TV shows about small towns

TV shows about small towns
List of the best series about small cities selected by visitors to our site: Riverdale, Siren, Schitt's Creek, Once Upon a Time, When Calls the Heart, Under the Dome, Mare of Easttown, Good Witch, Home Before Dark, The Brokenwood Mysteries.

In the top there are new series of 2021, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:10

    Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:17

    The coastal town of Bristol Cove is known for its legend of once being home to mermaids. When the arrival of a mysterious girl proves this folklore all too true, the battle between man and sea takes a very vicious turn as these predatory beings return to reclaim their right to the ocean.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryCanada, USA

    Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing town they once bought as a joke.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryCanada, Romania, USA

    Elizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    Under the Dome is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. It tells the story of the residents of the small town of Chester's Mill in Maine, where a massive, transparent, indestructible dome suddenly cuts them off from the rest of the world. With no Internet access, no mobile signals and limited radio communication, the people trapped inside must find their own ways to survive with diminishing resources and rising tensions. While military forces, the government and the media positioned outside of this surrounding barrier attempt to break it down, a small group of people inside attempt to figure out what the dome is, where it came from, and when (and if) it will go away.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryCanada, USA

    Cassie Nightingale, Middleton’s favorite enchantress, and her young-teenage daughter Grace, who shares that same special intuition as her mom, welcome Dr. Sam Radford and his son to town. When the New York transplants move in next to the Grey House, they are immediately spellbound by the mother-daughter duo next door, but Sam and Cassie quickly find they may not see eye to eye. With her signature charm, Cassie attempts to bring everyone together, ensuring all of Middleton is in for new changes, big surprises and, of course, a little bit of magic!"Good Witch” is based on Bell’s beloved character Cassie, the raven-haired enchantress who kept audiences spellbound for seven installments of Hallmark Channel's longest-running and highest-rated original movie franchise of all time.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecrime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A young girl moves from Brooklyn to the small lakeside town her father left behind. While there, her dogged pursuit of the truth leads her to unearth a cold case that everyone in town, including her own father, tried hard to bury.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryNew Zealand

    In a seemingly quiet country town the newest resident, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.

    Markimdb: 8.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:09

    When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration00:43

    After her mother dies in a fire, Cassie Blake moves in with her grandmother in the beautiful small town of Chance Harbor, Washington. As Cassie gets to know her high school classmates, including sweet-natured Diana and her boyfriend Adam, brooding loner Nick, mean-girl Faye and her sidekick Melissa, strange and frightening things begin to happen.  They are all descended from powerful witches, and they've been waiting for Cassie to join them and complete a new generation of the Secret Circle. What Cassie and the others don't yet know is that darker powers are at play, powers that might be linked to the adults in the town - and that Cassie's mother's death might not have been an accident.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:22

    Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl, impulsively marries a man, moves to his sleepy coastal town, and takes an uneasy role at her new mother-in-law's dance school.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Banshee: Origins is a series of webisodes based on the American drama television series produced by Cinemax called Banshee. The series offers flashbacks in-between the time where Lucas Hood was arrested and when Sheriff Lucas Hood first arrived in Banshee.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySweden, Finland, United Kingdom, Norway
    Duration02:04

    Detective Inspector Eva Thörnblad returns to Silver Height seven years after her daughter Josefine disappeared by a lake in the woods. The body was never found and the girl was believed to have drowned. Now a boy has vanished without a trace and Thörnblad wants to find out if there is a link to her daughter's disappearance. At the same time , she will take care of the legacy of her father, the great entrepreneur Johan Thörnblad, who built an empire of timber and timber processing on the large forest owned by his ancestors. As the plot deepens more children are kidnapped and what initially seems like a police drama takes a more sinister and stranger twist with each episode.

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    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA

      After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies — and allies — from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      An unconventional thriller that takes place over three summers — 1993-95 — in a small Texas town when a beautiful popular teen, Kate, is abducted and, seemingly unrelated, a girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet, awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town and, by ’95, the most despised person in America.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration00:43

      FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:43

      La Ciudad de las Estrellas, a tiny town in the South American jungle, is home to an understaffed, understocked medical clinic where three idealistic doctors come looking for change.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:00

        A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrecrime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:00

        When a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach, a major police investigation gets underway in the small California seaside town where the tragedy occurred. Soon deemed a homicide, the case sparks a media frenzy, which throws the boy's family into further turmoil and upends the lives of all of the town's residents.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration00:52

          Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.

          Markimdb: 8.4
          Genredrama, crime, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration00:46

          The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:36

          As her 16th birthday nears, Sabrina must choose between the witch world of her family and the human world of her friends. Based on the Archie comic.

          Markimdb: 8.7
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryGermany, USA
          Duration02:13

          A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountrySpain

          A teacher starts her job at a high school but is haunted by a suspicious death that occurred there weeks before and begins fearing for her own life.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, drama
          CountryUSA

          Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          Crash-landed alien Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Arriving with a secret mission, he starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. As he does, he begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his mission and asking the big life questions like: “Are human beings worth saving?” and “Why do they fold their pizza before eating it?”

          Markimdb: 8.5
          Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:09

          Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrehorror, action, fantasy, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:00

          The horror and crime thriller genres collide in this new original series from Robert Rodriguez, based on his cult grindhouse classic about bank-robbing brothers on the run, a lawman bent on bringing them to justice, the devout family caught in the cross-fire, and an ancient evil eager to feast on them all.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime
          CountryUSA

          In the forgotten town of Carp, Texas, Panic is the only way out. Every summer the graduating seniors risk their lives competing in a series of challenges for the chance to win life-changing money. After the death of two players the stakes—and danger—have never been higher.

          Markimdb: 8.9
          Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration00:53

          A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          The town of Rosewood has been suffering from a curse for generations. Five strangers suddenly feel connected by this fatal curse and feel the need to dig in the town's mysterious and horrible history before it's to late for each one of them.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryIceland

          A year after a subglacial volcano erupts, mysterious elements from prehistoric times emerge from the melting ice, bringing unforeseen consequences.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryPoland

          The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA

          Dogged investigator Allegra Dill returns to her border-town Texas home after her sister is murdered. What begins as a search for a killer turns into an all-consuming fight to bring her corrupt hometown to its knees.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrefantasy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration00:43

          Resurrection is an American fantasy drama television series based on the book The Returned by Jason Mott that follows the residents of Arcadia, Missouri, whose lives are upended when their loved ones return from the dead, unaged since their deaths.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genredrama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          Detective superintendent reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          Grace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
          CountryItaly

          When their mother mysteriously vanishes shortly after they all arrive in her hometown, teen twins discover secrets behind the village’s tranquil facade.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
          CountryUSA

          The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genredrama, crime, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:31

          The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrefantastic, action, melodrama, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA

          After years of facing megalomaniacal supervillains, monsters wreaking havoc on Metropolis, and alien invaders intent on wiping out the human race, The Man of Steel aka Clark Kent and Lois Lane come face to face with one of their greatest challenges ever: dealing with all the stress, pressures and complexities that come with being working parents in today's society.

          Markimdb: 8.4
          Genreaction, drama, western, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration00:43

          A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:00

          A working class high school drama department and the students come alive under a passionate teacher and family man whose dedication to the program galvanizes the entire town.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada

          Set in a remote Alaskan town that has been overrun by paranormal forces, the series focuses on local outcast Roman Mercer who must overcome the town’s prejudices and his own personal demons if he’s to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that’s threatening to destroy them all.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:00

          Set in the volatile world of 17th century Massachusetts, 'Salem' explores what really fueled the town's infamous witch trials and dares to uncover the dark, supernatural truth hiding behind the veil of this infamous period in American history. In Salem, witches are real, but they are not who or what they seem.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA

          Lines will be crossed when tragedy forces two men, a mesmerizing ex-con and an embattled local cop, to face the secrets of their past. As these two men find themselves increasingly compromised by one another, the lives of both quickly unravel.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA

          In a world mostly wiped out by the plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors. Their worst nightmares are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:05

          A small town that is turned upside down when several local people, who have long been presumed dead, suddenly reappear; their presence creates both positive and negative consequences. As families are reunited, the lives of those who were left behind are challenged both physically and emotionally.




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