- Waiting for the next season of Yellowjackets? Try these five equally dark, twisty series now.
- Picks include Dexter: Original Sin, Landman, MobLand, The Gilded Age Season 3 and Twin Peaks.
- Each show delivers mystery, tense character drama and edge-of-your-seat plotting.
Shows like Yellowjackets to binge now
If Yellowjackets hooked you with its mix of survival horror, fractured friendships and slow-burn mystery, these five series scratch the same itch. They lean into secrets, morally gray characters and mounting tension—perfect if you want something to fill the Yellowjackets-shaped hole in your watchlist.
Dexter: Original Sin — Classic darkness, origin story
Dexter’s world of ritual, secrets and moral ambiguity lands squarely for fans of tightly wound, character-driven suspense. Dexter: Original Sin explores the origins of a killer trying to live by a twisted code while navigating family and police life.
Embedded trailer: https://www.youtube.com/embed/ckF6p4x_z-A?si=8LdMXpfzKsP2nnn1
Why it fits: Like Yellowjackets, the show centers on a protagonist with a shadowed interior life and intense close relationships that complicate every choice.
Landman — High-stakes greed and violent ambition
Landman plunges into the ruthless oil industry where fortunes and lives are on the line. Billy Bob Thornton leads a hard-edged cast in a drama about deals, betrayals and how power corrodes.
Embedded trailer: https://www.youtube.com/embed/7zxh49-bsIk?si=iZcV6ppQOENWGTwv
Why it fits: The show’s cut-throat tone and escalating conflicts echo Yellowjackets’ sense of dangerous, internal collapse—only this time with corporate and regional violence.
MobLand — Turf wars and moral compromises
MobLand drops viewers into a volatile mob turf war and the survival choices people make to stay alive. Tom Hardy stars as a fixer caught between loyalties and exploding empires.
Embedded trailer: https://www.youtube.com/embed/qKGgw7Ob5f4?si=1p62Mvk2eikDnSz6
Why it fits: If you love Yellowjackets’ mix of violence, shifting alliances and tense conspiracies, MobLand serves up the same high-stakes energy in an organized-crime setting.
The Gilded Age, Season Three — Quiet power plays and social secrets
For a slower-burn alternative, The Gilded Age offers scheming families, hidden agendas and simmering rivalries in 1880s New York.
Embedded trailer: https://www.youtube.com/embed/VDsWS5gy74Y?si=jq6A7rgJAXhcIU_d
Why it fits: The series trades wilderness survival for social survival—both deliver layered characters whose reputations and secrets propel the drama.
Twin Peaks — Small-town mystery that turns surreal
This cult classic starts as a murder investigation and quickly becomes stranger and more all-consuming. Twin Peaks is perfect if you want a show where ordinary life hides deep, chilling secrets.
Why it fits: Twin Peaks matches Yellowjackets’ potent mix of mystery, eerie atmosphere and community-wide fallout.
Where to watch
All five series are available to stream on Paramount+. Whether you want true-crime grit, psychological thrills or slow-burn period plotting, these picks offer the tense storytelling Yellowjackets fans crave.
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