Shows that feel likeFleabag (2016–2019)
If you loved Fleabag, the closest series we have are After Life (2019), Barry (2018) and Six Feet Under (2001). All three share Fleabag's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Vice Principals (2016).
If Fleabag hit the spot, these will too
Grief processed by saying the unsayable to everyone's face
The difference: Sentimental under the bile — it wants you to cry, not squirm
One thread runs through both: dark comedy
The difference: Trades the loneliness of Fleabag for an angle of its own
A dysfunctional family circling death and daring to laugh at it
The difference: Five slow ensemble seasons — and no wink at the camera
A prickly, miserable woman as the lone sane point of her world
The difference: High-concept sci-fi gloom — barely any laughs to cut it
Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy
The difference: Easier on the stillness than Fleabag
Losing someone and burying it under frantic work and family friction
The difference: Kitchen intensity over jokes — episodes run on pure stress
A terrible family narrated with ruthless comic precision
The difference: Pure farce — no grief and nothing sincere underneath
Self-destruction that stays funny right up until it isn't
The difference: Six animated seasons deep — the sadness compounds slowly
Awful people saying the quiet part loud, played for laughs
The difference: Zero interiority — the gang never grieves, learns, or grows
A caustic New Yorker forced to sit with her own mortality
The difference: A time-loop puzzle structure carries the emotional load
Common ground: dysfunctional family
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