Recent premieres and returning seasons with a similar mood, humour or pace.
Closest matches first, then broader nearby picks.
Why it fits: Below makes a close-knit fishing town feel eerie and lived-in, with family worries running alongside supernatural mystery. Yaga also draws its suspense from coastal isolation and local secrets, as a missing-heir case leads through secretive suspects and ancient magic, though its mood is more steadily unsettling than warmly funny.
HBO Max · 26 Oct 2025
Why it fits: Below mixes supernatural scares with the warmth of people trying to protect their community, giving its creature mystery a human centre. IT: Welcome to Derry brings that blend to a darker place, with loyal misfit friends facing frightening disappearances and dread creeping through ordinary neighbourhoods.
Netflix · 10 Apr 2026
Why it fits: Below makes fishing-town life and family loyalty part of the suspense, so the danger feels close to home. Turn of the Tide also centres on island friends and a community under pressure, with choices around a washed-ashore cocaine haul driving crime and action; its mood is darker and more urgent, with violence replacing heartfelt humour.
Why it fits
Below turns a fishing-town creature mystery into a fight to protect family and community; Dirty Business offers a grounded village mystery as amateur detectives press for answers about dying river fish. Its real-world investigation trades supernatural danger for institutional evasion and the human cost of polluted water.
Why it fits
Below’s small-town secrets and family danger find a darker crime counterpart in Dustfall, where a returning detective investigates drink-spiking assaults in her coastal hometown. Rather than a creature threatening the whole community, the danger comes from hidden predators, doubted victims, and a legal system that fails them.
Why it fits
Below pairs a close-knit community under threat with a mystery rooted in the past; The Dark turns that appeal into a tense serial-killer hunt in the Scottish wilderness. The danger is human rather than supernatural, and growing local paranoia is sharpened by a detective who begins to doubt her own judgement.
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