Shows Like Red Oaks
If you liked Red Oaks (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.
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Physical (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaSheila Rubin is a quietly tormented housewife in ’80s San Diego. Behind closed doors, she battles extreme personal demons and a vicious inner voice. But things change when she discovers aerobics, sparking a journey…
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Togetherness (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and dramaFour adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.
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Rivals (2024)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaIt is 1986 and Britain is booming. "Rivals" dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of TV where hair-dos are big and ambitions are even bigger. Deals are brokered in boardrooms, as well as bedrooms. Nobody can be sure…
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This Is Us (2016)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaFollows 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…
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The Carrie Diaries (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and comedyBefore she was a fashion icon, before her column in the New York Star, before Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw was an innocent 16-year-old girl living in suburban Connecticut.
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Everything Sucks! (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and comedyIt'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.
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Crew Girl (2026)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaAfter a family scandal, teen rower Teagan Tao moves to a small town and joins an elite prep school's all-boys crew, sparking rivalry and attraction.
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High Fidelity (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and dramaRob Brooks, a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn revisit past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one true love.
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The Chi (2018)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaA relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. The story centers on Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man who dreams about…
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F is for Family (2015)
★ 7.4/10Also comedyFollow the Murphy family back to the 1970s, when kids roamed wild, beer flowed freely and nothing came between a man and his TV.
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Ballers (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedyLooking 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…
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And Just Like That… (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and dramaThis new chapter of “Sex and the City” follows Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life…
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PEN15 (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also comedyMiddle school as it really happened. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star in this adult comedy, playing versions of themselves as thirteen-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual thirteen-year-olds, where…
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GLOW (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and dramaIn 1980s LA, a crew of misfits reinvent themselves as the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
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Hacks (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaExplore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.
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Never Have I Ever (2020)
★ 8/10Also comedy and dramaAfter a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and feeling won't make it easy on her.
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The Game (2006)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and comedyWhen her boyfriend Derwin Davis is chosen as the new third-string wide receiver for the San Diego Sabers, Melanie Barnett decides to attend a local college so she can be with him. While Derwin worries about the plays…
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Mrs. Fletcher (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and dramaEmpty nest divorcée Eve Fletcher reinvents her life to find the happiness and sexual fulfillment that’s eluded her, and her college freshman son Brendan.
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Sort Of (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaFluid 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…
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The Upshaws (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and dramaBennie Upshaw, the head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis, is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to step up and care for his family and tolerate his sardonic…