TV Shows Like Evil
If you like Evil, here are 11 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
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Evil works because it refuses to settle the argument it is built around. Kristen, David, and Ben are not a team of true believers or a team of debunkers. They are split, and the show is honest enough to leave most cases unresolved. Every episode asks whether the explanation is psychological, spiritual, or something the three of them simply do not have a framework for yet. That tension, more than any single monster or miracle, is what keeps viewers coming back.
The best shows like Evil
1. The Sinner
Like Evil, The Sinner is less interested in who committed the crime than in why, and the why keeps circling back to guilt, trauma, and something that feels almost like possession. The detective at the center carries his own unresolved darkness into every case, which gives the show the same off-balance quality Evil fans will recognize. It is quieter and more internal than Evil, but the dread is just as consistent.
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2. Servant
Servant takes the psychological horror that runs underneath Evil and makes it the whole point. A tragedy, a marriage under strain, and a mysterious presence in the home add up to something that is never quite explained, which will feel familiar to anyone who has sat with Evil's unresolved endings. It is more claustrophobic and less procedural, but the atmosphere of dread and the refusal to give clean answers are exactly the same.
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3. The Purge
The Purge series is the furthest from Evil in tone, but it shares a core interest in what people reveal about themselves when ordinary moral structures are removed. Where Evil asks whether the supernatural is real, The Purge asks whether civilized behavior is, and both shows find the answer unsettling. Fans who like Evil's habit of using genre premises to get at serious questions about human nature will find something worth watching here.
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4. Prodigal Son
Prodigal Son puts a criminal psychologist at the center of a crime procedural and lets his particular psychological baggage shape every case he touches, which is very close to what Evil does with Kristen. The show is sharper and more darkly comic in tone, but it has the same interest in how well a person can really understand a disturbed mind before that understanding starts to cost them something. Fans who like Kristen as a character will find a lot to work with here.
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5. Midnight Mass
If any show on this list understands what Evil is doing with faith and the supernatural, it is Midnight Mass. A new priest arrives in a struggling community, miracles begin to happen, and the show takes both the religious experience and its horrifying consequences completely seriously. The Catholic texture, the charismatic clergy, and the question of whether a miracle is ever simply a miracle make this the most direct companion to Evil on the list.
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More on shows like Evil
Fans of Evil tend to want a few specific things from their next show: a procedural structure loose enough to let character bleed through, some genuine darkness underneath the plot mechanics, and a willingness to take religion or the supernatural seriously without mocking either. They also tend to be comfortable with ambiguity. Evil rarely tells you what actually happened, and its audience has learned to live with that, even to enjoy it.
The five shows here each pick up one or more of those threads. The Sinner shares Evil's interest in crimes that feel like they have a deeper, almost spiritual root, and it wraps them around a detective who is as troubled as any suspect he pursues. Prodigal Son brings a similar crime-procedural rhythm and a psychologist protagonist whose insight into dark minds comes at a personal cost. Servant leans hardest into the horror and psychological unease, trading Evil's New York investigations for a close, suffocating domestic setting in Philadelphia. Midnight Mass is the most direct companion piece on the supernatural and Catholic themes: a charismatic priest, miracles that curdle, and a community whose faith is used against it. The Purge TV series is the most stylistically different of the group, but it shares Evil's habit of using genre pressure to expose what people actually believe and how far they will go when the rules fall away.
None of these are perfect fits, and that is fine. Midnight Mass and Servant both lean more into outright horror than Evil usually does. The Sinner is quieter and more internal. But all five take their premises seriously, which is exactly what Evil does, and that seriousness is what its fans are really looking for.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Evil?
- The Sinner is the most popular show similar to Evil in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Evil still on the air?
- Of the 11 shows similar to Evil listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Evil?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.