
Shows that feel likeThe White Lotus (2021–)
If you loved The White Lotus, the closest series we have are Vice Principals (2016), Scream Queens (2015) and Russian Doll (2019). All three share The White Lotus' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
If The White Lotus hit the spot, these will too

The same mix in both: wit, then play
The difference: Easier on the stillness than The White Lotus

A body count looming over a cast of pampered monsters you love to hate
The difference: Broad campy slasher gags — none of the slow-burn class needling

Mordant comedy that keeps peeling back to something existential
The difference: One woman's inward spiral rather than an ensemble to dissect

Darkly funny comedy, and it commits to that


Class resentment curdling into something ugly behind polite smiles
The difference: One escalating feud instead of a resort of storylines — and far bleaker

Satire aimed at powerful people with no idea how absurd they are
The difference: Toothless by comparison — warm workplace laughs, no menace

Sunny, well-groomed surfaces hiding appetites that turn murderous
The difference: Gleeful splatter farce with zero interest in class warfare

Both are built on the same subject: satire
The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

Old money behaving badly while the help proves far more capable
The difference: Guy Ritchie caper momentum — violence in place of vacation dread

Mystery built on twists, twice over
The difference: Leans harder into sci-fi & fantasy than The White Lotus does

Damaged people in a beautiful setting slowly showing their wounds
The difference: A sincere romance at heart — it wants to heal, not skewer
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