The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Series Similar to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

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

1. Funny Woman

   2023 · Drama, Comedy · returning

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   Blackpool beauty queen Barbara Parker arrives in London determined to find her calling. In an unexpected turn of events, she becomes the next comedy superstar.

2. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

   2006 · Drama, Comedy · ended

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

   The executive producer of a late night sketch comedy show sparks a media frenzy when he has an on-air meltdown during a live broadcast. The newly minted network president has to scramble to make things right by hiring back two former prized employees to become the new executive producers of her network's flagship program.

3. Get Shorty

   2017 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

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

   Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 1990 New York Times bestselling novel, Get Shorty is the story of Miles Daly, who works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film.

4. Fresh Meat

   2011 · Drama, Comedy · ended

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

   A comedy drama series about the hilarious and painful truths of being a student. The latest creation from Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, Fresh Meat follows a group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far - university.

5. Rake

   2010 · Drama, Comedy · ended

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

   Cleaver Greene, a talented but self-destructive barrister who uses unconventional methods and usually defends those beyond redemption. With unyielding optimism he takes on only the most difficult court cases that no one else wants, from suicide bombing to sex offences and thefts to psychotic school girl drama. At the same time the Sydney barrister tries to put his personal life in order, where his addiction to short term highs and women land him into trouble.

6. Julia

   2022 · Drama, Comedy, Food · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama / Comedy profile.

   Julia is inspired by Julia Child's extraordinary life and her show The French Chef, which essentially invented food television. Through Julia and her singular can-do spirit, it explores an evolving time in American history – the emergence of a new social institution called public television, feminism and the women's movement, the nature of celebrity, and America's cultural growth. At its heart, the show is a portrait of a marriage with an evolving and complicated power dynamic.

7. Monarch of the Glen

   2000 · Drama, Comedy · ended

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

   Heart-warming drama based on Compton Mackenzie's novels, featuring a rural community of eccentric characters. Archie MacDonald becomes the laird of a huge, decaying family estate in the Cairngorms.

8. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

   2009 · Drama, Comedy, Crime · ended

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

   The first BBC drama to be filmed entirely on location in Botswana, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a charming story chronicling the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a Motswana woman who starts up the country's first female-owned detective agency. Based on the novels by Alexander McCall Smith.

9. Six Feet Under

   2001 · Drama, Comedy · ended

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

   When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as--and far less predictable than--the one inside on Six Feet Under.

10. Exit

    2019 · Drama, Comedy · ended

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

    They have money, a career and a family. They have everything. But they're bored. Dark and shocking series from Oslo's financial world.