Best Mystery Shows on Every Streaming Platform in 2025

Mystery shows satisfy a specific itch that other genres cannot reach: the pleasure of collecting clues alongside the characters, building theories, and either being proven right or delightfully wrong. Every major streaming platform has invested in the genre, from cozy whodunits to dark psychological puzzles. Here are the best mystery shows organized by where to find them.

How We Selected: We investigated options using full-season viewing, critical analysis, and production quality assessment. Our assessment focused on pacing consistency, thematic depth, production values, narrative quality. These recommendations reflect our independent assessment, not paid partnerships.

Netflix

All Her Fault is an eight-episode limited series starring Sarah Snook as a mother whose child goes missing during a playdate. Dakota Fanning and Michael Pena co-star in a thriller that delivers plot twists sharp enough to justify going in completely blind. One of the most gripping mystery series of 2025.

Adolescence uses its four-episode single-take format to create an immersive mystery about what drove a 13-year-old boy to allegedly kill a classmate. Each episode follows a different character through the investigation in real time.

The Residence comes from Shondaland and stars Uzo Aduba as detective Cordelia Cupp investigating a murder at the White House during a state dinner. The tone falls between cozy mystery and political thriller.

Knives Out is not a show, but Rian Johnson’s hit film and its sequel Glass Onion are both streaming on Netflix and are essential viewing for mystery fans.

Hulu

Only Murders in the Building is the defining mystery comedy of the streaming era. Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez play amateur sleuths who investigate murders in their Upper West Side apartment building while recording a true-crime podcast. Four seasons of clever mysteries wrapped in delightful chemistry, with each season introducing a new victim and a new roster of suspects.

The Bear is not a traditional mystery, but the show’s structure of slowly revealing what happened to Carmy’s brother and the secrets hidden in the restaurant scratch the same investigative itch.

Apple TV Plus

Severance is a workplace mystery disguised as a sci-fi thriller. What is Lumon Industries actually doing? What are the numbers in Macrodata Refinement? Who is Ms. Casey? Two seasons methodically reveal answers while generating bigger questions.

Presumed Innocent is a classic courtroom mystery about a prosecutor accused of murder, adapted with Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead. The show’s central question of his guilt or innocence drives every episode.

Disclaimer unfolds its mystery through a dual timeline as Cate Blanchett’s journalist discovers that someone has published a novel revealing the darkest secret of her past.

Amazon Prime Video

Reacher gives each season a self-contained mystery for Jack Reacher to solve, usually involving small-town corruption and military conspiracies. Three seasons of puzzle-box plotting wrapped in action.

The Wheel of Time includes mystery elements as characters try to determine which of them is the prophesied Dragon Reborn.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith layers relationship mystery over spy thriller as Donald Glover and Maya Erskine’s characters discover they know almost nothing about the organization that employs them.

Max (HBO)

True Detective: Night Country brings Jodie Foster to Alaska where the disappearance of eight researchers from an Arctic station unfolds into a mystery that spans decades and touches on indigenous history, scientific corruption, and the supernatural.

Mare of Easttown stars Kate Winslet as a small-town detective investigating the murder of a young woman while her own personal life unravels. The mystery’s resolution is genuinely surprising, and Winslet’s performance is career-defining.

The White Lotus frames each season around a central death revealed in the opening scenes, then spends the remaining episodes building toward the reveal of who died and why. The mystery structure elevates the social satire.

Peacock

Poker Face is a modern Columbo created by Rian Johnson. Natasha Lyonne plays Charlie Cale, whose ability to detect lies leads her to solve a new murder every episode. The show reveals the killer at the start of each episode, making the mystery about how Charlie figures it out.

The Day of the Jackal is a cat-and-mouse mystery where the audience follows both the assassin and the intelligence officer trying to identify and stop him.

Paramount Plus

Yellowjackets alternates between a 1990s plane crash survival story and the present-day lives of the adult survivors. The mystery of what exactly happened in the wilderness and who among them is capable of terrible acts drives three seasons.

For more genre recommendations, check our thriller series guide and crime shows roundup.