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The Third Day (TV series)
The Third Day is a 2020 HBO/Sky psychological horror miniseries by Dennis Kelly and Felix Barrett, starring Jude Law and Naomie Harris on Osea Island, split into Summer, Winter, and a 12-hour live Autumn event.
The Tourist (TV series)
The Tourist (TV series): British blackly comic amnesia thriller by Harry and Jack Williams, starring Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald; six episodes each in the 2022 Australian outback season and the 2024 Ireland season, aired on BBC One and Stan, later Netflix, 97%/96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is an eight-part Hulu true-crime limited series (2025) dramatizing Amanda Knox's wrongful conviction for Meredith Kercher's 2007 murder, created by KJ Steinberg with Knox and Monica Lewinsky as executive producers, starring Grace Van Patten.
The Undeclared War
The Undeclared War is a British Channel 4/Peacock cyber-thriller created by Peter Kosminsky and Colin Callender, set in 2024 as GCHQ analysts counter Russian cyber-attacks before a UK election; season 1 (2022, six episodes) starred Hannah Khalique-Brown and Simon Pegg, and a 2026 season 2 added a mole plot and Chinese threat.
The Veil
The Veil is a 2024 six-episode FX/Hulu spy thriller miniseries created by Steven Knight, starring Elisabeth Moss as MI6 agent Imogen Salter and Yumna Marwan as Adilah El Idrissi; Metascore 52, ended May 28, 2024.
The Wanted Man (TV series)
The Wanted Man is an upcoming eight-episode Apple TV British crime drama created by George Kay (Hijack, Lupin), starring Hugh Laurie as crime boss Felix Carmichael, betrayed and imprisoned in Staplehurst prison, premiering January 6, 2027.
The Westies (TV series)
The Westies is a 2026 MGM+ crime drama created by Chris Brancato and Michael Panes about the Irish-American Westies gang in 1980s Hell's Kitchen, starring J.K. Simmons as Eamon Sweeney, premiering July 12, 2026.
The Wire
The Wire is an HBO crime drama (2002–2008) created by David Simon with Ed Burns, set in Baltimore, with five seasons each centered on one city institution; critically acclaimed but never Emmy-winning.
The Witness (2026 TV series)
The Witness (2026 TV series): British three-part Netflix crime drama limited series by STV Studios Drama, created by Rob Williams, directed by Alex Winckler, starring Jordan Bolger; adapted from Alex Hanscombe's memoir about the 1992 Rachel Nickell murder; premiered 4 June 2026.
The Wives (TV series)
The Wives (TV series) is a 2024 six-part British Channel 5 mystery thriller by Helen Black, produced by Gaumont, starring Jo Joyner, Tamzin Outhwaite, and Angela Griffin as sisters-in-law investigating a death in Malta; distinct from the Nigerian series and the Tarryn Fisher adaptation of the same title.
The Woods
The Woods, also known as W głębi lasu, is a 2020 Polish-language Netflix crime thriller miniseries in six episodes, adapted from Harlan Coben's 2007 novel.
TikTok: Murder Gone Viral
TikTok: Murder Gone Viral (Murders Gone Viral) is a Nine Lives true-crime documentary series for ITVX, first aired January 2024, covering murders linked to TikTok, including the Bukhari mother-daughter double murder.
Tip Toe (TV series)
Tip Toe is a 2026 five-part Channel 4 suburban thriller written by Russell T Davies, starring Alan Cumming as gay bar owner Leo and David Morrissey as neighbour Clive, whose feud escalates through disinformation; 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Tracker (American TV series)
Tracker is a CBS crime drama starring Justin Hartley as reward seeker Colter Shaw, based on Jeffery Deaver's novel The Never Game. It premiered after Super Bowl LVIII in February 2024, became the most-watched US entertainment series of 2023-24, and reached its fourth season in 2026.
Trinity (TV series)
Trinity is an upcoming eight-episode Netflix political thriller created by Jed Mercurio (Bodyguard, Line of Duty), starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as naval officer Katherine Decker and Richard Madden as Secretary of Defense Webb Preston, with Marcia Gay Harden; filmed in Vancouver, 2026 release, date unconfirmed.
Trom
Trom is a 2022 Faroese-Danish Nordic noir crime drama, the first TV series produced in the Faroe Islands. Six episodes on Viaplay, created by Torfinnur Jákupsson from Jógvan Isaksen's novels, starring Ulrich Thomsen; Monte-Carlo Nymphe D'or winner.
True Story
True Story (2021) is a Netflix limited thriller series, 7 TV-MA episodes, created by Eric Newman, starring Kevin Hart as comedian Kid and Wesley Snipes as brother Carlton during a Philadelphia tour stop.
Unchosen
Unchosen is a 2026 six-episode British Netflix psychological thriller by Julie Gearey, starring Molly Windsor, Asa Butterfield, and Fra Fee, about a woman in a cult called the Fellowship of the Divine whose affair with an escaped convict upends her sect.
Unfamiliar
Unfamiliar is a 2026 German-language Netflix spy thriller series, six episodes, created by Paul Coates and produced by Gaumont, starring Susanne Wolff and Felix Kramer as ex-BND spies running a Berlin safe house.
Unforgiven (TV series)
Unforgiven is a three-part British crime drama broadcast on ITV1 in January 2009, written by Sally Wainwright and starring Suranne Jones as a woman rebuilding her life after prison.
Untamed (TV series)
Untamed is a 2025 Netflix six-episode mystery thriller limited series created by Mark L. Smith and Elle Smith, starring Eric Bana as National Park Service ISB agent Kyle Turner. Set in Yosemite but filmed in British Columbia; renewed for a Hawaii-set season 2.
Until I Kill You
Until I Kill You is a four-part ITV true crime drama (2024) based on Delia Balmer's memoir Living with a Serial Killer, starring Anna Maxwell Martin and Shaun Evans as survivor Delia Balmer and killer John Sweeney; directed by Julia Ford, it won Maxwell Martin an International Emmy.
Up to No Good (TV series)
Up to No Good, also titled Maud, is a 2026 British six-part Channel 4 crime drama starring Glenn Close as killer Maud Oldcastle, adapted from Helene Tursten's Elderly Lady story collections, written by Nina and Moses Raine and directed by Lee Haven Jones.
Vaka
Vaka (Wake) is a 2026 Swedish dystopian thriller miniseries on Prime Video: six episodes about a deadly insomnia epidemic in Stockholm, created by Brynja Björk, directed by Henrik Georgsson, starring Jonas Karlsson, Aliette Opheim, and Gizem Erdogan.
Vanished (2026 TV series)
Vanished (2026) is a four-part MGM+/Prime Video mystery thriller miniseries starring Kaley Cuoco as Alice Monroe and Sam Claflin as Tom Parker, created by David Hilton and Preston Thompson, directed by Barnaby Thompson, about a boyfriend vanishing from a train in France.
Veronika (TV series)
Veronika (TV series): Swedish SkyShowtime Nordic noir crime thriller starring Alexandra Rapaport as police officer Veronika Gren, who sees visions of the dead; premiered 22 March 2024, three seasons. Distinct from the Brazilian Globoplay series Verônica com K.
Victim (2019 TV series)
The Victim is a 2019 four-part BBC One legal thriller by Rob Williams, produced by STV Productions, starring Kelly Macdonald as Anna Dean and James Harkness as Craig Myers, broadcast 8–11 April 2019, BAFTA-nominated.
Wanted (2016 Australian TV series)
Wanted is a 2016-2018 Australian action-crime drama on Seven Network, created by Rebecca Gibney and Richard Bell. Three seasons of six episodes follow Lola and Chelsea, falsely accused women on the run with a car full of money; Screen Queensland invested $527,768.
Watching You (TV series)
Watching You is a 2025 six-episode Australian erotic psychological thriller on Stan, adapted from J.P. Pomare's novel The Last Guests by Alexei Mizin and Ryan van Dijk; Aisha Dee stars as Lina, blackmailed over a secretly filmed affair. Sold to Hulu and Disney+ in 2026.
Wayward (miniseries)
Wayward is an eight-episode 2025 Netflix limited series created by and starring Mae Martin, a psychological thriller set in 2003 in Tall Pines, Vermont, about a troubled-teen academy run by Toni Collette's Evelyn Wade, filmed in Ontario.