The 8 most suspenseful thriller series streaming on Paramount+ right now Declan GallagherWed, March 18, 2026 at 11:00 PM UTC 0 Zoe Saldaña in 'Lioness,' Kyle MacLachlan in 'Twin Peaks,' Mike Colter in 'Evil'Credit: Lauren Smith/Paramount+; ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty; ELIZABETH FISHER/CBS Paramount+ is some home to several characterdriven thrillers, the kind that make you tell yourself, "Okay, just one more episode, then bedtime." The platform's best offerings mix high stakes with bold dramatic swings.
The 8 most suspenseful thriller series streaming on Paramount+ right now
Declan GallagherWed, March 18, 2026 at 11:00 PM UTC
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Zoe Saldaña in 'Lioness,' Kyle MacLachlan in 'Twin Peaks,' Mike Colter in 'Evil'Credit: Lauren Smith/Paramount+; ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty; ELIZABETH FISHER/CBS
Paramount+ is some home to several character-driven thrillers, the kind that make you tell yourself, "Okay, just one more episode, then bedtime."
The platform's best offerings mix high stakes with bold dramatic swings. Special Ops: Lioness is a real-world espionage drama following operatives embedded deep within dangerous foreign networks. Meanwhile, Landman shifts the tension to West Texas, where the oil boom fuels power struggles, corruption, and survival in a world where fortunes rise and fall overnight. Both shows come from the mind of Taylor Sheridan, whose flagship series Yellowstone — which has since departed for Peacock — helped put Paramount+ on the map.
These series showcase the platform as a destination for thrillers built on intensity, scale, and unforgettable characters. Read on as Entertainment Weekly names the best thriller series you can stream right now on Paramount+.
Dexter (2006–2013)
Michael C. Hall as a totes normal Miami cop in season 8 of 'Dexter'Credit: Randy Tepper/Showtime/courtesy Everett Collection
Mild-mannered blood-splatter analyst Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) moonlights as something of a vigilante angel of death. Specifically, he's a serial killer by natural instinct — a compulsion he shares with most of the murderers he hunts down and butchers by hand (with, in almost all cases, meticulous and joyful precision). It's a win-win, right? He finds an outlet for his homicidal urges, and he makes Miami just a little bit safer.
A diabolically addictive thriller series, Dexter revolutionized procedurals with a slick blend of gory mystery, dark comedy, and neo-noir attitude. Each season presents Dexter with a primary antagonist; meanwhile, the walls are constantly closing in on him as attempts to hide his double life.
Where to stream Dexter: Paramount+
Evil (2019–2024)
Mike Colter, Katja Herbers, and Aasif Mandvi look at something probably very creepy in 'Evil'Credit: Elizabeth Fisher/Paramount+
Rational, non-believing psychologist Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers) joins forces with former Catholic priest turned demon hunter David Acosta (Mike Colter) to investigate a series of supernatural cold cases tied to the church.
Evil is a terrific monster-of-the-week series indebted to genre giants like The X-Files, Twin Peaks, and Stephen King. It's great fun, due in no small part to its quick plotting and the chemistry between Herbers and Colter. It's also frequently scary in a way network potboilers don't often dare to be.
Where to stream Evil: Paramount+
Landman (2024–present)
Billy Bob Thornton and his pickup truck strike a classic Western pose in 'Landman'Credit: Emerson Miller/Paramount+
Cooper Norris (Jacob Lofland) navigates volatile rigs, corporate pressure, and personal turmoil against the landscape of West Texas' high-stakes oil business. Meanwhile, his old man Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) is our eponymous antihero, a "petroleum landman," to be specific. He wrangles with outlaws, businessmen, political operatives, and, most importantly, his ex-wife (Ali Larter) and impossible-to-control teenage daughter (Michelle Randolph).
Landman is another Taylor Sheridan take on the neo-Western, in this case a crime thriller brimming with wildly over-the-top action and soapy drama.
Where to stream Landman: Paramount+
Special Ops: Lioness (2023–present)
Nicole Kidman and Zoe Saldana, probably secretly comparing their Oscars, in 'Special Ops: Lioness'Credit: Ryan Green/Paramount+
Oh hi, Taylor (Sheridan). Nice to see you again. The prolific showrunner claims another spot on this list with Lioness, a fast-paced and muscular series revolving around CIA operative Joe McNamara (Zoe Saldaña), who leads a team of female spies and who go undercover, typically befriending women who are close to our government's prime targets. It's a fight in the "War on Terror" by means of careful, peripheral infiltration.
Sheridan brings his typically sharp eye for world-building to this visually inventive, propulsive show. Saldaña's performance goes a long way toward humanizing the material, and her scenes with Nicole Kidman (as Joe's boss at the CIA) hum with energy.
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Where to stream Special Ops: Lioness: Paramount+
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Edson Stroll and Donna Douglas in the classic 'Twilight Zone episode, 'Eye of the Beholder'
Rod Serling anchored this seminal sci-fi/horror series, with each episode detailing a different strange tale from "the Twilight Zone." Serling's landmark anthology is the progenitor for practically all genre work made in the decades since. Through a feature film and multiple reboots, The Twilight Zone continues to exert its influence over sci-fi, horror, and supernatural storytelling to this day.
If you've somehow never seen the show, you're in for a treat. Each episode is a different story, so you can start anywhere. We recommend taking in the pilot, "Where Is Everybody?," as well as season 1's "Time Enough At Last," the classic "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," and "Eye of the Beholder."
Where to stream The Twilight Zone: Paramount+
Twin Peaks (1990–2017)
Sherilynn Fenn, Kyle MacLachlan, and one damn fine cup of coffee in 'Twin Peaks'Credit: ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
Cheerful, coffee-loving FBI Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) travels to a small Washington town to investigate the murder of teenager Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). What he finds is not an answer or culprit, but a wave of increasingly bizarre crimes, oddball locals, and nightmarish mysteries nestled in the peculiar enclave that is Twin Peaks.
David Lynch's soap-opera noir remains a high-water mark in network television. At its core, it's a surreal, satirical deconstruction of small-town life butting up against unfathomable evil. The 2017 miniseries, The Return, took the original two seasons' lingering enigmas in new, absurd, and cosmic directions; it was both a proper conclusion and a whole new Lynchian nightmare.
Where to stream Twin Peaks: Paramount+
Yellowjackets (2021–present)
The teenage survivors of 'Yellowjackets' before everything gets super weird and violentCredit: Kailey Schwerman/Paramount+
In the mid-1990s, a plane carrying a high-school girls' soccer team crashes in the Canadian wilderness. Decades later, those who made it out alive are still haunted. For some, denial is the way to cope, but others have less of a choice in violently confronting the horrors they endured. Yellowjackets cuts back and forth between the two eras, with the past always diabolically informing the present.
Yellowjackets is something like Lost meets Lord of the Flies, but a bit punchier (and with a bit more cannibalism). An immensely likable ensemble (including Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, and Juliette Lewis) keeps the sharp, twisty story humming.
Where to stream Yellowjackets: Paramount+
Your Honor (2020–2023)
Judge Bryan Cranston is seemingly not buying the counselor's argument in 'Your Honor'Credit: Skip Bolen/SHOWTIME
After his son is involved in a grisly hit-and-run accident that claims the life of a mobster's son, respected New Orleans judge Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston) goes to extraordinary lengths to cover up the facts of the crime.
While not operating at the same malevolent Heisenbergian register as Breaking Bad, Cranston nonetheless finds the darkness in another inimitable antihero. He is fundamentally good-hearted, despite his morally dubious behavior and complex, often contradictory motivations. Your Honor is less a crime procedural than a social thriller about how far a parent will go to protect their child, and the chaos that ensues.
Where to watch Your Honor: Paramount+
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