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Riviera (TV series)
Riviera is a Sky Atlantic drama-thriller (2017–2020, three seasons) created from Paul McGuinness's idea with Neil Jordan and John Banville, starring Julia Stiles as widow Georgina Clios; filmed on the French Riviera on a ~€40–45 million season-1 budget, later disowned by Jordan.
Rough Diamonds
Rough Diamonds is an 8-episode Flemish-Israeli Netflix crime drama (April 21, 2023) by Fauda creators Rotem Shamir and Yuval Yefet, following the ultra-Orthodox Wolfson diamond-dealing family of Antwerp after a son's suicide.
Run (American TV series)
Run (2020) is an American HBO comedy-thriller series created by Vicky Jones, starring Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson as exes honoring a 17-year-old 'RUN' text pact; seven episodes, canceled July 2020, not the Netflix series Run Away or the Australian miniseries Run.
Saint X
Saint X: 2020 debut novel by Alexis Schaitkin (Celadon Books) and its 2023 Hulu series about Alison Thomas's mysterious death on a Caribbean island and her sister Emily's search for truth; eight episodes, Leila Gerstein showrunner, cancelled after one season.
Salvador (TV series)
Salvador is a 2026 Spanish Netflix drama thriller, 8 episodes, created by Aitor Gabilondo, directed by Daniel Calparsoro, starring Luis Tosar as ambulance driver Salvador Aguirre whose daughter Milena joins the neo-Nazi ultra group White Souls.
Sara: Woman in the Shadows
Sara: Woman in the Shadows (Sara. La donna nell'ombra) is a 2025 Italian Netflix crime thriller, six episodes directed by Carmine Elia, adapted from Maurizio De Giovanni's novels about ex-secret agent Sara Morozzi investigating her son's death in Naples.
Scarpetta (TV series)
Scarpetta is a 2026 Prime Video crime thriller based on Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta novels, starring Nicole Kidman as the forensic pathologist, with Jamie Lee Curtis, eight episodes released March 11, 2026, dual timelines, and a two-season order.
Scorpion (TV series)
Scorpion is a CBS action-drama (2014-2018, four seasons) created by Nick Santora, inspired by self-proclaimed 197-IQ hacker Walter O'Brien, starring Elyes Gabel and Katharine McPhee as genius misfits solving high-tech threats for Homeland Security.
Scrublands (TV series)
Scrublands is an Australian crime drama series adapted from Chris Hammer's novel, following journalist Martin Scarsden (Luke Arnold) in the drought-stricken town of Riversend; two Stan seasons plus Scrublands: Trust (2027).
Search: The Naina Murder Case
Search: The Naina Murder Case (खोजें: नैना हत्याकांड) is a 2025 Hindi JioHotstar crime thriller, a six-episode Rohan Sippy adaptation of Danish series The Killing, starring Konkona Sen Sharma as ACP Sanyukta Das investigating a teenager's murder.
Secrets of Sulphur Springs
Secrets of Sulphur Springs is a Disney Channel live-action time-travel mystery series (2021-2023, created by Tracey Thomson) in which Griffin Campbell and Harper Dunn use a portal in the haunted Tremont hotel to investigate a girl's disappearance.
Signora Volpe
Signora Volpe is a British-Italian detective drama starring Emilia Fox as Sylvia Fox, a former MI6 spy who becomes an amateur detective in Umbria, Italy, from 2022.
Smother (TV series)
Smother is an Irish investigative thriller by Kate O'Riordan for RTÉ One, starring Dervla Kirwan as Val Ahern investigating her husband's cliff-top death in County Clare; three series, RTS Ireland Best Drama winner, 2025 Slovak format sale.
Snabba Cash
Snabba Cash (Swedish for easy money) is a Swedish Netflix crime drama series (2021–2022, 2 seasons, 12 episodes) by Oskar Söderlund, Jesper Ganslandt, and Jens Lapidus, set ten years after the Easy Money film trilogy, starring Evin Ahmad as entrepreneur Leya.
Sneaky Pete
Sneaky Pete is an American crime drama created by David Shore and Bryan Cranston for Amazon Prime Video, starring Giovanni Ribisi as con man Marius Josipovic, who assumes his cellmate's identity; three seasons, 30 episodes, 2015-2019.
Snowfall (TV series)
Snowfall is an FX crime drama (2017-2023, six seasons, 60 episodes) created by John Singleton, Eric Amadio, and Dave Andron, following Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) and the CIA-linked rise of the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.
Somos.
Somos. is a 2021 Netflix Mexican miniseries created by James Schamus with Monika Revilla and Fernanda Melchor, dramatizing the 2011 Allende massacre by Los Zetas from the victims' perspective, based on Ginger Thompson's ProPublica investigation.
Spy/Master
Spy/Master is a 2023 HBO Max Romanian-German Cold War espionage series created by Adina Sădeanu and Kirsten Peters, directed by Christopher Smith, about fictional KGB double agent Victor Godeanu, inspired by Ion Mihai Pacepa's defection.
SS-GB (TV series)
SS-GB is a 2017 BBC One five-part miniseries adapted from Len Deighton's 1978 alternate-history novel, directed by Philipp Kadelbach, starring Sam Riley as detective Douglas Archer in a Nazi-occupied 1941 Britain. Distinguishing facts: Berlinale 2017 premiere, Bond writers Purvis and Wade, 89% Tomatometer.
Stags (TV series)
Stags is a 2024 British six-part Paramount+ comedy-drama thriller created by Daniel Cullen, also known as Despedida salvaje. A stag do in South America ends in a lawless island prison run by warring cocaine-smuggling siblings; filmed in Tenerife by Eleven Film.
State of Affairs (TV series)
State of Affairs is an NBC political drama (premiered November 17, 2014) starring Katherine Heigl as CIA analyst Charleston Tucker, who briefs President Constance Payton (Alfre Woodard) via the daily PDB; one season, reviewed as derivative of Homeland and Scandal.
State of Play (TV series)
State of Play is a 2003 six-part BBC One political conspiracy thriller written by Paul Abbott and directed by David Yates, starring John Simm, David Morrissey, Kelly Macdonald, and Bill Nighy as Herald journalists uncovering oil-backed government corruption; it won a 2004 Peabody Award and was adapted into a 2009 Hollywood film.
Sugar (2024 TV series)
Sugar is an Apple TV+ neo-noir detective drama created by Mark Protosevich, starring Colin Farrell as Los Angeles private eye John Sugar, hired to find a producer's missing granddaughter; episode 6 reveals Sugar is an alien. Season 1 premiered April 5, 2024; season 2 followed June 19, 2026.
Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes
Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes is a 2025 four-part Disney+ British drama by Jeff Pope dramatizing the 22 July 2005 Stockwell shooting of the innocent Brazilian electrician, with Edison Alcaide, Conleth Hill, Emily Mortimer, and Russell Tovey.
Task (TV series)
Task is an HBO crime drama created by Brad Ingelsby, starring Mark Ruffalo as FBI agent Tom Brandis and Tom Pelphrey as robber Robbie Prendergrast in Delaware County, Pennsylvania; seven-episode season 1 premiered September 7, 2025, earned a 96% Tomatometer, and was renewed for season 2.
The 100 Code
The 100 Code (The Hundred Code) is a 2015 Swedish-German crime thriller series, 12 episodes, created by Bobby Moresco, starring Michael Nyqvist and Dominic Monaghan as detectives hunting a serial killer in Stockholm; Sky Deutschland's first co-production, not renewed.
The A-Team
The A-Team, also known as Brigada A, is an American action series about fugitive Special Forces mercenaries, starring George Peppard and Mr. T on NBC from 1983 to 1987.
The Agency (2001 TV series)
The Agency (2001 TV series) is a CBS CIA drama, 2001-2003, 44 episodes, created by Michael Frost Beckner; first series allowed to film inside CIA headquarters; canceled after season 2, distinct from the 2024 remake.
The Agency (2024 TV series)
The Agency (2024 TV series) is a Paramount+ with Showtime espionage drama adapted from the French series Le Bureau des Légendes, starring Michael Fassbender as CIA agent Martian, with Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Richard Gere; season 2 streamed June 21, 2026.
The Altruists
The Altruists is an eight-episode Netflix limited drama (premiering November 19, 2026) from Graham Moore and the Obamas' Higher Ground, starring Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison and Anthony Boyle as Sam Bankman-Fried in the FTX collapse story.