The year 2022 has been marked by many true-crime documentaries and thriller series that blew our minds away. While the year is about to come to an end, it’s time to catch up with the best content available on streaming platforms, if you haven’t already! Therefore, we bring you some of the best miniseries of the year that you can watch before the clock turns 12, in the New year.
10 Best Miniseries of 2022 to Watch
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
This miniseries has to be one of the most popular and memorable one, that left a big impact on its viewers. Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer gruesomely took the lives of seventeen innocent victims. It is a series that exposes these unconscionable crimes, centred around the underserved victims and their communities impacted by the systemic racism and institutional failures of the police that allowed one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.
The series is available to watch on Netflix and you can read our review here.
Inventing Anna
In Inventing Anna, a journalist with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York’s social scene – and stole their money as well. But is Anna New York’s biggest con woman or is she simply the new portrait of the American dream?
Anna and the reporter form a dark, funny love-hate bond as Anna awaits trial and our reporter fights the clock to answer the biggest question in NYC: who is Anna Delvey? The series is inspired by the New York Magazine article “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People” by Jessica Pressler.
You can watch this series on Netflix and read our article here.
Anatomy of a Scandal
It is a psychological thriller and gripping courtroom drama, which infiltrates Britain’s elite through personal and political scandal, where the truth lies between justice and privilege. James and Sophie Whitehouse live in a blissful and rarified world. A Minister in Parliament, and a loving family at home, James’ trajectory appears without limits.
Until a scandalous secret suddenly comes to light. Barrister Kate Woodcroft has a trajectory of her own, and her prosecution threatens to tear into Westminster, the Whitehouse marriage, and her own personal esteem. You can watch this series on Netflix and read our review here.
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
Academy Award-winning filmmaker and co-showrunner Guillermo del Toro has curated a collection of unprecedented and genre-defining stories meant to challenge our traditional notions of horror. From macabre to magical, gothic to grotesque or classically creepy, these eight equally sophisticated and sinister tales are brought to life.
You can watch this horror series on Netflix and read our review here.
Black Bird
Inspired by true events, this series follows high school football hero and decorated policeman’s son Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton), who is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum-security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime — enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser), or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole.
Keene quickly realizes his only way out is to elicit a confession and find out where the bodies of several young girls are buried before Hall’s appeal goes through. But is this suspected killer telling the truth? Or is it just another tale from a serial liar? This dramatic and captivating story subverts the crime genre by enlisting the help of the very people put behind bars to solve its mysteries.
Watch this series on Apple TV+ and read our review here.
The Essex Serpent
Set in Victorian England featuring a star-studded cast led by Claire Danes, Tom Hiddleston, Frank Dillane, Clémence Poésy and Hayley Squires, The Essex Serpent follows London widow Cora Seaborne (Danes) who moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms a surprising bond of science and scepticism with the local vicar (Hiddleston), but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature.
Watch this series on Apple TV+ and read our review here.
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WeCrashed
This series is also inspired by actual events — and the love story at the centre of it all. WeWork grew from a single coworking space into a global brand worth $47 billion in under a decade. Then, in less than a year, its valuation dropped by $40 billion. What happened is explored in this series. Starring Jared Leto as Adam Neumann, Anne Hathaway as Rebekah Neumann, and Kyle Marvin as Miguel McKelvey.
Watch this mini-series on Apple TV+.
From Scratch
Moving from thrillers and crime dramas, this series is also inspired by the memoir but it is a cross-cultural love story, that follows Amahle “Amy” Wheeler (played by Zoe Saldaña) an American student studying abroad in Italy, as she meets and falls in love with Lino, a Sicilian chef.
Their whirlwind romance faces many unforeseen challenges, including their very different cultural backgrounds; true to real life, it is also infused with lightheartedness and moments of humour that exist alongside the more serious ones. But when Lino is faced with unimaginable health challenges and the couple’s future is threatened, the two families come together to create an extended family unlike any they could have imagined, proving that love crosses all borders.
Watch this series on Netflix and read our review here.
Santa Evita
Executive Produced by Salma Hayek, this is the story of Eva Perón after her death. The embalmed body of “Evita” had an eventful journey that lasted for 22 years, and was every bit as eventful as her 33 years of life. Evita died in 1952, but her corpse waited above ground for three years for the construction of a monument that was ultimately never built.
In 1955, President Perón’s government was overthrown by a military coup, which hid the body for 19 years to prevent it from becoming a symbol against the regime. While only a political figure for six years as General Perón’s wife, her corpse influenced Argentine politics for more than two decades — weaving a morbidly strange story that passed into the realm of mythology. To the military officers that took over, Evita was even more dangerous than when she was alive, as all feared that errant corpse without a resting place.
Watch this series on Hulu and read our review here.
Pam & Tommy
Set in the Wild West early days of the Internet, Pam & Tommy is based on the incredible true story of the Pamela Anderson (Lily James) and Tommy Lee (Sebastian Stan) sex tape. Stolen from the couple’s home by a disgruntled contractor (Seth Rogen), the video went from underground bootleg-VHS curiosity to full-blown global sensation when it hit the Web in 1997.
A love story, crime caper and cautionary tale rolled into one, the eight-part original limited series explores the intersection of privacy, technology and celebrity, tracing the origins of our current reality TV Era to a stolen tape seen by millions but meant to have an audience of just two.
Watch this series on Hulu and read our review here.
Which of the above-mentioned series will you be adding to your watchlist? Let us know in the comments below.