How many episodes are in If Wishes Could Kill?

If Wishes Could Kill has 8 episodes in this listed season.

When does If Wishes Could Kill premiere?

If Wishes Could Kill premieres on 2026-04-24.

Is If Wishes Could Kill a new series?

If Wishes Could Kill is a new series (Season 1).

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If Wishes Could Kill(2026)

Also known as Wish Your Death • Girigo • جيريغو: أمنيات قاتلة

Archived · Netflix

7.3168 eps

S01

MysteryDramaHorrorThriller

ON AIR: APR 24Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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If Wishes Could Kill pairs jumpy teen horror with a high-school whodunit, moving quickly between the fear of an approaching death and the search for answers. The countdown gives the mystery an urgent edge: uncovering the app’s connection to a classmate’s sudden death is part of the friends’ effort to survive, not just an exercise in solving a puzzle.

Guilt and suspicion put the five friends’ relationships under pressure as secrets emerge. Questions about who knew what make their classmates a source of dread alongside the app itself. Set in present-day Seoul, the single-story miniseries builds its suspense through both sudden frights and the slower unease of friendships strained by fear.

Best for

teen horror, death countdown and Mystery

Story lane

Mystery and Drama

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

Follows five friends in high school who receive a death warning from a mysterious wish-granting app. As they struggle to escape their fates, they uncover chilling truths that connect the app to the sudden death of a classmate.

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Start with the closest match, then check out two more shows with a similar feel, pace, mood, or theme.

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Strongest Match

The eerie school setting and teen friendships in If Wishes Could Kill make School Spirits an easy next watch for a mystery that keeps its scares close to everyday high school life. Its ghostly classmates trade sharp jokes and form a loyal circle while clues about a student’s death slowly surface, giving the story a wittier, more bittersweet feel.

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Why this pick

If Wishes Could Kill and Carrie both turn high school cruelty into mounting supernatural dread, with young characters facing danger as classmates close ranks against them. Carrie makes the pressure more intimate through a lonely girl’s controlling home life and humiliations shared online, building toward a darker, more painful kind of horror.

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Why this pick

The dread in If Wishes Could Kill comes from friends facing danger while secrets strain their loyalty, and As You Stood By brings that same tense closeness to adult friendship. Its two women face fear and mounting consequences inside marriages that have become claustrophobic, making this a more grounded, unsettling thriller than the high-school horror.

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