TV Shows Like You
If you like You, here are 12 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
Lifetime · Mystery · You is ended
You works because it never lets you get comfortable. Joe Goldberg is charming, well-read, and funny, and the show uses that to pull viewers into rooting for someone they know they shouldn't. The internal monologue is the key trick: you hear his rationalizations in real time, which makes the horror creep up on you rather than hit you over the head. It is a show about obsession dressed up as a love story, and it trusts the audience to feel the discomfort of enjoying it.
The best shows like You
1. Dexter
Like Joe, Dexter Morgan is a killer who narrates his own story with wit and self-justifying logic, and the show is just as invested in making you understand him as it is in horrifying you. Both characters live double lives and are obsessed with control, and both shows use that double life to generate dread out of ordinary social situations. If you liked watching Joe explain himself, Dexter offers the same uneasy intimacy with a Miami sun-drenched noir coat of paint.
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3. MINDHUNTER
Mindhunter gets inside the minds of serial killers without ever making them narrators, which is a useful contrast to You's first-person immersion. The show is slow and precise in the best way, building its tension through conversation rather than action. Fans of You who are drawn to the psychology behind extreme behavior will find a lot to sit with here.
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4. Cross
Alex Cross is a detective defined by obsession, and the show does not shy away from how that single-mindedness costs him personally, which puts it in similar emotional territory to You. The damaged-man-chasing-a-killer structure will feel familiar, but Cross flips the perspective so the obsessive is the one trying to stop violence rather than cause it. Viewers who liked You's psychological texture and its interest in grief and love as destabilizing forces should find Cross worth following.
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Likely Renewed82%
5. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder shares You's obsessive investigative energy and its roots in source novels, but channels them through a teenage protagonist who refuses to let a comfortable lie stand. The show has a dark undercurrent beneath its YA surface, and the way Pip pursues the truth past the point of safety echoes the relentless forward momentum that makes You so hard to stop watching. It is a lighter watch, but the core fixation and the slow unraveling of a story everyone else accepted will feel immediately familiar.
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Likely Renewed72%
More on shows like You
Fans of You tend to want a few specific things from their next show: a central character whose psychology is the main event, a plot that keeps the moral ground shifting, and at least a little dark humor to cut the tension. They are not looking for procedural comfort. They want to feel slightly implicated. The best follow-ups share that quality of making the audience lean in even when they probably shouldn't.
The recommendations here split roughly into two camps. Dexter and Mindhunter approach the serial killer from different angles, one from inside the killer's head and one from the investigator's notebook, but both treat the psychology as seriously as You does. Cross brings a damaged, obsession-prone detective whose personal life bleeds into his casework in ways that feel genuinely messy. Killing Eve is the closest match in tone, built entirely on two characters who are fascinated by each other to a dangerous, almost romantic degree. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is the lightest of the group, but its amateur investigator digs into a case with the same single-minded intensity that defines Joe, just pointed in a more sympathetic direction.
Together these shows reward viewers who want characters that go too far and storylines that do not bother to reassure you everything will be fine. None of them are particularly interested in clean resolutions, which is exactly what You fans have learned to expect.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like You?
- Dexter is the most popular show similar to You in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like You still on the air?
- Of the 12 shows similar to You listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like You?
- 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.