Shows Like Transparent

If you liked Transparent (2014), a comedy and drama 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.

1
United States of Tara (2009)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama
Tara's multiple personalities include "T" the wild-child teenager, "Buck" the rough and tumble biker dude, and "Alice" the type-A homemaker. But with a family that loves her just the way she is, Tara never gives up…
2
Based on a True Story (2023)
★ 7/10Also comedy and drama
The lives of a realtor, a plumber and a former tennis star unexpectedly collide, exposing America’s obsession with true crime, murder and the slow-close toilet seat.
3
Bel-Air (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
The journey of a book smart teen whose life is forever transformed when he moves from the streets of west Philadelphia to live with his relatives in one of LA’s wealthiest suburbs.
4
Shining Vale (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama
A dysfunctional family moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But no one seems to notice except for Patricia “Pat” Phelps, who’s convinced she’s either depressed…
5
Knots Landing (1979)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
6
Sugar (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
John Sugar is a dashing private eye navigating the dark corners of sunny LA. Though he sees only the good in humanity, Sugar is haunted by a secret too dangerous to expose.
7
Harlan Coben's Shelter (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
Follow Mickey Bolitar after the death of his father leads him to start a new life in suburban New Jersey. When another new student disappears, Mickey finds himself tangled in a web of secrets. With the help of two new…
8
Grace and Frankie (2015)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and drama
Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must…
9
Gentefied (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama
Three Latinx cousins navigate their differences as they work to keep their grandfather's taco shop afloat in their rapidly gentrifying L.A. neighborhood.
10
Sort Of (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama
Fluid millennial Sabi Mehboob straddles various identities from bartender at an LGBTQ bookstore/bar, to the youngest child in a Pakistani family, to the de facto parent of a downtown hipster family. Sabi feels like…
11
Good Trouble (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
After moving to The Coterie in Downtown Los Angeles, Callie and Mariana Foster realize that living on their own is not all that it’s cracked up to be.
12
Santa Clarita Diet (2017)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.
13
L.A.'s Finest (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
Syd Burnett has left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna, a working mom with an equally complex past, Syd is pushed to examine whether her unapologetic…
14
Why Women Kill (2019)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy and drama
Three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s, a socialite in the '80s and a lawyer in 2018, deal with infidelity in their marriages.
15
Here and Now (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their…
16
Animal Kingdom (2016)
★ 7.8/10Also drama
17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her…
17
No Good Deed (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy
The sale of Paul and Lydia's picture-perfect LA home forces them to face painful family secrets — and hide them from prying eyes and cutthroat buyers.
18
Ginny & Georgia (2021)
★ 8/10Also comedy and drama
Free-spirited Georgia and her two kids, Ginny and Austin, move north in search of a fresh start but find that the road to new beginnings can be bumpy.
19
Weeds (2005)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama
After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.
20
Everything Sucks! (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and comedy
It's 1996 in a town called Boring, Oregon, where high school misfits in the AV and drama clubs brave the ups and downs of teenage emotions in the VHS era.