Shows that feel likeParks and Recreation (2009–2015)
If you loved Parks and Recreation, the closest series we have are The Office (2001), Veep (2012) and It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020). All three share Parks and Recreation's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is What's Wrong with Secretary Kim (2018).
If Parks and Recreation hit the spot, these will too
The mockumentary blueprint — cringe captured on a wobbling camera
The difference: Bone-dry and bleak — nobody here is rooting for anybody
Common ground in both: politics and political satire
The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than Parks and Recreation does
Prickly people softened, slowly, by someone who refuses to give up
The difference: A heavy Korean drama about trauma — the comedy is a garnish
Dense, joke-stacked storytelling that rewards a second watch
The difference: Everyone is awful on purpose — sincerity never gets a scene
An office where devotion between coworkers becomes the whole story
The difference: A Korean romcom first — the workplace jokes are set dressing
Workplace hijinks powered by one gloriously dumb deception
The difference: Swoons over gags — it's a romance wearing a comedy's clothes
Government bureaucracy played for laughs by a stacked comic cast
The difference: Never finds its tone — a premise in search of a show
The same preoccupation in both: sitcom
The difference: Trades the romance of Parks and Recreation for an angle of its own
One thread runs through both: sitcom
The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft
Witty and playful in the same breath
Both keep coming back to the same thing: satire
The difference: 40 years apart, and the 1960s show
Both lean on dark humor more than on comedy
The difference: Leans harder into drama than Parks and Recreation does
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