
Shows that feel like13 Reasons Why (2017–2020)
If you loved 13 Reasons Why, the closest series we have are Broadchurch (2013), Carrie (2026) and Another (2012). All three share 13 Reasons Why's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Alienist (2018).
If 13 Reasons Why hit the spot, these will too

One death, and a whole town's private guilt slowly turned over
The difference: A police investigation led by adults, restrained and free of shock tactics

Both are built on the same subject: high school
The difference: Easier on the grit than 13 Reasons Why

A school with a secret and a death count nobody will explain
The difference: Japanese horror anime — supernatural, and much more frightening

A young death that turns a whole community into suspects
The difference: Parents and courtrooms, adult and restrained

Piecing a tragedy together from what people would rather not say
The difference: 1896 period detection, adult and formal

School cruelty exposed by someone who has made it their mission
The difference: Thai anthology with a supernatural avenger, colder and stranger

The same preoccupation in both: high school
The difference: Trades the melancholy of 13 Reasons Why for an angle of its own

One thread runs through both: depression
The difference: Sits closer to sci-fi & fantasy than 13 Reasons Why does

Assault treated as the centre of the story rather than a plot beat
The difference: Procedural, adult, and it resets every week

Contemplative where it counts, twisty underneath


Contemplative mystery, and it commits to that
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