TV Shows Like Girls
If you like Girls, here are 11 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
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Girls captures the particular mess of being a young person in New York, where ambition meets entitlement, where friendships sustain you and annoy you in equal measure, and where a good brunch conversation matters as much as a bad relationship. The show lets its characters be selfish and contradictory without punishing them for it, finding humor in the gap between who they think they are and who they actually are. That irreverence, that willingness to show women as complicated and often unlikeable, is what made Girls distinctive.
The best shows like Girls
1. Skins
Like Girls, Skins follows a tight group of friends as they navigate messy lives, romantic disasters, and the gap between their self-image and reality. The show shares Girls' irreverent tone and refusal to make its characters conventionally likeable, finding comedy and pathos in their worst impulses.
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2. Sex and the City
Sex and the City established the template for smart comedies about female friendship in a major city, with four very different women supporting each other through careers and relationships. If you like Girls' focus on how women talk to each other about sex and ambition, this is the show that proved you could build an entire series around that.
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3. Younger
Younger centers the kind of female friendship that matters as much as romance, set in New York publishing with the same mix of workplace comedy and personal stakes. Like Girls, it's funny about ambition and the myths we tell ourselves, and it trusts its audience to enjoy complicated, self-interested characters.
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4. Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever captures the same awkward-girl comedy that defines Girls, with a protagonist navigating friendship, romance, and identity while trying to figure out who she wants to be. The show balances humor with real stakes, finding genuine feeling in the messy details of young life.
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5. Insecure
Insecure shares Girls' unflinching approach to female friendship and self-discovery, following a woman navigating complicated relationships, ambition, and the question of who she actually is. The show moves fluidly between comedy and drama, and it trusts its lead character to be anxious, defensive, and funny all at once.
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More on shows like Girls
Fans of Girls tend to seek out shows that understand female friendship as a real thing worth examining in detail. They want characters who are ambitious but imperfect, shows that mix comedy and drama without apology, and stories set in recognizable cities where money and status and careers matter. They like intelligence mixed with mess. They want their comedy to have a little bit of edge, their drama to have a little bit of humor, and their female leads to get to be the messy center of their own stories.
The shows here approach these themes from different angles. Skins moves the setting to Bristol and the timeline down to teenagers, but keeps the same irreverent group dynamic and willingness to let young people be difficult. Sex and the City is the more glamorous predecessor, focused on women in their late thirties dealing with careers and sex and friendship in a major city. Younger takes the female friendship angle and builds it around a workplace con, finding comedy in ambition and the fear of being left behind. Never Have I Ever and Insecure approach similar ground from different perspectives, centering characters navigating identity and belonging while their friendships hold steady underneath. All of them understand that for young women, the personal and professional are braided together, and that friendship is where you figure out who you are.
More shows like Girls
Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Girls?
- Skins is the most popular show similar to Girls in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Girls still on the air?
- Of the 11 shows similar to Girls listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Girls?
- 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.