Finding Carter

Series Similar to Finding Carter

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

1. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

   2023 · Drama, Family · ended

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

   The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart tells the compelling story of a young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult life. After a family tragedy in which she loses both her abusive father and beloved mother in a mysterious fire, 9-year-old Alice is taken to live with her grandmother June on a flower farm, where she learns that there are secrets within secrets about her and her family's past. Set against Australia's breathtaking, natural landscape, and with native wildflowers and plants providing a way to express the inexpressible, this enthralling family drama spans decades, as Alice grows from a child into a woman. Her journey is epic and visceral, building to an emotional climax as Alice finds herself fighting for her life against a man she loves.

2. Being Mary Jane

   2013 · Drama, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile, hidden gem.

   Mary Jane Paul is a one-woman show: a successful TV news anchor, entirely self-sufficient – an all-around powerhouse who remains devoted to a family that doesn't share her motivation. As Mary Jane juggles her life, her work and her commitment to her family, we find out how far she's willing to go to find the puzzle pieces that she, and society, insist are missing from her life as a single Black female.

3. Recovery Road

   2016 · Drama, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile, hidden gem.

   Maddie is a high school party girl who doesn't think she has a problem until she's confronted one day by her guidance counselor and is forced to choose between expulsion and a recovering facility. Maddie makes the difficult decision to live with other recovering addicts at Recovery Road, while facing the daily pressures of her teenage life.

4. Move to Heaven

   2021 · Drama, Family · ended

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

   Finding life in all that's left behind, a trauma cleaner with Asperger's and his ex-con uncle deliver the untold stories of the departed to loved ones.

5. Years and Years

   2019 · Drama, Family, Science-Fiction · ended

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

   Drama series following a tumultuous 15 years in Britain through the eyes of one family.

6. The Red Road

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile, hidden gem.

   Lines will be crossed when tragedy forces two men, an ex-con & a local cop, to face devastating secrets.

7. Army Wives

   2007 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family 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.

8. Downton Abbey

   2010 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family 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.

9. Life Unexpected

   2010 · Drama, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   After spending all of her 15 years bouncing from one foster family to another in Portland, Oregon, Lux has decided it's time to take control of her life and become an emancipated minor. Her journey through the legal system leads Lux to her biological parents, local radio personality Cate Cassidy and thirty-something Nate "Baze" Bazile, who had a one-night stand back in high school. Although they haven't seen each other in 15 years, it doesn't take Cate and Baze long to fall into the same contentious relationship they had as teenagers. However, when a judge decides that Lux isn't ready for emancipation and unexpectedly grants temporary joint custody to Baze and Cate, they agree to try to get past the arguments and awkwardness and make a belated attempt to give Lux the family she deserves. The cast also Math, Baze's childhood friend and current roommate, and Ryan Thomas, Cate's fiancé and co-host on K100.

10. My Mister

    2018 · Drama, Family · ended

    Recommended for similar Family profile, hidden gem.

    A man in his 40's withstands the weight of life. A woman in her 20's goes through different experiences, but also withstands the weight of her life. The man and woman get together to help each other.