Shows Like Fairly Legal
If you liked Fairly Legal (2011), a drama and comedy series, 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.
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For the People (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaBrand new lawyers work for both the defense and the prosecution as they handle the most high profile and high stakes cases in the country – all as their personal lives intersect.
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All Rise (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA look at the personal and professional lives of the judges, lawyers, clerks, bailiffs and cops who work at an L.A. County courthouse.
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Burden of Truth (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA big city lawyer returns to her hometown to take the case of a group of girls suffering from a mysterious illness.
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Kingdom (2007)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and comedyLooks can be deceiving. Peter Kingdom seems to have everything — a man of some standing in the seaside town of Market Shipborough, he dresses well and has all the trappings of success. Why, then, does he wander along…
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Family Law (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaLawyer and recovering alcoholic Abigail Bianchi is struggling to put her career and family back together after hitting rock bottom. As a condition of her probation, Abby is forced to work at her estranged father’s…
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Matlock (1986)
★ 7/10Also dramaThrifty, folksy and cantankerous, Matlock charges a premium for his services but is worth every penny: This renowned attorney, always clothed in his trademark light-gray suit and driving his signature Ford Crown…
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JAG (1995)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaHarmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related…
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The Practice (1997)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaA provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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For Life (2020)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaA prisoner becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit.
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Married (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaMarried is a half hour comedy about being miserably in love. Russ and Lina Bowman can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt, and suburbia rained on their romance -- but every once in a while, in between…
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Dirty Sexy Money (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaThe Darling family's obscene wealth and enormous power makes them easy targets for their rivals, enemies, and the tabloids. Patriarch Tripp uses his money and influence to shield his five adult children from the prying…
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SkyMed (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaLife, death and drama at 20,000 feet. The series weaves together intense character journeys and high-stakes medical rescues, as we follow the triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations of budding nurses and pilots flying…
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Night Court (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyUnapologetically optimistic judge Abby Stone, the daughter of the late Harry Stone, follows in her father's footsteps as she presides over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court and tries to bring order to…
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Murder in a Small Town (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaKarl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his…
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Hotel Babylon (2006)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and comedyHotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel.
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Janet King (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaSenior Prosecutor Janet King returns from maternity leave to confront a high-profile murder, and a conspiracy which will have shocking ramifications throughout the judicial system.
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Smother (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaOn the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.
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A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001)
★ 8/10Also drama and comedyGenius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man, Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes.
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Proven Innocent (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaMadeline Scott, a fierce and uncompromising lawyer with a hunger for justice, runs an underdog criminal defense firm. There is no one who understands the power of setting an innocent person free more than Madeline. At…
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Rumpole of the Bailey (1975)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and comedyRumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all…