Best Mystery Shows (Ranked)

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Sherlock

★9.0Ended(2010– )

#1Score 9.001.1M IMDb votes

A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st-century London.

Dexter Resurrection

★9.0Ongoing

#2Score 8.98160.5k IMDb votes

Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma and sets out for New York City, determined to find Harrison and make things right. But when Miami Metro&apos;s Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast.

Batman The Animated Series

★9.0Ended

#3Score 8.98140.8k IMDb votes

The Dark Knight battles crime in Gotham City with occasional help from Robin and Batgirl.

The Twilight Zone

★9.0Ended

#4Score 8.97111.2k IMDb votes

Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.

Gravity Falls

🔥 HOT★8.9Ended

#5Score 8.88186.6k IMDb votes

Twin siblings Dipper and Mabel Pines spend the summer at their great-uncle's tourist trap in the enigmatic Gravity Falls, Oregon.

True Detective

★8.8Ongoing

#6Score 8.80776.1k IMDb votes

Seasonal anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law.

Black Mirror

★8.7Ongoing(2011– )

#7Score 8.70752.3k IMDb votes

An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.

House MD

★8.7Ended(2004–2012)

#8Score 8.70602.7k IMDb votes

An antisocial maverick doctor who specializes in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way using his crack team of doctors and his wits.

Twin Peaks

★8.7Ended

#9Score 8.69252k IMDb votes

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.

Dark

★8.7Ended

#10Score 8.69565.9k IMDb votes

A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.

Star Trek - The Next Generation

★8.7Ended

#11Score 8.68152.1k IMDb votes

Set almost 100 years after Captain Kirk's 5-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers set off in the U.S.S. Enterprise-D on its own mission to go where no one has gone before.

Over the Garden Wall

★8.7Ended

#12Score 8.6793.5k IMDb votes

Two brothers find themselves lost in a mysterious land and try to find their way home.

Line of Duty

★8.7Ended(2012– )

#13Score 8.6782.9k IMDb votes

Drama series following the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anti-corruption unit.

Dexter

★8.6Ended(2006–2013)

#14Score 8.60960.4k IMDb votes

He's smart. He's lovable. He's Dexter Morgan, America's favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and nights committing them. Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall stars in the hit SHOWTIME Original Series.

Stranger Things

★8.6Ended

#15Score 8.601.7M IMDb votes

When a young boy disappears, his mother, a police chief and his friends must confront terrifying supernatural forces in order to get him back.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

★8.7Ended

#16Score 8.6027.9k IMDb votes

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the mysteries of copper beeches, a Greek interpreter, the Norwood builder, a resident patient, the red-headed league, and one final problem.

Mindhunter

★8.6Ended(2017– )

#17Score 8.59408.4k IMDb votes

Set in the late 1970s, two FBI agents are tasked with interviewing serial killers to solve open cases.

The X-Files

★8.6Ended

#18Score 8.59278.3k IMDb votes

Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

Severance

★8.6Ongoing

#19Score 8.59412.6k IMDb votes

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

The Jinx - The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

★8.6Ended

#20Score 8.5659.7k IMDb votes

Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki examines the complicated life of reclusive real estate icon Robert Durst, the key suspect in a series of unsolved crimes.

Agatha Christies Poirot

★8.6Ended

#21Score 8.5660.3k IMDb votes

The cases of eccentric, but sharp, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

Homicide Life on the Street

★8.7Ended

#22Score 8.5517.5k IMDb votes

An American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

Endeavour

★8.6Ended

#23Score 8.5338.8k IMDb votes

Set from 1965 to 1971, the show follows Endeavour Morse in his early years as a police constable. Working alongside his senior partner DI Fred Thursday, Morse engages in a number of investigations around Oxford.

The Owl House

★8.6Ended

#24Score 8.5026.9k IMDb votes

Accidentally sent to the world of the Boiling Isles before a trip to summer camp, a teenage human named Luz longs to become a witch and is aided by rebellious Eda and pint-sized demon King.

The Expanse

★8.5Ended(2015– )

#25Score 8.49195.8k IMDb votes

In the 24th century, a group of humans untangle a vast plot which threatens the Solar System's fragile state of detente.

The Haunting of Hill House

★8.5Ended

#26Score 8.49339.3k IMDb votes

Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

Hannibal

★8.5Ended

#27Score 8.49315.5k IMDb votes

Explores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and a young FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.

Person of Interest

★8.5Ended(2011–2016)

#28Score 8.49217.9k IMDb votes

An ex-CIA agent and a wealthy programmer save lives via a surveillance AI that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes, including the civilians' roles, are left a mys...

Justice League

★8.5Ended

#29Score 8.4658.3k IMDb votes

Seven of the most formidable heroes form arguably the most powerful team ever.

Supernatural

★8.4Ended

#30Score 8.40551.5k IMDb votes

Two brothers follow their father's footsteps as hunters, fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth.

Westworld

★8.4Ended(2016– )

#31Score 8.40562.4k IMDb votes

At the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.

Fringe

★8.4Ended

#32Score 8.39273.2k IMDb votes

An F.B.I. agent is forced to work with an institutionalized scientist and his son in order to rationalize a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena.

Big Little Lies

★8.4Ended(2017– )

#33Score 8.39249.2k IMDb votes

The apparently perfect lives of upper-class mothers, at a prestigious elementary school, unravel to the point of murder when a single mother moves to their quaint Californian beach town.

Love Death and Robots

★8.4Ongoing

#34Score 8.39233.4k IMDb votes

A collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy.

Mare of Easttown

★8.4Ended

#35Score 8.39229.2k IMDb votes

A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

🔥 HOT★8.5Ended

#36Score 8.3920.9k IMDb votes

Stories of terror, horror and suspense presented by Alfred Hitchcock.

The Night Of

★8.4Ended

#37Score 8.39201.7k IMDb votes

After a night of partying with a woman he picked up, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.

Spartacus

★8.4Ended

#38Score 8.39298.7k IMDb votes

An anthology series of stand-alone episodes delving into horror myths, legends and lore.

Luther

★8.4Ended(2010– )

#39Score 8.39165.6k IMDb votes

DCI John Luther is a near-genius murder detective whose brilliant mind can't always save him from the dangerous violence of his passions.

The Americans 2013

★8.4Ended

#40Score 8.38127.4k IMDb votes

At the height of the Cold War, two Russian agents pose as the average American couple, complete with family.

Psych

★8.4Ended

#41Score 8.38122.3k IMDb votes

When a novice sleuth convinces the police he has psychic powers, he and his reluctant best friend are hired on as consultants to help solve complicated cases.

Pushing Daisies

★8.4Ended

#42Score 8.3662.7k IMDb votes

A pastry chef with the power to bring dead people back to life solves murder mysteries with his resurrected childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.

Utopia 2013

★8.4Ended

#43Score 8.3656.6k IMDb votes

After a group of people, who meet online, discover a bizarre graphic novel which seems to hold mysterious answers, they find themselves being tracked down by a merciless organization known merely as 'The Network'.

Unforgotten 2015

★8.4Ongoing

#44Score 8.3438.4k IMDb votes

London detectives investigate crimes from the past, unravelling secrets left buried for years.

Lost

★8.3Ended

#45Score 8.30684.7k IMDb votes

The survivors of a plane crash are forced to work together in order to survive on a seemingly deserted tropical island.

Prison Break

★8.3Ended

#46Score 8.30683.1k IMDb votes

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 in...

Broadchurch

★8.3Ended(2013–2017)

#47Score 8.29145k IMDb votes

The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

Taboo 2017

★8.3Ended

#48Score 8.29165.5k IMDb votes

Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London during the War of 1812 to rebuild his late father's shipping empire. However, both the government and his biggest competitor want his inheritance at any cost--even murder.

Homeland

★8.3Ended

#49Score 8.29389.5k IMDb votes

A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.

The Leftovers

★8.3Ended

#50Score 8.28135.4k IMDb votes

Three years after the disappearance of 2% of the global human population, a group of people in a small New York community try to continue their lives while coping with the tragedy of the unexplained nature of the event.

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