YOU (2021): Season Three of Netflix thriller You sees protagonist Joe turn over a new leaf, moving to a cookie-cutter suburb in the Bay Area to raise his newborn son. But, marital bliss is short-lived and it’s not long before Joe and new wife Love slide back into old habits. Let’s face it: there’s nothing more thrilling than murder and lies in suburbia. Throw a homicidal wife and a busybody lifestyle blogger as a neighbour into the mix, and it’s Desperate Housewives 2.0. (Fun fact: Marcia Cross, who played Bree Van de Kamp in the Desperate Housewives series actually has a cameo in this season.) 

While the picturesque town of Madre Linda is, in fact, fictional (parts of the show were filmed on the same Warner Bros. lot as The Gilmore Girls) our love for the show’s sets is all too real. In particular, the kitchens featured come straight from a Pinterest board. Think tasteful wood panelling, Farrow & Ball blues and greens, and marble islands framed by decadent brass lighting.

UNFAITHFUL (2002): While the initial appeal of the 2002 noir thriller Unfaithful has to be the racy love-triangle between Diane Lane and fellow co-stars Richard Gere and Olivier Martinez, the six bedroom, 4,465 square-foot colonial mansion that Gere and Lane’s characters call home is what really sticks. Features like a wrap-around porch, a picturesque lake on your doorstep and a tastefully 1990s interior only seal the deal. The house also bears a strong resemblance to that used in the iconic 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas. Coincidentally, the films share the same director: Adrian Lyne. The Westchester house from Unfaithful went on the market for $2.39 million in 2017 – you can peruse its renovation here.

THE TALENTED MR.RIPLEY (1999): That Patricia Highsmith wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley from a hotel room in the opulent Le Sirenuse hotel in the Italian town of Positano is palpable, as both Highsmith’s book and the 1999 film of the same name speak to a specific kind of bygone glamour. Plus, the character of Marge (as depicted by Gwyneth Paltrow) is our constant reference for laid-back Amalfi style. Bonus points for the animal print pillbox hat and coat that Paltrow sports in the film’s chilling penultimate scene in Venice. Sizzling, scintillating and high on style; this thriller has it all. 

RATCHED (2020): If you haven’t yet honed in on Netflix’s thriller/horror Ratched, now’s the time. The season’s eight hour-long episodes are perfect to binge in one heavy weekend sitting. And, apart from stellar performances by Sarah Catharine Paulson (as sinister nurse Mildred Ratched) and a chic cameo from Sharon Stone, the TV series is a visual feast. Think One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest meets Ryan Murphy’s Glee and you’ll be headed in the right direction.