Shows About Getting Even

Mizu turns revenge into ferocious art, carving through Edo-period Japan with a blade and zero intention of forgiving anyone. The animation is gorgeous; the reckoning is brutal.

Family ruin fuels a sprawling campaign against La Diabla and the criminal empire around her. Come for operatic payback delivered at full telenovela volume.

The title does not bluff: Emily Thorne arrives in the Hamptons with a new identity, a hit list, and immaculate party clothes. Few shows make methodical social destruction this delicious.

A disgraced boxing champion punches his way back into London’s underworld to settle an old betrayal. The vengeance here comes with bruised knuckles and criminal-family complications.

What begins as a reckless affair curdles into a knot of murder, betrayal, and long-planned retaliation. It is lurid, twisty, and best entered with minimal trust in anyone.

Murdered by her husband and best friend, Ji-won wakes up ten years earlier with time to reroute her fate—and wreck theirs. It is cathartic revenge fantasy with romance, comedy, and exceptionally satisfying trash removal.

Childhood friends reunite to expose the powerful men who abused them and buried the truth. Their shared vendetta makes for a grim, combustible thriller about what loyalty costs decades later.

Cullen Bohannon follows his wife’s killers west and lands amid the dangerous construction of the transcontinental railroad. The revenge quest gradually becomes a bigger, bloodier portrait of postwar America.