My So-Called Life

Series Similar to My So-Called Life

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

1. One Tree Hill

   2003 · Drama · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   One Tree Hill explores the delicate balance that contemporary young people face as they endeavor to build and define what their lives will be, while overcoming difficulties and embracing the good things that they sometimes take for granted. The series celebrates the most important things -- among them the quest for love, laughter, health, friends, career and family -- timeless pursuits that have always mattered, and matter still.

2. My Mad Fat Diary

   2013 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Drama looking at life from the perspective of funny, music-mad Rae.

3. Anne

   2022 · Drama · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   A drama about the inspirational woman who dedicated her life to campaigning for justice following her son's death at Hillsborough. The mini-series, Anne, which will depict how Anne Williams challenged medical evidence following her son's original inquest, and refused to accept its verdict of accidental death.

4. Dawson's Creek

   1998 · Drama, Romance · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Dawson Leery, Joey Potter, and Pacey Witter are life long friends, whose lives start to rapidly change when a new girl, Jen Lindley, moves in next door to Dawson and the foursome start high school. Chronicling the passage from adolescence to young adulthood, they are joined by two other newcomers to Capeside: brother and sister Jack and Andie McPhee and, when they go to college, by Audrey Liddell. Set in the fictional town of Capeside, MA., Dawson's Creek is the coming of age story of a close knit group of friends on the verge of adulthood.

5. Pose

   2018 · Drama · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Pose explores the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society: the underground ball culture, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene that came to define New York in the 1980s.

6. The Colbys

   1985 · Drama · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.2), also on ABC.

   A spin-off from the television phenomenon, Dynasty, The Colbys explores the lives and loves of a fabulously wealthy California family as they confront challenges from both outsiders and within their own lineage. To maintain power and control over their empire, The Colbys will stop at nothing… and you will love them for every juicy scheme and shocking betrayal they enact.

7. Freaks and Geeks

   1999 · Drama, Comedy · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

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

8. My Brilliant Friend

   2018 · Drama · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   My Brilliant Friend tells the story of Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman who discovers the most important friend in her life, Raffaella "Lila" Cerullo, seems to have disappeared without a trace. A writer, immersed in a house full of books, Greco turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their tempestuous friendship, starting from the point when Elena met Lila their first year of primary school in 1950.Set in a dangerous and fascinating Naples, their story goes on to cover more than 60 years of their lives as she tries to describe the mystery of Lila, Elena's brilliant friend and — in a way — her best friend, and worst enemy.

9. Friday Night Lights

   2006 · Drama, Sports · ended91% match

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

   In the town of Dillon, Texas, football is life, and no one knows that better than new head Coach Eric Taylor. Pressure mounts as the Dillon Panthers led by star quarterback Jason Street, enter pre-season surrounded by a swirl of press, recruiters and State Championship sized expectations. Backup quarterback Matt Saracen prepares to ride the bench in the shadow of Jason Street, as running back Tim Riggins struggles with a serious vice. As the season opener grows near, the town of Dillon is focused on what they believe to be most important, winning.

10. Looking for Alaska

    2019 · Drama, Romance · ended91% match

    Recommended for similar Drama profile.

    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.