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Shows that feel likeSix Feet Under (2001–2005)

When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.

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).

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If Six Feet Under hit the spot, these will too

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

A man in a death-adjacent trade wondering who he really is

The difference: Violence keeps it knife-edged — bleaker with each season

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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After Life
2019–2022 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.4comedy · dramaNetflix

Living alongside a death that refuses to stop mattering

The difference: Gervais's sentimental streak — it consoles more than it probes

Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.

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This Is Us
2016–2022 · 6 seasons · NBC
★ 8.7dramaHuluParamount+

A family defined by a loss that echoes across decades

The difference: Engineered to make you cry — earnest where Fisher wit is dry

Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

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True Blood
2008–2014 · 7 seasons · HBO
★ 7.9sci-fi & fantasy · drama · mysteryMaxHulu

Alan Ball still circling death, sex and what people hide

The difference: Campy vampire pulp — indulgence replaces introspection

Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed overnight from legendary monsters to fellow citizens. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures "coming out of the coffin." Religious leaders, government officials, and vampire fundamentalists around the world have chosen their sides. But in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out.

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Breaking Bad
2008–2013 · 5 seasons · AMC
🍅 96%★ 9.5drama · crimeNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Six Feet Under does

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

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The Leftovers
2014–2017 · 3 seasons · HBO
★ 8.3sci-fi & fantasy · dramaMax

Common ground: family

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

When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.

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Time
2021– · 3 seasons · BBC One
★ 8.1drama · crime

Both land stillness and melancholy at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less darkly funny than Six Feet Under does

Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

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Carrie
2026 · 1 season · Prime Video
★ 7.8mystery · drama · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: death of father

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Six Feet Under does

After her father's sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.

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Fleabag
2016–2019 · 2 seasons · BBC Three
★ 8.7comedy · dramaPrime Video

Grief metabolized through jokes that suddenly stop being funny

The difference: Twelve razor-edged episodes — a shot, not a five-year soak

A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights.

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Broadchurch
2013–2017 · 3 seasons · ITV1
★ 8.3crime · drama · mysteryNetflixPeacock

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

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Fargo
2014–2024 · 5 seasons · FX
★ 8.8crime · dramaHulu

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

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

Dysfunction mined for laughs no polite show would attempt

The difference: Pure cringe farce — nobody grows and nothing is mourned

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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