Prison Playbook

Series Similar to Prison Playbook

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

1. Because This Is My First Life

   2017 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on tvN.

   A house-poor man and homeless woman become housemates in a drama that examines the institution of marriage and the problems that young people face today.Nam Se Hee is a single man in his early 30's. He has chosen to not marry. He owns his home, but he owes a lot on his mortgage. Meanwhile, Yoon Ji Ho is a single woman in her early 30's. She does not own a home and envies those that do. She has given up on dating due to her financial struggles. Yoon Ji Ho begins to live at Nam Se Hee's house. They become housemates.

2. Sky Castle

   2018 · Drama, Comedy, Family · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8.5), hidden gem.

   Sky Castle is set in a four-story apartment building in Seoul's suburbs, which is inhabited by some professionals such as judges, prosecutors, doctors, professors and their wives.It will depict their efforts to have their children admitted into good universities. Some grew up in families with many generations of doctors or lawyers. Thus, their ambitions will be shown with comedy and realism.

3. Vincenzo

   2021 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on tvN.

   During a visit to his motherland, a Korean-Italian mafia lawyer gives an unrivaled conglomerate a taste of its own medicine with a side of justice.

4. Eulachacha Waikiki

   2018 · Drama, Comedy · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   This drama is about 3 men who run a guest house, "Waikiki" in Itaewon, South Korea. Their guest house is facing bankruptcy and then a mysterious baby and single mother appear at Waikiki.Kang Dong Goo dreams of becoming a movie director, but he is cynical due to bad luck. Meanwhile, Chun Joon Ki wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become an actor, but he is now just a minor actor. Bong Doo Sik came to Seoul to become a scenario writer, but things have not been easy for him.

5. Answer Me 1988

   2015 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended92% match

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

   A drama about a small cluster of neighboring families set in 1988.

6. Another Miss Oh

   2016 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on tvN.

   Two women working in the same industry with the exact same name keep getting their lives entangled both professionally and personally.

7. Crash Landing on You

   2019 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended92% match

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

   Crash Landing on You follows a wealthy heiress named Yoon Se Ri, who, while paragliding, is forced to land in North Korea due to high winds. A North Korean officer named Ri Jung Hyuk hides and protects her, and in doing so, comes to love her

8. True Beauty

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended91% match

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

   True Beauty is a romantic comedy that tells the story of Im Joo Kyung, who is insecure about her appearance and uses makeup to make herself appear beautiful to the world.

9. The Good Bad Mother

   2023 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended91% match

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

   A single mom who has been widowed at a young age, Yeong-soon runs a pig farm, and raises her son Kang-ho by herself. She becomes a "bad mother" - hard on her son because she doesn't want him to grow up penniless nor powerless. Thanks to her discipline, Kang-ho grows up to be a prominent prosecutor, but loses his memory due to an unfortunate accident and becomes a 7-year-old again. Young-soon decides to become a "bad mother" again for Kang-ho in this comforting and touching comedy series that tracks the journey of recovery between mother and son.

10. Мир! Дружба! Жвачка!

    2020 · Drama, Comedy · ended91% match

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

    1993. 14-year—old Sanka Ryabinin lives an ordinary teenage life - looking for adventures, trying to protect himself from district hooligans, does not want to go to the music room, does not know how to communicate with girls and from whom to take an example from adults. On the one hand, there is an honest but poor family with a saleswoman mom and an associate professor dad, on the other — the dangerous world of the Afghan veteran Uncle Alik. And then there's the girl Zhenya, whose acquaintance triggers a series of irreversible events that will forever change the lives of Sanka, his family and friends Vovka and Ilyusha. Escaping from the hooligans, Sanka steals the car of a local crime boss, and in an instant everything changes. And then there are fights with adult Caucasians, peers, between parents in the kitchen, with their boys, and so on. Will he be able to cope with all the problems, being in the very heart of events? Will he be able to save his family and finally understand who he is? Only one thing is clear – life will not be the same as before. Neither for Sanka himself, nor for the whole of Russia.