Why watch?

Dove Cameron plays someone with amnesia who has 56 days left to live, and the entire series hinges on whether she'll figure out who she is and what happened — that time pressure creates real tension. The story jumps between her memories (or what she thinks are memories) and the present, so you never know what's actually true, and Avan Jogia as a detective is trying to crack it alongside her. It's not a typical crime drama because the main character is basically a mystery to herself.

Who is it for?

Watch this in the evening when you want a crime thriller that doesn't overstay its welcome — keeps tension without dragging things out. If you liked The Lincoln Lawyer or How to Get Away with Murder, same vibe of criminal mystery mixed with personal stakes. It has violence and dark crime themes, so not for young kids.

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If you got hooked on the tense cat-and-mouse game between shifting loyalties in 56 Days, check out Godless or Suspect — these shows thrive on everyone having secrets and competing motives, where trust is the rarest commodity. Tell Me Your Secrets has that same pressure-cooker vibe where investigators race against time to piece together what really happened.

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Plakat — 56 Days

56 Days

2026 · 1 season7.0TV-MA
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When an unidentified body is found in a luxury apartment linked to Oliver Kennedy and his girlfriend Ciara Wyse, Detectives Lee Reardon and Karl Connolly reconstruct the couple's deadly romance across the past 56 days.

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A luxury apartment becomes a crime scene, and detectives Lee Reardon and Karl Connolly have to piece together what went wrong between Oliver Kennedy and his girlfriend Ciara Wyse over the past 56 days. Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia play a couple whose relationship spirals in ways that nobody saw coming, with every episode peeling back another layer of what really happened behind closed doors. The show jumps between the present-day investigation and flashbacks to the couple's intense romance, slowly revealing how trust can crumble so fast. If you liked Gone Girl or You, this has that same obsessive energy where nothing is what it seems.

Why watch?

Dove Cameron plays someone with amnesia who has 56 days left to live, and the entire series hinges on whether she'll figure out who she is and what happened — that time pressure cr…

Who is it for?

Watch this in the evening when you want a crime thriller that doesn't overstay its welcome — keeps tension without dragging things out. If you liked The Lincoln Lawyer or How to Ge…

Similar titles

If you got hooked on the tense cat-and-mouse game between shifting loyalties in 56 Days, check out Godless or Suspect — these shows thrive on everyone having secrets and competing…

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