Difficult People

Series Similar to Difficult People

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

1. The IT Crowd

   2006 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.7).

   The comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss and their grifting supervisor Jen, a rag-tag team of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie.

2. Silicon Valley

   2014 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.4).

   In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. From Mike Judge comes this satire about a programmer whose game-changing algorithm becomes the subject of a valley-wide bidding war.

3. Seinfeld

   1989 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.3).

   Seinfeld is the story of a fictionalized version of stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld, his life in New York City and his quirky group of friends who join him in wrestling with life's most perplexing, yet often trivial questions. Often described as "a show about nothing," Seinfeld mines the humor in life's mundane situations like waiting in line, searching for a lost item, or the trials and tribulations of dating.

4. Better Off Ted

   2009 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Better Off Ted is a satirical office comedy about successful good guy, Ted Crisp, who runs research and development at Veridian Dynamics, a company with a morally questionable approach to its employees. Whether it's standing by a memo with a typo that encourages employees to now (as opposed to not) use offensive language with each other, to championing interoffice dating based on DNA matching to save money on health care, Veridian is a company that puts its bottom line first and employees last. Ted's a single dad to a seven year old girl, and he loves his job, but he's starting to take a closer look at the company's extremely dubious practices.

5. Vicious

   2013 · Comedy · ended99% match

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

   Vicious tells the story of partners Freddie and Stuart, who have lived together in a small central London flat for nearly 50 years. Constantly picking each other apart and holding on to petty slights for decades, Freddie and Stuart are always at each other s throats, cracking snide remarks aimed at the other's age, appearance and flaws. However, underneath their vicious, co-dependent fighting, they have a deep love for one another. Freddie and Stuart are often joined by feisty best friend Violet and Ash, their young, upstairs neighbor.

6. Man Down

   2013 · Comedy · ended99% match

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

   Comedy series written by and starring Greg Davies as Dan, a childish idiot whose world is on the brink of collapse.

7. Less Than Perfect

   2002 · Comedy · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Less Than Perfect follows Claude Casey, her friends and colleagues at fictional television network GCB.

8. Son of a Critch

   2022 · Comedy · returning99% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Based on the award-winning, best-selling memoir from Mark Critch. This new original comedy is the hilarious and very real story of 11-year-old Mark coming of age in St. John's, Newfoundland in the 80s. It's a heartfelt window into the life of a child – much older inside than his 11 years – using comedy and self-deprecation to win friends and connect with the small collection of people in his limited world.

9. As We See It

   2022 · Comedy · ended99% match

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

   As We See It follows Jack, Harrison, and Violet, twentysomething roommates on the autism spectrum, as they strive to get and keep jobs, make friends, fall in love, and navigate a world that eludes them. With the help of their families, aide, and sometimes even each other, these roommates experience setbacks and celebrate triumphs on their own unique journeys towards independence and acceptance.

10. Key & Peele

    2012 · Comedy · ended99% match

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

    Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the stars of Key & Peele, a show that examines life in a distinctively provocative and irreverent way. Whether it's anger-translating the president, spoofing Nazis or ordering up some soul food, Key & Peele showcases the guys' camaraderie and unique point of view, born from their experiences growing up biracial in a not-quite-post-racial world.