Shows that feel likeThe End of the F***ing World (2017–2019)
If you loved The End of the F***ing World, the closest series we have are The Gentlemen (2024), Orange Is the New Black (2013) and Arrested Development (2003). All three share The End of the F***ing World'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 Santa Clarita Diet (2017).
If The End of the F***ing World hit the spot, these will too
Deadpan violence played for laughs, with style doing half the work
The difference: Slick gangster comedy about grown men and money, not damaged kids
Bleak circumstances mined for comedy without losing the hurt underneath
The difference: A sprawling seven-season prison ensemble — no road, no two-hander
Deadpan comedy about people who should not be left unsupervised
The difference: Live action, adult, and entirely without violence
Suburban respectability curdling into crime, told with a straight face
The difference: A mother's long-running scheme, satirical rather than tender
Ordinary people getting very calmly in over their heads with a body
The difference: A married couple, and gore played for laughs
The same preoccupation in both: dark comedy
The difference: Lighter on wit
Teenage alienation observed exactly, funny and painful at once
The difference: Warm suburban high school in one season, with no violence in it
A narrator who reads the world differently and says so flatly
The difference: Gentle family comedy about growing up, with no crime in it at all
A teenager whose grief comes out as terrible decisions
The difference: American, warm and much funnier
Someone convinced they are a killer, quietly hoping to be something else
The difference: An adult Hollywood story, funnier on the surface and darker beneath
Dark humour about mortality, delivered in short, sharp episodes
The difference: A surreal time-loop puzzle for adults, prickly rather than tender
British comedy that sits in the discomfort rather than relieving it
The difference: A workplace, and nothing at stake but dignity
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