TV Shows Like BEEF
If you like BEEF, here are 9 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
Netflix · Comedy · BEEF is likely renewed
BEEF is a show about two people who probably would have forgotten each other by the next morning, but instead let one bad moment metastasize into something that devours their lives. The road rage hook is almost beside the point. What the show is really about is how much pressure people carry quietly, and how close to the surface real ugliness sits. Danny and Amy are not villains. They are just exhausted, ashamed, and furious, which makes watching them spiral feel uncomfortably familiar. That specificity, rooted in the Asian American experience and the particular loneliness of striving in Los Angeles, is what sets it apart from other dark comedies. It earns its chaos.
The best shows like BEEF
1. Miracle Workers
BEEF uses a single inciting incident to expose everything buried underneath two people's lives, and Miracle Workers has a similar interest in characters trapped by circumstance across very different settings and time periods. The anthology format means each season is its own world, but the through line is always outcasts trying to navigate systems or situations that were not built for them. It is funnier and lighter than BEEF but shares the same comfort with characters who are a little lost.
Stream on TBS
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2. Why Women Kill
Like BEEF, Why Women Kill is interested in what builds up inside a marriage before it finally breaks. Set across three different decades, it traces how infidelity and resentment can push women toward extreme choices, and it handles the tonal shift between dark comedy and genuine menace with real confidence. Fans of BEEF who liked watching characters act badly while the show remained sympathetic toward them will feel at home here.
Stream on Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Paramount+ Amazon Channel
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3. Dead to Me
Also comedy · shares the dark comedy theme · also on Netflix
Stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
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4. Based on a True Story
This one is probably the closest tonal match on the list. Set in Los Angeles, it follows ordinary people whose lives collide in ways that quickly become dangerous and darkly funny, with America's true crime obsession as the backdrop. If you liked BEEF's ability to make you laugh at something you probably should not be laughing at, Based on a True Story hits that same note, and it does so with a similar focus on a couple whose relationship is being tested from the outside in.
Stream on Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus
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5. Easy
Easy is the quieter pick on this list, an anthology that follows different people and couples through the messy, unresolved moments of modern relationships. Where BEEF turns up the heat, Easy keeps things low and observational, but both shows are more interested in what people feel than in what they do. Fans of BEEF who connected with the loneliness underneath all the feuding will find something real here.
Stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
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More on shows like BEEF
Fans of BEEF tend to want a few things in their next show: characters doing genuinely bad things for understandable reasons, a tonal balance that does not fully commit to comedy or drama but lives somewhere in between, and some undercurrent of domestic tension. The marriage or partnership, strained or broken or just quietly wrong, is almost always present. These viewers are also comfortable with structure that does not follow the usual rules, whether that means anthology formats, unconventional timelines, or stories that refuse a clean moral.
The recommendations here cover that range well. Why Women Kill and Santa Clarita Diet both dig into what happens inside a marriage when something goes badly wrong, though the latter does it with zombies and a cheerfulness that is almost absurd. Based on a True Story takes the Los Angeles setting and dark comedy framework and runs them through a true crime lens, which gives it a similar feeling of ordinary people making catastrophically bad decisions. Miracle Workers and Easy are the more patient picks. Miracle Workers uses an anthology structure across wildly different time periods to ask questions about people stuck in impossible situations, and Easy is quieter and more slice-of-life, but both reward the same kind of viewer who does not need plot to be the main engine.
None of these shows is BEEF, and none of them tries to be. But each one has at least one thing that made BEEF worth watching: the dark laugh, the uncomfortable intimacy, or the sense that the characters are one bad decision away from a completely different life.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like BEEF?
- Miracle Workers is the most popular show similar to BEEF in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like BEEF still on the air?
- Of the 9 shows similar to BEEF listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like BEEF?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.