
Shows that feel likeSex and the City (1998–2004)
If you loved Sex and the City, the closest series we have are Emily in Paris (2020), Friends (1994) and Gilmore Girls (2000). All three share Sex and the City'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 Girls (2012).
If Sex and the City hit the spot, these will too

Aspirational city living, great clothes and dating as a spectator sport
The difference: Younger and softer — one woman abroad rather than four friends comparing notes

A New York friend group as the real relationship of the show
The difference: Network sitcom, chaste and much broader

Fast, literate dialogue between women who tell each other everything
The difference: Small-town and mother-daughter, cosy rather than sexual

Courtship treated as high drama, with wealth and status stacked against it
The difference: A teenage schoolyard, and one central couple instead of four adult lives

Both rooted in New York City
The difference: Easier on the romance than Sex and the City

Warm, chatty and unhurried, with friends talking each other through crushes
The difference: College kids and first love — none of the adult candour about sex

Women in New York talking each other through work, money and men
The difference: Multi-cam sitcom, coarser and much less aspirational

Both are built on the same subject: sitcom

Both keep coming back to the same thing: sitcom

Late-nineties comedy about what people put up with in a relationship
The difference: Multi-cam and suburban, married rather than single

Four New Yorkers dissecting the etiquette of dating in exhaustive detail
The difference: Pure comedy of manners, and nobody grows

Appearance as armour, and the work that goes into looking effortless
The difference: A teenager's secret rather than grown women openly comparing notes
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