Recovery Road

Series Similar to Recovery Road

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

1. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

   2023 · Drama, Family · ended93% match

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

   The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart tells the compelling story of a young girl, Alice Hart, whose violent childhood casts a dark shadow over her adult life. After a family tragedy in which she loses both her abusive father and beloved mother in a mysterious fire, 9-year-old Alice is taken to live with her grandmother June on a flower farm, where she learns that there are secrets within secrets about her and her family's past. Set against Australia's breathtaking, natural landscape, and with native wildflowers and plants providing a way to express the inexpressible, this enthralling family drama spans decades, as Alice grows from a child into a woman. Her journey is epic and visceral, building to an emotional climax as Alice finds herself fighting for her life against a man she loves.

2. The Fosters

   2013 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Family profile, also on Freeform.

   The Fosters is a critically-acclaimed series that centers on biracial lesbian couple Stef and Lena Foster, who are raising a multi-ethnic family mix of foster and biological kids. The second season will continue to explore the growing Fosters clan, with all the triumphs and travails, twists and turns, that fans of the series have come to expect. Callie and Jude will try to adjust to their new roles in the family, and everyone will deal with the fallout from their previous actions. Past mistakes will come home to roost, consequences will be handed out, and victories will be hard fought, and ultimately well-won. Their deep bonds will grow, enabling America's most modern family to face the future head on, with love in their hearts.

3. Being Mary Jane

   2013 · Drama, Family · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   Mary Jane Paul is a one-woman show: a successful TV news anchor, entirely self-sufficient – an all-around powerhouse who remains devoted to a family that doesn't share her motivation. As Mary Jane juggles her life, her work and her commitment to her family, we find out how far she's willing to go to find the puzzle pieces that she, and society, insist are missing from her life as a single Black female.

4. Switched at Birth

   2011 · Drama, Family · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Family profile, also on Freeform.

   Switched at Birth tells the story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a poor neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.

5. Chesapeake Shores

   2016 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Family profile.

   The multi-generational family drama of Chesapeake Shores follows Abby O'Brien, a high-powered career woman, divorcee and mother to twin daughters, who makes a trip from New York City to her hometown of Chesapeake Shores. Her visit home brings Abby face to face with her past, including her high school sweetheart Trace, her uncompromising father Mick and her esteemed grandmother Nell. Abby realizes the toll her career has taken on her ability to be a hands-on mother to her daughters, and considers a permanent move to Chesapeake Shores.Based on the novels of the same name by New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods.

6. Move to Heaven

   2021 · Drama, Family · ended90% match

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

   Finding life in all that's left behind, a trauma cleaner with Asperger's and his ex-con uncle deliver the untold stories of the departed to loved ones.

7. Little Women

   2022 · Drama, Family · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Family profile, hidden gem.

   Little Women is a work that depicts the story of three sisters who have good friendship.

8. This Life

   2015 · Drama, Family, Medical · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Family profile, hidden gem.

   What would you do if you were diagnosed with terminal cancer? In This Life, one woman finds out.Set in contemporary Montreal, This Life is a funny, honest, heartfelt series about a regular family whose world turns upside down overnight. Like its French-language counterpart, Nouvelle adresse, this is a family saga focusing on Natalie Lawson, a lifestyle columnist and single mother in her early forties whose terminal cancer diagnosis sends her on a quest to help her three teenage children get ready for the future, while trying her best to live in the now.Natalie's diagnosis is a life-changer for everyone she loves. Faced with the uncertainty of life, each Lawson does their best to embrace the absurdity of the journey, while confronting the drama that comes with all of their choices, big and small. To get through all this Natalie leans on her two brothers, her sister and her parents, a close-knit, charmingly imperfect clan who each have their own unpredictable personal and professional hills to climb. Through a mix of drama and humour, This Life explores the many ups and downs of life in a touching, relatable and deeply human story that is positioned to resonate with Canadians across the country.

9. Sunny Again Tomorrow

   2018 · Drama, Family · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Family profile, hidden gem.

   Kang Ha Nee graduated from high school and works part-time jobs. She gets a job at a TV home shopping channel, but Ha Nee gets fired from that job. Ha Nee decides to start her own fashion company. She becomes involved with Lee Han Kyul. He works as a merchandiser for the TV home shopping channel.

10. Years and Years

    2019 · Drama, Family, Science-Fiction · ended88% match

    Recommended for similar Family profile, highly rated (8.2).

    Drama series following a tumultuous 15 years in Britain through the eyes of one family.