People of Earth

Series Similar to People of Earth

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

1. The Big Bang Theory

   2007 · Comedy · ended96% match

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

   The Big Bang Theory is a comedy about brilliant physicists, Leonard and Sheldon, who are the kind of "beautiful minds" that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people, especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. Sheldon, Leonard's roommate, is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends, fellow Cal Tech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. However, Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities... including love.

2. 3rd Rock from the Sun

   1996 · Comedy, Family, Science-Fiction · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   Sent to Earth to investigate civilization, an alien high commander and his quirky crew -- military officer Sally, information expert Tommy and transmitter Harry -- assume human identities to blend in. Although they possess superior intelligence, their naïveté about the human condition turns everyday events into farcical fun.

3. Community

   2009 · Comedy · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8.3).

   Community is a smart, exuberant comedy that is consistently ranked as one of the most inventive and original half-hours on television. This ensemble comedy centers around a tight-knit group of friends who all met at what is possibly the world's worst educational institution - Greendale Community College.

4. The Tick

   2001 · Comedy, Action, Science-Fiction · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   In a world where criminals rule the streets, evil has finally met its match. There is a new protector of the weak and oppressed, the hilarious blue defender of goodness, known as The Tick! Together with his sidekick Arthur and their friends - the insatiable Batmanuel, and the alluring Captain Liberty - these heroes will prove they are more than just big, dumb guys in silly-looking suits. So let this be a warning to naughty people everywhere, for you have met The Tick!

5. The Last Man on Earth

   2015 · Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   The Last Man on Earth is a single-camera comedy chronicles the life and adventures of an average guy - and humanity's last hope - who discovers what life is like when no one is telling you what you can and cannot do.

6. The Neighbors

   2012 · Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   The Neighbors revolves around a family that has relocated to a gated townhouse community in New Jersey called "Hidden Hills". Upon their arrival, they discover that the entire community is populated by residents from another planet. Amongst their myriad quirks, these aliens identify themselves by the names of sports celebrities, patrol the community in golf carts, dress alike, receive nourishment through their eyes and mind by reading books rather than eating, and cry green goo from their ears. The aliens have assumed human form, but they can revert to their natural appearance by clapping their hands above their heads. They have been stuck on Earth for 10 years, still awaiting instructions to return home.

7. Mork & Mindy

   1978 · Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   Mork & Mindy is a spin-off from an episode of Happy Days seen in February 1978, in which an alien from the planet Ork lands on Earth and attempts to kidnap Richie. Mork is a misfit on his own planet because of his sense of humor, so the humorless Orkans send him off to study Earthlings, whose 'crazy' customs they had never been able to understand. Mork lands, in a giant eggshell, near Boulder, Colorado and is befriended by pretty Mindy McConnell, a clerk at a music store run by her father. Mork looks human, but his strange mixture of Orkan and Earthling customs leads most people to think of him as a nut.

8. My Favorite Martian

   1963 · Comedy, Family, Science-Fiction · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile.

   A Martian crash-lands on Earth and is taken in by young newspaper reporter Tim O'Hara. Disguised asTim's Uncle Martin, he attempts to repair his ship and keep himself out of trouble. But Tim's nosy landlady, Mrs. Brown, takes a liking to Uncle Martin, which complicates things, as does Uncle Martin's tendency to use his Martian powers at the wrong time.

9. Spaced

   1999 · Comedy · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Surreal cult sitcom starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, with more pop culture references than you can shake a light sabre at.

10. Doctor Who: Space and Time

    2011 · Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended95% match

    Recommended for similar Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

    The Doctor, Amy, and Rory get stuck in a time paradox within the T.A.R.D.I.S.