplative and twisty in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Yellowjackets does

Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.

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

Both lean on unease more than on drama

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

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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Luther
2010–2019 · 5 seasons · BBC One
★ 8.4crime · drama · mysteryMaxHulu

Contemplative mystery, and it commits to that

A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

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Revenge
2011–2015 · 4 seasons · ABC
★ 7.8drama · mysteryHulu

Twisty drama in both cases

When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay.

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Dexter
2006–2013 · 8 seasons · Showtime
★ 8.6crime · drama · mysteryParamount+

Mystery built on unease, twice over

Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.

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Hannibal
2013–2015 · 3 seasons · NBC
★ 8.5drama · crimeNetflixPrime Video

Common ground: lgbt

The difference: Takes it somewhere less twisty than Yellowjackets does

Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

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★ 8crime · dramaNetflix

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.

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Alice in Borderland
2020–2025 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.8mystery · drama · action & adventureNetflix

One thread runs through both: survival

With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to win.

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Legion
2017–2019 · 3 seasons · FX
★ 8.1action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaHulu

Unsettling mystery, and it commits to that

David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.

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High-Rise Invasion
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 6.4animation · mystery · action & adventureNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: survival

High-school girl Yuri suddenly finds herself on the rooftop of a high-rise building. She's trapped in a bizarre world surrounded by skyscrapers, where a masked man cracked open a man's head with an axe before her eyes. Finding a way to survive this bizarre world, find her beloved brother, and escape becomes her top priority, but she is beset by danger not just from the mysterious Masks, which possess both inhuman strength and cruelty, but other survivors turned cruel or desparate by the insanity of the high-rise world.

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