The Best TV Thrillers from 2016


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

10. Luke Cage


Luke%20CageFirst Aired: 30 September, 2016

Luke Cage is a TV series starring Mike Colter, Simone Missick, and Theo Rossi. When a sabotaged experiment gives him super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage becomes a fugitive attempting to rebuild his life in Harlem and must…


9. 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…


8. 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…


7. 3%


3%25First Aired: 25 November, 2016

3% is a TV series starring Bianca Comparato, Vaneza Oliveira, and Rodolfo Valente. A post-apocalyptic thriller set in near-future Brazil, where a select few are allowed to join a privileged society after undergoing an intense and…


6. Lethal Weapon


Lethal%20WeaponFirst Aired: 21 September, 2016

Lethal Weapon is a TV series starring Damon Wayans, Keesha Sharp, and Kevin Rahm. A slightly unhinged cop is partnered with a veteran detective trying to maintain a low stress level in his life.


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. The Exorcist


The%20ExorcistFirst Aired: 23 September, 2016

The Exorcist is a TV series starring Alfonso Herrera, Ben Daniels, and Kurt Egyiawan. Follows three priests dealing with cases of a demonic presence targeting a family and a foster home.


3. 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…


2. 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.


1. Boku dake ga inai machi


Boku%20dake%20ga%20inai%20machiFirst Aired: 07 January, 2016

Boku dake ga inai machi is a TV mini-series starring Ben Diskin, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, and Michelle Ruff. 29 year old Satoru Fujinuma is sent back in time 18 years to prevent the events leading to his mother’s death, which began…