
Shows that feel likeThe Queen's Gambit (2020)
If you loved The Queen's Gambit, the closest series we have are Looking for Alaska (2019), Euphoria (2019) and The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022). All three share The Queen's Gambit's contemplative and wistful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Carrie (2026).
If The Queen's Gambit hit the spot, these will too

The same two preoccupations: growing up, and miniseries
The difference: Takes it somewhere less melancholy than The Queen's Gambit does

Addiction rendered as something seductive as well as ruinous
The difference: Neon, explicit and unrelenting where Beth's story stays composed

A girl transformed by a stretch of life she can never repeat
The difference: Beach-house romance and love triangles, with none of the discipline

A young person working out who they are while everyone watches
The difference: Sweet contemporary teen romance, with no addiction and no ambition

Talent and status inside an institution that expects you to perform
The difference: Swedish boarding-school romance across three seasons, far less polished

Addiction and inherited damage traced patiently across a whole life
The difference: A family weepie engineered to make you cry, running six seasons

Loneliness carried by someone who cannot ask for help out loud
The difference: An intimate two-hander about love, with no career and no period gloss

An orphan girl whose strangeness turns out to be her great asset
The difference: Warmer and family-facing, built on belonging rather than on winning

Both land stillness and melancholy at once
The difference: Easier on the warmth than The Queen's Gambit

Both keep coming back to the same thing: miniseries
The difference: Trades the warmth of The Queen's Gambit for an angle of its own

A newcomer trying to belong somewhere that keeps testing them
The difference: Light teen comedy about coming out, gentler and much lower-stakes

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