The Best Mystery Series from 2016


Below is our top ten list of the best Mystery Series which first started broadcasting in 2016.

10. Stranger Things


Stranger%20ThingsFirst Aired: 15 July, 2016

Stranger Things is a TV series starring Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, and Winona Ryder. When a young boy disappears, his mother, a police chief and his friends must confront terrifying supernatural forces in order to get him…


9. Designated Survivor


Designated%20SurvivorFirst Aired: 21 September, 2016

Designated Survivor is a TV series starring Kiefer Sutherland, Adan Canto, and Italia Ricci. A low-level Cabinet member becomes President of the United States after a catastrophic attack kills everyone above him in the line of…


8. The OA


The%20OAFirst Aired: 16 December, 2016

The OA is a TV series starring Brit Marling, Jason Isaacs, and Scott Wilson. Having gone missing seven years ago, the previously blind Prairie returns home, now in her twenties with her sight restored. While many believe she is a…


7. Westworld


WestworldFirst Aired: 02 October, 2016

Westworld is a TV series starring Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, and Ed Harris. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, explore a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.


6. Preacher


PreacherFirst Aired: 22 May, 2016

Preacher is a TV series starring Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun, and Ruth Negga. After a supernatural event at his church, a preacher enlists the help of a vampire and his ex to find God.


5. The Night Manager


The%20Night%20ManagerFirst Aired: 21 February, 2016

The Night Manager is a TV mini-series starring Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, and Elizabeth Debicki. The night manager of a Cairo hotel is recruited to infiltrate an arms dealer’s inner circle.



4. Travelers


TravelersFirst Aired: 17 October, 2016

Travelers is a TV series starring Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, and Nesta Cooper. Hundreds of years from now, surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back through time, into people of the 21st century, while…


3. 11.22.63


11.22.63First Aired: 15 February, 2016

11.22.63 is a TV mini-series starring James Franco, Sarah Gadon, and George MacKay. A high school teacher travels back in time to prevent John F. Kennedy’s assassination.


2. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency


Dirk%20Gently%27s%20Holistic%20Detective%20AgencyFirst Aired: 22 October, 2016

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is a TV series starring Samuel Barnett, Elijah Wood, and Hannah Marks. Holistic detective Dirk Gently investigates cases involving the supernatural.


1. The Night Of


The%20Night%20OfFirst Aired: 24 June, 2016

The Night Of is a TV mini-series starring Riz Ahmed, John Turturro, and Bill Camp. After a night of partying with a woman he picked up, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.