Bodkin (2024)

The lightest way into this list, though it still has teeth. An upbeat American podcaster arrives in a small Irish coastal town to dig into the disappearance of three people during a Samhain celebration decades earlier, and the locals treat his questions as a nuisance or a threat, depending on what they are hiding. Will Forte plays the podcaster, but the show belongs to Siobhán Cullen's prickly investigative journalist, who has no patience for his true-crime packaging. It is a black comedy thriller in seven episodes, a good pick when you want the small-town suspicion without the full weight of grief.