Once and Again

Series Similar to Once and Again

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

1. Life Unexpected

   2010 · Drama, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   After spending all of her 15 years bouncing from one foster family to another in Portland, Oregon, Lux has decided it's time to take control of her life and become an emancipated minor. Her journey through the legal system leads Lux to her biological parents, local radio personality Cate Cassidy and thirty-something Nate "Baze" Bazile, who had a one-night stand back in high school. Although they haven't seen each other in 15 years, it doesn't take Cate and Baze long to fall into the same contentious relationship they had as teenagers. However, when a judge decides that Lux isn't ready for emancipation and unexpectedly grants temporary joint custody to Baze and Cate, they agree to try to get past the arguments and awkwardness and make a belated attempt to give Lux the family she deserves. The cast also Math, Baze's childhood friend and current roommate, and Ryan Thomas, Cate's fiancé and co-host on K100.

2. Party of Five

   1994 · Drama, Family · ended

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   In Party of Five, five children orphaned by their parent's fatal auto accident seek to make their way in San Francisco.

3. Felicity

   1998 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   A smart series about an idealistic student getting lessons in life and love at a Manhattan university after following her high-school crush east from California. Throughout most of the series' run, she was emotionally torn between somber Ben and sensitive Noel. A doctor's daughter, she also struggled to decide if she should follow in his footsteps or pursue her first love, art.

4. Army Wives

   2007 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Army Wives follows the struggles, dreams and friendships of a diverse group of women—and one man—living with their spouses and families on an active Army post.

5. Parenthood

   2010 · Drama, Comedy, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Family profile, highly rated (8).

   Parenthood is the critically acclaimed one-hour drama inspired by the box office hit of the same name. This reimagined and updated Universal Television/Imagine Entertainment production follows the trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family. Sarah Braverman is a single mother with two kids - the bright but rebellious Amber who is living on her own, and sullen and sensitive Drew who returns to Berkeley this year.

6. Downton Abbey

   2010 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, highly rated (8.7).

   The Downton Abbey estate stands a splendid example of confidence and mettle, its family enduring for generations and its staff a well-oiled machine of propriety. But change is afoot at Downton--change far surpassing the new electric lights and telephone. A crisis of inheritance threatens to displace the resident Crawley family, in spite of the best efforts of the noble and compassionate Earl, Robert Crawley; his American heiress wife, Cora his comically implacable, opinionated mother, Violet and his beautiful, eldest daughter, Mary, intent on charting her own course. Reluctantly, the family is forced to welcome its heir apparent, the self-made and proudly modern Matthew Crawley himself none too happy about the new arrangements. As Matthew's bristly relationship with Mary begins to crackle with electricity, hope for the future of Downton's dynasty takes shape. But when petty jealousies and ambitions grow among the family and the staff, scheming and secrets--both delicious and dangerous--threaten to derail the scramble to preserve Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey offers a spot-on portrait of a vanishing way of life.

7. Everwood

   2002 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile.

   As a world-class neurosurgeon, Dr. Andrew Brown is a hero. As a father, he's a zero. But that is changing. Tragedy makes him a single parent to his two children. And as the first act of his new life, Andy leaves Manhattan and moves his family to Everwood, the tiny Colorado town where big dreams can grow.

8. McLeod's Daughters

   2001 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile.

   The four female leads carry the heart of each story throughout the series, which Posie believes reflects much of the truth of what's happening in Australia."The timing was right for this type of show - a rural-based series which showcases a predominately female cast and tells stories that reflect the lives and desires of contemporary Australian women," said Posie.

9. The Heritage of Lancaster County

   2011 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile, highly rated (8.3).

   Journey into the fascinating world of the Amish with the three-part story of a young woman who must face her past in order to discover her future.

10. Offspring

    2010 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Family / Romance profile.

    Offspring follows Nina's quest to manage the intensity of her job delivering babies along with the challenges of raising her daughter Zoe in the midst of the fabulously unpredictable Proudman family - all while trying to establish a decent love life for herself.