His & Hers soundtrack guide: A complete list of the music in the latest Netflix thriller

Netflix's His & Hers has instantaneously become one of the platform’s earliest big hits of 2026. Based on Alice Feeney’s 2020 novel with the same name, the six-episode mystery thriller debuted on January 8 as a character-centric whodunit kinda story with secrets, suspicion, and emotional baggage. His & Hers stars Tessa Thompson as journalist Anna Andrews and Jon Bernthal as Detective Jack Harper, her estranged husband. The series tracks the two as they probe a killing in their mutual hometown and watch their own pasts and agendas unravel.

Created for television by Lady Macbeth and Eileen director William Oldroyd, with Dee Johnson acting as showrunner, His & Hers is mostly set amid the stifling heat of Georgia. The show revels in anxiety and moral uncertainty, a mood strongly underpinned by its music, particularly. The soundtrack includes a gloomy original score and some well-selected needle drops, using known songs in unsettling ways to emphasize the central theme of the show.

Here is the complete soundtrack guide of His & Hers, the latest Netflix Thriller

The series’ original score is by Mac Quayle, who also scored Mr. Robot and is known for his work on American Horror Story, among others. Quayle’s music in His & Hers is minimalist and gloomy, dominated largely by droning lows, pulsing rhythms, and dissonant soundscapes trailing off into Anna and Jack’s failing marriage as well as the case they’re working on.

The series employs a vocal cast of pop, soul, hip-hop, and folk, while the way the score is set is frequently at odds with the images. Upbeat or well-known tunes running underneath morally dubious scenes make the irony and emotional unease more evident in the drama.

Episode One

• Irma Thomas – “Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)”
• Ol’ Dirty Bastard – “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”
• Black Pumas – “Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City”

Episode one's soundtrack makes you aware of what you’re into within the first episode itself. Black Pumas’ song further reinforces the bleak representation of love and loyalty in a town riddled with secrets that is the show’s core.

Episode Two

• Killumantii – “My Twin”

With its spare and haunting quality, the track enhances the duality that pervades the series. Its placement subtly mirrors the theme of ressemblance in the lives of the characters and some contradictory truths coming out.

Episode Three

• Bast – “At The End Of The Day”
• Bessie Jones – “Go To Sleep Little Baby”
• Roberta Flack – “I (Who Have Nothing)”

In a third episode that also leans heavily on feelings. The traditional folk lullaby “Go To Sleep Little Baby” brings an eerie, almost funeral-like effect as Roberta Flack’s sobering ballad explores themes of yearning, remorse, and spiritual void.

Episode Four

• Britney Spears – “Toxic”

One of the most ironic scores in the series is from this episode. The glitter-pop poses a contrast with scenes of pretending and emotional devastation to show how the main relationships are still getting more harmful under their familiar facades.

Episode Five

• Stige The Gifted – “Drive The Boat” (Stige The Gifted)
• Chris Isaak – “Wicked Game”

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As the story races toward its end, the music grows more sensual, more fatalistic. Episode 5's soundscore is all about the same.

The score and soundtrack composition of His & Hers have their own unique characteristics. The music doesn’t simply underscore the story; it questions it, and occasionally contradicts what the characters say with what they feel.

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