Shows like Adults

Navigating life in your twenty-somethings often comes with weird housemates, cliché mistakes, and a constant, lingering feeling of being bewildered. These comedy series capture the vexed, occasionally depressing, and utterly disgusted reactions to modern living, whether set in New York City or equally chaotic environments. They find genuine humor in the absurd friction of young adults trying, and regularly failing, to figure things out.

Anyone who enjoyed the tone of Adults can expect a lineup filled with uncomfortable social situations, messy living arrangements, and relentless confusion. Shows like Friends and Fleishman Is in Trouble mirror that same tension between romanticized expectations and bleak realities. This selection highlights the funniest, most exasperating sides of trying to grow up in a world that rarely makes sense.