Big Little Lies

Series Similar to Big Little Lies

If you enjoyed Big Little Lies, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Sharp Objects

   2018 · Drama, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, also on HBO.

   Sharp Objects centers on reporter Camille Preaker who, fresh from a brief stay at a psychiatric hospital, must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Trying to put together a psychological puzzle from her past, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims a bit too closely.

2. The Flight Attendant

   2020 · Comedy, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   Flight attendant Cassie Bowden relishes her globe-trotting lifestyle, but her history with drinking – and penchant for becoming entangled in international intrigue – always seem to catch up with her.

3. Dead Still

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   Dublin, 1880. The practice of memorial portraiture is at the height of its popularity – that is, the portrait photography of the recently deceased. As renowned memorial photographer Brock Blennerhasset expands his business with the help of his would-be actress niece Nancy Vickers and assistant Conall Molloy, someone with more sinister designs is getting in on the death photography game. A serial killer is cashing in on the sordid, developing taste for ‘snuff' imagery – pictures of people in their death throes. The murders escalate and Detective Frederick Regan of the Dublin Metropolitan Police suspects that Ireland may have its first serial murderer at large. As Blennerhasset becomes a possible suspect and his family is put in harm's way, they must track down the serial killer before he strikes again.

4. Maldivas

   2022 · Drama, Comedy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   To investigate a mystery, a young woman moves into a posh condo community, where she comes into contact with its quirky — and suspicious — residents.

5. All Her Fault

   2025 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   Set in Chicago, Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognizes. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare. 

6. Στο Παρά 5

   2005 · Drama, Comedy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   The murder of a former government official in front of their very eyes (in a broken elevator) drives five people to start trying to solve the mystery of the murder. Dalia, is a very (very, very) wealthy heir who, in her own words "could live without all that money", Zoumboulia, a kind-hearted woman from a village in northern Greece who should come to terms with her daughter leaving with her husband to the U.S. for studies and letting her take care of her son. Also, Spyros, a college student patiently surviving the wackiness of his grandmother and her close friend Theopoula, Fotis, a multi-host of a local TV network (he presents half the network's shows) in competition with his cousin Fridda, and Aggela, a woman having no trouble saying what she believes (which often gets her into trouble). Their bond grows strong, but a lot of obstacles arise when they decide to solve the mystery. It's u...

7. Moonlighting

   1985 · Drama, Comedy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, highly rated (8).

   Maddie Hayes, a wealthy former model, discovers one morning that her business manager has stolen all the money she has in the bank. However, it turns out that she still owns some non-liquid assets -- money-losing companies which were maintained as tax write-offs -- one of which is a detective agency run by David Addison. Maddie meets with him to inform him that the company is to be shut down, but he persuades her to keep it open by convincing her that the detective agency can make money. Maddie becomes David's new boss and accompanies him on adventure after adventure. While their personalities clash, a sexual tension arises in the time they spend together. But the question always remains... will they or won't they?

8. Queen of Mystery

   2017 · Drama, Comedy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Yoo Sul Ok has always dreamed of becoming a detective, but gave up on her dreams when she married a prosecutor and became a housewife. When she bumps into Detective Ha Wan Seung, she ends up in an unlikely collaboration with him to solve a case.

9. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

   2016 · Comedy, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Corpses—cops—trap—cult—assassins—Pararibulitis—vampires—lottery ticket—kitten—corgi—Everything is connected!Welcome to the world of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency; a trippy mystery that thrusts a reluctant sidekick into the bizarre world of an unconventional detective who believes in the interconnectedness of all things. When washed-up rocker Todd Brotzman stumbles upon the murder scene of a millionaire, all hell breaks loose. Eccentric detective, Dirk Gently, wholly believes they're destined to untangle the peculiar events surrounding the mystery together, whether Todd likes it or not! A collection of wild and dangerous characters' further infiltrate and complicate their world, each episode landing them a few random steps closer to uncovering the truth.The series is an adaptation of the wildly popular novels by Douglas Adams.

10. The Undoing

    2020 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

    Recommended for similar Mystery profile, also on HBO.

    The Undoing follows Grace and Jonathan Fraser who are living the only lives they ever wanted for themselves. 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 and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family.