Psychological thriller shows enthrall us and often feature mind games and psychopaths that keep us hooked. Here are the nine best psychological thriller tv shows of all time and where to stream them.
You
Hello, you. Joe Goldberg is just your typical creepy, stalkerish neighborhood psychopathic serial killer looking for love in all the wrong places (or perhaps the right ones, with all the wrong motives). In You, Penn Badgley gives one of the eeriest performances in TV show history. In four seasons, we see Joe become obsessed with and kill the women he stalks and claims to love, fall in love with a woman (Love Quinn) who has similar predilections, only to not even be able to handle meeting someone like him, and even go to England as a fugitive on the run, manipulating students as a professor. You is available to stream on Netflix.
Mindhunter
FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench and psychologist Wendy Carr lead the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit as they start to interview imprisoned serial killers so they can better understand the mindset and motives of criminals who commit sadistic and violent crimes. The show features serial killers like the BTK Killer, Edmund Kemper, and Richard Speck. Mindhunter is available to stream on Netflix.
Tell Me Your Secrets
It’s hard when your former lover turns out to be a psychopathic serial killer, and even more difficult when you can’t remember whether you also committed crimes alongside him. Lily Rabe stars as Karen Miller in Tell Me Your Secrets, the ex-partner of notorious serial killer Kit Parker. After she finds out about Kit’s horrific crimes against women, Karen is forced to relive her romantic history with Kit while being hunted down by one of the mothers of Kit’s victims. However, all is not what it seems and the real psychopaths in sheep’s clothing are yet to be discovered. Available to stream on Amazon Prime.
Behind Her Eyes
What seems like your typical “husband has affair” television show has one of the biggest plot twists of all time in Behind Your Eyes, a mind-bending psychological thriller about Louise, single mother who begins a love affair with her new boss David, and a strangely alluring friendship with his wife. However, the relationship between David and his wife holds deeper, darker secrets that no one could have ever imagined. This is one television show we can confidently say has a surprise ending you will never see coming. Behind Her Eyes is available to stream on Netflix.
The Stranger
Harlan Corben’s The Stranger stars Richard Armitage as Adam Price. When Adam is approached by a mysterious stranger in a baseball hat claiming to know secrets about his wife, Corinne, Corinne disappears and Adam is forced to grapple with the true nature of the people he loves the most. The Stranger is a suspenseful tv thriller that also has a surprise plot twist ending no one could have foreseen and is available to stream on Netflix.
Clickbait
A father goes missing, and his loved ones are sent a viral video where he holds up a sign saying he abuses women, and he will die if the video receives five million views. Zoe Kazan stars as Pia Brewer in this psychological thriller drama, Nick’s younger sister who helps to uncover the truth of what really happened the night Nick Brewer disappeared and investigates whether Nick is really the predator he is being painted as or if his kidnappers have darker motives. Clickbait is available to stream on Netflix.
Bates Motel
Freddie Highmore plays a younger version of Norman Bates, a contemporary retelling and prequel to Hitchcock’s film, Psycho. Bates Motel explores the terrifyingly enmeshed relationship between Norman and his mother as Norman becomes more and more dangerous. Bates Motel is available to stream on Amazon Prime.
Dexter
Dexter is just your friendly neighborhood sociopath, a blood splatter analyst by day and a serial killer of serial killers by night. He only kills the “bad guys” but occasionally makes mistakes too. As viewers follow Dexter through his journey as a killer who tries to flee detection and capture and cleans up the scenes of his own crimes, we also get a horrifying look into how he became the killer that he is, and how his “extracurricular activities” affect his romantic relationships and ability to live a normal life. Dexter is available to stream on Hulu.
The Fall
A detective, Stella Gibson, hunts down a serial killer who targets young professional women and lives a double life as a family man while confronting the demons of her own past. The Fall is a suspenseful tv thriller about psychopaths that will keep you on your toes. The Fall is available to stream on Amazon Prime.
