TV Shows Like The Sinner
If you like The Sinner, 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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The Sinner draws its power from a simple premise: a detective pursuing a crime, and a detective being pursued by himself. Harry Ambrose, the show's haunted protagonist, is good at his job but damaged by what it asks of him. The crimes he investigates tend toward the sensational and unusual—sudden acts of violence that seem to come from nowhere, committed by people with no obvious motive. What makes the show work is that it never lets the mystery alone; it digs deeper, uncovering the psychological roots beneath each act, the traumas and pressures that turned ordinary people into killers. The real investigation, always, is into the human soul.
The best shows like The Sinner
1. Dexter
Like The Sinner, Dexter makes its detective the moral center of the story despite (or because of) his fundamental wrongness. Both shows are fascinated by what happens when the person hunting monsters has monsters of their own, and both examine how damaged people navigate their darkness.
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2. Fargo
Fargo shares The Sinner's commitment to psychological depth in crime storytelling, treating violence as a window into character rather than just plot. Its anthology structure means each season investigates a different crime, but always with the same unflinching attention to human motivation and moral complexity.
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3. 56 Days
This show's investigation into a relationship's deadly trajectory mirrors The Sinner's interest in how psychology shapes crime. By reconstructing the 56 days before a murder, it asks the same fundamental question: what can drive ordinary people to extraordinary violence?
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4. HIS & HERS
HIS & HERS captures the same tension between professional obligation and personal disturbance that defines The Sinner. When the detective and reporter are estranged spouses suspicious of each other, the investigation becomes deeply personal, turning crime-solving into an exploration of damaged intimacy.
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5. Imperfect Women
Like The Sinner, this show understands that a murder is often just the catalyst for examining deeper truths. A single act of violence cracks open decades of friendship, revealing the small betrayals and hidden resentments that can exist between people who thought they knew each other.
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More on shows like The Sinner
Fans of The Sinner tend to value a few things in their television. They want a mystery that unfolds carefully, one where the solution matters less than the journey toward it. They want flawed detectives who carry their own darkness, who can't always tell where their investigation ends and their personal demons begin. They want crime stories that look inward, that treat violence not as spectacle but as symptom. And they want all of this delivered with craftsmanship and gravity, without winking at the audience.
The shows recommended here all speak to that sensibility. Dexter also centers on a detective marked by darkness, though it takes a radically different approach to the premise. Fargo mines that same vein of psychological depth but through an anthology lens, finding the human stories buried inside brutal crimes. 56 Days and HIS & HERS both build their mysteries around intimate relationships turned violent, asking how well we can ever really know the people closest to us. Imperfect Women takes that question even further, letting a single murder ripple through decades of friendship. These shows all understand that the most interesting crimes are the ones that reveal something about how we live with each other.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like The Sinner?
- Dexter is the most popular show similar to The Sinner in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like The Sinner still on the air?
- Of the 11 shows similar to The Sinner listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like The Sinner?
- 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.