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Shows that feel likeBarry (2018–2023)

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

If you loved Barry, the closest series we have are After Life (2019), The Gentlemen (2024) and Six Feet Under (2001). All three share Barry's contemplative and darkly funny feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Time (2021).

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If Barry hit the spot, these will too

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After Life
2019–2022 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.4comedy · dramaNetflix

Common ground in both: depression and dark comedy

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Barry does

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.

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

Common ground: dark comedy

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

Contemplative and darkly funny 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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Vice Principals
2016–2017 · 2 seasons · HBO
★ 8comedyMax

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

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

One thread runs through both: show business

The difference: Sits closer to animation than Barry does

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

The same preoccupation in both: dramedy

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dramedy

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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Weeds
2005–2012 · 8 seasons · Showtime
★ 7.9comedy · crime · dramaParamount+

Comedy with a pulse of grit, in both cases

After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.

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

Both lean on melancholy more than on drama

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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Time
2021– · 3 seasons · BBC One
★ 8.1drama · crime

Gritty crime in both cases

Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

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Orange Is the New Black
2013–2019 · 7 seasons · Netflix
★ 8drama · comedy · crimeNetflix

Comedy built on wit, twice over

A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.

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It's Okay to Not Be Okay
2020 · 1 season · tvN
★ 8.5drama · comedyNetflix

Playful drama, and it commits to that

Desperate to escape from his emotional baggage and the heavy responsibility he’s had all his life, a psychiatric ward worker begins to heal with help from the unexpected – a woman who writes fairy tales but doesn’t believe in them.

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