
Shows that feel likeFriends (1994–2004)
If you loved Friends, the closest series we have are How I Met Your Mother (2005), Sex and the City (1998) and Boys Over Flowers (2009). All three share Friends' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Girls (2012).
If Friends hit the spot, these will too

The direct heir — a friend group, a bar, and the search for the one
The difference: Framed as one long dad story

New York friendship as the real love story
The difference: Frank adult glamour

Friendship, romance, and class collisions
The difference: K-drama fairy tale

Young adults working out love and ambition in each other's company
The difference: Korean campus romance, sweeter and far more earnest

Roommates blundering through adulthood together
The difference: Loft-bound millennial spin

Both rooted in New York City
The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than Friends does

A basement, a fixed group, and years of low-stakes hanging out
The difference: Suburban teens in the 70s, parents in the next room

The same preoccupation in both: friendship
The difference: Sits closer to drama than Friends does

The other '90s NYC institution
The difference: About nothing, proudly heartless

One thread runs through both: friendship
The difference: 21 years apart, and the 2010s show

Both keep coming back to the same thing: sitcom
The difference: Easier on the romance than Friends

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