Shows Like Better Things

If you liked Better Things (2016), 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
SMILF (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
A raw and honest comedic look at a single, 20-something from Southie whose desires for relationships, sex, and a career collide with the realities of young, single motherhood.
2
Younger (2015)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and comedy
Liza Miller, a suddenly single stay-at-home mother, tries to get back into the working world, only to find it’s nearly impossible to start at the bottom at 40-year old. When a chance encounter convinces her she looks…
3
Ben and Kate (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
Ben and Kate are a pair of odd-couple siblings - one, a responsible single mom; the other, an exuberant dreamer - who reunite to help raise Kate's daughter.
4
Shameless (2011)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and comedy
Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's…
5
Workin' Moms (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
Four women juggle love, careers, and parenthood. They support, challenge, and try not to judge each other as life throws them curveballs. Whether it is an identity crisis, a huge job opportunity, postpartum depression…
6
UnPrisoned (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
A messy but perfectionist relationship therapist and single mom has her life turned right-side-up when her dad gets out of prison and moves in with her and her teenage son.
7
Transparent (2014)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.
8
Divorce (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama
A middle-aged couple experience the pain, the relief and the trials and tribulations of a divorce in this dry, witty comedy.
9
The Studio (2025)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy and drama
Desperate for celebrity approval, the newly appointed head of a movie studio and his executive team at Continental Studios must juggle corporate demands with creative ambitions as they try to keep movies alive and…
10
Red Oaks (2014)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama
A coming-of-age comedy set in the "go-go" 80s that is equal parts hijinks and heartfelt about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end--and the future begins. David Myers, an assistant…
11
Grounded for Life (2001)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
Right out of high school, Sean Finnerty got his girlfriend Claudia pregnant. Now she’s his wife, and at just 32, he’s somehow found himself with 14-year-old daughter Lily, two little boys, and a constant struggle…
12
Breeders (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
Exposing the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.
13
The Vince Staples Show (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and comedy
Kind of famous and sort of rich, rapper and actor Vince Staples navigates the challenges and surprises of everyday life in his hometown of The Beach.
14
The Ms. Pat Show (2021)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy
A woman from Atlanta finds herself in conservative middle America where she lives her life as a reluctant suburban mom.
15
Little Fires Everywhere (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
The intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Explore the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood…
16
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…
17
Mrs Brown's Boys (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
Mrs. Brown's Boys is a British-Irish award winning sitcom created by and starring writer and performer Brendan O'Carroll. The show is based on O'Carroll's stage plays about the character Agnes Browne, which were…
18
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…
19
Togetherness (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama
Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.
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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…