Californication

Series Similar to Californication

If you enjoyed Californication, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Weeds

   2005 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Weeds is based around an american widow (Nancy Botwin) with 2 children who begins selling cannabis for financial gain after the death of her husband. Her family become involved in more and more illegal activities as the show progresses.

2. House of Lies

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, and bedrooms of the power elite, corruption is business as usual and everyone's out for themselves first. Nothing is sacred in this scathing, irreverent satire of corporate America today.

3. Nurse Jackie

   2009 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to take a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a handful of secret strategies to relieve the pain, and stay one step ahead of total disaster.

4. You're the Worst

   2014 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   You're the Worst is a comedic love story about what happens when two toxic, self-destructive people fall in love despite themselves and attempt the impossible - a relationship...

5. United States of Tara

   2009 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   She's got a husband, two kids and multiple personalities. Emmy® and Golden Globe® winner Toni Collette never knows what or who will happen in this smart, unique and totally unpredictable Showtime Original Comedy Series from executive producer Steven Spielberg. Tara's Alters include "T" the wild-child teenager, "Buck" the rough and tumble biker dude, and "Alice" the type-A homemaker. But with a family that loves her just the way she is. Tara never gives up hope that someday she can just be herself.

6. Eureka: Hide and Seek

   2006 · Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

   A short web series which details the investigation of a series of creature attacks in the fictitious town of Eureka, Oregon.

7. Derek

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

   An award-winning bittersweet comedy-drama about a group of outsiders living on society's margins, Derek centers around Derek Noakes (a tender, innocent man whose love for his job at a retirement home shines through. Derek cares deeply for the home's residents, because they are kind and funny and tell him stories of what life used to be like. Working alongside Derek is Dougie, his landlord, who is one of life's unlucky individuals; Kev, a lovable train wreck; and Hannah, a care worker in the home and Derek's best friend. She is smart, witty and hardworking, but unlucky in love, and, like Derek, always puts other people first.

8. Happyish

   2015 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Happyish is a scathing examination of our pursuit of happiness, a pursuit that might just be the very thing causing our unhappiness in the first place. The new half-hour pilot stars Steve Coogan as Thom Payne, a 44 year-old man whose world is thrown into disarray when his 25 year-old "wunderkind" boss arrives, saying things like "digital," "social" and "viral." Is he in need of a "rebranding," as his mentor insists, or does he just have a "low joy ceiling," as his corporate headhunter suggests? Maybe pursuing happiness is a fool's errand? Maybe, after 44 years on this ludicrous planet, settling for happyish is the best one can expect.

9. Summer Heights High

   2007 · Drama, Comedy, Family · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Over one term, a documentary crew films the everyday activities of Summer Heights High and the revelations are hilarious, absurd and frequently shocking.

10. People Just Do Nothing

    2014 · Drama, Comedy, Music · ended97% match

    Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

    Mockumentary series that follows west London pirate radio station 'Kurupt FM'.