Please can anyone recommend any 3 to 5 part drama/psychological thriller type series?

[ABoyCalledBasil]

Any main channel, Netflix or Prime please?

I'm thinking of the sort of thing that is usually 3 to 4 parts and shown over consecutive nights.Channel 5 do a lot of these things - usually set in super smart houses the character couldn't afford. Sometimes they are longer but normally less than 5 episodes

i've seen lots but am sure there must be ones I haven't seen.

Stuff like these (which I have seen as samples):

Finding Alice (ITV husband falls down bannisterless stairs of dream home he designed) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11127412/

The Catch (Ch 5) (seemingly perfect new bf of daughter freaks out her fisherman father) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11127412/

The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (Netflix) woman believes she sees murder in house opposite, parody thriller https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13315324/

The Stranger (Netflix, Harlan Coben) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(British_TV_series)

Commenting so I can find this later

Recently some shorter series I've liked include:
Pieces of her
Unbelievable
The stranger
Safe
Behind her eyes
Stay close
The informer
Liar
You don't know me
The cry
Treason

I found 'Pieces of Her' extremely moving.

I've started watching Angela Black on Netflix. There are 6 episodes, I've watched 4 of them already today and am really enjoying it.

Just started watching White House Farm (ITV) about the murders there/Jeremy Bamber's case. It's six part mini series and it's very good. The acting is brilliant. The actor playing Jeremy Bamber looks uncanny like him. It was done in close collaboration with the kids' father Colin Caffell apparently and is partly based on his book and recollection of events.

I think you might be the only one. It was slated on here.

I enjoyed the first season of We hunt together .BBC I player
Not so sure about second series .which seems to be on Alibi .
One of the main characters is too much of a rip off of Villanelle in Killing Eve.
And I keep wondering if Eve Myles who plays the female DI was pregnant while filming the second series .I see she had a child in 2021 ,so maybe she was .

I need to write all these down

@Pancakeorcrepe They are written down. Here.

😀

Can I add 'I may destroy you' ?
I watched that when it was broadcast and thought it was brilliant.

Also Unbelievable on Netflix, based on a true story about how a young woman is charged with lying to the police about being raped. The story also follows 2 female detectives investigating a serial rapist a couple of years later.

Just to add Defending Jacob (Apple TV) is SO GOOD!!! Mini crime series with constant twists and turns and the acting and script are superb

I’ve just started the second series of The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix.

Anyone watched 'what remains' which is on Netflix? Just wondering whether it's worth a try.

Adding 'The Sixth commandment' to our list which I thought was amazing - on iPlayer/currently running on bbc, albeit not fiction.

Anyone who recommended Guilt (BBC iPlayer) - THANK YOU THANK THANK YOU! I just finished the first season (which is only 4 episodes). It's absolutely brilliant from start to finish. 🤩

I just saw this The Reunion trailed on ITV - it's for broadcast I think from 2 August (?) but is on ITVX player

It looks right up our collective street!

Thomas receives a mysterious invitation to his school reunion and reunites with old friends, but a past disappearance plagues them all.

https://www.itv.com/watch/the-reunion/10a2578?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx_mE2NuzgAMV1GDmCh0mWAQyEAAYASAAEgK71vD_BwE

This is a very useful thread!

I've just been recommended Billion Dollar Code (on Netflix). It's based on a true story.

It's 4 parts. About the creators of Google Earth (but it's not a documentary). Apparently it's very good.

I'm also liking the look of Wolf which has Juliet Stevenson in it and based on a Mo Hayder novel which starts tomorrow (Monday 31 July) BBC

“In an isolated house in Monmouthshire, the wealthy Anchor-Ferrers family find themselves the victims of a psychopath’s cruel games, trapped and terrorised.

https://www.stylist.co.uk/entertainment/tv/wolf-bbc-crime-thriller-cast-plot-release-date/635996

I just started Drops of God (Apple TV) - it's very good.

By the way, Guilt you can stop after Season 1 (only 4 episodes) as the other two seasons have different stories and only Season 1 was actual perfection. The other two I stopped watching.

Just finished watching witness number 3 on Netflix. Was quite good. 4 episodes.

@ABoyCalledBasil - I got messaged to post on your thread

if you search my name on telly addicts under started posts you will find lots of stuff to watch - many have been named on here

I always do threads for drama series on bbc itv ch 4&5- but are tv paced so weekly postings

Others do threads for those who binge

Blondes doesn't binge 😂😂

But obv the threads are now old so
Can binge them

@Blondeshavemorefun thank you I will do that.

I've just watched The Reunion on ITVX. I think it's from a couple of years ago being repeated/reoffered linked above.

It's 6 parts. I quite enjoyed it with the following caveats:

Ioan Gruffudd is a truly terrible actor. I don't think I've ever seen him in anything before but honestly based on this it's amazing he gets work. The worst bits were where he was reacting but not speaking. You could make a comedy tiktok of it. If you've seen friends where Joey talks about 'smell the fart' acting (if you don't know what to say or do, just try to look like you are smelling a fart). There is a lot of that from Ioan Gruffudd. I mean I suppose he's not bad looking facially if you like that sort of thing but really not good looking enough to be cast if this is his acting standard. Also very comedy were moments when he was trying to be intensely serious/angry.

The plot gets more and more outlandish. It's like one of those things where it starts out normal, then you discover a straight man is gay but then that the a man is in fact a woman and then that they are all aliens and then that in fact they are all seeing dead people and then it was all a dream... of dead alien. It's twist on twist on twist progressively more ridiculous.

Rupert Graves (currently 60) with a grey beard and Dervla Kirwan (currently 51) with a white wig are playing the parents of Ioan Gruffudd (currently 49) which apart from Gruffudd's bad acting is itself inexcusable.

That said, it romps along nicely has some individually great performances and some nice views of the South of France.

Well you sold that well!😀😉