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Series Similar to The Playlist

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

1. Glass Heart

   2025 · Drama, Music · ended

   Recommended for similar Music profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on Netflix.

   An aspiring drummer suddenly loses her spot in the band. But when a brilliant musician recruits her for his new band, her life takes a passionate turn.

2. The Eddy

   2020 · Drama, Music · ended

   Recommended for similar Music profile, hidden gem, also on Netflix.

   The story is about a Paris jazz club and focuses on the owner, the band, and the city. It's set in present day and deals heavily with the relationship between the American and French-Arab co-owners of the club.

3. The Get Down

   2016 · Drama, Music · ended

   Recommended for similar Music profile, also on Netflix.

   1970s New York City - broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped - dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them - except each other, armed only with verbal games, improvised dance steps, some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements, to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the just-built World Trade Center, The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to hip-hop, punk and disco - told through the lives and music of the South Bronx kids who changed the city, and the world... forever.

4. This Town

   2024 · Drama, Music · ended

   Recommended for similar Music profile, hidden gem.

   This Town tells the story of an extended family and four young people who are drawn into the world of ska and two-tone music, which exploded from the grass roots of Coventry and Birmingham in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, uniting black, white and Asian youths.

5. The Sound of Magic

   2022 · Drama, Fantasy, Music · ended

   Recommended for similar Music profile, also on Netflix.

   A magician living in an abandoned theme park makes troubles disappear, and hope reappear, for a disenchanted teen enduring harsh realities.

6. Page Turner

   2016 · Drama, Music · ended

   Recommended for similar Music profile, hidden gem.

   Yoo Yoon Seul is a student of the school of arts, a talented pianist, who won various contests, but is always under the control of her mother, who herself wanted to become a pianist. One day Yoo Seul loses everything in an accident, and now she can no longer play the piano. With the help of her friend Cha Shik and rival Jin-Mok, Yoo Seul begins to live a new life.

7. Step Up

   2018 · Drama, Music, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Music profile, hidden gem.

   Welcome to Atlanta, home of High Water - the city's most competitive performing arts school. When twins Tal and Janelle relocate from Ohio, they find themselves thrust into a world where every move is a test. As they attempt to navigate their new world - on and off the dance floor - they'll discover just how deep they're willing to dig to realize their dreams and seize their moment.

8. Monstar

   2013 · Drama, Music, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Music profile, hidden gem.

   Monstar (Hangul: 몬스타) is a 2013 South Korean television series starring Yong Jun Hyung, Ha Yeon Soo, and Kang Ha Neul. The drama is about how a group of teenagers are healed through the power of music.Seol Chan, a member of Korea's most popular K-pop boy band Men in Black, is provoked into pushing one of his crazy fans, and when that goes viral, his reputation plummets. As damage control, his agency tells him to quietly attend school for a while. Meanwhile, Se Yi, a new transfer student from New Zealand, draws attention in the school for both her talent and oddness. Misunderstandings occur between Seol Chan, Se Yi, and their other classmates. But in the midst of all the chaos, these students find a common interest which connects them to each other: music. Every character has his or her own untold stories, which have had significant impact in their lives. But as they gather together to sing and play the music they love, they learn to soothe the pain inside them, and to open each of their souls.

9. Wedding Band

   2012 · Drama, Music · ended

   Recommended for similar Music profile, hidden gem.

   The series follows four friends - three single, one married, all with day jobs - who escape their daily stress and responsibilities by playing "weekend rock gods" in Seattle's premier wedding and events band, Mother of the Bride.

10. Treme

    2010 · Drama, Music · ended

    Recommended for similar Music profile.

    New Orleans, 38 months after Hurricane Katrina: Barack Obama has just been elected to the White House, giving this battered, majority-black city reason for optimism. Yet for every entrenched resident who hopes to improve his or her lot - or just return to a sense of pre-Katrina normalcy - others are intent on capitalizing on the city's vulnerability and suffocating its culture.