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Dark series on Netflix UK

Bleak, gripping and best watched with the lights on. These are the darker dramas and crime series on Netflix UK right now. Maybe not right before bed.

Find me something dark

Six quick questions, free, no sign-up. Starts with the dark mood, series and Netflix filled in.

Tonight's 12 picks

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Picked by the same engine as the quiz, from what's streaming on Netflix right now. Refreshed daily.

  1. Breaking Bad

    2008 · Series · 5 seasons · 56m episodes

    Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

    Streaming in the UK on

  2. The Mentalist

    2008 · Series · 7 seasons · 42m episodes

    Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.

    Streaming in the UK on

  3. Person of Interest

    2011 · Series · 5 seasons · 44m episodes

    John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars. 

    Streaming in the UK on

  4. Bones

    2005 · Series · 12 seasons · 44m episodes

    Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

    Streaming in the UK on

  5. Chicago P.D.

    2014 · Series · 14 seasons · 43m episodes

    A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city's street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders and beyond.

    Streaming in the UK on

  6. Lucifer

    2016 · Series · 6 seasons · 45m episodes

    Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.

    Streaming in the UK on

  7. Better Call Saul

    2015 · Series · 6 seasons · 70m episodes

    Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

    Streaming in the UK on

  8. Riverdale

    2017 · Series · 7 seasons · 45m episodes

    Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.

    Streaming in the UK on

  9. Peaky Blinders

    2013 · Series · 6 seasons · 79m episodes

    A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

    Streaming in the UK on

  10. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    1999 · Series · 28 seasons · 42m episodes

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

    Streaming in the UK on

  11. Ozark

    2017 · Series · 4 seasons · 72m episodes

    A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.

    Streaming in the UK on

  12. Dark

    2017 · Series · 3 seasons · 74m episodes

    A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.

    Streaming in the UK on

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