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The 20 Best Thriller Series on Netflix Right Now


Spies undercover and political conspiracies that go to the top.

Some of Netflix’s recent biggest hits — The Night Agent, Ripley, The Madness, Black Doves, The Diplomat, and more — would qualify, and it even has an entire library of adaptations of novels by the literary king of the genre, Harlan Coben (none made this list — sorry, Cobenites). Fans of tense spy shows like 24 and Homeland shouldn’t miss this tight, six-episode miniseries about a guard for Home Secretary in the U.K. Our friends across the pond fell for it hard as it set records when it premiered. Joe Penhall and David Fincher’s loose adaptation of the story of the man who invented profiling serial killers is a tense, riveting drama with some of the best performances and visual language to date in a Netflix series.

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