Shows that feel likeAnne with an E (2017–2019)
If you loved Anne with an E, the closest series we have are Looking for Alaska (2019), Normal People (2020) and The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022). All three share Anne with an E's contemplative and wistful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Merlí. Sapere Aude (2019).
If Anne with an E hit the spot, these will too
Common ground in both: friendship and growing up
The difference: Takes it somewhere less cozy than Anne with an E does
Aching first-love longing given room to breathe, scene by scene
The difference: Adult, explicit and interior — no found family, no sunlit childhood
Growing up as a season of firsts, told with unembarrassed feeling
The difference: Beach-house glossy and love-triangle driven, with no period grit
Gentle, hopeful and unafraid of big feelings about belonging
The difference: Sweeter and safer — none of the cruelty Anne is made to absorb
An outsider forced to perform inside a world that polices belonging
The difference: Colder and contemporary — Swedish restraint over hearth-lit warmth
A loud, brainy girl blurting and grieving her way toward belonging
The difference: Fast, joke-first and modern, handling grief with punchlines
A stubborn, thinking outsider shaking up a small conservative world
The difference: Adult, Catalan and bawdier — classroom philosophy over prairie life
An orphan girl whose fierce, odd brilliance rewrites her own future
The difference: One cool, controlled limited series — ambition instead of home
A bright outsider arguing their way into a world that resists them
The difference: Catalan, adult, and set at university
A gifted misfit child and the patient family learning to love them
The difference: Sitcom-shaped and gag-driven, set in 1980s Texas and far lighter
The same mix in both: stillness, then warmth
The difference: Leans harder into documentary than Anne with an E does
A period world rendered lushly, with a heroine who will not be managed
The difference: Regency romance, adult and much more sensual
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