Best Thriller Series to Watch Now

Overview

When the British prime minister’s husband is kidnapped and the French president starts receiving threats, both leaders must face an impossible choice.

Cast

Suranne Jones, Julie Delpy, Corey Mylchreest, Lucian Msamati, Ashley Thomas

Overview

When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.

Cast

Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Adarsh Gourav, Kit Young

Overview

The story of 12 ordinary Australians who are selected for jury duty in a murder trial as traumatising as it is controversial, in which a woman stands accused of killing her teenage niece.

Director

Daniel Nettheim

Cast

Ngali Shaw, Kate Mulvany, Brendan Cowell, Pallavi Sharda, Hazem Shammas

Duration

50 minutes

Overview

Sophie trades city life for East Texas and falls into a wealthy socialite’s magnetic orbit — where a clique of housewives hide deadly secrets.

Cast

Brittany Snow, Malin Åkerman, Jaime Ray Newman, Katie Lowes, Chrissy Metz

Overview

When 14 year old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities. In a nearby town, haunted former police officer Tim Jamieson has come looking to start a new life, but the peace and quiet won’t last, as his story and Luke’s are destined to collide.

Cast

Ben Barnes, Joe Freeman, Simone Miller, Fionn Laird, Hannah Galway

Overview

In the vast expanse of Yosemite National Park, a woman’s death draws a federal agent into lawless terrain — where nature obeys no rules but its own.

Cast

Eric Bana, Sam Neill, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lily Santiago, Wilson Bethel

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A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh’s cold cases.

Cast

Matthew Goode, Chloe Pirrie, Jamie Sives, Alexej Manvelov, Leah Byrne

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Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head to head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend, Sarah. Rudy, along with his boss, Bruiser, and her disheveled paralegal, Deck, uncovers two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client’s son.

Cast

Milo Callaghan, John Slattery, Madison Iseman, Lana Parrilla, P.J. Byrne

Overview

When Joni was 14, her best friend Gracie Darling disappeared during a séance. Some 27 years on, the local kids in a small town get their kicks with a game of ‘Playing Gracie Darling’ – but the seemingly innocent game turns sinister when another girl disappears. Joni, by then a child psychologist, returns to the town and partners with a police sergeant Jay to uncover the truth, while Gracie’s sister Ruth faces a mother’s worst nightmare when her own daughter vanishes under hauntingly similar circumstances.

Cast

Morgana O’Reilly, Rudi Dharmalingam, Annie Maynard, Anne Tenney, Dominic Ona-Ariki

Overview

Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.

Cast

Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey

Duration

73 minutes

Overview

A motor-mouthed outsider with no memory of his past is offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.

Cast

Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, Nuufolau Joel Seanoa, Will Arnett, Thomas Haden Church

Overview

Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

Cast

Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas

Overview

Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma to find Harrison gone without a trace. Realizing the weight of what he put his son through, Dexter sets out for New York City, determined to find him and make things right. But closure won’t come easy. When Miami Metro’s Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast. As father and son navigate their own darkness in the city that never sleeps, they soon find themselves deeper than they ever imagined – and that the only way out is together.

Cast

Michael C. Hall, Jack Alcott, Uma Thurman, Peter Dinklage, David Zayas

Overview

Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.

Cast

Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Geoff Pierson, David Zayas, James Remar

Duration

53 minutes

Overview

The intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Explore the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.

Cast

Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Joshua Jackson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jade Pettyjohn

Overview

Secluded on a remote Greek island, retired assassin Julie has a somewhat thorny reunion with her estranged son, Edward, visiting from England. Armed with questions around new information on his paternity, Edward battles to find the right time to speak to his frustratingly distant mother. But, when the moment finally presents itself, things take a deadly turn as Julie’s dangerous past catches up with her and they are forced to flee the island and go on the run together.

Cast

Freddie Highmore, Keeley Hawes, David Dencik, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Gerald Kyd

Overview

Explore the high-pressure experiences of police officers, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives.

Cast

Peter Krause, Angela Bassett, Oliver Stark, Kenneth Choi, Aisha Hinds

Overview

David Jung, a mysterious former US intelligence operative living in hiding in South Korea, has his life blown to pieces when the consequences of an impossible decision from his past come back to haunt him, and he finds himself hunted by Rebecca, a deadly young assassin, and Caddis, the sinister spy organization she works for.

Cast

Daniel Dae Kim, Reina Hardesty, Piper Perabo, Louis Landau, Kim Tae-hee

Overview

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.

Cast

Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock

Overview

A mystery that touches on family matters, motherhood and those women whose legacy defines the generations that blossom after them.

Cast

Teresa Palmer, Miranda Richardson, Danielle Macdonald, Claude Scott-Mitchell