Crown Lake

Series Similar to Crown Lake

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

1. The Booth at the End

   2010 · Drama, Mystery · ended

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

   A mysterious Man sits at a booth at the end of a diner. People approach him because they've heard The Man has a gift. He can solve their problems: A parent with a sick child, a woman who wants to be prettier, a nun who has lost her faith. The Man can give these people what they want. For a price. The Man makes a proposition. In exchange for realizing their desires, these individuals must complete a task, return to The Man, and describe every step in detail. The trick is that these tasks are things that would normally be inconceivable to them. But The Man never forces anyone to do anything. It's always up to the individual to start - or stop. The Booth at the End asks the question: How far would you go to get what you want?

2. Automata

   2018 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, hidden gem, also on YouTube.

   The noir world of Automata is a grim place for private detectives Sam Regal and Carl Swangee. Tasked with a murder investigation, they must not only contend with the dangers of their profession, but the prejudices unearthed by a recent prohibition against sentient machines. Sentient machines like Carl...

3. 100 Code

   2015 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Over the past 16 months, young, blonde, blue-eyed women have been found dead and buried in a field of asphodels. Tracking the killer from New York to Stockholm, NYPD detective Conley is on a special dispensation to observe and advise the Stockholm PD.

4. Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street

   2014 · Drama, Mystery, Supernatural · ended

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

   Life is anything but normal for Gortimer and his two best friends, Ranger and Mel, as they navigate Normal Street - an ordinary suburb that has a hint of something magical just beneath the surface.

5. Dead to Me

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   Dead to Me is about a powerful friendship that blossoms between a tightly wound widow and a free spirit with a shocking secret.

6. Investigation Couple

   2018 · Drama, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   Baek Bum is a forensic doctor with 10 years of experience at the National Forensic Service. Although his skills are recognized and he has performed the most autopsies in Korea, he is eccentric and has a picky personality. Meanwhile, Eun Sol is a prosecutor working in the 8th Eastern District. As she was born into a wealthy family and possesses photographic memory, the detective is a warm, sensitive character who aims to connect with people's hearts and pursue the truth.

7. Sanctuary

   2007 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Who will protect you from the things that lurk in the dark corners of the world? Or, more importantly, who will protect the dark corner dwellers from you? Dr. Helen Magnus runs an organization called The Sanctuary, dedicated to the discovery, protection, and study of unknown species living virtually undetected amongst humans all over the world. This groundbreaking web series lasted only 8 short episodes (under 20 minutes each) before being purchased by SyFy Channel, rewritten, and re-shot as a full length series.

8. Outer Range

   2022 · Drama, Mystery, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   Outer Range centers on Royal Abbott, a rancher fighting for his land and family, who discovers an unfathomable phenomenon at the edge of Wyoming's wilderness, in the form of a dark void.

9. Over the Garden Wall

   2014 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Created by Patrick McHale (Adventure Time), the 10-episode tale follows two brothers, Wirt and Greg (voiced by Elijah Wood and Collin Dean), who mysteriously find themselves outside of the world they know and in a forest called the Unknown. In a Wizard of Oz-like twist, they have stumbled into a fantasy universe of the past filled with the things of folk tales, as well as talking and singing animals, all wrapped up in the seemingly constant backdrop of harvest time.

10. Darby and Joan

    2022 · Drama, Mystery · returning

    Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

    Retired Australian detective Jack Darby is fleeing his past mistakes, while English widow Joan Kirkhope is attempting to outrun her grief. Their worlds collide on a remote backroad. They couldn't be more different: the directionless, blunt Aussie and the sharp-tongued Englishwoman. But thrown together and drawn into the intriguing mysteries lurking in the isolated, tropical corners of a vast continent, it quickly becomes clear the most fascinating mystery they face is each other. Thus begins an epic love story; a non-stop road movie; a mystery series; an Outback odyssey. Darby and Joan asks: can you find yourself in the middle of nowhere?