The Big C

Series Similar to The Big C

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

1. Better Off Ted

   2009 · Comedy · ended97% match

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

   Better Off Ted is a satirical office comedy about successful good guy, Ted Crisp, who runs research and development at Veridian Dynamics, a company with a morally questionable approach to its employees. Whether it's standing by a memo with a typo that encourages employees to now (as opposed to not) use offensive language with each other, to championing interoffice dating based on DNA matching to save money on health care, Veridian is a company that puts its bottom line first and employees last. Ted's a single dad to a seven year old girl, and he loves his job, but he's starting to take a closer look at the company's extremely dubious practices.

2. Fleabag

   2016 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

   Meet Fleabag. She's not talking to all of us - she's talking to you. So why don't you pop your top off and come right in?

3. Weeds

   2005 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Weeds is based around an american widow (Nancy Botwin) with 2 children who begins selling cannabis for financial gain after the death of her husband. Her family become involved in more and more illegal activities as the show progresses.

4. After Life

   2019 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   After Life centers on Tony, who had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on. He thinks it's like a Super Power — not caring about himself or anyone else — but it turns out to be tricky when everyone is trying to save the nice guy they used to know.

5. House of Lies

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, and bedrooms of the power elite, corruption is business as usual and everyone's out for themselves first. Nothing is sacred in this scathing, irreverent satire of corporate America today.

6. Californication

   2007 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Californication is a series based around the writer Hank Moody. He moves to California and suffers a writers block as well as many other family and personal issues. His drinking and generally unhealthy lifestyle interrupts his relationships with his long term lover Karen and his daughter Becca as he struggles with his manager Charlie Runkle.

7. Nurse Jackie

   2009 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to take a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a handful of secret strategies to relieve the pain, and stay one step ahead of total disaster.

8. United States of Tara

   2009 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Paramount+ with Showtime.

   She's got a husband, two kids and multiple personalities. Emmy® and Golden Globe® winner Toni Collette never knows what or who will happen in this smart, unique and totally unpredictable Showtime Original Comedy Series from executive producer Steven Spielberg. Tara's Alters include "T" the wild-child teenager, "Buck" the rough and tumble biker dude, and "Alice" the type-A homemaker. But with a family that loves her just the way she is. Tara never gives up hope that someday she can just be herself.

9. Eureka: Hide and Seek

   2006 · Drama, Comedy, Science-Fiction · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

   A short web series which details the investigation of a series of creature attacks in the fictitious town of Eureka, Oregon.

10. Derek

    2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

    Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8).

    An award-winning bittersweet comedy-drama about a group of outsiders living on society's margins, Derek centers around Derek Noakes (a tender, innocent man whose love for his job at a retirement home shines through. Derek cares deeply for the home's residents, because they are kind and funny and tell him stories of what life used to be like. Working alongside Derek is Dougie, his landlord, who is one of life's unlucky individuals; Kev, a lovable train wreck; and Hannah, a care worker in the home and Derek's best friend. She is smart, witty and hardworking, but unlucky in love, and, like Derek, always puts other people first.