If You Liked Bates Motel, Watch These Next
Finished Bates Motel (2013) 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 Bates Motel, most of them are drama, crime, mystery.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Purge(2018)
6.9MysteryCrimeDramaAlso mystery and crime
Set in a dystopian America ruled by a totalitarian political party, the series follows several seemingly unrelated characters living in a small city. Tying them all together is a mysterious savior who’s impeccably equipped for everything the night throws at them. As the clock winds down with their fates hanging in…
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2.56 Days(2026)
7.4DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
When an unidentified body is found in a luxury apartment linked to Oliver Kennedy and his girlfriend Ciara Wyse, Detectives Lee Reardon and Karl Connolly reconstruct the couple's deadly romance across the past 56 days.
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3.The Better Sister(2025)
6.9DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
Chloe moves in New York's most elite circles with her lawyer husband Adam and teenage son Ethan by her side while her estranged sister Nicky tries to make ends meet and stay clean. When Adam is brutally murdered, the investigation sends shockwaves through the family and exposes long-buried secrets.
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4.Long Bright River(2025)
7.0DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
A police officer patrols a Philadelphia neighborhood hard-hit by the opioid crisis. When a series of murders begins in the neighborhood, Mickey realizes that her personal history might be related to the case.
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5.Fool Me Once(2024)
7.2DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
When ex-soldier Maya sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches deep into the past.
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6.Gracepoint(2014)
6.6MysteryCrimeDramaAlso mystery and crime
When a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach, a major police investigation gets underway in the small California seaside town where the tragedy occurred. Soon deemed a homicide, the case sparks a media frenzy, which throws the boy's family into further turmoil and upends the lives of all of the town's residents.
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7.The Undoing(2020)
7.3DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
Grace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family.
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8.Missing You(2025)
6.2DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
When Detective Kat Donovan matches on a dating app with the fiancé who disappeared years before, she learns that some secrets are best left in the past.
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9.Tell Me Lies(2022)
7.5DramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
When 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 permanently alter not only their lives, but the lives of everyone around them.
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10.Tell Me Your Secrets(2021)
7.4DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
A complex thriller revolving around three characters, each with troubling pasts clouding their intersecting motives: Emma is a young woman who once loved a dangerous killer, John is a former serial predator desperate for redemption, and a grieving mother Mary who is obsessed with finding her missing daughter.
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11.Sherlock & Daughter(2025)
6.8DramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
Sherlock Holmes faces a sinister case risking friends' lives. American Amelia joins, seeking her father after her mother's murder. Despite differences, they solve a conspiracy and her mother's case.
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12.The Crowded Room(2023)
7.7DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
In 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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13.The Penguin(2024)
8.4DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first, Oz must confront his enemies and his own demoralizing reputation as "the Penguin."
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14.Big Sky(2020)
7.2CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt on a search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the perpetrator before…
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15.Dexter: Original Sin(2024)
8.1CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
In 1991 Miami, Dexter Morgan transitions from student to avenging serial killer. When his bloodthirsty urges can't be ignored any longer, Dexter must learn to channel his inner darkness. With the guidance of his father, Harry, he adopts a Code designed to help him find and kill people who deserve to be eliminated…
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16.Death and Other Details(2024)
6.6MysteryDramaCrimeAlso mystery and drama
How do you solve a murder in a post-fact world? Especially when sailing the Mediterranean on an ocean liner filled with the wealthy and powerful. Everyone on board is hiding something… but is one of them a killer? That’s what the world’s once greatest detective, Rufus Cotesworth, and his protégée, Imogene, aim to…
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17.The Girlfriend(2025)
7.2DramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
Laura has it all: a glittering career, a loving husband, and her precious son, Daniel. But her perfect life unravels when Daniel brings home Cherry, a girlfriend who changes everything. After a tense introduction, Laura becomes convinced Cherry is hiding something. Is she a manipulative social climber, or is Laura…
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18.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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19.Run Away(2026)
6.6DramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
A desperate father searching for his runaway daughter gets caught up in a murder case — and stumbles upon secrets which could destroy his family for good.
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20.I Will Find You(2026)
8.2DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and mystery
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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