
Shows that feel likeSix Feet Under (2001–2005)
If you loved Six Feet Under, the closest series we have are Barry (2018), After Life (2019) and This Is Us (2016). All three share Six Feet Under's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Carrie (2026).
If Six Feet Under hit the spot, these will too

A man in a death-adjacent trade wondering who he really is
The difference: Violence keeps it knife-edged — bleaker with each season

Living alongside a death that refuses to stop mattering
The difference: Gervais's sentimental streak — it consoles more than it probes

A family defined by a loss that echoes across decades
The difference: Engineered to make you cry — earnest where Fisher wit is dry

Alan Ball still circling death, sex and what people hide
The difference: Campy vampire pulp — indulgence replaces introspection

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy
The difference: Leans harder into crime than Six Feet Under does

Common ground: family
The difference: Trades the dark humor of Six Feet Under for an angle of its own

Both land stillness and melancholy at once
The difference: Takes it somewhere less darkly funny than Six Feet Under does

Both are built on the same subject: death of father
The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Six Feet Under does

Grief metabolized through jokes that suddenly stop being funny
The difference: Twelve razor-edged episodes — a shot, not a five-year soak

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that


Dysfunction mined for laughs no polite show would attempt
The difference: Pure cringe farce — nobody grows and nothing is mourned
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