How many episodes are in Cape Fear?

Cape Fear has 10 episodes in this listed season.

When does Cape Fear premiere?

Cape Fear premieres on 2026-06-05.

Is Cape Fear a new series?

Cape Fear is a new series (Season 1).

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Cape Fear(2026)

Also known as Cabo de miedo • Cape Fear (2026) • Cape Fear les Nerfs a Vif

Archived · Apple TV

10 eps

S01

DramaCrimeThriller

ON AIR: JUN 5Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Cape Fear builds its threat slowly, tracking a convicted killer named Max Cady who has been released from prison and is now circling the family responsible for putting him there. The series works in dread rather than shock, letting Cady's presence accumulate before anything overtly violent happens.

What makes the pressure unusually wide is that the danger doesn't stay domestic. Cady's reach extends into the workplace, turning colleagues and professional relationships into potential points of exposure. The family can't simply lock the door and wait; the circle of vulnerability keeps expanding, and the horror stays relational long before it becomes physical.

Best for

revenge hunt, domestic psychological thriller and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Crime

Commitment

Season 1 · 10 episodes

Where

Apple TV

Official Premise

A happily married couple faces a growing threat when a notorious killer from their past, Max Cady, is released from prison and seeks revenge.

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Strongest Match

Cape Fear’s dread comes from a patient, personal threat closing in on a family, and Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story builds a similar pressure inside a rigid household. The tension grows through confinement and cruelty behind closed doors, then snaps with one brutal act, leaving you with the same uneasy sense of ordinary life turning dangerous.

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Why this pick

As You Stood By delivers the same kind of psychological tightening you feel in Cape Fear, where everyday relationships become the trap. Two women get cornered by family choices, and the story leans on intimate, inevitability-heavy scenes where desperation narrows options until one terrible decision lands, darker and more inward than Cady’s methodical hunt.

The Loyalty Game

Prime Video • Jul 3, 2026

DramaThriller

A group of women runs a unique business: luring men to expose their infidelity. Their newest client, Ana, lives a seemingly perfect life with her devoted husband-until doubt creeps in. As he starts to distort her reality, Ana teams up with a loyalty tester, and their search for truth spirals into a dangerous game of secrets, manipulation, and power-where loyalty becomes a matter of life and death.

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Why this pick

The Loyalty Game shares Cape Fear’s focus on domestic proximity, where the person closest to you can turn the home into a danger zone. Marital doubt curdles into manipulation and escalating peril, with pacing that tightens as control replaces suspicion, making it more paranoia-forward and less revenge-driven.

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