Best American Thriller TV Shows of 2021

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Best American Thriller TV Shows of 2021
Best American Thriller TV Shows of 2021
TOP TV Shows: Clarice (2021), Yellowjackets (2021), Leverage: Redemption (2021), Made For Love (2021), Only Murders in the Building (2021), Invincible (2021), Mayor of Kingstown (2021), Nine Perfect Strangers (2021), Dr. Death (2021), Cruel Summer (2021), THEM (2021), True Story (2021), Station Eleven (2021), The Mosquito Coast (2021), Only Murders in the Building (2021), Debris (2021), American Horror Stories (2021), Dota: Dragon's Blood (2021), Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021), One of Us Is Lying (2021).

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 6.6
 11K
Clarice (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In 1993, six months after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Agent Clarice Starling returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C.
Style: detective, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, crime thriller ...
Plot: paranormal investigation, crime investigation, female fbi agent, murder mystery, fbi, mysticism, investigation, agent, serial killer, women, murder investigation, supernatural ...
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 7.8
 84K
Yellowjackets (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot: survival, near death experience, cannibalism, survival horror, wilderness, air disaster, plane crash, psychological trauma, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, airplane, women ...
Time: 2020s, 90s, 20th century
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Leverage: Redemption (2021)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The Hitter, the Hacker, the Grifter and the Thief are together again, this time with help from a new tech genius and corporate fixer, to take on a new kind of villain. From the man who created an opioid crisis from the comfort of his boardroom to ...
Style: disturbing, entertaining, tense, captivating, laugh out loud ...
Plot: genius, redemption, crime solving, robbery, secret revealed, con men, con trick, deception, crime and punishment, tough law enforcer, unlikely criminals, attempted robbery ...
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 6.9
 12K
Made For Love (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Thirty-something Hazel Green tries to escape a suffocating marriage — until she realizes her tech billionaire husband has implanted a revolutionary tracking device, the Made for Love, in her brain.
Style: humorous, captivating, dark comedy, psychological thriller, dark
Plot: life is a bitch, abusive husband, technology, hi-tech, family problems, porn, dysfunctional marriage, on the run, fleeing, escape, lifestyle, humour ...
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Only Murders in the Building (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one. When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of ...
Style: detective, satirical, psychological, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot: criminal, murder mystery, secret, stranger, investigation, murder, homicide detective, murder investigation, uncover truth, neighbor neighbor relationship, crime solving, neighbor ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
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 8.7
 192K
Invincible (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of the American Comic Book of the same name by Robert Kirkman
Style: adult animation, exciting, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: teen superhero, superhero, super villain, heroes, violence, teenager, blood, invulnerability, superpower, vengeance, warrior, society ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Mayor of Kingstown (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Set in a small Michigan town where the only industry remaining are federal, state, and private prisons, the story follows the McClusky family, the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians, in a city ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, crime thriller ...
Plot: prison, organized crime, corruption, business, corrupt politician, racism, political corruption, inequality, corrupt mayor, mayor, town mayor, conspiracy ...
Place: michigan
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Nine Perfect Strangers (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: At a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation, nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this 10-day retreat is the resort's director, Masha, a ...
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: resort, magic mushroom, psychological manipulation, drug, secret, uncover truth, manipulation, animal death, secrets, social relations, self discovery, gay ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 7.6
 17K
Dr. Death (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 403 min.
TV show
Story: The terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a flourishing Dallas neurosurgeon whose patients suddenly begin becoming permanently maimed or dead. As victims piled up, two fellow physicians set out to stop him.
Style: medical drama, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: medical malpractice, surgery, surgeon, medicine, medical, coworker, doctor, doctors and patients, medical examination, surgical operation, workplace, physician ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 7.4
 20K
Cruel Summer (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An unconventional thriller that takes place over three summers — 1993-95 — in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most ...
Style: psychological thriller, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, tense ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: missing person, gay, kidnapped woman, small town, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, lesbian, family relations, popularity, cold case, mysterious character, social relations ...
Time: 90s
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 7.4
 23K
THEM (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A limited anthology series that explores terror in America.
Style: anthology, suspense, captivating, exciting, spooky ...
Plot: supernatural, bullying, female warrior, black, propaganda, social relations, social problems, black people, black man, society, struggle for survival, social issues ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century
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 7.4
 20K
True Story (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 260 min.
TV show
Story: A world-famous comedian desperately searches for a way out after a night in Philadelphia with his brother threatens to sabotage more than his success.
Style: semi autobiographical, suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: kids
Plot: comedian, famous, family problems, brother brother relationship, gang, stand up comedian, relationship vs career, celebrity, ex convict, brothers, bandit, criminal ...
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 7.6
 34K
Station Eleven (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 507 min.
TV show
Story: A post apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines telling the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost.
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: virus, survival, post apocalypse, disaster, pandemic, dystopia, theatrical troupe, struggle for survival, theatre group, introspection, life & death, actor ...
Time: future, 2020s
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The Mosquito Coast (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Allie Fox—a brilliant inventor and stubborn idealist—uproots his family for a dangerous quest through Mexico to flee the U.S. government and find safety.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, thrilling
Plot: migration, runaway, confronting the past, past coming back to haunt, haunted by the past, parents and children, showdown, dysfunctional family, on the run, family life, kids and family, family problems ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: mexico
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Only Murders in the Building (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Three strangers who share an obsession with true crime suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.
Style: humorous, detective, funny, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: crime solving, murder, amateur detective, stranger, private detective, forensics, trio, amateur sleuth, investigation, serial killer, murder investigation, criminal ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
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 6.5
 9K
Debris (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Two federal agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
Style: captivating, tense, futuristic, sad, exciting
Plot: alien encounter, federal bureau of investigation, paranormal phenomena, alien, alien space craft, cia agent, paranormal investigation, alien race, government coverup, partner, crime solving, investigation ...
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American Horror Stories (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An anthology series of stand alone episodes delving into horror myths, legends and lore.
Style: anthology, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: insanity, supernatural, nightmare, supernatural power, haunted house, blood, death, ghost, fear, danger, murder, threat ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Dota: Dragon's Blood (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: After encounters with a dragon and a princess on her own mission, a Dragon Knight becomes embroiled in events larger than he could have ever imagined.
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, perverse, epic fantasy ...
Plot: magician, warrior, knight, dragon, violence, sword, fight, battles, religions or cults, fantasy world, magic, wizard ...
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Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 342 min.
TV show
Story: A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge — and kittens.
Style: sexual, suspense, psychological thriller, surreal, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, revenge, survival horror, filmmaker, hollywood, female protagonist, film producer, nightmare, movie business, ambitious woman, ambition, struggle for survival ...
Time: 90s, year 1990
Place: los angeles
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One of Us Is Lying (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The story of what happens when five high schoolers walk into detention and only four make it out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Audience: teen drama
Plot: lgbt teen, high school, detention, young adult, jail, gang, jailed, partners in crime, prison violence, criminal, teenager, whodunit ...
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Tell Me Your Secrets (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A complex thriller revolving around three characters, each with troubling pasts clouding their intersecting motives: Emma is a young woman who once loved a dangerous killer, John is a former serial predator desperate for redemption, and a grieving ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, exciting, thrilling ...
Plot: criminal, mysterious past, victim, troubled past, tragic past, secret past, dark past, haunted by the past, female victim, relationship problems, confronting the past, dark secret ...
Place: texas
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 7.2
 12K
Chapelwaite (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 516 min.
TV show
Story: In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, spooky ...
Plot: stephen king, vampire, medieval, monster, supernatural, confronting the past, secret past, dracula, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, father son relationship ...
Time: 1800s
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 6.9
 3K
Coyote (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 289 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Ben Clemens, who after 32 years as a border patrol agent is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of the United States. Now exposed to life on the other side of the wall, Ben will start to question ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, suspense, detective
Plot: drug dealing, police investigation, martial arts, showdown, drug, love, pregnant woman, fighting crime, law enforcement, bandit, machismo, good versus evil ...
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 5.5
 16K
The Equalizer (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Robyn McCall, an enigmatic former CIA operative with a mysterious background, uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: fight scenes, female fighter, female warrior, villain, vengeance, double life, violence, heroes, mother daughter relationship, chase, murder, death ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa, new york
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 6.6
 9K
Panic (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In the forgotten town of Carp, Texas, Panic is the only way out. Every summer the graduating seniors risk their lives competing in a series of challenges for the chance to win life-changing money. After the death of two players the stakes—and ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, supernatural thriller
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: game of death, game, one against many, ambition, struggle for survival, one man army, risk, showdown, life risking, survival, runaway, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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SurrealEstate (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Supernaturally trained realtor Nick Roman and his elite team of specialists go above and beyond to sell homes no one else wants to come near. The team works together to research, investigate and, hopefully, “fix” haunted and possessed homes ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot: paranormal investigator, supernatural, ghost, haunted house, paranormal phenomena, supernatural power, paranormal, teamwork, paranormal investigation, mysticism, haunted, investigation ...
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The Lost Symbol (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The early adventures of young Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.
Style: dramatic, enigmatic, disturbing, suspense, tense ...
Plot: secret society, riddles and clues, conundrum, secret service, conspiracy, police investigation, conspiracy theory, uncover truth, investigation, puzzle, science, secret ...
Time: 2000s
Place: washington d.c.
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The Search for Frida (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The lives of the members of the Pons family change suddenly when Frida mysteriously disappears on the night of her father's birthday party.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, novela
Plot: uncover truth, problem, mysterious disappearance, crime solving, teenage protagonist, kidnapped girl, crime investigation, teenage girl, kidnapping, vanished man, teenager, dysfunctional family ...
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FBI: International (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the elite agents of the FBI's International Fly Team as they travel the world with the mission of protecting Americans wherever they may be.
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, psychological thriller
Plot: fbi, federal bureau of investigation, fbi agent, secret agent, criminal, problem solving, national security, working undercover, special agent, security, fighting crime, mission ...
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In a town full of secrets, a group of teenagers are stalked by a mysterious killer a year after a fatal accident on their graduation night.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: homicidal maniac, murder, teenager, revenge, victim, undercover, runaway, murderer, mysterious villain, murder mystery, lgbtqi, woman ...
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