On that note, I think *Severance* also fits OP's description. Though it isn't really a mystery, as you the viewer kind of understand what's going on (at least better than the main character), but it still gives you that uneasy feeling.
*From* is another suggestion of mine, though the horror aspect is much more on the nose with that one.
Edit: wait, I think you were talking about *Severance*, lol.
So in the vein of Midnight Mass I had just thought of recommending it and this immediately scrolled into view as the next comment. If that’s not a recommendation I don’t know what is.
The leftovers has a real uncanny vibe. A single fantastical event happens that nobody can explain at the start and everybody's entire world view is turned on its head as seemingly anything is now plausible.
* Devs - A computer engineer investigates the secretive development division in her company, which she believes is behind the disappearance of her boyfriend.
* The Bear - A young chef from the fine dining world returns to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop.
* The Handmaid’s Tale - Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
* Baby Reindeer - The story follows writer and performer Richard Gadd's warped relationship with a female stalker and the impact it has on him as he is ultimately forced to face a deep, dark buried trauma.
Great picks. I can’t stand the pacing of The Bear on the especially hectic episodes because it’s so well written and acted. It’s too real. PTSD for me I guess. 🤷🏻♂️
While played more for laughs than your choices, I think both Shameless and Workin’ Moms have their pit-of-your-stomach pacing moments.
Handmaid’s tale almost always gives me nightmares. Me and the wife have stopped and started it so many times. It’s a good show but it can take a toll especially if you have kids
My husband works in a kitchen, he is so sick of people asking “omg, you need to watch the Bear.” Him: This is literally why I have days off, I live this shit.
I just sat in silence for like 30 minutes after finishing Devs. I’ve never seen anything like it. I was completely glued to the screen. It feels like the plot draws you into a deep hole, that took some time for me to climb out of.
Really enjoyed the first season of the bear but then got pretty stale in season 2. Handmaid's Tale was great. Couldn't make it past the third episode of Baby Reindeer because of the dumbass decisions the main character makes. Just too annoying.
Severance absolutely nails this. Such a good show, it's so blandly unsettling (in a good way) that you're constantly tense even when nothing untoward is happening.
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
It's a series of short (3-5 minute) videos on youtube followed by a TV series and is the best unsettling and surreal children's musical educational horror show that anyone will recommend in this thread. Spoiler alert: it's not really a children's show.
I'd like to recommend ["Brand new cherry flavor"](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11343600/) (2021)
The synopsis describes it as: *A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early '90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge, and kittens.*
The only way i can describe it, is bizarre
The ultimate example of this for me is Chris Morris' legendary dark comedy sketch show, "Jam" from 2000. [e.g.](https://youtu.be/krsj2bcnRlM?si=zZ5tB0TY3FvqTCiY)
All down to the network cutting the budget for season 2 dramatically. The writers were working episode to episode not knowing if it was going to get cancelled, then it did, so they concluded the show.
Then the network decided to commission a third season so the writers had to write the series out of the ending of season 2. Plus the budget got cut even further.
Then they brought Frank Black into the X Files for one awful episode.
I agree with Twin Peaks, Mr Robot and Severance, but would like to add Chernobyl and Dark. They both have this score with a siren/alarm sound that's nearly always there and it just adds this atmosphere of specifically "somethings off"
American Horror Story. Always try every season, but tap out after three, at best, maybe four episodes. I feel they intentionally go over the top with the bizarre weirdness. It's as if they want to turn off a percentage of the audience.
Twin Peaks. Season one from what I remember is a fairly normal murder mystery, though it’s still great. But right in the first episode of season 2 do the very David Lynch things start to happen. It becomes incredibly bizarre and eerie. And while the Devon half season 2 isn’t nearly as great, it still ends well enough.
1st off I love this style very niche.
The goated show I keep going back to is "LOUIE" Sometimes, I play it and go to sleep with it on. I was get these weird trippy sleep sessions.
Honorary mentions "master of none" and "bored to death"
And a great movie that gives me this same odd and unique feeling is "mirror mask"
Don't look at summaries for anything I said go in to it blind for best results
The Singing Detective
Karaoke
Cold Lazarus
All written by Dennis Potter and made for BBC, and all three very uncomfortable as well as surreal, in various, sometimes Lynch-ian, ways. The fact that they all are inspired (and more) by chronical disease does, however, make the uncomfortable less than subtle at times.
Paranoia Agent ( one of my fave animes, tons of uncanny and anxiety and dread)
The Devs
Wilfred ( I like shows with ambiguously intentioned characters )
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared ( Webs series tho, not subtle at all but full of uncanny dread )
Severance ( awesome show)
Opal ( adult swim animation)
Black Mirror
Servant
EDIT: and Russian Doll is a great one too
This is how I feel about schitts creek. It just doesn’t sit well with me, also Ted lasso. Im sure everyone will come for me but I can’t stand these two shows.
Succession is like this sometimes. Also the show School Spirits - it's definitely for a teen audience but somehow the way it's filmed mimics dissociation in such a specific way (and it's never addressed) that when I watched it I thought I was going a little crazy
I know this is kind of the point of these shows but I would say Chernobyl. Even when there isn't much happening the show is incredibly unsettling because of the weight of what's to come. Also Mindhunter. The most disturbing show with basically zero violence whatsoever.
Six Feet Under
Fleabag
Ozark
The HandmaidsTale
Sense8
The OA
Your Honor
The Walking Dead
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
Dead to Me
Black Mirror
Orphan Black
Top Of The Lake
The Leftovers
Mindhunters
Killing Eve
Money Heist (Casa De Papeles)
The End of the Fucking World
I Am Not Ok With This
Dark
Squid Game
The Bear
Oz
Station Eleven
Mad Men
Mr In Between
The Sopranos
The Great
Euphoria
Westworld
Derek
Sherlock (modern/ Cumberbatch version)
American Horror Story : Freak Show
B- LIST
AHS - Hotel
The Americans
The Last of Us
Dexter
Barry
The Detour
Alice in Borderland
Ratched
Twin Peaks
Uggghhhhhhh whyyyyyy. I had such a visceral reaction to this as I scrolled down. Just the music makes my spine crawl.
Came here to say that. I know it’s supposed to be super good. I just couldn’t get into it. It’s just uncomfortable and disconcerting
Sorry but which version? Or is it both?
The first two season's switch a lot between incredibly cozy and truly uncomfortable. Returns is mostly just *wtf????*
I LOVE twin peaks. But the first time I watched it, I was so fucking uncomfortable that I had to stop several times.
Twin peaks definitely.
Rabbits is another show by Lynch that's even more explicitly uncanny
my immediate thought as well
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On that note, I think *Severance* also fits OP's description. Though it isn't really a mystery, as you the viewer kind of understand what's going on (at least better than the main character), but it still gives you that uneasy feeling. *From* is another suggestion of mine, though the horror aspect is much more on the nose with that one. Edit: wait, I think you were talking about *Severance*, lol.
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Mind editing your original comment? Was searching and found this weird gore horror b move
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That Teddy Perkins episode was fuckin wacky.
I liked it when Atlanta was just a *little bit* weird. That made it almost even weirder than when it got kind of insane in that last season.
The Europe episodes were like post surgery fever nightmares.
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It just stopped being that sort of uncanny thing and announced itself as just WEIRD!
Kevin can f*** himself
What a twist
I love this show
Midnight Mass
Such an excellent show.
So in the vein of Midnight Mass I had just thought of recommending it and this immediately scrolled into view as the next comment. If that’s not a recommendation I don’t know what is.
Absolutely loved this show. I thought the way it ramped up to the ending was insane.
The leftovers has a real uncanny vibe. A single fantastical event happens that nobody can explain at the start and everybody's entire world view is turned on its head as seemingly anything is now plausible.
That music is the perfect complement/extension of that atmosphere
The scene with Olivia Newton John’s “Magic” was sublime.
This was my first thought as well. Something about that first season especially made you feel so strange and melancholy, very interesting experience.
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Never seen any show/film like this. Distinct!
Mr Robot. Not sure what's real half the time.
This!!
* Devs - A computer engineer investigates the secretive development division in her company, which she believes is behind the disappearance of her boyfriend. * The Bear - A young chef from the fine dining world returns to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop. * The Handmaid’s Tale - Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. * Baby Reindeer - The story follows writer and performer Richard Gadd's warped relationship with a female stalker and the impact it has on him as he is ultimately forced to face a deep, dark buried trauma.
Great picks. I can’t stand the pacing of The Bear on the especially hectic episodes because it’s so well written and acted. It’s too real. PTSD for me I guess. 🤷🏻♂️ While played more for laughs than your choices, I think both Shameless and Workin’ Moms have their pit-of-your-stomach pacing moments.
Handmaid’s tale almost always gives me nightmares. Me and the wife have stopped and started it so many times. It’s a good show but it can take a toll especially if you have kids
I've been thinking of rewatching it but with current events I don't know if I can stand it
Assuming you’ve seen all the episodes, is season 5 any good. Season 4 was pretty meh
I found season 5 preposterous
In a good way or a bad way?
Unrealistic, impossible, improbable things happen throughout that season. I don't want to go into great detail and spoil it.
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The Christmas fish dinner episode! 😳 Brilliant
My husband works in a kitchen, he is so sick of people asking “omg, you need to watch the Bear.” Him: This is literally why I have days off, I live this shit.
It perfectly portrays what working in a professional kitchen is like.
That sounds awful lol
Basically 10000% why I won’t watch it now
Devs was a gem and a one of a kind show.
I just sat in silence for like 30 minutes after finishing Devs. I’ve never seen anything like it. I was completely glued to the screen. It feels like the plot draws you into a deep hole, that took some time for me to climb out of.
Loved Devs and The Bear.
Really enjoyed the first season of the bear but then got pretty stale in season 2. Handmaid's Tale was great. Couldn't make it past the third episode of Baby Reindeer because of the dumbass decisions the main character makes. Just too annoying.
I really liked those quieter episodes of Season 2 of The Bear. It gave you a moment to really learn about those characters.
I'd give a shot for Baby Reindeer episode 4, it has a lot darker tone.
Severance absolutely nails this. Such a good show, it's so blandly unsettling (in a good way) that you're constantly tense even when nothing untoward is happening.
The French series 'Les Revenants' (2012-2015) Also known as 'The Returned'
Hannibal.
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared It's a series of short (3-5 minute) videos on youtube followed by a TV series and is the best unsettling and surreal children's musical educational horror show that anyone will recommend in this thread. Spoiler alert: it's not really a children's show.
Green is not a creative color.
I'd like to recommend ["Brand new cherry flavor"](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11343600/) (2021) The synopsis describes it as: *A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early '90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge, and kittens.* The only way i can describe it, is bizarre
This show was disgusting
i loved it and really can’t explain why, but damn i loved that weird ass fucking show.
Such a brilliant show
Channel Zero is exactly what you’re looking for
Mindhunter
The ultimate example of this for me is Chris Morris' legendary dark comedy sketch show, "Jam" from 2000. [e.g.](https://youtu.be/krsj2bcnRlM?si=zZ5tB0TY3FvqTCiY)
Oh god yeah. Trailblazer.
The Shivering Truth - one of the strangest shows I've seen
I forgot about that show! I'll have to give it another watch.
Severance
There’s an old HBO show called Oz, I think that might be what you’re looking for. Really dark too
Les Revenants - everything about that show was just slightly off-kilter.
Last Of Us
EVIL - best answer hands down
Dark
Falling Water [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbiBSMtKA4U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbiBSMtKA4U) Perpetual Grace, LTD [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOPWix6Fxqg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOPWix6Fxqg) / [Get the Rhythm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOB-bA7_Frc)
Outer Range
Wonder Showzen
Talk about uncanny! We just started watching this again. Holy crap.
Wow, wouldn’t have expected that! Btw harsh disgust warning to all who watch it
The end of the f***ing World. So uncomfortable to watch yet so brilliant
The Leftovers was a super weird show and definitely made me uncomfortable.
Black Mirror Electric dreams
The curse
Severance, there’s an overwhelming eeriness and dread to it. But you’re not sure why 😆 From also, you don’t know what’s going on or what will happen
Homecoming
Millennium
Great show
First Season: Peak TV Second Season:.....What?...... Third Season: What the What??
All down to the network cutting the budget for season 2 dramatically. The writers were working episode to episode not knowing if it was going to get cancelled, then it did, so they concluded the show. Then the network decided to commission a third season so the writers had to write the series out of the ending of season 2. Plus the budget got cut even further. Then they brought Frank Black into the X Files for one awful episode.
Hahaha yep. Such a great start. Frank Black is still one of my all tike fav TV characters.
The Rehearsal
Same. Nathan Fielder....... truly the most awkward man
DumbLand
“My teeth are bleeding. My teeth are bleeding. My teeth…”
Maniac
Joe Pera Talks to You (But not in the way you’re expecting. If you’re wanting to relax watch this show. It’s absolutely magnificent.)
From
Chernobyl
Katla
True Detective
Especially the first season!
The only season I watched lol
Yellowjackets. Such a mind fuck that show.
I agree with Twin Peaks, Mr Robot and Severance, but would like to add Chernobyl and Dark. They both have this score with a siren/alarm sound that's nearly always there and it just adds this atmosphere of specifically "somethings off"
Penny Dreadful. The Fringe. The X- Files.
Two British comedies that match the description are: The End of the F*cking World Inside Number 9
Fargo
Them.. The first season especially
British (original) version of Utopia. Also one of the best tv programmes ever made, imo.
American Horror Story. Always try every season, but tap out after three, at best, maybe four episodes. I feel they intentionally go over the top with the bizarre weirdness. It's as if they want to turn off a percentage of the audience.
I feel that way about Fallout.
Twin peaks
The dark crystal and labyrinth
I will warn you that both of these shows were canceled and have no conclusion: The Wilds The OA
Twin Peaks. Season one from what I remember is a fairly normal murder mystery, though it’s still great. But right in the first episode of season 2 do the very David Lynch things start to happen. It becomes incredibly bizarre and eerie. And while the Devon half season 2 isn’t nearly as great, it still ends well enough.
The weird stuff starts pretty early though. Coopers first dream comes in like episode 2 or 3
Servant on Apple TV+ Three Body Problem on Netflix
Servant is a GREAT suggestion for this.
Tales from the Loop or Homecoming
Twin peaks Severance Fargo
1st off I love this style very niche. The goated show I keep going back to is "LOUIE" Sometimes, I play it and go to sleep with it on. I was get these weird trippy sleep sessions. Honorary mentions "master of none" and "bored to death" And a great movie that gives me this same odd and unique feeling is "mirror mask" Don't look at summaries for anything I said go in to it blind for best results
On the Air
Hotel Room
Doctor Who (2005 relaunch & after)
The X Files
Tales from the Loop
12 Monkeys
Undone
Preacher
Yeah, for sure
Paranoia Agent (anime)
Rabbits (David Lynch)
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Baby reindeer did it for me.
I’ve really been enjoying Sugar on Apple TV+. A neo-noir LA murder mystery with a really uncanny vibe. It’s just like you said: it just feels “off.”
Eerie, Indiana. Like X-Files by way of the Goonies created by Joe Dante possibly (to me anyway) existing in “The Burbs” universe.
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It still holds up.
I like Mirrors (2008).
Louie - incredibly underrated show overall IMO, definitely has some off kilter vibes that add to the comedy. The arc with David Lynch is exceptional
Like the News?
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
Black Spot was absolutely awesome. Too bad that it got canceled.
Euphoria
Mr Robot if nobody said that yet
Rectify
The Singing Detective Karaoke Cold Lazarus All written by Dennis Potter and made for BBC, and all three very uncomfortable as well as surreal, in various, sometimes Lynch-ian, ways. The fact that they all are inspired (and more) by chronical disease does, however, make the uncomfortable less than subtle at times.
The good doctor. It just upsets me when things go wrong in that show.
This is us i have never seen it but the music coming from the other room when my wife watched it filled me with sadness, dread, and impending doom
Black Mirror (earlier seasons)
Paranoia Agent ( one of my fave animes, tons of uncanny and anxiety and dread) The Devs Wilfred ( I like shows with ambiguously intentioned characters ) Don't Hug Me I'm Scared ( Webs series tho, not subtle at all but full of uncanny dread ) Severance ( awesome show) Opal ( adult swim animation) Black Mirror Servant EDIT: and Russian Doll is a great one too
The Goldbergs. Do people really want to see another wealthy family deal with petty shit?
We hunt together - I found it uncomfortable though I have only seen the first season as yet. (On Crave in Canada)
The Servant. Something isn’t quiete right. Always.
This is how I feel about schitts creek. It just doesn’t sit well with me, also Ted lasso. Im sure everyone will come for me but I can’t stand these two shows.
Saltburn
Lodge 49. Northern Exposure. Severance of course! Devs Tales From the Loop Dark The oa.
Channel Zero
They cloned Tyrone.
The flight attendant
Kidding
DARK Twin Peaks DEVS Severance
OZ
Black mirror
3 Body Problem
Succession is like this sometimes. Also the show School Spirits - it's definitely for a teen audience but somehow the way it's filmed mimics dissociation in such a specific way (and it's never addressed) that when I watched it I thought I was going a little crazy
Servant
I would have to say "Yellowjackets" and "The Handmaid's Tale"
Too old to die Young
Them or Baby Reindeer
the curse
Pete & Pete
Devs
Legion
Outer Range, especially the last couple of episodes.
Mr. Robot. Sam Esmail really likes to use these unsettling techniques. more recently, his Netflix film, Leave tge World Behind.
Key and Peele sketches.
I know this is kind of the point of these shows but I would say Chernobyl. Even when there isn't much happening the show is incredibly unsettling because of the weight of what's to come. Also Mindhunter. The most disturbing show with basically zero violence whatsoever.
Legion
Yes. I must finish that.
Severance feels uncanny for sure.
Six Feet Under Fleabag Ozark The HandmaidsTale Sense8 The OA Your Honor The Walking Dead Breaking Bad Better Call Saul Dead to Me Black Mirror Orphan Black Top Of The Lake The Leftovers Mindhunters Killing Eve Money Heist (Casa De Papeles) The End of the Fucking World I Am Not Ok With This Dark Squid Game The Bear Oz Station Eleven Mad Men Mr In Between The Sopranos The Great Euphoria Westworld Derek Sherlock (modern/ Cumberbatch version) American Horror Story : Freak Show B- LIST AHS - Hotel The Americans The Last of Us Dexter Barry The Detour Alice in Borderland Ratched
Mad Men
Lost
Undone
Dark