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Best Crime TV Series of the 2020s

Top 500 most popular Crime series that started in the 2020s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

Squid Game

★ 7.9
770K 22 2021–2025
Survival · Class divide · Tense

Wednesday

★ 8.0
504K 17 2022–present
Deadpan cool · Outsider lead

Adolescence

★ 8.1
311K 4 2025–2025
Event miniseries

Reacher

★ 8.0
299K 33 2022–present
Adrenaline · Fast-paced

Hawkeye

★ 7.4
246K 6 2021–2021
Easy watching

The Penguin

★ 8.6
244K 8 2024–2024
Criminal underworld

Mare of Easttown

★ 8.4
225K 8 2021–2021
Small town · Working class

Monster

★ 7.7
225K 30 2022–present
True crime · Disturbing

Only Murders in the Building

★ 8.0
206K 60 2021–present
Detective mystery · True crime

The Gentlemen

★ 8.0
180K 16 2024–present
Criminal underworld

Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story

★ 9.2
174K 10 2020–2020
Indian TV · Antihero lead

Lupin

★ 7.5
160K 25 2021–present
Heists & cons · Genius lead

Dexter: New Blood

★ 8.0
159K 10 2021–2022
Antihero lead · Gut punch

Dexter: Resurrection

★ 9.0
151K 20 2025–present
Antihero lead · Morally gray

Black Bird

★ 8.1
146K 6 2022–2022
True crime · Tight limited run

The Day of the Jackal

★ 8.1
135K 15 2024–present
Tense · Espionage · Antihero lead

MobLand

★ 8.3
119K 20 2025–present
Criminal underworld · Morally gray

Tulsa King

★ 7.9
119K 30 2022–present
Criminal underworld

The Undoing

★ 7.4
118K 6 2020–2020
Elites & privilege

The Outsider

★ 7.6
118K 10 2020–2020
Unsettling · Atmospheric

Dept. Q

★ 8.1
117K 10 2025–present
Detective mystery · Antihero lead

Daredevil: Born Again

★ 8.1
113K 19 2025–present
Graphic violence

Landman

★ 8.2
113K 21 2024–present
Gritty · Rural & frontier

Outer Banks

★ 7.5
109K 50 2020–2026
Young adult · Cliffhanger-driven
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