Sense and Sensibility

Series Similar to Sense and Sensibility

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

1. Pride and Prejudice

   1995 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   Re-live the romance and drama of Andrew Davies' lavish adaptation, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

2. Emma

   2009 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Nothing delights Emma more than meddling in the love lives of others. But when she takes protege Harriet Smith under her wing, her plans can only end in disaster...

3. Sanditon

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Written only months before Jane Austen's death in 1817, Sanditon tells the story of the impulsive, spirited and unconventional Charlotte Heywood, played by Williams, and her spiky relationship with the charming Sidney Parker, played by James. When a chance accident transports her from her rural hometown of Willingden to a would-be coastal resort, it exposes Charlotte to the intrigues and dalliances of a seaside town on the make. The drama takes viewers from the West Indies to the rotting alleys of London and exposes the hidden agendas of each character and sees Charlotte discover herself and ultimately find love.

4. The Paradise

   2012 · Drama, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on BBC One.

   An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s.

5. North & South

   2004 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   Set against the backdrop of Victorian England's industrial north, it follows the fortunes of Margaret Hale, one of 19th century literature's most original heroines.

6. Single Father

   2010 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   When Dave's wife dies unexpectedly, he is forced to try to raise his four children on his own. He begins to question his own judgment when he begins to fall in love with his wife's best friend, Sarah.

7. Poldark

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.3), also on BBC One.

   Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.

8. Indian Summers

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, the drama tells the rich and explosive story of the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India, from both sides of the experience. But at the heart of the story lie the implications and ramifications of the tangled web of passions, rivalries and clashes that define the lives of those brought together in this summer which will change everything.

9. Twenty-Five Twenty-One

   2022 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Twenty-Five Twenty-One depicts a story from 1998 to 2021. In 1998, twenty-two and eighteen meet for the first time in an uneasy year as the whole world shook and called each others' name and when they became twenty-three and nineteen, they hurt each other. In the year of twenty-four and twenty, they relied on each other, and they loved only when they were twenty-five and twenty-one.

10. Cranford

    2007 · Drama · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

    A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.