More shows with wilderness survival, creeping dread, and dark mystery. Every pick is a recent premiere or a returning season.
Closest matches first, then broader nearby picks.
Why it fits: Yellowjackets makes teenage friendships feel fragile under pressure, and School Spirits brings a similar mix of young characters, secrets, and creeping dread. One story turns on girls forming rival groups in the wilderness; the other follows a ghostly school mystery, with clues and buried deaths giving its halls an eerie edge.
Crunchyroll Premium · Jul 7, 2026
Why it fits: The fragile bonds between girls facing danger give Yellowjackets and I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day their shared emotional force. Yellowjackets lets friendships fracture as the team struggles to survive, while the anime finds rare tenderness between two girls in a brutal academy, making its violence feel especially painful.
Hulu · Apr 8, 2026
Why it fits: Yellowjackets and The Testaments both make growing up among danger feel tense and personal, with girls relying on fragile alliances. Yellowjackets shifts between wilderness survival and the survivors’ later lives, while The Testaments focuses on whispered friendships and quiet defiance at a school where obedience is enforced; its danger is more controlled and watchful.
Why it fits
Yellowjackets turns teenage friendship into a fight for survival; Prefiero la Muerte brings that pressure to a zombie cure quest led by a school misfit. Instead of rival clans and a later-life storyline, expect scrappy teamwork with his only friend and longtime crush as his infection threatens everyone around him.
Why it fits
Yellowjackets makes desperate choices and fragile teenage bonds part of its survival horror; If Wishes Could Kill puts five high-school friends under a different kind of threat. Their wishes come true at a cost, and a death warning turns their struggle into a claustrophobic mystery rather than a wilderness ordeal.
Why it fits
Yellowjackets lets fractured friendships and buried history fuel its drama; Tell Me Lies shifts that messy relationship pressure into a toxic college romance. Lucy and Stephen's on-again, off-again relationship unfolds over eight years, with lies and betrayals damaging their friends, trading wilderness horror for intimate, heated conflict.
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