My Mad Fat Diary

Series Similar to My Mad Fat Diary

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

1. Sex Education

   2019 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Insecure Otis has all the answers when it comes to sex advice, thanks to his therapist mom. So rebel Maeve proposes a school sex-therapy clinic.

2. The O.C.

   2003 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   A slick hit about a troubled L.A. teen taken in by an idealistic lawyer and his family in affluent Orange County. The series filled the youth-soap hole left by the departed '90210,' but quickly proved itself far more gritty---and witty. In addition, early plots set up an appealing balance between the kids and grown-ups, who were portrayed as real people with real problems, instead of sounding boards for the unblemished Romeos and Juliets.

3. Skins

   2007 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on E4.

   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.

4. Freaks and Geeks

   1999 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Freaks and Geeks, the Emmy® award-winning series about the trials and tribulations of high school outsiders in 1980 Michigan.

5. My So-Called Life

   1994 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   An authentic portrayal of teenage and parental angst, My So-Called Life expressed the challenges of growing up and growing older.

6. Looking for Alaska

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Looking for Alaska thrusts us into the perspective of Miles "Pudge" Halter who is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . After. Nothing is ever the same.

7. Love, Victor

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Love, Victor follows Victor, a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems too much, he reaches out to Simon to help him navigate the ups and downs of high school.

8. Never Have I Ever

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   After a traumatic year, an Indian-American teen just wants to spruce up her social status — but friends, family and feelings won't make it easy on her.

9. Heartstopper

   2022 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · returning

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Heartstopper tells the story of Nick and Charlie, two British teens at an all-boys grammar school. Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, who one day are made to sit together.

10. Misfits

    2009 · Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on E4.

    When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.