Chilling Companions: 6 Netflix Thrillers That Are Darker Than 'You'

Those who are fascinated by the psychological profiling of serial killers and the darker aspects of the human mind absolutely must check out this show. It explores the origins of criminal psychology within the FBI as agents interview serial killers in prison to discern their motives. The focus is not so much on stalking as in "You," but rather the various reasons why an individual would commit an act of extreme violence, giving it an even more disturbing undertone.

This German sci-fi thriller is very layered and brainy. While it's not a psychological thriller in the pattern of "You," its bent storyline has time travel, interlinked family secrets, and a sickly parallel realm of dread. The labyrinthine plotlines and moral conundrums faced by its characters can often be much more disorienting and disturbing than any straightforward story about a stalker.

An anthology series, "Black Mirror" explores the dark side of technology and its impact on human nature. Each episode is a standalone story and many of them are remarkably bleak, deeply disturbing, and thought-provoking in equal measure. There are episodes where they ruminate on surveillance, identity, social manipulation, and the way technological advancement can twist our lives into grizzly caricatures, always ending with a lasting impact.

The British-Irish crime thriller series sees a brilliant detective (Gillian Anderson) trying to catch a charismatic-from-hell serial killer (Jamie Dornan) with a double life. Sharing with "You" the charming predator motif, the storytelling here is a lot grittier, with realistic depictions of violence.

While this isn't technically a Netflix original, it is once in a while present on Netflix and is justly considered one of the most aesthetically disturbing and psychologically literate crime dramas to ever grace the small screen. It details the twisted dynamic between an FBI profiler named Will Graham and Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose talents lies in Being a.k.a, Psychiatrist, and Cannibalistic Serial Killer. It's a true-and-traditional psychological manipulation of beauty and depravity rendered at times very poetically and at other times very gruesomely.

As a prequel to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Ratched" tells the story of how the notorious Nurse Mildred Ratched came to be. Ratched is a stunning visual piece but is too dark and at times outright gruesome as it explores information about abuses in mental institutions, manipulative power structures, and psychological torment by its characters. An exploration of madness and moral corruption, more than likely to get nastier than anything Joe Goldberg can think of.