The Wives

Series Similar to The Wives

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

1. Fortitude

   2015 · Science-Fiction, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   Fortitude is a place like nowhere else. Although surrounded by the savage beauty of the Arctic landscape, Fortitude is one of the safest towns on earth. There has never been a violent crime here. Until now. In such a close-knit community a murder touches everyone and the unsettling, mysterious horror of this crime threatens the future of the town itself.

2. Persons Unknown

   2010 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   Persons Unknown is a one-hour mystery drama in which a group of strangers must come together to solve the puzzle of their lives.

3. Through the Darkness

   2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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

   Through the Darkness is about a criminal profiler who struggles to read the minds of serial killers. Song Ha Young is a criminal profiler. He is calm and has charisma. He digs up cases and looks deeply into the human mind.

4. Thirteen

   2016 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   After thirteen years held captive by her kidnapper, Ivy Moxam escapes. Piecing back together the version of family life that existed before is no easy task.

5. Bloodline

   2015 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   Bloodline is a dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns' dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty.

6. God's Gift: 14 Days

   2014 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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

   Kim Soo Hyun experiences the unfathomable when her daughter is kidnapped and murdered. Discovering a miraculous ability to go back in time exactly two weeks before the event, Soo Hyun races against the clock to unravel the plot and save her daughter. But when a private investigator sheds new light on the crime, Soo Hyun uncovers a secret far more treacherous than she could have ever imagined.

7. The Watchful Eye

   2023 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   The Watchful Eye follows Elena Santos, a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for an affluent family in Manhattan. She quickly learns that everyone in the mysterious building has deadly secrets and ulterior motives. What they don't know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.

8. Taboo

   2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · returning

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, highly rated (8.3).

   1814: James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa and is encircled by conspiracy, murder and betrayal.

9. Monster

   2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   In the north of Norway, a young girl disappears from an isolated religious community. Detective Hedda Gilbert returns to her place of birth where she is forced to work with special agent Dreyer.

10. Cruel Summer

    2021 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

    Cruel Summer follows two young women: Kate Wallis, the popular girl with a charmed life who one day goes missing, and Jeanette Turner, the nerdy wannabe who is accused of being connected to Kate's disappearance. All signs point to Jeanette's guilt, but is Kate really who she seems to be? Set over three summers and told through shifting points of view, the series challenges perception and follows how one girl can go from being a sweet outlier to the most despised person in America.