Crime · 2020s

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Dexter: Resurrection

2025ShowtimeCrime

The continuation that throws away the two-minute breakfast ritual the original was famous for and replaces it with a six-second card.

Season 1

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Daredevil: Born Again

2025–Disney+Crime

The revival, which rebuilds the Netflix series' red-liquid city rather than replacing it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dark Winds

2022–AMCCrime

Tony Hillerman's Navajo Tribal Police novels, opened across the same high desert the cases cross.

Season 1

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Dept. Q

2025NetflixCrime

Edinburgh stone and basement strip-lighting — a cold-case unit introduced by the room it was exiled to.

Season 1

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Reacher

2022–Prime VideoCrime

Lee Child's drifter, adapted at the scale the books describe rather than the one previous adaptations settled for.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mare of Easttown

2021HBOCrime

Delaware County in winter — vinyl siding, chain-link, a quarry — over Lucius's 'Drunk'. Thirty-four seconds that refuse to make the place look like anything but itself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Cross

2024–Prime VideoCrime

James Patterson's Alex Cross novels, with a second-season sequence rebuilt from scratch.

Season 2

1 sequence

The Penguin

2024HBOCrime

A flooded, ruined Gotham shot like a crime photograph — standing water, wet brick, no heroics anywhere in it.

Season 1

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Elsbeth

2024–CBSCrime

The Good Wife's oddest lawyer given a Columbo format of her own, and nine seconds to introduce it.

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The Residence

2025NetflixCrime

The White House drawn as a cutaway doll's house, every room a suspect — a whodunnit that hands you the floor plan first.

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The Last Thing He Told Me

2023Apple TV+Crime

A houseboat, a marina and water — a disappearance introduced by the place the missing man left behind.

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Black Bird

2022Apple TV+Crime

Prison corridors and Midwestern fields intercut, so the confinement and the killing ground read as one landscape.

Season 1

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Poker Face

2023–PeacockCrime

Seventies title design executed exactly, for a case-of-the-week mystery deliberately built on the Columbo model.

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1 sequence

Task

2025HBOCrime

An FBI task force in the Philadelphia suburbs, from the writer of Mare of Easttown.

Season 1

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Love & Death

2023HBO MaxCrime

Suburban Texas in the early eighties — lawns, church halls and kitchen counters filmed with the flatness of a case file.

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Dexter: Original Sin

2024–Paramount+ with ShowtimeCrime

The prequel, which restages the breakfast routine of the original's titles for a younger version of the same man.

Season 1

1 sequence

Presumed Innocent

2024–Apple TV+Crime

Evidence photographs and courtroom stone, shot cold enough that guilt and innocence look identical.

Season 1

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Sugar

2024–Apple TV+Crime

Classic Hollywood noir imagery cut against modern Los Angeles — a detective series that keeps quoting the films it is standing inside.

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The Staircase

2022HBO MaxCrime

The dramatisation of the Michael Peterson case, made about the documentary crew as much as the trial.

Season 1

1 sequence

NCIS: Origins

2024–CBSCrime

Gibbs in 1991, twenty-one years before the parent series began.

Season 1

1 sequence

Taxi Driver

2021–2023SBSCrime

A taxi company that takes revenge on behalf of crime victims, from the webtoon.

Season 1

1 sequence

Fool Me Once

2024NetflixCrime

A widow who sees her dead husband on a nanny camera, from the Harlan Coben deal.

Season 1

1 sequence

Smoke

2025Apple TV+Crime

Fire filmed close enough to lose its shape — an arson series whose titles are almost entirely texture.

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The Perfect Couple

2024NetflixCrime

The cast dancing on a Nantucket lawn in wedding clothes, entirely straight-faced — a tonal misdirection the series never repeats.

Season 1

1 sequence

Gangs of London

2020–Sky Atlantic / AMC+Crime

A London crime empire after its head is killed, directed with the fight choreography of a feature.

Season 1

1 sequence

NCIS: Sydney

2023–Paramount+ / Network 10Crime

The first NCIS made outside America, with an Australian and American team sharing a desk.

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1 sequence

Law & Order: Organized Crime

2021–NBC / PeacockCrime

Stabler brought back a decade after leaving Special Victims Unit, into a serialised format the franchise had never used.

Season 1

1 sequence

Farzi

2023–Prime VideoCrime

A struggling artist forging banknotes well enough to destabilise the currency.

Season 1

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Hightown

2020–2024StarzCrime

A fisheries agent in Provincetown pulled into an overdose investigation she should not be near.

Season 1

1 sequence

Berlin

2023–NetflixCrime

The Money Heist prequel, giving the character who died in the second season a heist of his own.

Season 1

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FBI: Most Wanted

2020–2025CBSCrime

The first FBI spin-off, following the fugitive task force, in nine seconds of title card.

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1 sequence

We Own This City

2022HBOCrime

Baltimore again, from the makers of The Wire, but shot as surveillance and body-camera footage rather than drama.

Season 1

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Bad Monkey

2024–Apple TV+Crime

Florida Keys sunshine playing over things that should not be in it — a comic crime series that keeps its tone in the titles.

Season 1

1 sequence

Tokyo Vice

2022–2024HBO MaxCrime

Neon reflected in wet Shinjuku streets, shot from a car — a foreign correspondent's view of a city he does not yet read.

Seasons 1–2

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The Continental: From the World of John Wick

2023PeacockCrime

The hotel's origin in 1970s New York, three episodes long.

Season 1

1 sequence

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

2022NetflixCrime

Domestic surfaces filmed too closely — carpet, wallpaper, a fish tank — so ordinary rooms read as evidence before anything has happened in them.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bodies

2023NetflixCrime

One corpse in one Whitechapel alley, found by four detectives in four different centuries.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Flight Attendant

2020–2022HBO MaxCrime

Saul Bass by way of an in-flight safety card — flat colour, cut paper and a woman falling through all of it.

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1 sequence

FBI: International

2021–2025CBSCrime

The franchise's Budapest-based Fly Team, covering American interests across Europe.

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1 sequence

The Undoing

2020HBOCrime

A child's drawing of a family, animated and slowly disassembled, over Nicole Kidman singing 'Dream a Little Dream of Me'.

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Bodkin

2024NetflixCrime

An Irish coastal town shot as podcast artwork — the true-crime aesthetic the series is making fun of, deployed without a wink.

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1 sequence

Vincenzo

2021tvNCrime

An Italian-Korean consigliere returning to Seoul, opened in the grammar of a mafia film.

Season 1

1 sequence

Vigil

2021–2023BBC OneCrime

A death aboard a Trident submarine, investigated by a detective who cannot leave the boat.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hotel Cocaine

2024MGM+Crime

The Mutiny Hotel in late-seventies Miami, and everyone who passed through its lobby.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Westies

2025MGM+Crime

The Hell's Kitchen Irish mob, opened by Digital Kitchen in the grain of 1970s New York.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dahaad

2023Prime VideoCrime

A Rajasthan sub-inspector connecting a series of deaths nobody has treated as murders.

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1 sequence

CSI: Vegas

2021–2024CBSCrime

The franchise returned to the city it started in, with two of the original cast and the same Who song.

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1 sequence

BMF

2021–StarzCrime

The Black Mafia Family out of 1980s Detroit, produced by 50 Cent.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mouse

2021tvNCrime

A patrol officer hunting a psychopath, in a series that spends its first quarter setting up a reversal.

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1 sequence

Dope Thief

2025Apple TV+Crime

Philadelphia rowhouses and police insignia, degraded until the badge and the disguise become hard to tell apart.

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1 sequence

NCIS: Hawai'i

2021–2024CBSCrime

The first NCIS led by a woman, and eleven seconds of titles to say so.

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1 sequence

Guns & Gulaabs

2023NetflixCrime

A 1990s opium town played as comedy, from the Gunjan Saxena directors.

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Lady in the Lake

2024Apple TV+Crime

Two women in 1960s Baltimore, one investigating and one already dead.

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1 sequence

Flower of Evil

2020tvNCrime

A detective investigating a case that leads to her own husband's past.

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1 sequence

Mask Girl

2023NetflixCrime

One woman played by three actors across three decades, from the webtoon.

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1 sequence

Beyond Evil

2021JTBCCrime

Two detectives in a small town, each convinced the other is the killer.

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1 sequence

Death and Other Details

2024HuluCrime

A murder on an ocean liner, opened in the manner of a Saul Bass film title.

Season 1

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ZeroZeroZero

2020Sky Atlantic / AmazonCrime

One cocaine shipment followed from Monterrey to Calabria, scored throughout by Mogwai.

Season 1

1 sequence

Who Killed Sara?

2021–2022NetflixCrime

Photographs, parachute rigging and water — the single incident the whole series circles, restaged in the titles every season.

Seasons 1–3

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Young Wallander

2020–2022Netflix (Sweden)Crime

Kurt Wallander as a rookie in present-day Malmö, made in English rather than Swedish.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Woods

2020NetflixCrime

Harlan Coben adapted into Polish, with a prosecutor reopening the summer camp his sister vanished from.

Season 1

1 sequence

City on Fire

2023Apple TV+Crime

New York in the year of the blackout, burning at the edges of the frame — another Imaginary Forces main title, and a much colder one.

Season 1

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Snabba Cash

2021–2022NetflixCrime

The Stockholm crime films continued as a series, following the money rather than the men.

Season 2

1 sequence

Bom Dia, Verônica

2020–2024NetflixCrime

A São Paulo police clerk who starts investigating a case nobody assigned her.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bergerac (2025)

2025–U&DramaCrime

Jersey's detective revived forty-four years after the BBC original, with the island doing the same work it always did.

Season 1

1 sequence

Beyond Paradise

2023–BBC One / BritBoxCrime

Death in Paradise's detective moved to Devon, where the weather is the joke.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bloodhounds

2023–2026NetflixCrime

Two young boxers working off a debt for a Seoul loan shark, and trying to stop.

Season 1

1 sequence

Boston Blue

2025–CBSCrime

The Blue Bloods spin-off, moving a Reagan to Boston and a different police family's dinner table.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Cleaning Lady

2022–2025FoxCrime

A Filipino doctor in Las Vegas cleaning for organised crime to pay for her son's treatment.

Season 1

1 sequence

Defending Jacob

2020Apple TV+Crime

New England woods and suburban windows, filmed at the distance a parent stands from a child they no longer recognise.

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Down Cemetery Road

2025–Apple TV+Crime

Mick Herron before Slough House: a missing girl and an accountant who will not stop looking for her.

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Extracurricular

2020NetflixCrime

A model student funding his own tuition by running a criminal enterprise after school.

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Full Circle

2023HBO MaxCrime

New York cut into overlapping fragments, so that separate lives keep occupying the same frame before the plot connects them.

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1 sequence

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

2024–BBC iPlayerCrime

A sixth-former who reopens a closed murder case as her school project and will not put it down.

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1 sequence

High Potential

2024–ABCCrime

A cleaner with an exceptional mind who starts solving the cases in the files she is dusting.

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1 sequence

The Lincoln Lawyer

2022–NetflixCrime

Connelly's defence attorney working out of the back seat of a car, brought to television a decade after the film.

Season 1

1 sequence

Miss Scarlet and The Duke

2020–Alibi / PBSCrime

A woman who inherits her father's detective agency in Victorian London and declines to sell it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Perry Mason

2020–2023HBOCrime

Depression-era Los Angeles rendered in ink and light leaks, over in twenty-one seconds — a deliberately curt opening for a show about a very slow investigation.