Best Mystery Shows Right Now

Every season reinvents the game, but True Detective’s first outing sets a standard for brooding, cryptic storytelling that too many imitators have chased—and missed.

Nostalgia and government secrets collide in a small town where flickering lights can signal something monstrous. Stranger Things proves a great mystery can wear an Eggo-stained sweatshirt.

Sharp, meta, and ridiculously fun, Only Murders in the Building packs genuine surprises into a cozy whodunit without sanding off its edge.

FROM turns an inescapable town into a pressure cooker, where every possible answer opens another trapdoor. The nighttime creatures are almost beside the point; uncertainty is the real menace.

Part procedural, part dark fairy tale, Grimm gives Portland’s weekly crimes a folkloric bite while building a larger mystery around its detective’s strange inheritance.

The Mentalist turns sharp observation into satisfying weekly sleight of hand, then adds a long-running Red John hunt with real cat-and-mouse pull.