Top 10 TV Shows: Mystery
The highest-graded mystery TV shows we have reviewed, best first.
DarkThe rare time-loop show whose rules hold under audit, and whose grief holds up just as well.Read the review
WestworldA first season of real philosophical nerve, followed by three seasons of increasingly expensive noise.
True DetectiveOne immaculate season, one catastrophic second, and an anthology that never solved the arithmetic again.
SherlockTwo extraordinary series, one indulgent, and one that should never have been made.
The Twilight ZoneFive seasons of half hour fiction that invented most of what the anthology format can do.
Only Murders in the BuildingThree lonely people solve a murder for a podcast, and the show is as much about the loneliness as the murder.
Watchmen (2019 Series)The only sequel to Alan Moore's book worth having, and it opens with a massacre most Americans were never taught.
Twin PeaksTelevision's strangest hit, at its best before it answered the only question everyone was asking.
SeveranceAn immaculate object whose premise is circled more than pressed, and still one of the best-made series on television.
The White LotusWealthy people ruin a holiday and several lives, and the staff have to keep smiling through all of it.
