Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

Series Similar to Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

If you enjoyed Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Wilfred

   2011 · Drama, Comedy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   Everyone else sees Wilfred as a dog, but Ryan sees a crude, surly, irrepressibly brave and honest man in a dog suit.

2. Ugly Americans

   2010 · Comedy, Fantasy, Horror · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

   Ugly Americans is an animated horror-comedy series that follows Mark Lilly, social worker at the Department of Integration, as he helps human and "other" citizens adapt to life in the Big Apple. There are vampires, land-whales, werewolves, a demon ex-girlfriend and a zombie roommate to contend with, but Mark's up to the challenge.

3. Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic

   2008 · Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, also on Sky Showcase.

   The Discworld - a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, ours - has got it's first tourist Twoflower. Rincewind, an inept ex-student wizard is given the task of guiding Twoflower through the city state of Ankh Morpork. Rincewind has two problems: firstly, as an expert coward, he doesn't feel he's the best person to guard a naive - and extremely rich, by local standards - tourist through one of the roughest cities in the multiverse. And secondly, the world is coming to an end. Never rains, eh?

4. Northpole

   2014 · Comedy, Family, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

   Santa (Robert Wagner) and Mrs. Claus's (Jill St. John) magical home, Northpole, has grown into a huge city powered by the magic of holiday happiness around the world. Yet the city is in trouble, as people everywhere are too busy to enjoy festive time together. One of these stressed-out souls is Chelsea (Tiffani Thiessen), a single mom who is trying to get noticed at her new reporting job while helping her ten-year-old son Kevin (Max Charles) adjust to a new school. When he starts talking about real elves and actual sleigh rides, she worries that his imagination has gotten out of control. With a little added help from Kevin's charming teacher Ryan (Josh Hopkins), a mysterious elf, Clementine (Bailee Madison), and a gospel singer named Josephine (Candice Glover), Chelsea may learn that even chasing down the facts can lead to holiday magic.Discover the next chapter in the Northpole story with "Northpole: Open for Christmas," starring Bailee Madison, Lori Loughlin, and Dermot Mulroney!

5. Being Erica

   2009 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

   Being Erica is a one-hour series that explores the life of Erica Strange, a woman who has been given a wonderful gift. Every episode, Erica goes back to relive a regret from her past, in order to come back and make a positive change in her present.

6. The Almighty Johnsons

   2011 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

   The Almighty Johnsons is a South Pacific Pictures comedy-drama series about four brothers, raised in heartland New Zealand, who also happen to be the living incarnations of Norse Gods. They even have their own super-god-powers. Sort of - it's just that their powers aren't actually all that powerful. Well, not yet - but that could all change soon.

7. Wonderfalls

   2004 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

   From the producer of Angel and Firefly comes Wonderfalls. Although a recent graduate of Brown University, Jaye Tyler decides to ignore her degree, live in a trailer and work at a tourist gift shop in Niagara Falls called Wonderfalls—-much to the despair of her well-to-do family. But Jaye's aimless life takes a startling turn after a lion figurine begins talking to her. Her family calls it an "episode," but Jaye knows better.Fearing for her sanity, Jaye nevertheless starts doing exactly what an increasing number of inanimate objects tell her to do and is amazed when her outrageous actions begin changing people's lives in unexpected ways.

8. Terry Pratchett's Hogfather

   2006 · Comedy, Family, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem, also on Sky Showcase.

   As Hogswatch, the Discworld equivalent of Christmas, approaches, an unlikely group of figures must band together to, not only save the Hogfather, but to save the world as well. Join Death, his assistant Albert, Death's grand-daughter Susan, the staff of Unseen University and a magical computer on a fascinating and magical ride through the Discworld.

9. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

   2016 · Comedy, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended

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

   Corpses—cops—trap—cult—assassins—Pararibulitis—vampires—lottery ticket—kitten—corgi—Everything is connected!Welcome to the world of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency; a trippy mystery that thrusts a reluctant sidekick into the bizarre world of an unconventional detective who believes in the interconnectedness of all things. When washed-up rocker Todd Brotzman stumbles upon the murder scene of a millionaire, all hell breaks loose. Eccentric detective, Dirk Gently, wholly believes they're destined to untangle the peculiar events surrounding the mystery together, whether Todd likes it or not! A collection of wild and dangerous characters' further infiltrate and complicate their world, each episode landing them a few random steps closer to uncovering the truth.The series is an adaptation of the wildly popular novels by Douglas Adams.

10. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

    2017 · Comedy, Action, Fantasy · ended

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

    Strong Woman Do Bong Soon tells the story about Do Bong Soon who is a woman born with Herculean strength, anything she touches with too much force crumbles in her hands. Ahn Min Hyuk is her love interest and he is an extraordinary second-generation chaebol with crazy tendencies. Meanwhile, Gook Doo is the guy who's harbored a one-sided crush on the heroine.