You follows Joe Goldberg, a charming young man who goes above and beyond to insert himself into the lives of the people he is infatuated with.
You explores Joe’s obsession with his better half and how he is willing to cross boundaries in order to keep them happy. His obsession grows to a point where he forces himself into their lives without their knowledge.
He starts shaping their lives according to his needs, believing that he is helping them, only to hurt them and everyone around them. Comprised of similar themes of love, social media, and obsession, here are 10 shows like You you should watch.
1. Dexter (2006 – 2013)
Available on: Prime Video
Cast: Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, Erik King
Dexter follows the story of Dexter Morgan, who works as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami police by day. At night, he fulfills the urge he has inside him, which asks him to kill people.
As a serial killer, he still follows a code where he only kills people who are guilty. Over the course of the show, his professional and personal life cross over, and his urge to kill starts compromising the lives of his loved ones.
2. Dirty John (2018 – 2020)
Available on: Netflix
Cast: Connie Britton, Eric Bana, Juno Temple, Julia Garner
Dirty John is an anthology series exploring two different crime tales. The first one that tells the story of John Meehan is one that is much like Joe Goldberg’s.
Debra Newell, who seemingly has a perfect life, craves romance. She eventually finds the love she is looking for in Dr. John Meehan. Debra’s obsession with John leads her daughters to investigate this stranger who has entered their lives.
Soon, the secrets John is hiding and his manipulation tactics start getting exposed, and the family finds itself in John’s sinister game.
3. Hannibal (2013 – 2015)
Available on: Hulu
Cast: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen
Hannibal explores the relationship between Will Graham and Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Graham is an FBI profiler who has the ability to view the crime through the eyes of the killer.
When his ability becomes a curse for him and he starts losing his sense of reality, he is sent to Dr. Hannibal, who is secretly one of the most wanted serial killers of recent times.
4. The Fall (2013 – 2016)
Available on: Prime Video, Peacock
Cast: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan
Metropolitan Police Superintendent Stella Gibson is assigned to examine a murder investigation that has been active for around a month now. The investigation soon reveals that a serial killer is on the loose and is targeting young women in Belfast.
The Fall explores the common complexity of these two hunters. One is stalking and killing his victims, and the other is after this killer.
5. Chloe (2022)
Available on: Prime Video
Cast: Erin Doherty, Billy Howle, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Jack Farthing, Poppy Gilbert
Becky compares her life to the picture-perfect lives on Instagram. She grows obsessed with the life of a woman named Chloe, who was once her teenage friend.
When Chloe suddenly dies one day, Becky takes it upon herself to investigate and figure out what happened to her. This leads her to pick up a new identity and infiltrate Chloe’s circle.
This new identity soon makes Becky a powerful heroine who now has well-established connections, unlike her real self, Becky.
6. Bates Motel (2013 – 2017)
Available on: Peacock
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke
Norma Bates and her son, Norman, move to a new town to restart their lives. Norma buys a motel to run, and a shy Norman, with the help of his mother, starts opening up and making friends at his new school.
Unfortunately, the townsfolk aren’t as peaceful and nice as Norma thought. The drama in and out of his house starts taking a toll on Norman’s mental health, leaving Norma to do everything she can to protect her son.
7. Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022)
Available on: Netflix
Cast: Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins, Molly Ringwald, Niecy Nash, Michael Learned
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story explores the life of one of the most notorious serial killers in America. It tells the story of Jeffrey Dahmer partly from the point of view of his victims.
It captures how Dahmer became a serial killer and executed murders between 1978 and 1991 in Bath Township, Ohio, West Allis, Wisconsin, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The show notes how police incompetence and lenient judges let Dahmer go and allowed him to continue his killing spree.
8. Barry (2018 – present)
Available on: HBO Max
Cast: Bill Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg
Barry Berkman, a U.S. Marine and Afghanistan veteran from Cleveland, works as a hitman. He is lonely and depressed. He discovers a new purpose while following one of his targets to the city of angels, Los Angeles.
Drawn toward the world of acting, Barry aims to leave his violent life altogether, but fate has something else in store for him. His handler continues to contact him, and Barry, on the other hand, struggles to stop murdering.
9. Ratched (2020)
Available on: Netflix
Cast: Sarah Paulson, Finn Wittrock, Cynthia Nixon, Jon Jon Briones, Charlie Carver, Judy Davis, Sharon Stone
Ratched takes place in 1947. It tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched, who starts working at a leading psychiatric hospital, Lucia State Hospital, where experiments are being carried out on human minds.
On the surface, Ratched comes out as a dedicated nurse, but deep inside her, there is growing darkness. Ratched wastes no time in revealing her true self when she joins the hospital by blackmailing an assistant nurse.
She aims to break her foster brother out of the hospital. Things get complicated as she gets more involved at the hospital, forms unexpected relationships, and faces her own dark past.
10. The Stranger (2020)
Available on: Netflix
Cast: Richard Armitage, Siobhán Finneran, Jennifer Saunders, Hannah John-Kamen, Shaun Dooley
An unknown woman approaches family man Adam Price and tells him about a secret his wife is withholding from him. The secret ruins Price’s life, and soon his wife goes missing.
As the investigation into the matter continues, it is revealed that this unknown woman knows the secrets of people other than Price. Throughout the series, she continues to expose them and soon finds herself at the center of a criminal investigation.