Daily Dose of Sunshine

Series Similar to Daily Dose of Sunshine

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

1. Pachinko

   2022 · Drama · returning

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Told in three different languages: Korean, Japanese and English, Pachinko chronicles the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family.

2. Mother

   2018 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).

   This is the story of a woman becoming a mother. Soo Jin is a teacher at an elementary school. She plans to go abroad to study and teaching is just a temporary job. However, she notices that one of her student, Hye Na, is being abused by her mother and uncle at home. Soo Jin or the police cannot do anything because Hye Na doesn't know that she is being abused and says it's all good to people. As Soo Jin meets Ja Young and Seol Ak, the mother and uncle, she decides to save her from those horrible people. She makes an impulsive but sincere decision to become Hye Na's mother. Their story begins unexpectedly, but as Soo Jin and Hye Na start to believe and depend on each other, they become a real mother and daughter.

3. Something in the Rain

   2018 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Yoon Jin Ah is a single woman in her 30s who works as a store supervisor in a coffee shop. Despite being an easygoing person, she lives a rather empty life. She suddenly feels romantic feelings towards her best friend's younger brother, Seo Joon Hee, a designer at a video game company, who has just returned from working abroad.

4. The Queen's Gambit

   2020 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5), also on Netflix.

   Chronicling the life of an orphan chess prodigy, the story - set during the Cold War era - follows Beth Harmon from the age of eight to twenty-two, as she struggles with addiction in a quest to become the greatest chess player in the world.

5. If You Wish Upon Me

   2022 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   The story of patients and the caregivers of a hospice department. It is the story of people who dream of 'well-dying'.

6. Unorthodox

   2020 · Drama · ended

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

   Unorthodox tells the story of a young woman, who leaves her strict Orthodox Jewish community and an arranged marriage in New York City to live a secular life in Berlin.

7. Borgen - Riget, Magten og Æren

   2022 · Drama · ended

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

   Birgitte Nyborg is the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, when oil is suddenly found in Greenland. But Nyborg has gone to the polls on a green agenda, and for her there is no doubt that the oil project must be shut down as soon as possible. Voices in Greenland - led by the Greenlandic Minister, Hans Eliassen - are, however, of a completely different opinion.

8. Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker

   2020 · Drama · ended

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

   This is the untold and highly irreverent story of black hair care pioneer and mogul Madam C.J. Walker and how she overcame hostile turn-of-the-century America, epic rivalries, tumultuous marriages and some trifling family to become America's first black, self-made female millionaire.

9. Kuş Uçuşu

   2022 · Drama · ended

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

   A young fan maneuvers her way into a seasoned anchor's newsroom but soon confronts the dark side of ambition, envy and the desire to be seen.

10. Incomplete Life

    2014 · Drama · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

    Jang Geu Rae was once a baduk player since 7 year old but then gives up the path because of family circumstances. He was given a chance to become an employee of One International Company and because of his mother, he decided to start working there despite of having only G.E.D. qualification for the past 26 years. The drama follows the lives of ordinary salary men and details their struggles in the workplace.