Shows Like The Chair

If you liked The Chair (2021), 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
BEEF (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy and drama
Minor conflicts spiral into consuming feuds between individuals, exposing pride, resentment, and hidden pain.
2
Lucky Hank (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
A mid-life crisis tale about the unlikely chairman of the English department in a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt.
3
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.
4
Shrinking (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and comedy
Jimmy is struggling to grieve the loss of his wife while being a dad, friend, and therapist. He decides to try a new approach with everyone in his path: unfiltered, brutal honesty. Will it make things better—or unleash…
5
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.
6
After Life (2019)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy and drama
Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes…
7
Dear White People (2017)
★ 6/10Also comedy and drama
Students of color navigate the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as "post-racial" as it thinks.
8
Rooster (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
On a college campus, an author navigates a complicated relationship with his daughter.
9
Mr. Corman (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy
With better luck, better choices, better posture... Josh Corman could’ve been a rock star. Now he teaches fifth grade, and though he loves his students, he still struggles to find happiness and meaning in a world that…
10
A Different World (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama
Deborah Wayne enters her freshman year at her parents' HBCU alma mater and finds their shadow difficult to escape. She sets out to build her own legacy – while having the time of her life – alongside a whole new…
11
The Irrational (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Alec Mercer is a world-renowned professor of behavioral psychology with a unique insight into human nature who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, corporations and law…
12
Fatal Seduction (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
A married professor is pulled into a passionate affair with a younger man that uncovers a path of tragedy and betrayal from those closest to her.
13
Life Sentence (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy
When Stella finds out her terminal cancer is cured, she's going to have to learn to live with all the choices she's made when she decided to "live like she was dying".
14
Girls (2012)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.
15
And Just Like That… (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama
This 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…
16
Men of a Certain Age (2009)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and drama
Three male friends experience the changes and challenges of midlife.
17
Desperate Housewives (2004)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and comedy
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the…
18
Dead to Me (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and comedy
A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
19
You're the Worst (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and drama
Narcissistic, brash, and self-destructive Jimmy Shive-Overly thinks all relationships are doomed. Cynical, people-pleasing, and stubborn Gretchen Cutler knows that relationships aren't for her. So when they meet at a…
20
In the Dark (2019)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and comedy
Murphy is a flawed and irreverent woman who just happens to be blind and is the only “witness” to the murder of her drug-dealing friend, Tyson. When the police dismiss her story, she sets out with her dog, Pretzel, to…