If You Liked Wayward Pines, Watch These Next
Finished Wayward Pines (2015) 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 Wayward Pines, most of them are drama, mystery, sci-fi & fantasy.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Leftovers(2014)
7.7Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.
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2.FROM(2022)
8.5MysteryDramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso mystery and drama
Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.
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3.Big Sky(2020)
7.2CrimeDramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
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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4.Sleepy Hollow(2013)
7.4DramaMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and mystery
Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.
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5.Twin Peaks(1990)
8.3DramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
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.
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6.Gotham(2014)
7.6DramaCrimeSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that…
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7.Dark Winds(2022)
7.5DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and mystery
This psychological thriller follows two Navajo police officers, Leaphorn and Chee, in the 1970s Southwest as their search for clues in a grisly double murder case forces them to challenge their own spiritual beliefs and come to terms with the trauma of their pasts.
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8.Wallander(2008)
7.4DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and mystery
This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.
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9.Fringe(2008)
8.1Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaMysteryAlso sci-fi & fantasy and drama
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…
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10.The Society(2019)
7.4DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and sci-fi & fantasy
When 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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11.American Gods(2017)
7.1DramaMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and mystery
An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.
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12.The Night Manager(2016)
7.7DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and mystery
Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, Pine must himself become a criminal.
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13.Emergence(2019)
6.9DramaMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and mystery
A police chief takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.
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14.Joan of Arcadia(2003)
7.4Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryDramaAlso sci-fi & fantasy and mystery
Joan Girardi has begun acting a little strange since her family moved to the city of Arcadia. No one knows that various people keep introducing themselves as God, and then giving the teenager specific directions to do things. Unsure of what God wants, and if she's even sane, Joan tentatively begins to follow God's…
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15.Revival(2025)
6.6Sci-Fi & FantasyCrimeMysteryAlso sci-fi & fantasy and mystery
On one miraculous day in rural Wisconsin, the recently deceased suddenly rise from their graves. But this is no zombie story, as the 'revived' appear and act just like they once were. When local officer and single mother Dana Cypress is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own, she's…
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16.The Changeling(2023)
6.3MysteryDramaSci-Fi & FantasyAlso mystery and drama
Apollo and Emma's love story is a fairy tale—until Emma mysteriously vanishes. Bereft, Apollo finds himself on a death-defying odyssey through a New York City he didn't know existed.
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17.Three Pines(2022)
6.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team investigate a series of perplexing murders, in the seemingly idyllic village of Three Pines and uncover the buried secrets of its eccentric residents. In the process, Gamache is forced to confront buried secrets of his own. Based on the novels by Louise Penny.
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18.Stranger Things(2016)
8.5Action & AdventureMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso mystery and sci-fi & fantasy
When 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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19.Lovecraft Country(2020)
7.1DramaMysterySci-Fi & FantasyAlso drama and mystery
The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be…
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20.Class of '09(2023)
7.1DramaMysteryCrimeAlso drama and mystery
Set in three distinct points in time, follow a class of FBI agents who grapple with immense changes as the U.S. criminal justice system is altered by artificial intelligence.
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