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Shows that feel likeAfter Life (2019–2022)

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 from now on.

If you loved After Life, the closest series we have are Barry (2018), The Bear (2022) and Fleabag (2016). All three share After Life's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Vice Principals (2016).

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If After Life hit the spot, these will too

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Barry
2018–2023 · 4 seasons · HBO
★ 8.3comedy · crime · dramaMax

Common ground in both: depression and dark comedy

The difference: Leans harder into crime than After Life does

A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.

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The Bear
2022–2026 · 5 seasons · Hulu
★ 8.5drama · comedyHuluDisney+

Two things both keep coming back to: suicide and grief

The difference: Trades the dark humor of After Life for an angle of its own

Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.

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Fleabag
2016–2019 · 2 seasons · BBC Three
★ 8.7comedy · dramaPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: grief

A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights.

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Shrinking
2023– · 3 seasons · Apple TV
★ 8.2drama · comedyApple TV+

Common ground: grieving widower

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 uproarious chaos?

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Vice Principals
2016–2017 · 2 seasons · HBO
★ 8comedyMax

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

After North Jackson High's long-time principal steps down to tend to his ailing wife, Neal Gamby and Lee Russell, the school's vice principals, are forced to put their mutual disdain aside and form an unholy alliance in order to sabotage the newly appointed principal, Dr. Belinda Brown.

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Six Feet Under
2001–2005 · 5 seasons · HBO
★ 8.7dramaMax

Contemplative and melancholy in the same breath

When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.

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Russian Doll
2019–2022 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.7comedy · dramaNetflix

The same mix in both: wit, then play

Nadia keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday party. She's trapped in a surreal time loop -- and staring down the barrel of her own mortality.

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BoJack Horseman
2014–2020 · 6 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.8animation · comedy · dramaNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: depression

Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?

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Guardian: The Lonely and Great God
2016–2017 · 1 season · tvN
★ 8.5drama · sci-fi & fantasy · comedy

One thread runs through both: suicide

In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-year-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and a sprightly student with a tragic past.

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BEEF
2023– · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 8comedy · dramaNetflix

Darkly funny comedy in both cases

A road rage incident between two strangers — a failing contractor and an unfulfilled entrepreneur — sparks a feud that brings out their darkest impulses.

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Arrested Development
2003–2019 · 5 seasons · FOX
★ 8.6comedyNetflix

Drama built on wit, twice over

The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

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The Gentlemen
2024– · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.1comedy · drama · crimeNetflix

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to an enormous weed empire — and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.

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