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Shows that feel likeIt's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020)

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.

If you loved It's Okay to Not Be Okay, the closest series we have are Vice Principals (2016), Parks and Recreation (2009) and What's Wrong with Secretary Kim (2018). All three share It's Okay to Not Be Okay'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 Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2016).

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If It's Okay to Not Be Okay hit the spot, these will too

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

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Trades the stillness of It's Okay to Not Be Okay for an angle of its own

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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Parks and Recreation
2009–2015 · 7 seasons · NBC
★ 8.6comedyPeacock

Witty and playful in the same breath

In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

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What's Wrong with Secretary Kim
2018 · 1 season · tvN
★ 8comedy · drama

Common ground in both: romcom and romance

When his secretary unexpectedly quits, an arrogant executive will do anything to bring her back.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy

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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Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo
2016–2017 · 1 season · MBC
★ 8.3comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: bromance

A competitive swimmer crosses paths with his childhood friend, a rising weight lifting star, and realizes that she has a secret crush on his cousin.

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Maniac
2018 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 7.6comedy · drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Common ground: psychiatric hospital

The difference: Sits closer to sci-fi & fantasy than It's Okay to Not Be Okay does

Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.

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

Both lean on dark humor more than on comedy

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into crime than It's Okay to Not Be Okay does

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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Space Force
2020–2022 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.7comedy · dramaNetflix

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

A four-star general begrudgingly teams up with an eccentric scientist to get the U.S. military's newest agency — Space Force — ready for lift-off.

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2005– · 18 seasons · FX
★ 8.8comedyHulu

Playful comedy in both cases

Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.

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Crash Landing on You
2019–2020 · 1 season · tvN
★ 8.7drama · comedyNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: romance

A paragliding mishap drops a South Korean heiress in North Korea -- and into the life of an army officer, who decides he will help her hide.

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