Sex Education

Series Similar to Sex Education

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

1. My Mad Fat Diary

   2013 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Drama looking at life from the perspective of funny, music-mad Rae.

2. Never Have I Ever

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on Netflix.

   After a traumatic year, an Indian-American teen just wants to spruce up her social status — but friends, family and feelings won't make it easy on her.

3. The O.C.

   2003 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   A slick hit about a troubled L.A. teen taken in by an idealistic lawyer and his family in affluent Orange County. The series filled the youth-soap hole left by the departed '90210,' but quickly proved itself far more gritty---and witty. In addition, early plots set up an appealing balance between the kids and grown-ups, who were portrayed as real people with real problems, instead of sounding boards for the unblemished Romeos and Juliets.

4. Heartstopper

   2022 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · returning

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on Netflix.

   Heartstopper tells the story of Nick and Charlie, two British teens at an all-boys grammar school. Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, who one day are made to sit together.

5. Love, Victor

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   Love, Victor follows Victor, a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems too much, he reaches out to Simon to help him navigate the ups and downs of high school.

6. Looking for Alaska

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Looking for Alaska thrusts us into the perspective of Miles "Pudge" Halter who is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . After. Nothing is ever the same.

7. Freaks and Geeks

   1999 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Freaks and Geeks, the Emmy® award-winning series about the trials and tribulations of high school outsiders in 1980 Michigan.

8. Skins

   2007 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   Irreverent comedy drama from the makers of Shameless, which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

9. Young Royals

   2021 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on Netflix.

   Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated.

10. Catastrophe

    2015 · Comedy, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write/star in a comedy that follows a man and a woman who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London.