Shows Like Wayward
If you liked Wayward (2025), a drama and mystery series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Crowded Room (2023)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and mysteryIn 1979 Manhattan, a young man is arrested for a shocking crime — and an unlikely investigator must solve the mystery behind it.
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Before (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and mysteryAfter tragically losing his wife, child psychiatrist Dr. Eli Adler encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli's past.
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Twin Peaks (1990)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and mysteryThe 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…
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Sugar (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and mysteryJohn Sugar is a dashing private eye navigating the dark corners of sunny LA. Though he sees only the good in humanity, Sugar is haunted by a secret too dangerous to expose.
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One of Us Is Lying (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and mysteryThe story of what happens when five high schoolers walk into detention and only four make it out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.
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The Society (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaWhen everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
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Riverdale (2017)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and mysterySet in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome…
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Echoes (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and mysteryIdentical twins Leni and Gina have secretly switched places for years. But when one sister disappears, both of their lives start to fall apart.
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Stranger Things (2016)
★ 8.5/10Also mysteryWhen a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
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Mare of Easttown (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and mysteryA detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.
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Requiem (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and dramaIn 1994, a toddler disappeared from a small Welsh village, never to be seen again. 23 years later, in London, the mother of rising cello star Matilda Gray commits suicide, without apparent reason. Among her…
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The Stolen Girl (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and mysteryMother of two, Elisa, allows her daughter, Lucia, to go on an impromptu sleepover with her new best friend Josephine after meeting Josephine's mother, Rebecca, at her beautiful home. But when Elisa arrives to collect…
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The Shards (2026)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and mystery17-year-old Bret Easton Ellis is in his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending his world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the…
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Harlan Coben's Shelter (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and mysteryFollow Mickey Bolitar after the death of his father leads him to start a new life in suburban New Jersey. When another new student disappears, Mickey finds himself tangled in a web of secrets. With the help of two new…
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Devil in Ohio (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and mysteryDetermined to protect a young patient who escaped a mysterious cult, a psychiatrist takes the girl in, putting her own family — and life — in danger.
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13 Reasons Why (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and mysteryHigh school student Clay Jensen lands in the center of a series of heartbreaking mysteries set in motion by a friend's tragic suicide.
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Evil (2019)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and mysterySkeptical 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…
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School Spirits (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also mystery and dramaMaddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own mysterious disappearance, goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high school purgatory, but the closer she gets to discovering the truth, the more…
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Tell Me Lies (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and mysteryWhen Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. They quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will…
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The Beast in Me (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and mysteryA famous author is pulled into a twisted mind game with her rich, powerful new neighbor — who might be a murderer.