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Shows that feel likeThe White Lotus (2021–)

Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic locale itself.

If you loved The White Lotus, the closest series we have are Scream Queens (2015), Russian Doll (2019) and Arrested Development (2003). All three share The White Lotus' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).

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If The White Lotus hit the spot, these will too

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Scream Queens
2015–2016 · 2 seasons · FOX
★ 7.1mystery · comedyPrime VideoHulu

A body count looming over a cast of pampered monsters you love to hate

The difference: Broad campy slasher gags — none of the slow-burn class needling

The super-charged comedy-horror series is a modern take on the classic whodunit with a killer cast. 

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Russian Doll
2019–2022 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.7comedy · dramaNetflix

Mordant comedy that keeps peeling back to something existential

The difference: One woman's inward spiral rather than an ensemble to dissect

Nadia keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday party. She's trapped in a surreal time loop -- and staring down the barrel of her own mortality.

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Arrested Development
2003–2019 · 5 seasons · FOX
★ 8.6comedyNetflix

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than The White Lotus does

The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

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Parks and Recreation
2009–2015 · 7 seasons · NBC
★ 8.6comedyPeacock

Common ground: satire

The difference: Trades the stillness of The White Lotus for an angle of its own

In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

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BEEF
2023– · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 8comedy · dramaNetflix

Class resentment curdling into something ugly behind polite smiles

The difference: One escalating feud instead of a resort of storylines — and far bleaker

A road rage incident between two strangers — a failing contractor and an unfulfilled entrepreneur — sparks a feud that brings out their darkest impulses.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969–1974 · 4 seasons · BBC One
★ 8.8comedyPrime VideoPeacock

Both are built on the same subject: satire

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

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Space Force
2020–2022 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.7comedy · dramaNetflix

Satire aimed at powerful people with no idea how absurd they are

The difference: Toothless by comparison — warm workplace laughs, no menace

A four-star general begrudgingly teams up with an eccentric scientist to get the U.S. military's newest agency — Space Force — ready for lift-off.

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Santa Clarita Diet
2017–2019 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.8comedy · mystery · crimeNetflix

Sunny, well-groomed surfaces hiding appetites that turn murderous

The difference: Gleeful splatter farce with zero interest in class warfare

They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.

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The Gentlemen
2024– · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.1comedy · drama · crimeNetflix

Old money behaving badly while the help proves far more capable

The difference: Guy Ritchie caper momentum — violence in place of vacation dread

When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to an enormous weed empire — and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.

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Agatha All Along
2024 · 1 season · Disney+
★ 7.2sci-fi & fantasy · mysteryDisney+

The same mix in both: twists, then dark humor

The difference: Leans harder into sci-fi & fantasy than The White Lotus does

Agatha Harkness gathers a coven of witches and sets off down, down, down The Witches' Road.

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Married... with Children
1987–1997 · 11 seasons · FOX
★ 8.1comedyPrime VideoHulu

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.

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It's Okay to Not Be Okay
2020 · 1 season · tvN
★ 8.5drama · comedyNetflix

Damaged people in a beautiful setting slowly showing their wounds

The difference: A sincere romance at heart — it wants to heal, not skewer

Desperate to escape from his emotional baggage and the heavy responsibility he’s had all his life, a psychiatric ward worker begins to heal with help from the unexpected – a woman who writes fairy tales but doesn’t believe in them.

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