Fresh Meat

Series Similar to Fresh Meat

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

1. Shameless

   2004 · Drama, Comedy, Family · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1), also on Channel 4.

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

2. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

   2006 · Drama, Comedy · ended98% 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.

3. Rake

   2010 · Drama, Comedy · ended96% match

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

   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.

4. Skins

   2007 · Drama, Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   Irreverent comedy drama from the makers of Shameless, which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

5. Monarch of the Glen

   2000 · Drama, Comedy · ended95% match

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

   Heart-warming drama based on Compton Mackenzie's novels, featuring a rural community of eccentric characters. Archie MacDonald becomes the laird of a huge, decaying family estate in the Cairngorms.

6. Six Feet Under

   2001 · Drama, Comedy · ended94% match

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

   When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as--and far less predictable than--the one inside on Six Feet Under.

7. Мир! Дружба! Жвачка!

   2020 · Drama, Comedy · ended94% match

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

   1993. 14-year—old Sanka Ryabinin lives an ordinary teenage life - looking for adventures, trying to protect himself from district hooligans, does not want to go to the music room, does not know how to communicate with girls and from whom to take an example from adults. On the one hand, there is an honest but poor family with a saleswoman mom and an associate professor dad, on the other — the dangerous world of the Afghan veteran Uncle Alik. And then there's the girl Zhenya, whose acquaintance triggers a series of irreversible events that will forever change the lives of Sanka, his family and friends Vovka and Ilyusha. Escaping from the hooligans, Sanka steals the car of a local crime boss, and in an instant everything changes. And then there are fights with adult Caucasians, peers, between parents in the kitchen, with their boys, and so on. Will he be able to cope with all the problems, being in the very heart of events? Will he be able to save his family and finally understand who he is? Only one thing is clear – life will not be the same as before. Neither for Sanka himself, nor for the whole of Russia.

8. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

   2017 · Drama, Comedy · ended94% match

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

   It's 1958 Manhattan and Miriam "Midge" Maisel has everything she's ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown talent - one that will take her all the way from the comedy clubs of Greenwich Village to a spot on Johnny Carson's couch.

9. BrainDead

   2016 · Drama, Comedy, Thriller · ended93% match

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

   BrainDead is a comic-thriller set in the world of Washington, D.C. politics that follows Laurel, a young, fresh-faced Hill staffer who discovers two things: the government has stopped working, and bugs are eating the brains of congress members and Hill staffers. The daughter of a Democratic political dynasty who left Washington, D.C. to become a documentary filmmaker, Laurel is pulled back into the family business when her brother, Luke, the Democratic whip Senator from Maryland, needs her help running his senate office. On the Hill, Laurel becomes unlikely friends with Gareth, the smart, hardworking Legislative Director to a top Republican, Senator Red Wheatus. Her other allies include Gustav, an eccentric genius who is the first in D.C. to recognize that something sinister is attacking the Capitol, and Rochelle, a medical student who teams up with Laurel and Gustav to protect and defend the citizens of D.C. from an untimely fate. As the tiny bugs continue to multiply, Laurel and her allies must work quickly to identify the other-worldly creatures, stop their infiltration and ultimately save the world.

10. Rescue Me

    2004 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

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

    Tommy Gavin is a lifesaver. Whether he is pulling survivors from fiery high-rise infernos or the twisted steel of a subway collision, Gavin takes great pride in leading the heroic but often overwhelmed firefighters of New York City's Truck Company 62. Gavin is also a man drifting between sorrow and anger over a recent separation from his wife and three kids, and recurring memories of comrades and other New-Yorkers who fell victim to the tragedy of 9/11.