The Chair

Series Similar to The Chair

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

1. Scrubs

   2026 · Drama, Comedy, Medical · returning97% match

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

   Old friends JD and Turk scrub in together for the first time in a long time, learning that medicine has changed; interns have changed; but their bromance has stood the test of time.

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. Shrinking

   2023 · Comedy · returning97% match

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile.

   Shrinking follows a grieving therapist who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people's lives... including his own.

4. Atypical

   2017 · Drama, Comedy, Family · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Netflix.

   Atypical is a coming of age story that follows Sam, an 18-year-old on the autistic spectrum as he searches for love and independence. While Sam is on his funny yet emotional journey of self-discovery, the rest of his family must grapple with change in their own lives as they all struggle with the central theme: what does it really mean to be normal?

5. After Life

   2019 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, also on Netflix.

   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.

6. Heartstopper

   2022 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · returning97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy 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.

7. Staged

   2020 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% 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.

8. Never Have I Ever

   2020 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy 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.

9. Strappare Lungo i Bordi

   2021 · Drama, Comedy · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8.1), also on Netflix.

   Strappare Lungo i Bordi is the story of a complicated journey that Zerocalcare takes with his friends Sarah and Secco. Along the way, he'll face episodes of his life that are only apparently disconnected from each other, but which in the end will reveal a profound meaning.

10. You're the Worst

    2014 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended97% match

    Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

    You're the Worst is a comedic love story about what happens when two toxic, self-destructive people fall in love despite themselves and attempt the impossible - a relationship...