I’m a huge Mindhunter fan and I also loved the Shield. I’d say the first season or two is much lighter than the rest. I will always say it’s a damn good show that I would watch a third time from beginning to end.

True Detective, Season 1

Not sure if they're exactly similar but they're really good shows.

Home Before Dark

Clickbait

Tell Me A Story

Severance

From

The woman in the house

True Story

You Don't Know Me

Rules Of The Game

The Booth at the End

Innocent

Panic

Candy

The Thing About Pam

Bates Motel

Are subtitles ok? I just came across a show from Iceland called TRAPPED. Seasons 1&2 are on Prime and season 3 (ENTRAPPED) is on Netflix. It was good and twisty.

Similar to Mindhunter and The Sinner, but not convinced i would consider them all “psychological thrillers”. Everyone has different definitions. Regardless, they all make for good viewing.

-The Missing/Baptise

-Capitani

-Delhi Crime

-Valhalla Murders

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-The Tunnel

-Safe

-Stay Close

-The Stranger

-Tell Me Your Secrets

-Hit & Run

True Detective, Broadchurch, Mare of Eastown, The Alienist (it’s a time period piece but it is dark). Baptieste, Bosch, Deadwater Fell, Hinterland, Line of Duty, Luther, Mindhunter, Prime Suspect, Shetland, Ripper Street, The Fall, The Killing, The Missing, Top of the Lake, Wire in the Blood.

Broadchurch 💯

True Detective S1

Okay so it's not a cop show, but Midnight Mass reminded me of s4 of The Sinner a lot. Set on a small island community, a dark secret, an outsider coming to the island, all very similar. But it has supernatural horror elements so if you're not into that you probably won't like it.

Sharp objects

Quicksand has similar concepts with “violent crime, main character has memory loss, fucked up shit” and I actually preferred it over The Sinner, but it is in Swedish. It’s on Netflix with subtitles though.

Top of the Lake is one kind of similar and not mentioned yet.

Unbelievable.
Mindhunter.
Safe.
The Act.
Dirty John.
Sharp Objects.
A Very English Scandal.
London Spy.

The killing. Nice and Dark. Or True Detective season 1.

American Crime is on Netflix and, like The Sinner, is an anthology style show.

Broadchurch is a great murder mystery/ police investigation show from a few years back with Olivia Coleman and David Tennant. Set in a small town so everyone’s stories are super intertwined. Great acting. The first season is the best but all three are good.

Marcella - netflix Luther - netflix Tell me your secrets - prime Orphan black - prime (this one is less crime and more scifi as the seasons go on)

Mind Hunter. The FBI investigators try to learn more about serial killers and at the same time the audience learn more about the investigators.

The undoing on HBO. Fantastic!

Edit: sorry, just saw you specifically said Netflix.

“You” on Netflix

• Marcella (Netflix)
• Orphan Black (Amazon Prime)
• Thirteen (the mini series, not the movie) (Amazon Prime)
• The Missing (Amazon Prime)
• The Killing (Hulu)
• Top of the Lake: China Girl (Hulu)
• Retribution (Netflix)
• The Five (Netflix)
• The Forest (mini series, French language) (Netflix)
• Broadchurch (Netflix)
• Black Spot (French language) (Netflix)
• The End of the F**king World (Netflix)

The Night Of - an HBO miniseries.

The killing! Is so much like the sinner. Great suggestion from the person above ����

Seven Seconds - Netflix

The Missing on Amazon Prime, but only season 2 (it's an anthology so you can start anywhere). Incredible story, very complex with multiple timelines. The main detective has a lot of similarities to Bill Pullman's character. Super satisfying.

Season 1 has some good aspects but a terrible ending.

true detective

Unforgotten, if you haven't seen it yet. Seasons 1-3 are amazing.

I think you would love The Killing, and I also agree with Department Q. Also, have you watched Happy Valley? I watched that right after Broadchurch and loved it. If you don't mind subtitles, there is a great Icelandic show called Trapped (Netflix). It definitely fits the broken detective genre. I loved the male lead so much in that show and was so excited when I also saw him in Severance!

The Fall w/ Jamie Dornan and Gillian Anderson

Chestnut man and Deadwind

True detective?

A lot of good stuff in Europe. La Treve (The Break), Trapped, Bordertown, The Valhalla Murders, Deadwind. All of these on Netflix.

I would recommend sharp objects if you haven't seen it yet!

Tabula Rasa (Belgium)

If you want something a bit more supernatural The Outsider is fantastic.

No shows come to mind but a few film suggestions if you don’t mind… The film American Beauty (1999). It’s a little dated but brilliantly written. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017) The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

Twin Peaks, Seasons 1 and 2.

The OA

Angel Heart (movie)

Pi (movie)

Dead Man (movie)

Lots of literature and philosophy. Ancient Greek Dramas; Dostoevsky; Camus, the existentialists... something more accessible? Herman Hesse (Damien and Steppenwolf in particular)

I really enjoyed season 3, I loved how they worked in real philosophy. It’s strange how most people hate this season, it’s always regarded as the worst.

The only show I can think of that’s actually similar is True Detective season 1, which is one of the best seasons of television ever made.

I found The Sinner a few days ago so I'm just barely seeing this. I'm very surprised no one recommend the Hannibal tv series to you. S3 of The Sinner feels like a shitty knock off of it almost.

• Bosch and Bosch: Legacy (Prime): based on the Michael Connelly book series, character-forward, interesting twists, gritty and moody
• Goliath (Prime): starts as a semi-standard legal thriller/courtroom drama, moves into some really interesting and unexpected noir-inspired stuff, very character-driven, slow burn
• Troppo (Prime): neonoir detective/murder mystery set in Australia, moody and fairly grim, character-driven, interesting twists
• Bodkin (Netflix): cold case murder mystery set in Ireland, very moody, strong writing, big characters
• Perry Mason (Max): 1930s detective mystery, excellent writing/characterization
• Three Pines (Prime): cold case mysteries related to First Nations communities, character-driven, excellent writing

Here are some offbeat recs that might interest you -- some tonal overlaps with my recs above:

• Deadloch (Prime): Australian murder mystery, interesting twists, character-driven, but much funnier than Troppo
• Search Party (Max): starts as a mystery/thriller, moves through about a dozen genres by the end, very dark, very funny, extremely character-driven, highly bingeable
• The Old Man (Hulu): more of a thriller with political/war themes, extremely character-driven, very moody and dark, very slow burn -- reminds me of The Sinner in some ways
• Outer Range (Prime): more sci-fi/supernatural, but very moody, dark tones, slowwwww burn, interesting characters (warning: this got canceled after two seasons, I still think it's worth watching)
• Sugar (Apple): my most offbeat recommendation for people who like noir/neonoir, packs a big crazy twist

Comedy mystery - Only Murders In The Building!

The Harlan Coben collection

I loved The Residence. Great murder mystery with good humour.

Agree! I thought it slowed down a bit in the middle but the ending banged things together very satisfyingly!