Shows Like The Good Bad Mother

If you liked The Good Bad Mother (2023), a drama and comedy series created by Bae Se-young and Sim Na-yeon, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
My Liberation Notes (2022)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
Three siblings, exhausted by the monotony of day-to-day adulthood, seek to find fulfillment and freedom from their unremarkable lives.
2
When the Camellia Blooms (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and comedy
Dongbaek is a single mother. When a potential new love enters her life, she finds ways to defy the social stigmas surrounding her.
3
This Is Us (2016)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that…
4
Welcome to Samdal-ri (2023)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and comedy
After suffering a fall from grace, a photographer returns to her hometown and bumps into her childhood friend — rekindling an unfinished romance.
5
Our Universe (2026)
★ 8.2/10Also comedy and drama
Two in-laws forced to raise their orphaned nephew together slowly overcome their misunderstandings, finding personal growth and an unexpected romance through co-parenting under one roof.
6
Family by Choice (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also drama
A youth romance about two men and woman who aren't blood related but treated each other as family during their teens and how they meet again after 10 years.
7
Dream to You (2026)
★ 9.4/10Also drama and comedy
Two high school classmates bond over a shared love of filmmaking, turning a deep friendship into first love before an unexpected separation tears them apart. Years later, they reunite with their lives completely…
8
Spring Fever (2026)
★ 8.1/10Also comedy and drama
After moving to a quiet rural town to heal from past heartbreak, a withdrawn teacher slowly rediscovers warmth and joy through her unexpected connection with a rough-around-the-edges but kindhearted local man.
9
Six Feet Under (2001)
★ 8.1/10Also drama
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.
10
Move to Heaven (2021)
★ 8/10Also drama
Finding life in all that’s left behind, a detail-oriented trauma cleaner and his estranged uncle deliver untold stories of the departed to loved ones.
11
Dead to Me (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and comedy
A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
12
Shrinking (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and comedy
Jimmy is struggling to grieve the loss of his wife while being a dad, friend, and therapist. He decides to try a new approach with everyone in his path: unfiltered, brutal honesty. Will it make things better—or unleash…
13
Ballers (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedy
Looking at the lives of former and current football players, the show follows former superstar Spencer Strasmore as he gets his life on track in retirement while mentoring other current and former players through the…
14
Somebody Somewhere (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama
Sam is a true Kansan on the surface but beneath it all struggles to fit the hometown mold. As she grapples with loss and acceptance, singing is Sam’s saving grace and leads her on a journey to discover herself and a…
15
Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
Follow the ups-and-downs of Angela Williams, the owner of a successful beauty salon, and her husband of 13 years, Marcus, a former professional football player who has recently partnered with Richard Ellington and…
16
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also comedy and drama
A big-city dentist opens up a practice in a close-knit seaside village, home to a charming jack-of-all-trades who is her polar opposite in every way.
17
After Life (2019)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy and drama
Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes…
18
Mo (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama
In Texas, Mo straddles the line between two cultures, three languages and a pending asylum request while hustling to support his Palestinian family.
19
Desperate Housewives (2004)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and comedy
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the…
20
Dynamite Kiss (2025)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and comedy
A passionate fling in Jeju ends abruptly — until fate reunites an heir and a young woman when she joins his company, disguised as a married mother.