Nurse Jackie

Series Similar to Nurse Jackie

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

1. Weeds

   2005 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Weeds is based around an american widow (Nancy Botwin) with 2 children who begins selling cannabis for financial gain after the death of her husband. Her family become involved in more and more illegal activities as the show progresses.

2. House of Lies

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, and bedrooms of the power elite, corruption is business as usual and everyone's out for themselves first. Nothing is sacred in this scathing, irreverent satire of corporate America today.

3. Californication

   2007 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Californication is a series based around the writer Hank Moody. He moves to California and suffers a writers block as well as many other family and personal issues. His drinking and generally unhealthy lifestyle interrupts his relationships with his long term lover Karen and his daughter Becca as he struggles with his manager Charlie Runkle.

4. Ballers

   2015 · Drama, Comedy, Sports · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   Looking at the lives of former and current football players, Ballers follows former superstar Spencer Strasmore as he gets his life on track in retirement while mentoring other current and former players through the daily grind of the business of football.

5. You're the Worst

   2014 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   You're the Worst is a comedic love story about what happens when two toxic, self-destructive people fall in love despite themselves and attempt the impossible - a relationship...

6. United States of Tara

   2009 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   She's got a husband, two kids and multiple personalities. Emmy® and Golden Globe® winner Toni Collette never knows what or who will happen in this smart, unique and totally unpredictable Showtime Original Comedy Series from executive producer Steven Spielberg. Tara's Alters include "T" the wild-child teenager, "Buck" the rough and tumble biker dude, and "Alice" the type-A homemaker. But with a family that loves her just the way she is. Tara never gives up hope that someday she can just be herself.

7. Eureka: Hide and Seek

   2006 · Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended97% match

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

   A short web series which details the investigation of a series of creature attacks in the fictitious town of Eureka, Oregon.

8. Derek

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

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

   An award-winning bittersweet comedy-drama about a group of outsiders living on society's margins, Derek centers around Derek Noakes (a tender, innocent man whose love for his job at a retirement home shines through. Derek cares deeply for the home's residents, because they are kind and funny and tell him stories of what life used to be like. Working alongside Derek is Dougie, his landlord, who is one of life's unlucky individuals; Kev, a lovable train wreck; and Hannah, a care worker in the home and Derek's best friend. She is smart, witty and hardworking, but unlucky in love, and, like Derek, always puts other people first.

9. The Big C

   2010 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   The Big C follows Minneapolis Westhill High School teacher Cathy Jamison – a reserved, suburban wife and mother – who is diagnosed with melanoma. The realization of this forces her to really begin to live for the first time in her adult life. At first she chooses to keep her diagnosis from her family, behaving in ways they find puzzling and increasingly bizarre. She finds new freedom to express herself. As the show progresses, Cathy allows her family and some new friends to support her as she copes with her terminal prognosis, and finds both humor and pathos in the many idiosyncratic relationships in her life.

10. Happyish

    2015 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

    Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

    Happyish is a scathing examination of our pursuit of happiness, a pursuit that might just be the very thing causing our unhappiness in the first place. The new half-hour pilot stars Steve Coogan as Thom Payne, a 44 year-old man whose world is thrown into disarray when his 25 year-old "wunderkind" boss arrives, saying things like "digital," "social" and "viral." Is he in need of a "rebranding," as his mentor insists, or does he just have a "low joy ceiling," as his corporate headhunter suggests? Maybe pursuing happiness is a fool's errand? Maybe, after 44 years on this ludicrous planet, settling for happyish is the best one can expect.