The summertime , a meter for meretricious car radio , staycation tear - watching , and moving-picture show theater air conditioning is nearly over . Luckily for you , we ’re not ready to say adios . ensure out our hub of thebest of summertime movies , video shows , and musicfor recommendations on how to keep the good times rolling .

If you ’re already missingThe Night Of ’s   spellbinding reach followingthat impressive conclusion , we sense your pain . And we desire to help you self - medicate . You ’ve almost sure enough already done hard time with prestige must - seesThe Wire , Oz ,   andHomicide : animation on the Street , but if you ’ve somehow overlooked them or did n’t intend they were for you , their gloomy realism and farinaceous take on the criminal offence drama is the painkiller you ’re attend for .

But just in case , we ’ve also round up some other television shows that interlock well with the tone , subject issue , and calibre ofThe Night Of , the summertime ’s best drama .

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Criminal Justice

This 2008 - 2009 BBC anthology series ran for two time of year and proves that HBO ’s remake is faithful to a shift . ( Let ’s just say those who loved determine about John Stone ’s eczema will not be disappoint . ) In Season 1 , Ben Whishaw ( who played Q in the two most recent Bond movies ) occupied the " Naz " character ; here , he ’s a bright young association football player who encounters a beautiful and troubled young char ( Preacher ’s Ruth Negga )   while take a joyride in his forefather ’s cab . Both time of year differ tonally from the American interpretation , but it ’s not operose to see what got James Gandolfini all fire up . Stream it on : Hulu

Top of the Lake

This enthralling seven - instalment 2013 series , co - create , -written , and -directed by Jane Campion ,   fall out a Sydney - base tec   ( Mad Men ’s Elisabeth Moss ) as she render to unravel   a conspiracy in her small New Zealand hometown involving a missing 12 - year - old girl , some dangerous locals , and a mysterious unearthly loss leader ( Holly Hunter ) . You ’ll come for the dandy performing and careful plotting , but stay for the evocative   brumous - mountain visuals .   It ’s the type of expertly made crime show that equanimity and unnerves in adequate measure – watch it before Season 2 , starring Nicole Kidman , arrives on   SundanceTV in 2017.Stream it on : Netflix

American Crime

Like its completely unaffiliated basic - cable contemporaryAmerican Crime Story , this ABC   anthology serial publication use a repertory - style cast to tell a unlike storey each season . But rather than focusing on a famous person - drive or newspaper headline - making shell each time , likeThePeople v. O.J. Simpson , author and film director John Ridley ( 12 Years a striver ) trot out an original story . If you wishThe Night Ofhad expend more fourth dimension with Naz ’s bereaved parents , this is the warmheartedness - turn , family - orient show to check out next . Stream it on : Netflix

Broadchurch

The murder of a untried male child stimulate up a media delirium and separate a pie-eyed - knit English coastal town , and the proper order of things is further disrupted by the unfiltered hotshot inspector ( David Tennant ) who arrives just in fourth dimension to take on the baffling crime and pose a local detective ( Olivia Colman ) who want his job . The episodes of both seasons ( a third make it next year ) mix in the main agonist ' complex personal lives with the well - paced investigation , ensuring thatBroadchurchunfurls in a room that ’ll have you texting your booster to say , " I ’m too brainsick to go out tonight "   and mechanically clicking " Next Episode . “Stream it on : Netflix

Rectify

you’re able to think ofRectifyasThe Night Ofin reverse : the SundanceTV series explore what bump when a trifle frees a death - row inmate ( Aden Young ) from prison after 20 years .   While some in his small Georgia Ithiel Town remain on his side , others trust he really did rape and kill a young woman . The show ’s greatest enduringness , at least in its first two seasons , is that it is n’t alone concerned with its principal character ’s guilt ; the show is capacity instead   to track how he ( and everyone around him ) cope with his fresh life . The fourth and final seasonbegins October 26th , so bestow the binge . Stream it on : Netflix

Happy Valley

A police force serjeant-at-law   ( Sarah Lancashire ) is   look into   the kidnapping of a local businessman ’s girl by complot West Yorkshire local ;   one of them is connect to the assault of her own girl , who ’d   commit self-annihilation eight years originally . Tension builds at crime scenes and in inherited import , as Catherine swallows her suffering to parent her daughter ’s illegitimate Logos . LikeThe Night Of , the British serial   leaves room for flawed eccentric to make mistakes : Catherine is n’t Sherlock Holmes , nor   are her culprit Moriarty types . On this show , murders chance by accident –   which is even chilling than premeditation . Stream it on : Netflix

Prime Suspect

This British series – mainly known for makingHelen Mirrena star ( again ) – breaks a murder mystery into two feature film - duration movies . LikeThe Night Of , the show establish how the police force founding make as many roadblocks as a crafty manslayer . The seven season ( comprised of 15 episodes and roughly 25 hr ) are all solid , but start with the 1991 original , where Mirren ’s Jane Tennison assumes the role of elderly investigate military officer to investigate a serial killer , much to the chagrin of her manly colleagues . Mirren imbues the been - there - done - that formatting with pic - star bluster , and as the show charts Tennison ’s ascent up the chain of command , her material only gets meatier . teem it on : Hulu

Blue Murder

Detective Chief Inspector Janine Lewis ( Caroline Quentin ) is a single mammy tasked with managing a full householdandsolving a gamey - wager slaying . That might voice like a likely situation comedy premise , but it ’s not . This Brit crime saga , which premiered in 2003 , manages to keep a tone that ’s never too sappy or too serious . You might roll your eyes at the first few view as you adjust to dated music , VHS tapes , and flip phones . But we anticipate you wo n’t be able to stop find out once you ’ve finished the first instalment . When it survey Season 3 , theSan Francisco ChroniclecalledJanine " the most fascinating British distaff cop since Jane Tennison . " We gibe . well out it on : Hulu

Show Me a Hero

The Wirecreator David Simon adaptedNew York   Timesreporter Lisa Belkin ’s look at the Yonkers public - housing crisis into a six - part miniseries that probably sound worse than a battle of Marathon of panel - duty video emcee by your high   schoolhouse civics teacher . Twist : it ’s fantastic . Star Wars : The Force Awakens '   Oscar Isaac stars as Nick Wasicsko , a Yonkers City Council member who , in 1987 ,   became the young big - city city manager in the nation – and apace becomes   a dupe of US   partiality . In chronicle Wasicsko ’s efforts to desegregate the city ’s neighbourhood , Simon verbalize on race , economics , and , with the DNA ofThe Night Of , a corruptible scheme . If you cerebrate blusterer egocentrics barking their means into American power billet was a 2016 drift , seeShow Me a Herofor a shocking , sore , and fulfilling lesson . Stream it on : HBO GO / NOW

The Sniffer

If John Turturro scratching his eczema onThe Night Ofwas your hole ,   get a loading of the lead part in this Ukrainian drama : a detective who use his acute sentience of olfaction to figure out crimes . In situations where most of us would go , " Do you smell that?“The Sniffertakes a deep breath of stank and declare , " THAT ‘S A CLUE . " I imagine you could say he has a nose for resolve closed book . We ’ll see ourselves out . Stream it on : Amazon Prime

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