High Maintenance

Series Similar to High Maintenance

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

1. Transparent

   2014 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   In Transparent, an LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.

2. Looking

   2014 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

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

   Looking offers up the unfiltered experiences of three close friends living - and loving - in modern-day San Francisco. Friendship may bind them, but each is at a markedly different point in his journey: Patrick is the 29-year-old video game designer getting back into the dating world in the wake of his ex's engagement; aspiring artist Agustín, 31, is questioning the idea of monogamy amid a move to domesticate with his boyfriend; and the group's oldest member - longtime waiter Dom, 39 - is facing middle age with romantic and professional dreams still unfulfilled.The trio's stories intertwine and unspool dramatically as they search for happiness and intimacy in an age of unparalleled choices - and rights - for gay men. Also important to the ‘Looking' mix is the progressive, unpredictable, sexually open culture of the Bay Area, with real San Francisco locations serving as a backdrop for the group's lives. Rounding out the ‘Looking' world are a bevy of dynamic gay men including Kevin, Lynn, and Richie, as well as a wide-range of supporting characters like Dom's roommate Doris, Agustín's boyfriend Frank, and Patrick's co-worker Owen.

3. Casual

   2015 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Casual is a comedy series about a bachelor brother and his newly divorced sister living under one roof again. Together, they coach each other through the crazy world of dating while raising her teenage daughter.

4. Master of None

   2015 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   The show follows the personal and professional lives of Dev, a 30-year-old actor who has trouble deciding what he wants to eat, much less the pathway for the rest of his life. Dev's story takes him through subjects as diverse as the plight of the elderly, the immigrant experience, and how to find the most delicious pasta for dinner.

5. Difficult People

   2015 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Difficult People hails from the comedic minds of Julie Klausner (Ugly Americans) and Billy Eichner (Emmy-nominated Billy on the Streets), who star as themselves. As best friends living in New York City, their typical, irreverent behavior lands them in some very awkward situations.

6. Togetherness

   2015 · Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on HBO.

   Brett and Michelle are struggling to rekindle the spark in their relationship, which has puttered out from the stresses of marriage and children. When Brett's friend Alex and Michelle's sister, Tina, move in with them, the foursome engage in a tragically comedic struggle to follow their personal dreams, while still remaining good friends, siblings and spouses to each other.On March 25, 2016, it was announced that Togetherness would not be renewed for a third season.

7. Silicon Valley

   2014 · Comedy · ended

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

   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.

8. Peter Kay's Car Share

   2015 · Comedy · ended

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

   John and Kayleigh have been thrown together in a company car share scheme.

9. Please Like Me

   2013 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Based on the award-winning comedy of Josh Thomas, the six-part series Please Like Me is about cavoodles, custard tarts, boyfriends and girlfriends. Mostly, though, it's about growing up quickly and realising that your parents are not heroes, but big dopes with no idea what's going on – just like you.

10. Little Britain USA

    2008 · Comedy · ended

    Recommended for similar Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on HBO.

    Adaptation of the British sketch-comedy series, featuring some characters from the original, such as hospital receptionist Carol Beer and Prime Minister Sebastian Love, and new ones in the U.S., including astronaut Bing Gordyn and a foul-mouthed little girl named Ellie-Grace.