Shows Like The Body: The Body on Netflix is the kind of teen drama that would make you wonder how a little secret can become a full-blown problem. The premise is set in a Catholic school culture, teenage rebellion and growing up; the series takes a rather different turn when an initiation ritual in an all-girls dance crew goes terribly wrong.
Shows Like The Body
The Body has a strange combination of guilt and questionable decisions carried on with the girls finding themselves caught in something bigger.
If you loved The Body and are looking for more like it, we have got you covered! Here are five shows you watch next; each with a tight-knit group trapped where ambition, loyalty and dark secrets turn rather deadly. From religious horror and creepy rituals to elite teenagers with SECRETS, there is a lot of chaos in here.
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
Do you believe in your “gut feeling”? Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen takes the gut feeling and turns it into a nightmare… a wedding-week nightmare. The series follows an engaged couple travelling to their family’s secluded home for their own wedding. The bride-to-be finds herself increasingly uncomfortable with people, traditions and strange occurrences around the celebrations.
And in a snap, a happy countdown to marriage starts turning into an unsettling experience, with family secrets and questions making the entire atmosphere disturbing. The watch is uncomfortable, yes, as the woman preparing for one of the happiest days of her life starts to find that she is making a terrible mistake, as per everything around her. If you are interested in familiar undertones, anxiety and horror playing around behind the ordinary special rituals, this one has a similar unsettling atmosphere to The Body, even if it is far away from teenage life and is in the terrifying setup of marriage.
If Wishes Could Kill
What do you think can go wrong with apps and wishes? Nothing, much? If Wishes Could Kill brings together the familiar world of high school friendships and a kind of supernatural horror that makes one think multiple times before downloading something on the phone. This Korean series follows a group of friends whose lives change after they are introduced to a mysterious app that promises to grant wishes but comes with a hook attached. There is a countdown to death when the wishes are granted. Indeed deadly!
The series does not just rely on horror, but also on jealousy, resentment, friendship and messy emotions that teenagers do not want to deal with often. There is an interesting contrast between the ordinary lives of young people and the circumstances they are trapped in, much like The Body.
Devil in Ohio
There is something strange and frightening about cults when the people involved seem to have built their lives around some beliefs that make no sense to the outside world. Devil in Ohio explores this through the story of a teenage girl who escapes a cult and finds herself under the care of a psychiatrist.
What initially appears to be an attempt to give safety to the teenager turns into a much bigger problem when the doctor’s own family is pulled into the strange world of a cult. With the unsettling practices, secrets and a community that appears to have its own understanding of the world, the series builds a non-trustworthy environment. If the horror and unsettling group dynamics of The Body kept you hooked, Devil in Ohio is another series worth digging into.
Tiny Pretty Things
Tiny Pretty Things takes us into the unforgiving world of an elite ballet academy, where talent is important but apparently so are the dimensions of popularity, privilege and manipulation. When the star student of the group suffers a fall… a mysterious one, another gets the opportunity to take her place at the prestigious Archer School of Ballet, but fitting into the academy becomes more difficult than learning the choreography, especially when she finds herself surrounded by students who have spent years fighting for the spotlight.
The series brings in rivalries, jealousy and secrets that refuse to stay hidden, and the way the series brings together the pressure of perfection and the ugly side of ambition among the young women makes it a rather gripping watch. There are no supernatural elements in here, but friendships, rivalries and secrets turning into a mess are absolutely present.
Elite
Elite presents a combination of murder mysteries, scandal, romance and social politics with the idea of wealthy teenagers, exclusive schools and complicated relationships. This Spanish series brings three working-class students who get the scholarships to attend Las Encinas, an elite private school where money, privilege and family connections determine much of the societal hierarchy.
The clash between the new students and their considerably wealthier classmates soon takes a dark turn when murder enters the picture.
The Horrors Are Far, But They Hold You
These different series do not exactly look like The Body, but have a premise of the same delicious horror, and what makes these shows worth watching is not just the murder mysteries, supernatural elements or the secrets that keep coming out at the worst time.
While each of these series takes a slightly different route, they all have that particular kind of chaos where one episode is never quite enough, and somebody’s secret is always waiting to ruin a big moment.
Which one would you watch next? Tell us in the comments.
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