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41 Drama Series Sure to Hook You Immediately
Cancel all your plans, because these shows will have your attention from start to finish.
By Allison Picurro
April 13, 2026
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Drama series come in many different shapes and sizes. Some are grounded in reality; some can transport you to another world entirely. Some build their narratives around intricate crime plots, others are inspired by true stories, and some focus on sweeping romance. Some even toe the line between drama and comedy. There are countless ways to make a drama series, really — the only requirement is that it’s an absorbing watch.
Whether you landed here because you know exactly what type of drama you’re looking for or you need a bit of guidance, we’re here to help. Here’s our wide-ranging list of drama series across a variety of subgenres to check out right now.
If you want an engrossing drama series …
Black Doves
At just six episodes, Black Doves is the perfect show to watch when you’re in the mood for a fast-paced thrill. Keira Knightley stars as Helen Webb, who’s married to a British government official and also happens to be an undercover spy. After her secret lover Jason (Andrew Koji) is murdered by an unknown assailant, Helen’s cover is at risk, and she sets out on a vengeful mission to find the killer. Meanwhile, the Black Doves — the spy organization she works for — sends her old friend Sam (Ben Whishaw) to help and protect her. The propulsive series will keep you on the edge of your seat, but it’s the droll back-and-forth between Helen and Sam that really makes it stand out.
The Crown
Epic in scale and intimate in scope, Peter Morgan’s dramatization of the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II chronicles her initial rise to the throne and everything that came after. The first and second seasons star Claire Foy as the young queen and cover her marriage to Prince Philip (Matt Smith), while Olivia Colman steps into her majesty’s sensible heels for the third and fourth seasons, which delve into, among other things, the Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson) years and the introduction of Princess Diana (Emma Corrin). Imelda Staunton takes over as Elizabeth for Seasons 5 and 6, as the story explores the highly dissected disintegration of Charles (Dominic West) and Diana’s (now portrayed by Elizabeth Debicki) marriage, the aftermath of Diana’s tragic death, and their sons, William and Harry, coming of age in the public eye. The Crown remains a fascinating watch because of the enduring relevance of its (royal) subjects.
Dead to Me
Christina Applegate as a depressed recent widow finding it hard to adjust after the sudden death of her husband. Linda Cardellini as the curiously peppy new friend she meets in a support group. A double-take twist involving an emotionally abusive ex, played by James Marsden. What more could you ask for? The series focuses on the friendship that blossoms between Jen (Applegate) and Judy (Cardellini), and also explores the lingering effects of grief and guilt, as well as what people will sacrifice in order to keep their darkest secrets. If you like your drama with a side of gallows humor, then pitch-black, morbidly funny Dead to Me is for you.
The Lincoln Lawyer
How about a good, old-fashioned legal drama? Developed by David E. Kelley (the mind behind shows like Ally McBeal and Big Little Lies) and based on the novels by Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer centers on idealistic criminal defense lawyer Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), who re-enters the world of the law and starts running a legal practice out of the back of his car (a Lincoln, of course). Just in case that wasn’t difficult enough, getting back in the game also means working closely with his ex-wives: Maggie (Neve Campbell), a prosecutor, and Lorna (Becki Newton), his aide. Speed through the show’s three seasons while counting down to Season 4.
Mo
Mohammed Amer may be best known for his role as the foul-mouthed, diner-running cousin of Ramy Youssef’s protagonist on Ramy, but Mo gives Amer the opportunity to step into the title role. Loosely based on Amer’s real-life history as a Palestinian refugee, the series — which was developed by Amer and Youssef — explores the fictional Mo’s experience navigating America’s lengthy asylum process as he struggles to make ends meet in Houston, Texas. With biting humor, Mo explores the weight of familial obligation and the very human struggle with grief. It also thoughtfully excavates what it means to find yourself in a country you weren’t born in but nonetheless call home.
The Tourist
If you’re wondering how this Irishman found himself in the Australian outback, so is he. At the start of the series, Elliot (Jamie Dornan) wakes up in a rural Australian hospital after he was forced off the road and left for dead. With no memory of who he is or why he’s so far from home, Elliot has to piece together any clues that might help him recover his identity. Luckily, he has help from Helen (Danielle Macdonald), a local cop-in-training who takes a special interest in his case. In Season 2, the pair travel back to Ireland as they continue putting the puzzle pieces of his life back together. But they’re soon confronted with the dangerous consequences of his past.
You
Hello, you. Penn Badgley stars as Joe Goldberg, a charismatic bookseller whose charm masks a terrifying history of obsession, stalking, and murder. Using calculated methods like social media tracking and isolation, the very devious Joe has created a pattern of luring unsuspecting women into relationships with him; in his eyes, his victims are simply the objects of his affection, and he turns to violence only after being forced into it. (This show really understands how to portray toxic men.) After a series of wild events that we won’t spoil here, Joe’s bloody tale comes to an epic end in the fifth and final season, which premiered earlier this year.
Adolescence
With each of its four episodes shot in a single continuous take, this limited series is designed to keep your eyes glued to the screen through its real-time pace. A 13-year-old boy, Jamie (Owen Cooper in an award-winning performance), is implicated in the death of a classmate, upending his — and his family’s — world. Tackling the sobering reality of the internet’s influence on children and the blind spots in modern parenting, it’s an emotional whirlwind of dawning revelations and consequences.
BEEF
Here’s another can’t-look-away series, but it’s more in the vein of morbid curiosity at other people’s self-destruction. Contractor Danny (Steven Yeun) and artistic entrepreneur Amy (Ali Wong) narrowly avoid a fender bender in a parking lot. Both are struggling with career and family issues, and this non-event triggers their simmering anger, leading to a car chase and a series of increasingly more dramatic acts of revenge. The series explores existential crises and the dark side of quiet desperation — and if that’s your kind of drama, tune in for Season 2, featuring an all-new cast of badly behaved people.
If you want to watch a crime drama …
Narcos
If you’re looking for a crime drama based in recent history, the thrilling and violent Narcos dramatizes the story of notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura). Season 1 focuses on his rise to becoming the world’s most prominent cocaine dealer and, eventually, his capture by the DEA and how the agents (played by Boyd Holbrook and Pedro Pascal) in charge of hunting him down got the job done. The series ran for three seasons before spinning off into Narcos: Mexico, which stars Diego Luna and Scoot McNairy, and traces the inception of the Mexican drug trade and the Guadalajara cartel in the ’80s.
Ozark
“Family man behaves badly” is one of the most reliable crime drama setups for a reason. Here, the family man is played by Jason Bateman, with Laura Linney starring as his wife. Marty (Bateman) and Wendy Byrde (Linney) are a normal-seeming (albeit unhappily married) couple who just so happen to be knee-deep in the criminal underworld. When we meet them, Marty has been laundering money for a Mexican drug cartel for years — which Wendy has known about the whole time. Things get more complicated when a job goes wrong and Marty is forced to move Wendy and their children from Chicago to Missouri to save their lives. Twisty and slyly funny, Ozark is a story of how people can be corrupted by their own hunger for wealth and power.
Unbelievable
Anchored by powerhouse performances from Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever, Unbelievable is based on the true story of the police investigation into a series of rapes in Colorado and Washington from 2008 to 2011. It tells its story across two timelines: one set during the investigation led by the two tenacious detectives (Collette and Wever) who found their way to the truth, and the other during the assault of Marie (Dever), the teenager whose initial accusation kicked off the investigation. The limited series makes for a unique approach to the classic crime formula by devoting significant attention to the victims and the broken complexities of the American judicial system.
If you want to watch a historical drama …
Outlander
No collection of historical dramas would be complete without Outlander, which has risen to megahit status over its seven (and counting) seasons. Based on Diana Gabaldon’s series of novels, Outlander is a time traveling love story about a World War II nurse (Caitriona Balfe) who gets transported to 1743, where she meets and falls in love with a Scottish warrior (Sam Heughan). Yes, this is a romantic (and, let’s just be honest, very sexy) series with a sci-fi edge, but its timeline also spans centuries and covers a wide range of actual historical events, from the American Revolution to the peace protests of the ’60s. Romance can be educational.
Peaky Blinders
Oppenheimer might have sparked a new wave of Cillian Murphy fever, but Peaky Blinders fans have been raving about his talent (and his haircut) for years. Set in 19th century England, the period drama stars Murphy as Tommy Shelby, the cunning yet reserved boss of the Peaky Blinders crime family, who oversees operations as they ascend to the top of the criminal underworld in post-World War I Birmingham. As the gang expands, so does the series, spinning into a tale of international intrigue and adding to its sprawling cast — which includes Tom Hardy, Josh O’Connor, the late Helen McCrory, and many, many more — as it goes. With six gritty, stylish seasons, it should keep you busy for a while.
The Queen's Gambit
Chess has never looked as exciting as it does in The Queen’s Gambit, Scott Frank and Allan Scott’s ornate adaptation of the novel by Walter Tevis. Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Beth Harmon, a chess prodigy whose skill at the game results in her competitive ascension throughout the ’50s, even as her dependency on prescription drugs and alcohol grows more severe. The series is as much a look at the mind of a tortured genius as it is a reflection on trauma, anxiety, and how failure to address personal demons can get in the way of a person’s dreams. It’s a great showcase for Taylor-Joy, but The Queen’s Gambit’s excellent supporting cast also includes memorable turns from Moses Ingram, Marielle Heller, Bill Camp, and Harry Melling.
House of Guinness
Political unease and 19th-century scenery enhance the family drama of this series from Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) about the famous brewery empire. It begins with the death of patriarch Sir Benjamin Guinness, who leaves his thriving beer business to his four children. Ireland is rebelling against British rule as the two eldest Guinness sons clash over their differing visions for growing the brand. Meanwhile, the eldest daughter must watch from the sidelines as she finds ways to exert her influence, and the youngest son’s reckless behavior must be kept in check. Family loyalty, secret romance, and marital obligation all contribute to this decadent period piece.
If you want to watch a romantic drama …
Bridgerton
Dear reader, Shonda Rhimes has made addictive TV dramas her signature, but she took things to a whole new level with this steamy period piece. Rhimes executive produces the lavish adaptation of Julia Quinn’s book series, set in Regency-era London and revolving around the complicated social hierarchies of high society, as young men and women from prominent families attempt to find love. Season 1 follows the story of Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and her initially fake (but of course, eventually very real) courtship with Simon, Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page), and a new romance blossoms in every subsequent chapter of the show. Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson), the titular clan’s second eldest, leads his own love story with Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha) in Season 4, set to arrive in 2026.
Heartstopper
Alice Oseman’s acclaimed graphic novel comes alive in this British dramedy about Charlie (Joe Locke), a young gay student who falls for Nick (Kit Connor), his rugby-playing classmate. Heartstopper uniquely taps into the self-consciousness of first love and the all-consuming brutality of teen emotion through the use of animations — cartoon beating hearts, falling leaves, and tiny sparks that pop up on screen to literally illustrate characters’ explosive bursts of feeling — ensuring that its webcomic spirit never gets lost in translation. It’s a show that never looks down at its teen romance, treating it with tender sincerity. That, plus a colorful cast of supporting characters who all have vibrant inner lives of their own, makes for a sweet, swoony, and satisfying watch.
One Day
If you’re looking for a story about the ups and downs of falling in love — the excitement, the longing, and everything in between — look no further. Dexter Mayhew (Leo Woodall) and Emma Morley (Ambika Mod) meet for the first time on July 15, 1988 — their last night of university — before going their separate ways, but that one day is only the beginning of their relationship. Based on David Nicholls’ bestselling novel, the limited series follows their decades-spanning love story. Each of One Day’s 14 episodes revisits Dex and Em on the same date over the years as they navigate their life journeys, both together and separately, and experience their own highs, lows, romances, and heartbreaks. With so much history between the pair, will they find their way back to each other?
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
If you finish Bridgerton and are left only with the insatiable need for more Bridgerton, we can’t neglect to mention Queen Charlotte. Created by Shonda Rhimes, the prequel series gives its titular monarch (played as a young woman by India Amarteifio and as an older woman by Golda Rosheuvel, who reprises her role from Bridgerton) a rich backstory of her own, explaining how the fearless Charlotte’s politically convenient marriage to King George III (Corey Mylchreest) came to be. It’s a romantic fantasy that imagines an integrated ton, where the queen is a Black woman whose arrival at court shifts Regency-era England’s perception of race in the Bridgerton universe, but it also delves into the king’s very real health struggles — making it a “fiction inspired by fact” saga that’s sweeping and poignant in equal measure.
Ransom Canyon
Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly star in this romantic Western series about a trio of warring families fighting for control of their land. At the center of it all are withdrawn rancher Staten Kirkland (Duhamel), who’s still reeling from a heavy loss, and his longtime family friend Quinn O’Grady (Kelly), who returns home to run the local dance hall after pursuing a career as a New York concert pianist. The two fall for each other, but their connection is complicated by Staten’s troubled past, the battles among the families, and the very small Texas community they call home.
If you want to watch a sci-fi drama …
3 Body Problem
Co-created by True Blood’s Alexander Woo and Game of Thrones masterminds David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, 3 Body Problem brings the bestselling series of novels by Cixin Liu to life. Set across multiple timelines and in a number of different countries, the show follows a group of scientists who come together to fend off an impending extraterrestrial threat to humanity. While it’s packed with big ideas about the universe, 3 Body Problem’s greatest asset is how it still manages to narrow its focus on the relationships between the characters. Immerse yourself in Season 1 while we wait for two more.
Alice in Borderland
Based on the manga by Haro Aso, the first season of Alice in Borderland introduces us to Arisu (Kento Yamazaki), a video game enthusiast who becomes trapped in an alternate version of Tokyo where he’s forced to play life-or-death games in order to earn extensions on his “visa.” He doesn’t know how or why he’s there, but he quickly discovers that if he doesn’t play along, he risks being killed by lasers shot from the sky. As he tries to uncover the mystery of the games, he fights to stay alive by teaming up with his fellow players. The series earned a legion of fans thanks to a potent combination of lovable characters and a thrilling story, all set against the backdrop of a chillingly dystopian universe.
Black Mirror
It’s never too late to get into Charlie Brooker’s anthology, which specializes in uncovering our darkest fears brought on by our ever-increasing reliance on technology. Episodes stand alone, and many are set in dystopian near-futures where revolutionary tech advancements — usually created with the intention of making human life easier — tend to hurt more than they help. The impressive roster of cast members (including Salma Hayek, Daniel Kaluuya, Jon Hamm, Annie Murphy, and more) and genre experimentation help keep the series fresh. If you enjoy feeling unsettled, episodes like “Mazey Day” and “Playtest” experiment with horror; if you prefer something lighter (it’s not all so bleak!), “San Junipero” and “Hang the DJ” are delightfully romantic.
The Umbrella Academy
Steve Blackman’s imaginative series, based on the comics by Gerard Way (of My Chemical Romance fame) and Gabriel Bá, follows a group of superpowered, adopted siblings who were raised by their father to form a crime-fighting team. As they aged, the pressure got to be too much, causing a rift. Years later, their father’s death brings them back together, and sparks their curiosity about the mystery of how he died, as well as their own shady origins. And things only get weirder from there! Case in point: time travel plays a big role as the series goes on, and one character is half-ape and has lived on the moon.
Russian Doll
Light sci-fi, dark comedy, and a lot of repetition: this time-loop series has it all. Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) is celebrating her 36th birthday. Her best friends, Maxine (Greta Lee) and Lizzy (Rebecca Henderson), throw a raucous party where Nadia catches up with her godmother, various friends, and her ex-boyfriend, the latter of whom she leaves the party with. They go to look for her missing cat, Oatmeal, and when she thinks she spots him, she dashes into the street and is hit by a car. Next thing she knows, she’s back in the bathroom at her party, and the evening begins again. Nadia dies in new and interesting ways with each new attempt to survive the night and has to figure out why this is happening and how to stop it.
If you want to watch a teen drama …
Elite
Sometimes you really just need a show with the ideal mix of camp and genuine high-stakes drama. Elite, a Spanish-language series set at an exclusive private school, contains a healthy mix of both of those things. The story kicks off with three working-class scholarship students shaking up the high school social order by enrolling at Las Encinas, and tracks the inevitable culture clash between the working-class students and their exorbitantly rich classmates. The commentary on wealth disparity, along with thoughtful musings on race and sexuality, is what makes Elite so intelligent, while the murder mystery (yup!) woven throughout the fabric of each season proves that this is a show that, above all, knows how to have fun.
FOREVER
Created by Mara Brock Akil, Forever brings Judy Blume’s 1975 novel about teen sexuality and exploration into the present. Akil’s adaptation moves the setting from a very white town in New Jersey to a Black neighborhood in Los Angeles. Justin (Michael Cooper Jr.) comes from an affluent background, and his parents want him to focus on getting into a good college on a basketball scholarship; meanwhile, track star Keisha’s (Lovie Simone) single mother is working to make ends meet. The two teenagers fall into a relationship, navigating their own sexual desires while class differences, parental pressures, and social hierarchies loom heavily over them. There’s more in store: The sweet series has already been renewed for Season 2.
Gossip Girl
You know you love her. And if you don’t already, you certainly will after you watch all six seasons. One of the most essential teen shows of the 2000s, Gossip Girl follows a group of wealthy and well-dressed students at an elite Upper East Side high school, whose dramatic private lives are reported on by a mysterious blogger — the titular Gossip Girl. Based on Cecily von Ziegesar book series, the scandalous (according to those famous “every parent’s nightmare” ads, anyway) drama gave stars like Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, Leighton Meester, and Chace Crawford their big breaks.
Outer Banks
A sun-kissed story of action, adventure, class dynamics, and treasure-hunting (what a combo!), Outer Banks follows a scrappy group of teens just trying to get by as they spend their summers working in a North Carolina beachside town. But things heat up after they’re enlisted by their ringleader, John B (Chase Stokes), to help him track down his missing father, which subsequently leads them on a quest to find $400 million worth of gold. From love triangles to the near-constant threat of death, Outer Banks has just about everything you could want from teen TV. The young cast includes Madelyn Cline (who appears in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, also on Netflix), Drew Starkey, and Rudy Pankow.
Sex Education
If the third season of The White Lotus made you want to catch up on Aimee Lou Wood’s career, you’re not alone. Before she ever vacationed in Thailand, she played kindhearted Aimee in the British teen dramedy Sex Education. Set in the fictional town of Moordale, the series follows Otis, an insecure high school student who happens to be the son of a sex therapist (Gillian Anderson). Despite not having much of a love life himself, he decides — with the help of his best friend Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) and rebellious loner Maeve (Emma Mackey) — to put his expertise to good use by running a sex therapy clinic at his school, with the goal of helping his fellow students with their adolescent intimacy issues.
XO, Kitty
If the To All the Boys films helped breathe new life into the romantic comedy genre, the spin-off series, XO, Kitty, picks up right where that trilogy left off — while also adding plenty of drama into the mix. XO, Kitty catches us up with Lara Jean Covey’s (Lana Condor) love-obsessed 16-year-old sister, Kitty (Anna Cathcart), who decides to follow her heart by moving to South Korea with the intention of strengthening her connection with long distance boyfriend Dae (Minyeong Choi). She shows up in Seoul and enrolls at his high school, all without telling him — what could go wrong? Spoiler: a lot! Full of hijinks and soundtracked by a collection of K-pop hits, the whimsical and romantic XO, Kitty is a worthy successor to the groundwork Lara Jean and Peter (Noah Centineo) laid over their three films.
My Life With the Walter Boys
Based on Ali Novak’s bestselling novel, adapted from her viral Wattpad story, this teen drama proves how the original tale amassed such a following. A classic love triangle meets fish-out-of-water story, the series revolves around Jackie (Nikki Rodriguez), a recently orphaned 15-year-old forced to leave her Manhattan home and move to a Colorado ranch to live with her mother’s best friend, Katherine (Sarah Rafferty), and her very large family. Within that family of 10 kids is the eldest, Cole (Noah LaLonde), a brooding ex-footballer, and his younger brother, Alex (Ashby Gentry), a sweet book nerd. Jackie finds friendship as she settles in with the family and begins to develop feelings for both brothers.
If you want to watch a thriller drama …
The Diplomat
Keri Russell as an international political operative with a complicated personal life? Say no more. Really, though: Russell plays Kate Wyler, a career diplomat who’s recently been reassigned as the new US ambassador to the UK after an attack on a British aircraft carrier creates an international crisis. She’s also having marital problems with her diplomat husband, Hal (Rufus Sewell), and her new role creates even bigger issues between them. As Kate digs deeper into investigating the attack, she discovers lies and deceits lurking just beneath the surface, making it impossible to know who she can trust. Catch up on every bit of intrigue now, because the show’s coming back for a third season.
Lupin
Omar Sy stars in this French heist drama that follows Assane Diop, a charming thief who fancies himself something of a Robin Hood by only stealing from those who deserve it — in this case, those connected to France’s history of colonization and racism. When the series begins, he’s setting off to steal a necklace that once belonged to Marie Antoinette, which is actually a mask for Diop’s true goal of exacting revenge on the wealthy family responsible for his father’s death. Diop models his professional identity off of novelist Maurice Leblanc’s 20th century gentleman burglar Arsène Lupin, turning him into a master of disguise and subterfuge, and turning Lupin into a slick thriller.
Squid Game
Even if you somehow missed the hype surrounding this Emmy-winning juggernaut when it dropped in 2021, it’s never too late to get in the game — especially with a third (and final) season on the way. Anyone familiar with Korean dramas already knows that the best ones will put you through the emotional wringer, but the gory, engaging Squid Game raises the stakes even higher. The series throws a financially downtrodden group of people into a succession of challenges based on children’s games for a chance to win an enormous cash prize — which sounds easy enough, until the players realize losing is fatal. How far are each of the 456 contestants willing to go in order to win — and survive?
Yellowjackets
It’s Lord of the Flies meets Lost in Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson’s thriller series Yellowjackets, which divides its story between the past — specifically, the 19 months a girls’ soccer team from New Jersey spends stranded in the Canadian wilderness in 1996 after their plane crashes — and the present, 25 years later, as the lives of the now-adult survivors continue to be affected. The spot-on casting of the teenagers and their grown-up counterparts, from Sophie Nélisse and Melanie Lynskey as the smart but secretive Shauna to Samantha Hanratty and Christina Ricci as resident outsider Misty, is just one of the many details that will keep you watching this twisted tale.
If you want to watch a horror drama …
All of Us Are Dead
This grisly and gripping South Korean series follows a group of students who get trapped in their high school after a zombie virus outbreak begins to spread rapidly among their classmates. The situation grows more dire as the survivors are cut off from communication with the outside world and their food and water supply dwindles, leaving them armed with only their wits as they work together to try to stay alive. (This is the kind of show that gets a lot of mileage out of a well-placed window.) But this is still high school, meaning that petty rivalries and love triangles spread as quickly as the virus, which is part of what makes All of Us Are Dead so watchable. The first season ends on a bit of a cliff-hanger, but don’t worry: It’ll be back for a second.
Midnight Mass
Mike Flanagan’s name has become synonymous with the horror genre — he previously entertained and terrified us with The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and The Midnight Club — but the ruminative Midnight Mass feels like a special gem, even among other great entries in the Flanaverse. Set on a remote island shaken up by the arrival of a magnetic young priest (Hamish Linklater), the supernatural series acts as a study of its characters and an exploration of faith. While there are a number of solid jump scares, the show prefers to establish an eerie slow burn, which only becomes more unsettling the longer it goes on. But don’t let its thoughtful approach and moody imagery fool you: Midnight Mass has plenty of bloody tricks up its sleeve. If you need even more, Flanagan’s latest series, The Fall of the House of Usher, is also here to keep you up at night.
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
For a slow, dread-inducing kind of horror series, this one, created and showrun by Haley Z. Boston and produced by the Duffer Brothers (Stranger Things), will get under your skin. Engaged couple Rachel (Camila Morrone) and Nicky (Adam DiMarco) go to Nicky’s family’s posh home in the woods, where they’ve planned a small wedding. But at every turn are dark omens: Unsettling interactions with locals, Rachel’s dress going missing, and Nicky’s family usurping the wedding plans. Rachel’s growing unease leads her to question how serious the consequences of marrying the wrong person might be.
Additional reporting by Ananda Dillon.
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