Cobra Kai

Series Similar to Cobra Kai

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

1. Video Game High School

   2012 · Comedy, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action profile, hidden gem.

   Video Game High School (VGHS) is an action/comedy web series about best friends, first loves, and landing that perfect head shot.The series is set in the near future where video gaming elevates its best players to stardom by its position as the world's most popular competitive sport. VGHS is an elite and prestigious facility that teaches a curriculum of video games of all genres.A classic high school dramedy, mixed with kick ass action and more than a little love of video games.

2. Never Have I Ever

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Netflix.

   After a traumatic year, an Indian-American teen just wants to spruce up her social status — but friends, family and feelings won't make it easy on her.

3. Upright

   2019 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   Lucky Flynn hasn't spoken to his family in years. He's broke, distant and damaged. He's also a gifted pianist, whose talent for music is matched only by his talent for self-destruction. When he learns that his mother has only days left to live, Lucky sets off in a hire car to drive the 4,000km from Sydney to Perth to say goodbye, taking with him his only cherished possession in the world: a battered and scarred upright piano.But what should have been a straightforward drive across the outback soon becomes a test of Lucky's emotional fitness, when he quite literally runs into Meg, a hilarious, tough-as-nails teenager, who we soon discover has plenty of scars and secrets of her own.

4. Love, Victor

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   Love, Victor follows Victor, a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems too much, he reaches out to Simon to help him navigate the ups and downs of high school.

5. Heartstopper

   2022 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · returning

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Netflix.

   Heartstopper tells the story of Nick and Charlie, two British teens at an all-boys grammar school. Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, who one day are made to sit together.

6. Wayne

   2019 · Comedy, Action · ended

   Recommended for similar Action profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Wayne can't help himself from righting the world's wrongs. Now, against all odds, he and his one-of-a-kind girlfriend Del are on a road trip from Brockton, Mass to Ocala, Florida to reclaim what's rightfully his: a majestic old car that was stolen from his sick father. With trouble behind them and danger ahead, Wayne and Del are bound to find themselves with their backs against the wall. But that's okay. They've been there before.

7. Freaks and Geeks

   1999 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Freaks and Geeks, the Emmy® award-winning series about the trials and tribulations of high school outsiders in 1980 Michigan.

8. After Life

   2019 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Netflix.

   After Life centers on Tony, who 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. He thinks it's like a Super Power — not caring about himself or anyone else — but it turns out to be tricky when everyone is trying to save the nice guy they used to know.

9. Everything Sucks!

   2018 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on Netflix.

   It's 1996 in a town called Boring, where high school misfits in the AV and drama clubs brave the ups and downs of teenage life in the VHS era.

10. Skins

    2007 · Drama, Comedy · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

    Irreverent comedy drama from the makers of Shameless, which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.