Genre Mystery

Longmire

Our honest take on Longmire, the Wyoming sheriff drama Netflix cancelled but never killed, plus a full episode guide for all six seasons.

Heroes

Season one is perfect 2000s television. The fizzle is real, the strike happened, Sylar deserved better. Hulu, 78 episodes, judge the seasons separately.

Ghost Whisperer

Melinda Gordon sees dead people at yard sales and estate liquidations in Grant, Ohio, and spends five seasons on CBS doing what network television does best: a gentle procedural where the mystery is how someone died and the payoff is…

The Night Agent

Shawn Ryan's adaptation of Matthew Quirk's novel became Netflix's surprise smash of 2023, and the reason is simple: it is a straight ahead, professionally built conspiracy thriller with no self importance and no dead weight. Gabriel Basso plays Peter Sutherland, a low level FBI agent stuck monitoring an emergency phone line that never rings, until it rings, and he is suddenly protecting Rose Larkin, a tech CEO played by Luciane Buchanan, while uncovering a mole hunt that reaches the White House. Ten episodes, one escalating night of it, and a full second season set in Bangkok.

Dark Matter

The Apple TV+ sci-fi hit based on Blake Crouch’s novel. A physicist is knocked out one night and wakes up in a life that is not his: same city, same wife, but the choices went differently. The multiverse concept is…

Cross

Alex Cross has been solving crimes in print since the early nineties, and screen versions have never quite pinned him down. This series gets closer than most, handing the detective psychologist to Aldis Hodge, who brings a stillness and gravity…

Matlock

The title is a bait and switch, and that is the point. What looks like a cozy reboot of a beloved old courtroom series is really a stealth thriller about grief, the opioid crisis, and revenge, with Kathy Bates playing…

High Potential

Kaitlin Olson plays a single mom of three with a 160 IQ who cleans police stations until she solves a case on a whiteboard, and the mystery genre gets its most charming new lead. The will they won’t they with…

Silo

In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.