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Shows that feel likeSanta Clarita Diet (2017–2019)

They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.

If you loved Santa Clarita Diet, the closest series we have are The Gentlemen (2024), Scream Queens (2015) and Vice Principals (2016). All three share Santa Clarita Diet'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 Tales from the Crypt (1989).

★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗3 seasons · Netflixcreated by Victor Frescowittyplayfultwistygrittydarkly funny
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If Santa Clarita Diet hit the spot, these will too

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

Common ground in both: dark comedy and offbeat

The difference: Easier on the twists than Santa Clarita Diet

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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Scream Queens
2015–2016 · 2 seasons · FOX
★ 7.1mystery · comedyPrime VideoHulu

The same preoccupation in both: murder

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Santa Clarita Diet does

The super-charged comedy-horror series is a modern take on the classic whodunit with a killer cast. 

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

Common ground: dark comedy

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Santa Clarita Diet does

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

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The White Lotus
2021– · 3 seasons · HBO
★ 8comedy · drama · mysteryMax

Twisty where it counts, darkly funny underneath

Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic locale itself.

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

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

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

Gritty crime in both cases

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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The End of the F***ing World
2017–2019 · 2 seasons · Channel 4
★ 8comedy · drama · crimeNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: offbeat

James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father.

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

Mystery built on play, twice over

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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BEEF
2023– · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 8comedy · dramaNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: marriage

A road rage incident between two strangers — a failing contractor and an unfulfilled entrepreneur — sparks a feud that brings out their darkest impulses.

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Tales from the Crypt
1989–1996 · 7 seasons · HBO
★ 8comedy · mystery · sci-fi & fantasy

Comedy with a pulse of twists, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

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

Both lean on dark humor more than on mystery

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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