The thriller genre is best served up on the small screen in limited doses, which is why it’s coming to the fore during the golden age of TV miniseries. Long-running drama shows struggle to sustain the adrenaline hit we get from thrillers past one or two seasons. By contrast, thriller miniseries are tailor-made for consistent levels of suspense and intensity.

It’s these limited thriller shows that typically have us hooked from start to finish , with self-contained plots that surprise and misdirect us with myriad twists throughout each individual episode. For the sake of clarity, we’re not including thriller-adjacent miniseries such as Adolescence and Chernobyl – which are human stories primarily focused on tragedy and character development – in this list.

Nevertheless, thriller

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