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Shows that feel likeThe End of the F***ing World (2017–2019)

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.

If you loved The End of the F***ing World, the closest series we have are The Gentlemen (2024), Vice Principals (2016) and Orange Is the New Black (2013). All three share The End of the F***ing World'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 Santa Clarita Diet (2017).

★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗2 seasons · Channel 4created by Jonathan Entwistlewittyplayfulcontemplativegrittydarkly funnywistful
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If The End of the F***ing World hit the spot, these will too

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

Deadpan violence played for laughs, with style doing half the work

The difference: Slick gangster comedy about grown men and money, not damaged kids

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

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

The difference: Less contemplative, more its own thing

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

Bleak circumstances mined for comedy without losing the hurt underneath

The difference: A sprawling seven-season prison ensemble — no road, no two-hander

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

Deadpan comedy about people who should not be left unsupervised

The difference: Live action, adult, and entirely without violence

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

Suburban respectability curdling into crime, told with a straight face

The difference: A mother's long-running scheme, satirical rather than tender

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

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

Ordinary people getting very calmly in over their heads with a body

The difference: A married couple, and gore played for laughs

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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Freaks and Geeks
1999–2000 · 1 season · NBC
★ 8.7drama · comedyPrime VideoParamount+

Teenage alienation observed exactly, funny and painful at once

The difference: Warm suburban high school in one season, with no violence in it

High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").

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

The same preoccupation in 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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Atypical
2017–2021 · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.2drama · comedyNetflix

A narrator who reads the world differently and says so flatly

The difference: Gentle family comedy about growing up, with no crime in it at all

Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, takes a funny, yet painful, journey of self-discovery for love and independence and upends his family.

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Never Have I Ever
2020–2023 · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.8comedy · dramaNetflix

A teenager whose grief comes out as terrible decisions

The difference: American, warm and much funnier

After a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and feeling won't make it easy on her.

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

Someone convinced they are a killer, quietly hoping to be something else

The difference: An adult Hollywood story, funnier on the surface and darker beneath

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

Dark humour about mortality, delivered in short, sharp episodes

The difference: A surreal time-loop puzzle for adults, prickly rather than tender

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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