Scavengers Reign
Animated speculative sci-fi with strong worldbuilding and a weirder imagination than most prestige SF.
TV / streaming movie recommendations
Sugar
Noir detective structure with a genre wrinkle and a sensibility that feels adjacent to your crime/strangeness overlap.
The Lazarus Project
Time-loop espionage, moral pressure, and speculative plotting — very plausible fit.
Bodies
Time-spanning conspiracy/mystery structure that fits your taste for long-arc puzzle storytelling.
Constellation
A little more cerebral and mood-heavy, but it scratches the identity / reality-slippage itch.
The Devil’s Hour
Dark, twisty, and structurally ambitious without feeling like homework.
Counterpart
Probably the single cleanest “James show you may have missed”: espionage + parallel-world sci-fi + adult competence.
Patriot
Dry, strange, melancholy spy storytelling with a very distinct voice.
Utopia
Paranoid conspiracy energy, formal boldness, and a willingness to get strange and ugly.
Rubicon
A low-key conspiracy thriller that leans heavily on intelligence work, paranoia, and institutional atmosphere.
Continuum
A cleaner old-school sci-fi fit if you want procedural momentum wrapped around time-travel politics.
Person of Interest
Starts procedural and then quietly becomes one of the smartest AI / surveillance shows on television.
Bad Sisters
Darkly funny, well-observed, and ensemble-driven in a way that plausibly overlaps with Hacks / Derry Girls / Mare of Easttown energy.
Detectorists
Gentle, funny, humane, and specific — a softer shared-watch possibility.
Astrid et Raphaëlle
French procedural with a strong central duo and exactly the kind of foreign-crime appeal Maggie may share with you.
Somebody Somewhere
A warmer character-driven recommendation if the shared overlap leans more Bear / Good Place than pure detective work.