TV Shows Like Younger
If you like Younger, here are 12 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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Younger works because it commits to its absurd premise without apologizing for it. A 40-year-old woman pretends to be 26 to get a foot in the door at a publishing house, and rather than treating this as a cautionary tale, the show mostly plays it as a romp. What keeps it from feeling trivial is that Liza's desperation is real. She is not some eccentric trying on a new identity for fun; she is a single mother who watched a decade of her life disappear and found the door back into the workforce locked. The lie gives the show its engine, but the female friendships, the workplace comedy, and the New York energy are what make fans actually stay.
The best shows like Younger
1. Sex and the City
Sex and the City is the obvious starting point, and it earns that reputation. Four women in New York, navigating careers and relationships and each other, with the city itself treated as a main character. Younger clearly grew up watching this show, and fans who haven't gone back to the source will find it holds up better than its reputation sometimes suggests.
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2. Girls
Girls occupies the younger end of the age bracket that Younger spends so much time satirizing, which makes it a fascinating companion piece. It's rawer and more uncomfortable than Younger, and deliberately so, but the female friendships and the New York creative-world setting will feel immediately familiar. Think of it as the flip side of Liza's disguise: what the twenties actually look like, stripped of any glamour.
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3. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel runs on almost the same premise as Younger: a woman's carefully constructed life falls apart, and she has to figure out who she is outside of it. Set in late-1950s Manhattan, it's more stylized and the comedy leans harder into performance, but the core feeling of a woman surprising herself is exactly what Younger fans tend to respond to.
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4. And Just Like That…
And Just Like That picks up with Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they move into their fifties, and if anything its concerns map even more directly onto Younger than the original series did. It's messier and more uneven than Sex and the City, but fans of Younger who appreciate watching women deal with age, identity and friendship in real time will find it worth sticking with.
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5. Miracle Workers
Miracle Workers is the wildcard here. It's an anthology series that changes setting and premise each season, so it requires a bit more patience than the others. What connects it to Younger is its comedy sensibility and its interest in ordinary people navigating situations that are slightly out of their control, which is, when you strip everything else away, exactly what Younger is about.
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More on shows like Younger
Fans of Younger tend to want a few specific things in their next show: women in their thirties and forties taking center stage, New York City as more than a backdrop, humor that doesn't dumb down the emotional stakes, and at least one relationship that makes you genuinely uncertain who to root for. The professional world, and specifically creative or media industries, shows up a lot in what these fans gravitate toward. They tend to be comfortable with a show that is a little glossy, a little romantic, and occasionally a little sharp about the ways the world underestimates women of a certain age or ambition.
The recommendations here split into two natural groups. Sex and the City and its sequel series And Just Like That are the most direct relatives, sharing the New York setting, the female-friendship core, and the frank talk about life not going according to plan. Girls takes the same city and some of the same themes and runs them through a younger, messier, more self-aware lens, which is interesting precisely because it shows what Liza was faking being. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is the outlier in terms of period and tone, but it shares Younger's central premise almost exactly: a woman whose comfortable life collapses suddenly discovers she has to rebuild herself, and it turns out she's more capable than anyone, including herself, expected. Miracle Workers is the furthest departure, an anthology with a very different sensibility, but fans who appreciate Younger's lighter touch and comedy instincts will find something to like there.
None of these shows are identical to Younger, and that's the point. Younger is genuinely hard to replicate because it runs on a specific kind of sustained dramatic irony that most shows don't bother with. But each of these captures at least one of the things that make Younger worth watching in the first place.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Younger?
- Sex and the City is the most popular show similar to Younger in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Younger still on the air?
- Of the 12 shows similar to Younger listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Younger?
- 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.