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Best Mystery TV Series of the 2020s

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

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500 series (top 500 shown)

Severance

★ 8.6
399K 25 2022–present
Mystery box · Workplace

The White Lotus

★ 8.0
330K 22 2021–present
Class divide · Elites & privilege

Mare of Easttown

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

Silo

★ 8.1
223K 40 2023–present
Dystopia · Mystery box

From

★ 7.8
201K 41 2022–present
Mystery box · Unsettling · Tense

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

The Haunting of Bly Manor

★ 7.4
146K 9 2020–2020
Melancholic · Bittersweet

The Fall of the House of Usher

★ 7.9
136K 8 2023–2023
Dark tone · Elites & privilege

The Undoing

★ 7.4
118K 6 2020–2020
Elites & privilege

Dept. Q

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

Yellowjackets

★ 7.7
116K 37 2021–present
Survival · Mystery box

The Lincoln Lawyer

★ 7.8
100K 50 2022–2027
Legal

Presumed Innocent

★ 7.7
97K 16 2024–present
Legal · Built to binge

Behind Her Eyes

★ 7.2
95K 6 2021–2021
Secrets & lies

The Watcher

★ 6.5
94K 14 2022–present
Suburban underbelly · Unsettling

When the Phone Rings

★ 6.0
92K 12 2024–2025
K-drama · Love story · Serialized

The Peripheral

★ 7.5
92K 8 2022–2022
Near-future tech

Secret Invasion

★ 5.8
92K 6 2023–2023
Espionage · Secrets & lies

Upload

★ 7.7
91K 29 2020–2025
Near-future tech

Resident Alien

★ 8.0
90K 44 2021–2025
Outsider lead · Small town

His & Hers

★ 7.1
89K 6 2026–2026
Unreliable narrator

Paradise

★ 7.9
86K 17 2025–present
Mystery box · Political intrigue

Defending Jacob

★ 7.7
80K 8 2020–2020
Suburban underbelly
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