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Shows that feel likeScream Queens (2015–2016)

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

If you loved Scream Queens, the closest series we have are Santa Clarita Diet (2017), The White Lotus (2021) and Vice Principals (2016). All three share Scream Queens' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Gentlemen (2024).

★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗2 seasons · FOXcreated by Ryan Murphytwistywittyplayfuldarkly funny
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Disney Plus

If Scream Queens hit the spot, these will too

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Santa Clarita Diet
2017–2019 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.8comedy · mystery · crimeNetflix

The same two preoccupations: murder, and dark comedy

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Scream Queens does

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.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: satire

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Scream Queens does

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

The same preoccupation in both: dark comedy

The difference: Easier on the twists than Scream Queens

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

Common ground: halloween

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

Witty and playful in the same breath

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

Comedy with a pulse of dark humor, in both cases

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

Both are built on the same subject: satire

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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Insatiable
2018–2019 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.5drama · comedyNetflix

One thread runs through both: murder

A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head.

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

Witty mystery, and it commits to that

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

Both lean on play more than on comedy

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

Darkly funny mystery in both cases

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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Agatha All Along
2024 · 1 season · Disney+
★ 7.2sci-fi & fantasy · mysteryDisney+

Mystery built on twists, twice over

Agatha Harkness gathers a coven of witches and sets off down, down, down The Witches' Road.

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