Darby and Joan

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

1. The Doctor Blake Mysteries

   2013 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

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

   Doctor Lucien Blake returns to Ballarat to once again solve a series of strange and baffling murders, only to find change is afoot, nothing is sacred, and no one is safe.

2. Dead Still

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, also on Acorn TV.

   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.

3. Jonathan Creek

   1997 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.

4. Paradise Lost

   2020 · Drama, Mystery · ended

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

   Paradise Lost is about a psychiatrist who moves with her family from California to her husband's hometown in Mississippi only to uncover shameful secrets that irrevocably change the lives of everyone involved.

5. Magpie Murders

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   A beguiling murder mystery with a solution that will both astonish and shock viewers, the plot of Magpie Murders revolves around the character Susan Ryeland, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway's latest novel, but has little idea it will change her life.

6. 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?

7. Departure

   2019 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   Amid a background of personal tragedy, the brilliant Kendra Malley is recruited on both sides of the pond to investigate a series of devastating, yet mysterious mass transportation incidents.

8. Dexter: Resurrection

   2025 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · returning

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, highly rated (8.5).

   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's Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast.

9. One Night

   2023 · Drama, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   One Night is the story of three women whose bond was all but destroyed by the traumatic events of one night 20 years ago.Since then, Simone has harboured secret hopes of becoming a novelist but most of her haphazard attempts have been shoved into her bottom drawer. Now, at the age of 40, she has finally written the one story she could never get out of her mind, and her debut manuscript has become an unexpected overnight success.As it becomes harder to prise fact from fiction, one person's memory and story from another's, the book threatens to derail all their friendships, bringing old traumas to the surface of the small coastal community where they grew up, and stirring its perpetrators, who want to make it all go away.

10. Mare of Easttown

    2021 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended

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

    Mare of Easttown follows a small-town Pennsylvania detective who investigates a local murder at a time when her own life is crumbling around her.