The Boy Next Door

Series Similar to The Boy Next Door

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

1. 20th Century Boy and Girl

   2017 · Comedy, Romance · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   The heartwarming romantic comedy is about the friendship and love lives of three single virgins born in 1983. Their romantic lives begin when the boy they liked in their youth shows up one day. They live in Oksu-dong in rundown apartments, and the warm human drama will be about neighborly affection, and the meaning of home, family, and friendship.

2. EXO Next Door

   2015 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on Naver TV.

   Ji Yun Hee is a 20-something year old girl, who hasn't yet dated because she blushes terribly and is completely paralysed when she's near a good looking boy. One day, four members of EXO are trying to keep a low profile, and move into the house of one of the member's grandfather. However, it turns out that EXO members' house is right in front of Yun Hee's house.

3. Answer Me 1997

   2012 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile.

   This drama will focus on the extreme fan culture that emerged in the 1990s when idol groups took center stage and K-pop was blossoming.It tells the story of 6 former high school friends from a school in Busan who meet again in 2012 and brings back memories to 1997 when they were still high school students. Moving back and forth between the '90s and today, the story centers on the life of Sung Shi Won, who idolizes boyband H.O.T., and her 5 high school friends.

4. Батя. Полная версия

   2021 · Drama, Comedy · ended96% match

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

5. Staged

   2020 · Drama, Comedy · ended96% match

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

   David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of Six Characters in Search of an Author in the West End.The pandemic has put paid to that, but their director (Simon Evans - also playing himself) is determined not to let the opportunity pass him by. He knows how big a chance this is for him and turns his attention to cajoling his stars into rehearsing over the internet.All they need to do is read the first scene, but throughout the series they come up against a multitude of oppositional forces: distraction, boredom, home-schooling and their own egos.

6. Oh! Boarding House

   2022 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Sul Won is an out-of-work young man whose mother runs a low-cost boarding house for students and men who don't have enough money to buy or rent an apartment on their own. But when his mother suddenly has to up sticks to return to her provincial hometown, she leaves Sul Won in charge of the boarding house – becoming the de facto live-in landlord.The residents of the boarding house are a mixed bunch. They include a high school senior, who also happens to be Sul Won's cousin. There is also Sul Won's former college friend, as well as Kim Chun Seo, a high school teacher. Rounding out the number is a third-year Art student who dreams of becoming a cartoon author. As the young men spend more time together, a close bond of friendship begins to form in the house. But when Sul Won discovers that some of the tenants have begun to develop a crush on him, Cupid could well come calling!

7. Derek

   2012 · Drama, Comedy · ended96% 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.

8. Rules of Engagement

   2007 · Comedy, Romance · ended96% match

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

   A comedy that follows two couples and a single guy as they navigate the jungles of dating, engagement and marriage.

9. The New Employee

   2022 · Comedy, Romance · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   After spending his 20s getting over a crush, Seunghyun vowed to never give his heart to someone in the same field again. Enter Jongchan, Seung Hyun's tough new boss with a surprising soft side. Will Seung Hyun's first job and first relationship be a success?

10. Undateable

    2014 · Comedy, Romance · ended95% match

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    Undateable is a comedy series about a group of friends who are this close to finding a relationship - they just need a little help.Whether it's due to a lack of style, the wrong job or even just a bad haircut, everyone goes through a time in their lives when they're undateable. Most of us eventually grow out of it, but some people need a little more help than others. Enter Danny Burton Confident, attractive and impervious to outside opinions, 29-year-old Danny - who may be in a state of arrested development himself - decides to help out his new roommate, Justin Kearney the owner of an unsuccessful bar and a chronic overthinker, and Justin's group of oddball friends - Shelly, Burski and Brett Danny introduces the gang to his recently divorced older sister, Leslie who immediately bonds with this group of guys, as she feels a little stuck in her own life as well. The gang spends most of their time at Justin's bar, helping solve each other's respective problems over beers, and while they love to give each other a hard time, they always have each other's back.