
Shows that feel likeSix Feet Under (2001–2005)
If you loved Six Feet Under, the closest series we have are This Is Us (2016), Barry (2018) and After Life (2019). All three share Six Feet Under's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Carrie (2026).
If Six Feet Under hit the spot, these will too

A family defined by a loss that echoes across decades
The difference: Engineered to make you cry — earnest where Fisher wit is dry

A man in a death-adjacent trade wondering who he really is
The difference: Violence keeps it knife-edged — bleaker with each season

Living alongside a death that refuses to stop mattering
The difference: Gervais's sentimental streak — it consoles more than it probes

Alan Ball still circling death, sex and what people hide
The difference: Campy vampire pulp — indulgence replaces introspection

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy
The difference: Leans harder into crime than Six Feet Under does

Common ground: family
The difference: Trades the dark humor of Six Feet Under for an angle of its own

Both are built on the same subject: death of father
The difference: Takes it somewhere less darkly funny than Six Feet Under does

Grief metabolized through jokes that suddenly stop being funny
The difference: Twelve razor-edged episodes — a shot, not a five-year soak

A widow's reinvention pulling the whole family into chaos
The difference: Caper momentum — the satire outruns the sorrow

Contemplative and melancholy in the same breath
The difference: Sits closer to crime than Six Feet Under does

A family business and its magnificently broken heirs
The difference: Joke-dense farce — feelings are strictly collateral

In the mood for more contemplative?
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