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500 series (top 500 shown)

Gypsy

★ 6.7
20K 10 2017–2017
Secrets & lies

The Lying Game

★ 7.3
20K 30 2011–2013
Young adult · Secrets & lies

The Bureau

★ 8.7
20K 50 2015–2020
Espionage · Slow burn · Serialized

Koombiyo

★ 9.1
19K 57 2017–2018
Serialized · Secrets & lies

Stalker

★ 7.5
18K 20 2014–2015
Procedural · Tense · Unsettling

What/If

★ 6.3
18K 10 2019–2019
Secrets & lies · Soap & telenovela

McMafia

★ 7.6
18K 16 2018–2018
Criminal underworld

The Little Drummer Girl

★ 7.4
18K 6 2018–2018
Espionage · Stylized direction

City on a Hill

★ 7.6
17K 26 2019–2022
Antihero lead

Tin Star

★ 7.2
17K 25 2017–2020
Dark tone · Revenge · Bleak

Breakout Kings

★ 7.2
17K 23 2011–2012
Procedural · Fast-paced

To the Lake

★ 7.2
17K 16 2019–2022
Survival · Tense · Dark tone

Hello Mini

★ 7.6
16K 35 2019–2021
Indian TV · Tense

Exit

★ 8.2
16K 24 2019–2023
Elites & privilege

Deutschland 83

★ 8.0
16K 8 2015–2015
Espionage · Period piece

Quarry

★ 8.0
16K 8 2016–2016
Gritty · Antihero lead

La Mante

★ 7.4
15K 6 2017–2017
Detective mystery

Childhood's End

★ 6.8
14K 3 2015–2015
Space & sci-fi · Philosophical

Mistresses

★ 7.1
14K 53 2013–2016
Love story · Secrets & lies

Black Sun

★ 8.8
14K 29 2017–2026
Serialized · Tense · Dark tone

Abhay

★ 7.9
14K 24 2019–present
Disturbing · Indian TV

Smoke

★ 7.1
14K 11 2018–2019
Morally gray · Serialized · Tense

Treadstone

★ 6.9
14K 10 2019–2019
Espionage · Serialized · Tense

The K2

★ 7.7
13K 16 2016–2016
K-drama · Political intrigue
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