Frayed

Series Similar to Frayed

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

1. Rake

   2010 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8), also on ABC.

   Cleaver Greene, a talented but self-destructive barrister who uses unconventional methods and usually defends those beyond redemption. With unyielding optimism he takes on only the most difficult court cases that no one else wants, from suicide bombing to sex offences and thefts to psychotic school girl drama. At the same time the Sydney barrister tries to put his personal life in order, where his addiction to short term highs and women land him into trouble.

2. Good Girls

   2018 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   Good Girls follows three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers who suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe, and risk everything to take their power back.

3. Men in Trees

   2006 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

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

   To help Marin get rid of issues that weigh her down, Cash takes her to visit a guru. On the way back down the mountain trail, an arctic cyclone erupts. Jack goes out to look for them and a pregnant Lynn can't do anything to stop him. Everyone hunkers down at the Chieftain to wait out the storm, and they learn some surprising things about each other. Mai and Buzz argue over his first choice of a wife, the engaged Patrick and Annie see her competitive spirit at work, Celia and Dick take their relationship to a new intimacy level, and Sara tells Ben about her mysterious court summons much to the chagrin of wife Theresa.

4. It's a Sin

   2021 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Ritchie, Roscoe and Colin are young lads, strangers at first, leaving home at 18 and heading off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy… and walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores. Year by year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new virus starts as a rumour, then a threat, then a terror, and then something that binds them together in the fight.It's the story of their friends, lovers and families too, especially Jill, the girl who loves them and helps them, and galvanises them in the battles to come. Together they will endure the horror of the epidemic, the pain of rejection and the prejudices that gay men faced throughout the decade.

5. Red Band Society

   2014 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   What if a hospital was your high school, boarding school and summer camp rolled into one? What if it was the place where you fell in love for the first time and made friendships that lasted a lifetime? And what if it was all weirdly hilarious and the most fun you ever had in your entire life? This is the world of Red Band Society.

6. BEEF

   2023 · Drama, Comedy · returning93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   They're frustrated, furious — and finally feeling something. Two strangers act on their darkest impulses in the aftermath of a road-rage incident.

7. Shameless

   2004 · Drama, Comedy, Family · ended93% match

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

   Paul Abbott's critically acclaimed, offbeat drama about the rollercoaster lives and loves of the dysfunctional Gallagher clan.

8. Mind Games

   2014 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

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

   With a little bit of science, a dash of con-artistry, plus a smattering of Jedi mind tricks, brothers Ross and Clark Edwards can tailor a plan to influence any life-altering situation, thereby making their clients' dreams come true and their nightmares go away. They are partners in Edwards and Associates, an unusual business based on the belief that people's decisions are influenced by their environment in ways they're not aware. By using the hard science of psychological manipulation, the brothers commit to solving their clients' problems. With Clark's expertise and Ross's con artist ways, each believing to know what makes people tick, and with their unique staff to help them, the brothers will use psychology and science to offer clients an alternative to their fates.

9. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

   2006 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

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

   The executive producer of a late night sketch comedy show sparks a media frenzy when he has an on-air meltdown during a live broadcast. The newly minted network president has to scramble to make things right by hiring back two former prized employees to become the new executive producers of her network's flagship program.

10. Worzel Gummidge

    2019 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

    Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

    Worzel Gummidge is inspired by the classic books of Barbara Euphan Todd.