Shows like The Good Bad Mother: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Good Bad Mother (2023) — a drama and comedy series created by Sim Na-yeon and Bae Se-young — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Good Bad Mother most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like farm, slice of life and family relationships. 16 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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My Liberation Notes 2022★ 7.9
Shares: Drama
Three siblings, exhausted by the monotony of day-to-day adulthood, seek to find fulfillment and freedom from their unremarkable lives.
Stream in India on Netflix
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When the Camellia Blooms 2019★ 8.2
Shares: Drama, Comedy
Dongbaek is a single mother. When a potential new love enters her life, she finds ways to defy the social stigmas surrounding her.
Stream in India on Netflix
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This Is Us 2016★ 8.2
Shares: Drama
Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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Welcome to Samdal-ri 2023★ 8.2
Shares: Drama, Comedy
After suffering a fall from grace, a photographer returns to her hometown and bumps into her childhood friend — rekindling an unfinished romance.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Dream to You 2026★ 9.4
Shares: Drama, Comedy
Two high school classmates bond over a shared love of filmmaking, turning a deep friendship into first love before an unexpected separation tears them apart. Years later, they reunite with their lives completely transformed—she’s lost her passion, while he’s become a celebrated director. Determined to reignite her dreams, he must first confront the hurt he left behind.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Our Universe 2026★ 8.2
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Two in-laws forced to raise their orphaned nephew together slowly overcome their misunderstandings, finding personal growth and an unexpected romance through co-parenting under one roof.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Family by Choice 2024★ 8.1
Shares: Drama
A youth romance about two men and woman who aren't blood related but treated each other as family during their teens and how they meet again after 10 years.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Six Feet Under 2001★ 8.1
Shares: Drama
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Move to Heaven 2021★ 8.0
Shares: Drama
Finding life in all that’s left behind, a detail-oriented trauma cleaner and his estranged uncle deliver untold stories of the departed to loved ones.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Spring Fever 2026★ 8.1
Shares: Comedy, Drama
After moving to a quiet rural town to heal from past heartbreak, a withdrawn teacher slowly rediscovers warmth and joy through her unexpected connection with a rough-around-the-edges but kindhearted local man.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Shrinking 2023★ 7.8
Shares: Drama, Comedy
Jimmy is struggling to grieve the loss of his wife while being a dad, friend, and therapist. He decides to try a new approach with everyone in his path: unfiltered, brutal honesty. Will it make things better—or unleash uproarious chaos?
Stream in India on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel
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Dead to Me 2019★ 7.3
Shares: Drama, Comedy
A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha 2021★ 8.2
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A big-city dentist opens up a practice in a close-knit seaside village, home to a charming jack-of-all-trades who is her polar opposite in every way.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Ballers 2015★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, Comedy
Looking at the lives of former and current football players, the show follows former superstar Spencer Strasmore as he gets his life on track in retirement while mentoring other current and former players through the daily grind of the business of football.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse 2011★ 7.3
Shares: Comedy
Follow the ups-and-downs of Angela Williams, the owner of a successful beauty salon, and her husband of 13 years, Marcus, a former professional football player who has recently partnered with Richard Ellington and Joseph Jetson on a new sports news program called "C-Sports Now."
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Somebody Somewhere 2022★ 7.2
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Sam is a true Kansan on the surface but beneath it all struggles to fit the hometown mold. As she grapples with loss and acceptance, singing is Sam’s saving grace and leads her on a journey to discover herself and a community of outsiders that don’t fit in but don’t give up, showing that finding your people, and finding your voice, is possible. Anywhere. Somewhere.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Desperate Housewives 2004★ 7.9
Shares: Drama, Comedy
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Mo 2022★ 7.2
Shares: Comedy, Drama
In Texas, Mo straddles the line between two cultures, three languages and a pending asylum request while hustling to support his Palestinian family.
Stream in India on Netflix
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After Life 2019★ 7.9
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Red Oaks 2014★ 7.4
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A coming-of-age comedy set in the "go-go" 80s that is equal parts hijinks and heartfelt about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end--and the future begins. David Myers, an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey in 1985, is both reeling from his father's heart attack and conflicted about what major to declare in the fall. While there, he meets a colorful cast of misfit co-workers and wealthy club members including an alluring art student named Skye and her corporate raider father Getty.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads