Coldplay Kiss Cam Vibes: 8 Most Tense TV Series About Cheating, Ranked by IMDb

Love triangles and cheating are moneymakers on TV. Complex relationships create new opportunities for dramatic plots and keep viewers hooked for multiple seasons.

These are the shows that best showcase tangled webs of romantic intrigue, in case you feel like you know all the Coldplay kiss cam memes by heart already.

8. 'Bad Mothers', 2019

IMDb Score: 6.3/10

Until recently, Sarah was completely happy. She had a loving family and great friends. But one day, her world collapsed when she caught her husband in bed with her best friend, Charlotte. Seeking revenge on the homewrecker, Sarah teams up with outcast moms and prepares to get back at her ex-friend.

However, her plans do not come to fruition: suddenly, Charlotte's body is found, and Sarah and her husband become suspects.

The husband insists he is not involved, but still ends up in prison. Sarah does everything she can to get the man out of jail. But does he deserve it?

7. 'Conversations with Friends', 2022

IMDb Score: 6.8/10

Frances and Bobbi are best friends who used to be romantically involved, but that's in the past. Frances is a poet, and together with Bobbi read her work at a local bar. There, they meet Melissa, a famous writer who admires their work.

Soon, the friends visit Melissa's house, where they meet her husband, Nick, an unsuccessful actor. Thus begins a quartet of tangled relationships from which it will not be easy to escape.

6. 'The Undoing', 2020

IMDb Score: 7.4/10

Grace Fraser is a successful New York psychotherapist who is happily married to pediatric oncologist Jonathan, they are raising a son Henry. But everything changes after Elena appears. The woman is soon brutally murdered, and Grace realizes that she knew nothing about her husband's life.

Despite its detective premise, the series focuses more on the personal relationships of the main characters. The topic of infidelity becomes one of the central themes of the investigation.

5. 'Love & Death', 2023

IMDb Score: 7.5/10

Texas, 1980. Housewife Candy and her husband, Pat, seem like the perfect couple. What Pat doesn't know is that Candy and their married neighbor, Allan, dated a few years ago. After Allan and his wife had a child, however, the affair ended.

Candy was left with a broken heart, but she began to build a happy family life with Pat. One day, an accident ruins the idyll when Allan's wife, Betty, mentions her husband's infidelity during a conversation.

Candy grabs the nearest ax and strikes Betty forty-one times. Candy is charged with murder and accused of committing the crime with particular cruelty, but she claims it was self-defense.

4. 'Scandal', 2012-2018

IMDb Score: 7.7/10

The story centers on Olivia Pope, a former White House employee who started her own agency. Her employees aim to clean up the mess created by influential politicians before it falls into the hands of the tabloids.

At the heart of the story is Olivia's affair with President Fitzgerald Grant. However, when Jake, the director of the NSA, appears in the second season, a dramatic love triangle emerges.

3. 'Presumed Innocent', 2024-...

IMDb Score: 7.7/10

Rusty Sabich is a caring husband and father, as well as a talented prosecutor. He and Barbara married at 20, and now the couple lives in perfect harmony, raising two children.

In reality, however, Barbara knows about her husband's affair with his colleague Carolyn Polhemus and tolerates it. When Carolyn is found brutally murdered at her own house, Sabich becomes the prime suspect.

2. 'The Affair', 2014-2019

IMDb Score: 7.9/10

Noah, a married father of four who can't finish his second novel, accidentally meets a young waitress named Alison on the beach. Her marriage has crumbled after her child recently died. The two are attracted to each other, but they perceive their intimacy differently.

The series has an unusual structure – most episodes are divided into two parts, each telling the story from one character's point of view. And it is often difficult to understand which character to believe.

1. 'Scenes from a Marriage', 2021

IMDb Score: 8.0/10

A senior student interviews Jonathan, a philosophy professor, and Mira, a tech manager, a couple in their early 40s. They have been married for ten years and have a young daughter named Ava.

They just need to tell what has kept their relationship going. However, their frantic attempts to find positive aspects of their marriage backfire when they realize that things aren't going well.

First, they say that they switched to an open relationship to save their fading marriage. Later, Mira confesses to cheating.