Netflix’s new Stephen Graham drama Adolescence has been hailed a masterpiece, with reviews tumbling in just days after it aired on the streaming site.
Each of the four episodes of the crime drama about a boy accused of killing a teenage girl – written and created by Stephen and Jack Thorne – was filmed in a single shot in Pontefract, West Yorkshire.
Dubbed ‘some of the best TV ever’ and ‘pure cinema’ by viewers on X, many fans of the show are looking for their next tense series fix after watching it.
From its award-winning limited series like Baby Reindeer to its forgotten triumphs like Mindhunter, Netflix has an impressive array of shows that can provide just this.
Maid
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While Adolescence shines a light on the terrifying impact misogynistic ideologies by the likes of Andrew Tate can have on teenage boys, Maid spotlights the issue of domestic abuse.
The powerful story starring Margaret Qualley and Andie MacDowell, follows a young mother (Margaret) who is fleeing an abusive relationship with her young child, Maddy.
The 10-part series, released in 2021, is a powerful drama based on Stephanie Land’s best-selling 2019 memoir of the same name.
Maid is available to watch on Netflix now.
Unbelievable
Emmy and Golden Globe nominated eight-part miniseries Unbelievable is a dramatisation of the pain suffered by a young woman who is accused of lying about being raped.
The story, which is based on the real 2008 to 2011 Washington and Colorado rape cases, follows two detectives – played by Toni Collette and Merritt Wever – as they investigate a string of similar attacks to the one described by the young woman, played by Kaitlyn Dever.
Unbelievable is available to stream on Netflix.
Baby Reindeer
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Baby Reindeer is one of the most discussed TV shows of the last decade.
Real life comedian Richard Gadd tells the story of his stalker Martha in the creepy but gripping series.
Originally, Baby Reindeer was an Edinburgh Fringe show but reached stratospheric – and Emmy-winning – heights when it was commissioned by the streamer, becoming an international hit.
However, things took a sinister turn when the ‘real Martha’ behind the show came forward and gave a bizarre interview with Piers Morgan before suing Gadd for defamation.
Baby Reindeer is available to watch on Netflix now.
The Perfect Couple
The Perfect Couple is a perfect murder mystery cocktail to gulp down if you’re a fan of The White Lotus.
Starring Nicole Kidman as the matriarch of a minted and famed family, this series is all about pristine beachside glamour being muddied by cruel – and sometimes murderous – rich people.
The star-studded cast also includes The Bold Type’s Meghann Fahy, Bad Sisters star Eve Hewson, Liev Schreiber, and Dakota Fanning.
While it’s not a limited series with season two having officially given the go ahead, the six episodes of season one – based on Elin Hilderbrand’s novel – is just as satisfying as Netflix’s self-contained numbers.
Beef
The Emmy award-winning Beef is one of Netflix’s most successful series drops in recent years.
It follows two strangers who get into a road rage incident which sends their lives into a spiral of entertaining chaos.
The dark comedy/thriller – starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun – has been applauded for perfectly encapsulating the existential crisis of millennial rage, and has a fat 98% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Beef is available to watch on Netflix now.
Bodyguard
Who can forget about Richard Madden in the tense drama series, Bodyguard, which follows the fictional David Budd – a British Army Veteran suffering from PTSD as he works for the Met Police.
On its 2018 release, Bodyguard became the BBC’s biggest hit in a decade amassing an impressive 11million viewers.
While it was applauded for its value as TV entertainment, Bodyguard was also praised by a veteran’s mental health charity for its depiction of the effects of PTSD.
Now Bodyguard is available to stream on Netflix.
Mindhunter
Nineteen episodes of Mindhunter are not enough. The fascinating psychological thriller starring Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany was unceremoniously cancelled by Netflix following its first two triumphant seasons.
While the streamer explained that its audience wasn’t big enough to justify its expensive production costs, Mindhunter fans were hooked and are still – eight years on – hoping for a change of heart.
The series – co-produced by David Fincher – is based on the true-crime book, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, and explores the beginnings of criminal profiling in the 1970s, as investigators get uneasily close to the USA’s most prolific serial killers.
Toxic Town
This new Netflix addition starring Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood and Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker is based on the disturbing true story of the 1980s Corby poisonings.
The four-part programme – hot off the heels of Mr Bates vs The Post Office – follows a group of four mothers who fought for justice for over a decade after their children developed birth defects from the environmental scandal.
Adolescence writer Jack Thorne also penned Toxic Town, so it’s sure to be a hit with those who have already watched the tense drama.
Toxic Town is streaming on Netflix now.
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