Best TV shows — mystere on Apple TV+ : our Top 20

2004 · David Shore · 8 seasons

An abrasive, brilliant physician struggling with drug addiction heads a team of diagnostic specialists at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

With Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps, Jesse Spencer, Lisa Edelstein, Bobbin Bergstrom and Jennifer Morrison

2023 · Graham Yost · 2 seasons

Centuries after the surface turned into a poisoned wasteland, thousands of people eke out an existence inside a vast underground silo. When the silo’s sheriff breaks a sacred rule and a string of unexplained deaths follows, engineer Juliette starts probing forbidden zones and buried records, unraveling a web of lies and the dark truth at the heart of their refuge.

With Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, Rick Gomez and Tim Robbins

2008 · J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci · 5 seasons

FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham teams up with Walter Bishop, a brilliant scientist who spent years institutionalized, and his calculating but reluctant son Peter to probe a string of inexplicable incidents. As they peel back layers of the case, they uncover a deadly conspiracy that forces them to confront a disturbing overlap between speculative science and emerging technology.

With Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Jasika Nicole, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown and Leonard Nimoy

2008 · Alan Ball · 7 seasons

A breakthrough by a Japanese scientist — the creation of synthetic blood — propels vampires from myth into everyday life, allowing them to live openly as citizens. Humans are no longer on the menu, yet suspicion and anxiety persist as religious leaders, politicians and vampire hardliners pick sides. In the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, however, the community remains deeply divided.

With Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgård, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Nelsan Ellis and Chris Bauer

2024 · David E. Kelley · 1 season

Marie-Claude Savard and Sébastien Trudel embark on a new inquiry into a high-profile Quebec legal mystery from the late 1980s. On December 15, 1987, 45-year-old Michelle Perron was discovered dead in her car, her husband — film director Gilles Perron — present at the scene. More than thirty-three years later, the identity of her killer remains unknown.

With Jake Gyllenhaal, Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Peter Sarsgaard, O-T Fagbenle and Renate Reinsve

2021 · Fernando González Molina, Ruth García, David Oliva · 2 seasons

A brutal killing shatters the calm of an exclusive, wealthy enclave populated by the world's most powerful, tearing away its polished façade and igniting a tense, high-stakes investigation that uncovers buried secrets, alliances and dangerous ambitions.

With Pau Gimeno, León Martínez, Héctor Gozalbo, Cristian López, María Romanillos, Macarena García and Iñaki Ardanaz

2021 · Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson · 4 seasons

A gifted high-school girls’ soccer squad survives a plane crash in the remote northern wilderness and must confront hunger, exposure, and the breakdown of order. Stripped of coaches, civilization, and certainty, the once-tight but emotionally complicated team fractures into rival factions, forcing the girls to reinvent rules, loyalties, and themselves as survival becomes increasingly brutal. The series intercuts that ordeal with a timeline almost twenty-five years later, following the women as they try to rebuild ordinary lives while carrying the physical and psychological scars of what they became in the wild. Equal parts survival thriller, psychological horror, and coming-of-age drama, the show probes how trauma remakes identity, how power reshapes relationships, and what it costs to live with the choices made to survive.

With Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty and Steven Krueger

2022 · Anna Symon · 1 season

Cora Seaborne, newly widowed, leaves London for the marshlands of Essex to pursue reports of a legendary serpent. Her scientific curiosity forges an unexpected partnership with the local vicar—his faith clashing and converging with her skepticism—until a devastating event prompts the community to turn on her, convinced she has drawn the creature to them.

With Claire Danes, Tom Hiddleston, Frank Dillane, Clémence Poésy, Hayley Squires, Gerard Kearns and Michael Jibson

2024 · Alfonso Cuarón · 1 season

A high-profile journalist whose career is built on exposing other people’s sins finds an anonymous novel waiting on her nightstand; as she reads, the pages begin to reconstruct her past and cast her as the central figure in a long-buried scandal that threatens to reveal the darkest secret she has fought to keep hidden. As fiction and reality collide, she must hunt down who is writing her life—and decide whether unmasking the truth will vindicate her or shatter everything she’s worked for.

With Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen, Lesley Manville, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Louis Partridge and Leila George

2023 · Liu Cixin · 1 season

Nanotechnology researcher Wang Miao is escorted to the Joint Operations Center by the tough-minded police officer Shi Qiang, who is investigating a baffling wave of suicides among scientists worldwide. Recruited to go undercover, Wang is sent to infiltrate a shadowy group called the Frontiers of Science to assist the inquiry. There he is contacted by the organization’s enigmatic leader, Shen Yufei, who introduces him to an immersive virtual-reality experience known as Three-Body — a game that soon reveals itself to be far more than mere entertainment.

With Zhang Luyi, Yu Hewei, Chen Jin, Wang Ziwen, Lin Yongjian, Li Xiaoran and He Dujuan

2019 · Ben Chanan · 3 seasons

Exonerated when footage tied to an Afghanistan murder is revealed to be unreliable, former soldier Shaun Emery is released and tries to start anew with his young daughter. But when compromising CCTV from a night out in London surfaces, his hard-won freedom unravels and he must fight to prove his innocence once again.

With Ben Miles, Nigel Lindsay, Ginny Holder, Lia Williams, Holliday Grainger, Ron Perlman and Cavan Clerkin

2022 · Silka Luisa · 1 season

Years after a violent attack plunged her into a life where reality keeps shifting, Kirby Mazrachi uncovers evidence that a recent murder is connected to that same assault. Teaming up with veteran reporter Dan Velazquez, she races to map the contours of her unstable present and confront the buried truth of her past.

With Elisabeth Moss, Wagner Moura, Phillipa Soo, Chris Chalk, Amy Brenneman, Jamie Bell and Erika Alexander

1990 · Dick Wolf · 25 seasons

Based on headline-making crimes, detectives pursue serious and often fatal offenses, methodically examining evidence, interviewing witnesses and suspects, and following every lead until an arrest is made. Prosecutors then assemble the case, marshaling facts and testimony to meet the burden of proof required for conviction. Together—investigators, forensic specialists and the district attorney’s team—navigate the complexities of New York’s criminal justice system to hold offenders accountable and protect the city.

With Sam Waterston, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Steven Hill, Jesse L. Martin, Leslie Hendrix and Fred Dalton Thompson

1990 · Dick Wolf · 25 seasons

When headline-making crimes strike, New York detectives launch intensive investigations—collecting forensic evidence, following leads and interviewing suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney’s office then prepares a thorough prosecution, meeting the required burden of proof to secure a conviction. Together, these seasoned investigators and prosecutors navigate the complexities of the criminal justice system to hold offenders accountable and protect the city.

With Sam Waterston, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jerry Orbach, Steven Hill, Jesse L. Martin, Leslie Hendrix and Fred Thompson

2020 · 1 season

The Western began with veteran character actor Ward Bond as the wagon master; following his death the part was taken over by John McIntire. Robert Horton played the scout in the show's early years, and when he chose to leave the series he was replaced a year later by the visually similar Robert Fuller to maintain continuity. The program was inspired by John Ford’s 1950 film Wagon Master, which featured Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., and Ward Bond, and it consciously nodded to earlier widescreen wagon-train epics such as The Big Trail — the picture that marked Bond’s first major screen role opposite John Wayne. In its first season the scout’s buckskin costume echoed Wayne’s earlier scout outfit, reinforcing the show’s ties to those cinematic predecessors.

With Yun Si-yun, Kyung Soo-jin, Shin So-yul, Cho Wan-ki, Cha Yup, Kim Dong-young and Lee Hang-na

2011 · James M. Cain · 1 season

During the Great Depression, a fiercely devoted mother, newly separated from her husband, opens a small restaurant to forge financial independence and rebuild her life. As she pours herself into her business and a tentative new relationship, she battles to earn the love and respect of her vain, demanding daughter, whose selfishness threatens to unravel everything she’s worked for.

With Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood, Brían F. O'Byrne, Melissa Leo, James Le Gros and Mare Winningham

2005 · Nicolas Falacci, Cheryl Heuton · 6 seasons

Drawing on real cases and hands-on experience, the series follows an FBI agent who enlists his mathematically gifted brother to help unravel complex crimes across Los Angeles. Using statistics, models and unconventional mathematical insight, they bring a fresh, numbers-driven approach to investigations that traditional policing struggles to solve.

With Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Alimi Ballard, Peter MacNicol, Navi Rawat and Dylan Bruno

2022 · Joseph Weisberg, Joel Fields · 1 season

Abducted and confined, a psychotherapist is coerced into treating his captor—a serial killer who insists he needs help suppressing his urge to murder.

With Steve Carell, Domhnall Gleeson, Linda Emond, Laura Niemi, Andrew Leeds and David Alan Grier

2011 · Ann Cleeves · 14 seasons

A brilliant but disordered detective, DCI Vera Stanhope oversees investigations across northeast England, relentlessly pursuing the truth in murders, abductions and blackmail. Intensely devoted to her work, she meets the world with biting wit, calculated cunning and quiet courage.

With Brenda Blethyn, Jon Morrison, Riley Jones, Kenny Doughty, Ibinabo Jack, David Leon and Paul Kaye

2014 · Daisy Coulam · 10 seasons

In the quiet 1953 village of Grantchester, Reverend Sidney Chambers—an affable, magnetic clergyman with a keen mind—finds himself drawn into investigating a member of his congregation whose death is shrouded in mystery.

With Robson Green, Al Weaver, Tessa Peake-Jones, Kacey Ainsworth, Skye Lucia Degruttola, Tom Brittney and Nick Brimble