The Most Underappreciated Mystery Gems On Netflix You Should Watch

Are you a Netflix crime, mystery, and/or thriller aficionado? If you can never seem to get enough murder, mayhem, bludgeoning, and bloodshed (all of these being confined to the screen, we hope), you've probably already binged on every single episode of true crime mega-hit Tiger King, you're all caught up on the Spanish counterfeiting drama Money Heist, you're digging the Holmes/Watson bromance on Sherlock and hoping there will be a season 5 some day, and you're filling in the time 'til Better Call Saul's sixth and final season by re-watching all five seasons of Breaking Bad.

There may, however, be a few of this streaming service's less high-profile mystery gems that are still flying below your radar. As Rod Serling, host of that all-time classic mystery series The Twilight Zone (which is itself available to watch on Netflix) used to say, the following TV viewing suggestions are "submitted for your approval."

Another Screen Rant selection for underrated Netflix mystery series, and one from an even more exotic location, is The Valhalla Murders. As its name implies, this show is yet another example of the oh-so-popular Scandinavian Noir shows that just blew up after The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo came out. Well, technically Nordic Noir, in this case, since the show's Icelandic setting is not always considered to be part of Scandinavia proper (via Scandinavia Standard). All geographic quibbling aside, though, this show has plenty of brooding psychological intensity and a troubled female detective tracking a serial killer across a bleak, snowy landscape, so what more could you possibly want out of the genre?

The Frankenstein Chronicles, which is another horror-inspired historical mystery series, offers something almost unprecedented in the history of TV and movies — you get to see Sean Bean not die! Well, he is the hero of this drama, after all, playing a police officer who is hot on the trail of the grave robbers who've supplied the bits and pieces stitched together to make a monster. Two years ago IGN named The Frankenstein Chronicles as one of its five picks for Netflix shows you should be watching but probably missed, and two years later, it's still streaming on Netflix, and you're still not watching it. Yet. But you should be — Mystery Tribune names it as one of Netflix's current best crime drama and thriller shows. Just don't forget to clap your hands to show you believe in fairies Sean Bean, that way his life will be spared!