Dramas like
Doubt

The suspicion is the plot, and the person you suspect is the person you love. Sixteen episodes of two men studying each other while a town watches, and it holds this exact discomfort longer and better than anything else here. Difference: the pair are colleagues rather than parent and child, so the ache is professional instead of domestic.

Slow start Episode 3, the point at which you stop trusting both leads at once.

Profiling done as slow, unglamorous, patient work. Same trade, same refusal to make the analysis exciting, and the same quiet lead who is better at reading strangers than the people he lives with. Difference: it is a procedural about building a unit, so the personal stakes are much lower.

Hooks early Episode 2, once the first interview subject starts talking and the method becomes visible.

What if the monster is somebody you already know. Shares the central move of asking a man in law enforcement to consider a suspect he cannot afford to be right about. Difference: it is twenty episodes of big reversals, so the volume is far higher than this show's whisper.

Hooks early Episode 2, once the killer and the two men chasing him are locked into the same story.

Two summers of dread with almost nothing under it but behaviour. Both are built on watching an ordinary parent make one protective choice and then live inside it. Difference: there is no case work to hold, so it gives you unease where this gives you a real investigation.

Slow start Episode 3, if you are still there. The two timelines finally start speaking to each other.

The professional is the prime suspect and the reader is asked to sit with that. Same mistrust of a competent lead, and the same interest in a family crime that never stopped being current. Difference: it is a puzzle plot with a designed trail, where this is a psychological standoff at a kitchen table.

Hooks early Episode 1. A profiler is the prime suspect in her own uncle's murder, and the puzzle cards start arriving immediately.

A parent who chose the wrong method for the right reason. If the part that landed was a father who cannot say the one sentence his child needed, this is that wound handled in a completely different key. Difference: it is a warm family drama with comedy in it, so the crime is background rather than engine.

Hooks early Episode 2, once he wakes up changed and the pig farm becomes the whole world.