The Good Bad Mother

Series Similar to The Good Bad Mother

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

1. Vincenzo

   2021 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

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

   During a visit to his motherland, a Korean-Italian mafia lawyer gives an unrivaled conglomerate a taste of its own medicine with a side of justice.

2. Twinkling Watermelon

   2023 · Fantasy, Music, Romance · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Twinkling Watermelon follows a story about CODA, (a deaf child born under deaf parents) a boy born of natural talent for music, and Eun Gyul, crash-landing into an unfamiliar space through a suspicious musical instrument store. Eun Gyul forms the band Watermelon Sugar with the youth he met there and communicates with them through music.

3. Eulachacha Waikiki

   2018 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem, also on jTBC.

   This drama is about 3 men who run a guest house, "Waikiki" in Itaewon, South Korea. Their guest house is facing bankruptcy and then a mysterious baby and single mother appear at Waikiki.Kang Dong Goo dreams of becoming a movie director, but he is cynical due to bad luck. Meanwhile, Chun Joon Ki wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become an actor, but he is now just a minor actor. Bong Doo Sik came to Seoul to become a scenario writer, but things have not been easy for him.

4. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

   2017 · Comedy, Action, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Comedy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on jTBC.

   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.

5. Sky Castle

   2018 · Drama, Comedy, Family · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, highly rated (8.5), hidden gem, also on jTBC.

   Sky Castle is set in a four-story apartment building in Seoul's suburbs, which is inhabited by some professionals such as judges, prosecutors, doctors, professors and their wives.It will depict their efforts to have their children admitted into good universities. Some grew up in families with many generations of doctors or lawyers. Thus, their ambitions will be shown with comedy and realism.

6. Alchemy of Souls

   2022 · Action, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8.1).

   Set in a fictional country called Daeho that does not exist in history or on maps, it is about the love and growth of young mages as they overcome their twisted fates due to a magic spell known as the "alchemy of souls", which allows souls to switch bodies. It follows the story of an elite assassin named Naksu, whose soul is accidentally trapped inside the weak body of Moo Duk—Jang Wook's servant from a powerful and noble family in the country. The young master of the Jang Family, Jang Wook, holds a dark secret about his scandalous birth. He wants the formidable assassin to help change his destiny. 

7. Prison Playbook

   2017 · Drama, Comedy · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile, hidden gem.

   Prison Playbook is a black comedy in which we follow a baseball player and a variety of people experience prison life. The drama will share the lives and stories behind these prisoners as well as events that take place there.

8. Kill Me, Heal Me

   2015 · Comedy, Romance, Medical · ended

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

   A romantic comedy between a third-generation billionaire with Dissociative Identity Disorder and a first-year Psychiatrist resident who treats him secretly.After a traumatic experience in his childhood, Cha Do Hyun suffers memory lapses and his personality then fractured into seven different identities. He tries to regain control over his life with the help of Oh Ri Jin, a first-year psychiatric resident who treats him secretly. But Ri Jin's twin brother, Oh Ri Ohn, is a famous mystery novelist who investigates about Do Hyun and his family.

9. Law School

   2021 · Thriller, Mystery, Legal · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on jTBC.

   Law School is about the students and professors of South Korea's top law school who get caught up in an unusual case.It follows the case of a murder of a professor at a prestigious law school. Professors and students become suspects in the murder, and the drama will feature its characters making realizations about the law and justice as they search for the killer.

10. Psychopath Diary

    2019 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended

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

    Psychopath Diary is about a man named Yook Dong Shik, who coincidentally witnesses a murder and loses his memory after an accident that occurs while fleeing the scene. He wakes up with no sense of identity and mistakes himself as the killer when he finds the murderer's diary in his hands.