Shows Like Friends with Benefits

If you liked Friends with Benefits (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.

1
Mike & Molly (2010)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
A comedy about a working class Chicago couple who find love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.
2
Girlfriends (2000)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and comedy
A friend group of black women face life's tests and triumphs together. From dating to divorce, and friends to family to relationships, Joan, Maya, Lynn and Toni support each other despite their differing backgrounds.
3
Tyler Perry's Sistas (2019)
★ 8.4/10Also comedy and drama
There's nothing that bonds a group of single black women together more than sidestepping the land mines of living, working and dating in Atlanta. In a sea of swipe-lefts, social media drama and unrealistic…
4
Will & Grace (1998)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
Will Truman and Grace Adler are best friends living in New York, and when Grace's engagement falls apart, she moves in with Will. Together, along with their friends, they go through the trials of dating, sex…
5
Friends with Better Lives (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
A comedy about six friends at different stages in their lives – married, divorced, newly engaged and single – who are outwardly happy, but secretly questioning if their friends have it better. Andi and Bobby are…
6
Friends (1994)
★ 8.4/10Also comedy
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
7
How I Met Your Father (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
In the near future, Sophie tells her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they…
8
Married (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
Married 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…
9
The Steve Harvey Show (1996)
★ 7/10Also comedy and drama
Down on his luck and out of money, former R&B star Steve Hightower lands a music teacher gig at an inner-city Chicago school. Showing who's in charge with his unorthodox approach, Steve discovers a new groove at…
10
Martin (1992)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama
Sassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne. Series focuses on his romantic relationship with girlfriend Gina, her best friend Pam and escapades with best friends Tommy and Cole.
11
Traffic Light (2011)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Brothers-in-arms Ethan, Adam and Mike have been friends since college and have seen each other through highs and lows. Now well into their 30s, the three find themselves at different stages in their lives and trying to…
12
What About Brian (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and comedy
Serial monogamist Brian O'Hara hits his mid-30s and suddenly realizes he's the last bachelor standing in his circle of friends. Not averse to the happily ever after his friends have achieved, Brian wonders whether…
13
Broad City (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama
Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
14
Felicity (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Felicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program to follow her long time crush to college in New York City. Things…
15
Lipstick Jungle (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy
Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by…
16
How I Met Your Mother (2005)
★ 8.1/10Also comedy
A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
17
Gavin & Stacey (2007)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama
Essex and Wales collide when Gavin and Stacey fall in love - bringing their friends, family and baggage with them.
18
The Facts of Life (1979)
★ 7/10Also drama and comedy
Mrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.
19
Love, American Style (1969)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
20
The Couple Next Door (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also drama
Evie and Pete move into an upscale neighborhood and find themselves in a world of curtain twitching and status anxiety. They find friendship in the shape of the couple next door, alpha traffic cop Danny and his wife…