If You Liked Black Bird, Watch These Next
Finished Black Bird (2022) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Black Bird, most of them are drama, crime.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.I Will Find You(2026)
8.2DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and crime
Wrongfully imprisoned for murdering his own son, a father sets out on a desperate rescue mission after learning the boy may still be alive.
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2.MINDHUNTER(2017)
8.1DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
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3.Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy(2025)
7.5CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
When a teenager goes missing, it becomes clear that many young men and boys have disappeared at the hands of John Wayne Gacy, the prime suspect.
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4.Mayor of Kingstown(2021)
8.0DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
In a small Michigan town where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry, the McClusky family are the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain.
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5.Interrogation(2020)
6.8DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Based on a true story that spanned more than 30 years in which a young man was charged and convicted of brutally murdering his mother. Each episode is structured around an interrogation taken directly from the real police case files, with the goal of turning the viewer into a detective.
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6.Escape at Dannemora(2018)
7.5DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
The stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually entangled.
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7.Sharp Objects(2018)
7.8CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
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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8.The Hunting Party(2025)
7.1DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A small team of investigators are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that's not supposed to exist.
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9.Wentworth(2013)
8.0DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.
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10.Shining Girls(2022)
7.5DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and crime
Years after a brutal attack left her in a constantly shifting reality, Kirby Mazrachi learns that a recent murder is linked to her assault. She teams with veteran reporter Dan Velazquez to understand her ever-changing present—and confront her past.
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11.Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story(2024)
7.6DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
The story of the Menéndez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.
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12.Presumed Innocent(2024)
7.8DramaMysteryAlso drama
A horrific murder upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime—leaving the accused fighting to keep his family together.
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13.Furious(2026)
7.4DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
FBI agent Alice Black is on the hunt for a mysterious and calculating female serial killer. Both walk their own paths toward justice, and as their lives start to intertwine, the line between right and wrong begins to blur.
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14.The Following(2013)
6.9CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Notorious serial killer Joe Carroll, after being found guilty of murdering 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature, escapes from death row. The FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy to consult on the case, as he was the one responsible for Carroll’s capture in 2003. Ryan, working…
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15.Inspector Morse(1987)
7.9CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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16.Prison Break(2005)
8.1Action & AdventureCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
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17.Dexter(2006)
8.2CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
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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18.The Act(2019)
7.6DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Gypsy Blanchard struggles to deal with the toxic relationship with her overprotective mother, but her attempts to free herself lead to murder.
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19.The Westies(2026)
7.5DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
As the Javits Center construction project ignites a battle for profit in early 1980s Hell's Kitchen, a generational rift threatens the uneasy peace between violent Irish gang the Westies and the Mafia, and draws FBI heat.
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20.Cross(2024)
7.0CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.
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