Sweet Magnolias

Series Similar to Sweet Magnolias

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

1. My Life With the Walter Boys

   2023 · Drama, Romance · returning

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on Netflix.

   In the coming of age show, following the loss of her family in a tragic accident, 16-year old Manhattanite Jackie Howard has to learn to adapt to a new life in rural Colorado with her guardian – and 12 very rowdy kids. 

2. Firefly Lane

   2021 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on Netflix.

   Kate and Tully meet as young girls and become inseparable best friends throughout thirty years of ups and downs, successes and failures, depression and disappointments. When an unthinkable betrayal breaks them apart, the two women go their separate ways and it's unclear whether they will ever be able to reconcile.

3. Virgin River

   2019 · Drama, Romance · returning

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on Netflix.

   Melinda Monroe answers an ad to work as a nurse practitioner in the remote California town of Virgin River thinking it will be the perfect place to start fresh and leave her painful memories behind. But she soon discovers that small-town living isn't quite as simple as she expected and that she must learn to heal herself before she can truly make Virgin River her home.

4. Chesapeake Shores

   2016 · Drama, Family, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance 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.

5. 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.

6. Mr. Plankton

   2024 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Lee Yoo Mi stars as a bride-to-be whose medical conditions threatens her marriage to a family obsessed with continuing their grand lineage.

7. 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.

8. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

   2023 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   Betrothed to the mysterious King of England against her will, Charlotte arrives in London only to realise she was not exactly what the royals were expecting. As she learns to navigate the palace, the 'ton, and her unpredictable husband, she grows into one of Europe's most unforgettable monarchs.

9. Love Alarm

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended

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

   In a world where an app alerts people if someone in the vicinity likes them, Kim Jo Jo experiences young love while coping with personal adversities.

10. Sullivan's Crossing

    2023 · Drama, Romance · returning

    Recommended for similar Romance profile.

    After Neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan's personal and professional life are thrown into turmoil she returns home to Sullivan's Crossing. While there, Maggie is forced to navigate her complicated present while confronting the painful past she has chosen to ignore for years.