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| Best Shows Like Below. |
If Below left you wanting another series where isolated communities, buried secrets and something deeply unpleasant lurking beyond the ordinary collide, there is plenty to watch next. Netflix’s six-episode 2026 limited series turns a struggling Newfoundland fishing village into the centre of a supernatural survival story, mixing family trauma, marine science, folklore and a rather enormous creature with a taste for dragging people underwater.
Created by Jesse McKeown, the series follows stubborn fisherman Calvin Penney and marine biologist Dr Fonda Howander as they try to understand what is hunting Snook’s Arm while the community faces an uncertain future. The best shows like Below do not necessarily need another sea monster, although that certainly helps. What matters is the combination of isolation, mystery, escalating danger, complicated families and communities where everyone appears to know something they would rather keep quiet.
Shows Like Below
1. The Rig (2023)
The Rig is probably one of the closest matches for Below if the combination of remote surroundings, unexplained events and something beyond ordinary human understanding is what grabbed you. The series follows workers stranded on a North Sea oil platform after mysterious seismic activity cuts them off from the mainland. Like Below, it takes a harsh marine environment and turns it into the perfect pressure cooker. The difference is that Calvin Penney has a fishing village around him; these workers have an oil rig and considerably fewer places to run.
2. Fortitude (2015)
Fortitude takes the isolated-community formula and pushes it into much stranger territory. Set in a remote Arctic settlement, the series begins with a murder before expanding into a disturbing mystery involving science, nature and forces that refuse to behave sensibly.
Its snowy landscapes and small-town tensions make it particularly close to Below, where isolation is not simply scenery but part of the problem. Both shows understand that when help is hours away, every strange discovery suddenly becomes everyone's business.
3. From (2022)
If the claustrophobic community element of Below interests you most, From deserves a place near the top of the list. The series centres on a mysterious town that traps everyone who enters, leaving its residents searching for answers while trying to survive nightly threats. Like Snook’s Arm, the town becomes a character in its own right. There are secrets everywhere, nobody has the complete picture, and leaving town is considerably easier in theory than in practice.
4. The Terror (2018)
The Terror brings together survival drama, historical mystery and supernatural horror in a story about an expedition trapped in the Arctic. Its setting could hardly be more different from Newfoundland, yet its storytelling has plenty in common with Below.
A hostile environment, dwindling options and an unexplained threat gradually turn survival into a battle against fear itself. It also understands the important horror rule that sometimes the environment is already terrifying before anything starts chasing you.
5. The Head (2020)
Set at an isolated Antarctic research station, The Head begins with scientists cut off from the outside world during the brutal polar winter. When the next expedition arrives, something has gone badly wrong. Like Below, it uses isolation to intensify every mystery and makes its characters increasingly difficult to trust. There is no giant sea creature here, but there is plenty of suspicion, scientific investigation and the uncomfortable feeling that someone knows considerably more than they are saying.
6. Midnight Mass (2021)
Midnight Mass is an excellent choice if the small-community atmosphere and religious or folkloric undertones of Below are what appeal to you. Mike Flanagan's series takes place on an isolated island where a mysterious new priest arrives and seemingly miraculous events begin unfolding.
The supernatural mystery gradually becomes tied to the community's personal histories and collective fears. Like Below, it makes the location feel cut off from ordinary life, while old trauma and local beliefs become impossible to separate from the central threat.
7. Katla (2021)
Katla swaps Newfoundland's freezing Atlantic waters for Icelandic volcanic terrain, but the storytelling similarities are surprisingly strong. After a volcanic eruption, strange events begin affecting an isolated community, bringing mysteries connected to the past and forcing residents to confront things they thought were finished. Katla is slower and more eerie than Below, but both series use remote landscapes to create a sense that normal rules have stopped applying.
8. Black Spot (2017)
French mystery thriller Black Spot is another strong match for viewers who enjoy isolated communities hiding complicated histories. The story takes place in a remote town surrounded by a vast forest where unusual crimes and disturbing events become increasingly difficult to explain.
Like Below, the series mixes investigation with atmosphere rather than relying entirely on straightforward scares. The forest replaces the ocean, but the basic idea remains wonderfully uncomfortable: sometimes the place itself seems to know more than the people living there.
9. The Kettering Incident (2016)
The Kettering Incident follows a doctor returning to her isolated Tasmanian hometown, only to become involved in the mystery surrounding a girl's disappearance. The series blends psychological drama, science-fiction mystery and strange environmental elements. Its similarities with Below come through the combination of family history, local secrets and an isolated landscape where old events refuse to stay buried. It is less creature-focused, but the mysterious atmosphere is very much in the same neighbourhood.
10. Yellowjackets (2021)
Yellowjackets is a different kind of survival story, but its fascination with isolated groups, buried trauma and the consequences of past events makes it a natural recommendation for Below viewers.
After a school football team becomes stranded in the wilderness, the story moves between their ordeal and their adult lives years later. Like Below, the past keeps pushing its way into the present. The monsters are also considerably more complicated because, unfortunately, human beings remain very good at making terrible decisions without supernatural assistance.
11. The North Water (2021)
For viewers specifically interested in the cold, dangerous maritime atmosphere of Below, The North Water is an obvious companion. The miniseries follows a whaling expedition into the Arctic, where harsh conditions and violent personalities create an increasingly grim survival story.
There is no supernatural sea creature waiting beneath the ice, but the ocean itself provides more than enough trouble. Its bleak setting and focus on men pushed to their limits should appeal to anyone drawn to the physical intensity of Below.
12. The Third Day (2020)
The Third Day follows a man who becomes stranded on a mysterious island and becomes increasingly drawn into its unusual traditions and secrets. The series is heavily atmospheric, with the landscape and isolated community doing much of the storytelling. That makes it a particularly good choice after Below, where Snook’s Arm is more than just a backdrop. Both shows ask what happens when an outsider enters a closed environment governed by histories and rules they do not understand.
13. Chapelwaite (2021)
Based on Stephen King's short story Jerusalem's Lot, Chapelwaite follows a widower and his children as they move into an inherited family estate, only to encounter disturbing secrets surrounding the property and its history. It shares Below's interest in family trauma, inherited mysteries and supernatural threats emerging from the past. The setting is not coastal Newfoundland, but the atmosphere is similarly bleak and isolated. Naturally, moving into an old family property with a questionable history goes about as well as you would expect.
14. Archive 81 (2022)
Archive 81 is ideal for anyone who enjoyed the investigative side of Below. A young archivist is hired to restore damaged videotapes and gradually becomes involved in a mystery involving a building, its residents and unexplained events.
The two shows approach their mysteries differently, but both use investigation as a way of peeling back layers of something much bigger. What starts as professional curiosity becomes increasingly personal, and the deeper the characters go, the less reassuring the answers become.
15. Outer Range (2022)
Outer Range combines family drama, mystery and science fiction around a Wyoming rancher who discovers an inexplicable phenomenon on his land. Like Below, it places an extraordinary threat or mystery inside an otherwise grounded story about family, community and survival. The strange discovery gradually connects with older personal conflicts, making the supernatural element feel tied to the characters rather than simply dropped into the plot for decoration.
16. The Returned (2012)
French supernatural drama The Returned begins when several people who died years earlier suddenly return to their hometown, apparently unaware that they had ever died. The series focuses heavily on how a close community reacts when impossible events disrupt ordinary life. That makes it a strong match for Below, particularly its interest in grief, family history, local relationships and mysteries that cannot be explained through conventional logic.
17. The Rain (2018)
The Rain offers a more expansive survival story, following siblings and other survivors after a deadly virus spreads through Scandinavia. Its central characters are forced to navigate an altered world while searching for safety and answers.
Like Below, it combines environmental danger with family relationships and the pressure of surviving when the world around you has become unpredictable. The ocean monster is replaced by contaminated rainfall, which is arguably a less obvious reason to start carrying an umbrella forever.
18. The Devil's Hour (2022)
The Devil's Hour leans more heavily into psychological mystery, but its structure should work for anyone who enjoyed trying to piece together Below's deeper secrets. The story follows a woman repeatedly waking at the same unsettling time each night and becoming connected to a disturbing investigation.
Personal history, unexplained events and questions about reality gradually become intertwined. Like Below, it rewards viewers who enjoy mysteries that reveal their answers slowly rather than handing everything over in episode one.
19. The Valhalla Murders (2019)
For the investigative and small-community side of Below, The Valhalla Murders is worth adding to the queue. This Icelandic crime series follows detectives investigating a series of murders connected to a mysterious past. Its cold landscapes and tight-knit social environment create a similarly oppressive atmosphere. There is less supernatural material, but the combination of remote locations, hidden histories and characters carrying old baggage makes the comparison work.
20. The OA (2016)
The OA is a much more ambitious and deliberately strange series, but it shares Below's fascination with unexplained phenomena and people attempting to understand something that sits outside ordinary experience. After disappearing for years, a previously blind woman returns with her sight restored and begins telling a group of strangers an extraordinary story. Like Below, it asks viewers to stay with the mystery while gradually connecting personal trauma, science and events that appear impossible.
21. The Wilds (2020)
The Wilds takes the isolated-community formula to a group of teenage girls stranded after a plane crash, although the situation turns out to be considerably more complicated than a straightforward survival story.
Its characters are forced to form alliances, confront personal histories and question why they are in their situation in the first place. That mixture of survival, secrets and interpersonal tension makes it a useful companion to Below, especially for viewers who enjoy stories where the central mystery extends beyond the obvious threat.
For me, The Rig, Fortitude, From and The Head are the strongest choices if what you loved about Below was the combination of an isolated setting, escalating danger and a mystery that keeps getting stranger. Midnight Mass and Katla are better bets if the supernatural atmosphere matters more, while The North Water works particularly well if it was the freezing maritime setting that pulled you in.
What makes Below interesting is that the creature is only part of the problem; the collapsing community, family history and fear of an uncertain future give the story something underneath the monster plot. That is why simply finding another creature feature would miss the point. If you have already watched some of these, tell me which one came closest to Below — and which series you think deserves a place on this list.