Days of Our Lives

Series Similar to Days of Our Lives

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

1. All My Children

   1970 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile.

   Set in the upscale town of Pine Valley, Pa., a fictional suburb of Philadelphia, All My Children revolves around the intertwined relationships and secrets of several families and has a history of controversial yet socially relevant storylines dealing with topics like abortion in the 1970s, AIDs in the 1980s, and same-sex marriage in the 2000s.

2. Gossip Girl

   2007 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   The privileged prep school teens on Manhattan's Upper East Side first learn that notorious party girl Serena van der Woodsen is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives -- from the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl. No one knows Gossip Girl's identity, but everyone in this exclusive and complicated vicious circle relies on her website and text messages for the latest scoop. Even Serena's closest and most competitive friend, Blair Waldorf, is surprised to find that Serena has suddenly ended her self-imposed exile to boarding school and returned to Manhattan. This is a world you have to be born into, full of wealth, power, and prestige, keeping track of the constantly shifting friendships, jealousies and turmoil in this complex world isn't easy, but it's what Gossip Girl does best.

3. Army Wives

   2007 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Army Wives follows the struggles, dreams and friendships of a diverse group of women—and one man—living with their spouses and families on an active Army post.

4. Downton Abbey

   2010 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, highly rated (8.7).

   The Downton Abbey estate stands a splendid example of confidence and mettle, its family enduring for generations and its staff a well-oiled machine of propriety. But change is afoot at Downton--change far surpassing the new electric lights and telephone. A crisis of inheritance threatens to displace the resident Crawley family, in spite of the best efforts of the noble and compassionate Earl, Robert Crawley; his American heiress wife, Cora his comically implacable, opinionated mother, Violet and his beautiful, eldest daughter, Mary, intent on charting her own course. Reluctantly, the family is forced to welcome its heir apparent, the self-made and proudly modern Matthew Crawley himself none too happy about the new arrangements. As Matthew's bristly relationship with Mary begins to crackle with electricity, hope for the future of Downton's dynasty takes shape. But when petty jealousies and ambitions grow among the family and the staff, scheming and secrets--both delicious and dangerous--threaten to derail the scramble to preserve Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey offers a spot-on portrait of a vanishing way of life.

5. Knots Landing

   1979 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Knots Landing follows the lives and loves of four married couples who live in the fictional but always interesting upper-middle class southern California cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle.

6. Falcon Crest

   1981 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest after the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley (modeled after the Napa Valley) northeast of San Francisco.

7. The Heritage of Lancaster County

   2011 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, highly rated (8.3).

   Journey into the fascinating world of the Amish with the three-part story of a young woman who must face her past in order to discover her future.

8. Karen Kingsbury's The Bridge

   2015 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Molly and Ryan share a profound friendship their first semester in college. At their favorite bookstore and coffee shop, The Bridge, they spend countless hours studying and inspiring the other to dream. But can Molly and Ryan's unspoken love survive the expectations of others as to what their lives should ultimately be?Based on #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury's "The Bridge: A Novel".

9. Everwood

   2002 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile.

   As a world-class neurosurgeon, Dr. Andrew Brown is a hero. As a father, he's a zero. But that is changing. Tragedy makes him a single parent to his two children. And as the first act of his new life, Andy leaves Manhattan and moves his family to Everwood, the tiny Colorado town where big dreams can grow.

10. Haru ga Kita

    2018 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, hidden gem.

    Naoko Kishikawa works in the undergarment counter at a department store. She is a 31-year-old single woman, leading a boring life. She lives her father Shuji, mother Sue and younger sister Junko.One day, Naoko happens to meet Lee Ji Won. He is a cameraman from South Korea. Lee Ji Won causes Naoko and her family to change slowly.