Four mystery shows to watch on Netflix if you loved ‘Sterling Point’
When you think of rich families on television, what do you picture? Probably a gorgeous house and people in fancy clothing, but oh, do not forget the family drama they bring with them. Sterling Point knows the formula, and all it does is move that setting to a visually pleasing island.
The story follows 17-year-old Annie Jacobson, who finds out that she and her twin brother have inherited a remote Canadian island from the grandfather she was never allowed to meet. Like, excuse us? That is not an inheritance but a giant red flag with property rights.
Then Annie arrives at Sterling Point and realises the version of her family history she grew up with has holes all through it, which means she does what any curious teenager with questionable self-preservation would do: she keeps searching.
And since you have finished the season and are obviously looking for more, Netflix has four young adult mystery shows ready to send you straight down another rabbit hole.
Four mystery shows if you loved Sterling Point:
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (2024–)
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder did not need long to find its crowd, as season one of the show debuted at number one on Netflix and pulled 19.5million views across its first three weeks. And fair enough, because Pip Fitz-Amobi had people hooked. After she dazzled the fans as Enid in Wednesday, Emma Myers played the 17-year-old Pip, who reopens the five-year-old murder of Andie Bell because she does not believe Sal Singh, the boy blamed for killing her, was guilty.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder feels a lot like Sterling Point because both follow a teenage girl investigating a mystery everyone else would rather leave buried, except Pip is dealing with murder. Zain Iqbal joins Emma as Sal’s brother, Ravi, who helps her investigation as their school project starts becoming far more dangerous. The six-episode first season adapts Holly Jackson’s bestselling YA novel and was commissioned by the BBC before Netflix took it worldwide.
Outer Banks (2020–2026)
Outer Banks ended after five seasons, and that goodbye was heartbreakingly devastating. The Pogues finally got their last chapter after six years of treasure hunting and enough near-death drama to make the journey feel punishing. Like, how were any of them still functioning? Netflix even turned the farewell into a nostalgia fest, while the cast have spoken about how emotional those last days became. So yes, the post-OBX blues are very real.
And this is where Sterling Point fans should perk up, because both shows know that an island can look like paradise while hiding a sinister mystery underneath. Outer Banks follows John B after his missing dad leaves behind clues tied to a legendary treasure, and he pulls the Pogues straight into the mystery. Chase Stokes plays John B, Madelyn Cline is Sarah Cameron, and what starts as teenage curiosity becomes one hell of a ride.
Dive Club (2021)
Now Dive Club takes the same ingredients as Sterling Point but makes a slightly different recipe. It takes you somewhere impossibly beautiful, then gradually reveals how much trouble is under that surface. After a cyclone hits the fictional town of Cape Mercy, Lauren disappears with her boat, Indy. While the official search declares her missing, her fellow teen divers Maddie, Stevie and Anna straight away reject the idea and keep looking for her.
Lauren’s disappearance is only the start. As the girls keep searching, they find messages and clues linked to Cape Mercy’s past, including old shipwrecks that turn the mystery into something much bigger than one missing friend. That is where Dive Club starts to feel like Sterling Point: both use a beautiful coastal setting to hide a story that young characters were never meant to see.
The Society (2019)
The Society already sounds like a show with some high-society setup where a mystery is just waiting to explode and waste no time ruining everyone’s day. It starts with a bunch of teenagers from wealthy little West Ham heading off on a school trip, from where they get sent home early, only to come back and find every adult absent from the town. Not hiding. Just Gone. Their houses are untouched, and the town is still standing, but every road out leads straight into endless forest. Yeah, it sounds a bit ominous, right? Now they have to figure out where they are while keeping things up and running.
Creator Christopher Keyser described the series as a modern spin on Lord of the Flies, which, frankly, should tell you exactly how well this little social experiment is going to go. Netflix renewed The Society for season two in 2019, then cancelled it in 2020 after COVID wrecked the production plans and sent costs soaring. So yes, spoiler alert, but the show will leave you with a mystery. No proper resolution or explanation, just the society and us. In the hopes of Netflix renewing it someday…