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Shows Like Community

If Community worked for you because of its community, relationships, and emotional connection, start with New Girl, The Bear, and Scrubs. The list leans toward comedy and drama stories with a similar sense of character-led storytelling. It prioritises shared tone and story shape rather than relying on broad genre matching alone.

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Audience fit

Why Community fans may like these shows

If you enjoyed Community, try New Girl, The Bear, and Scrubs. These recommendations focus on comedy and drama shows that share relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a similar storytelling rhythm.

Ranked recommendations

The closest TV shows to watch after Community

Each recommendation includes the reasoning behind the pick, so you can see why it may suit fans of Community.

New Girl

New Girl is a strong follow-up to Community because it offers relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a comparable sense of character-led storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she…

The Bear

The Bear is a strong follow-up to Community because it offers relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a comparable sense of character-led storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves…

Scrubs

Scrubs is a strong follow-up to Community because it offers relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a comparable sense of character-led storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Recommendation graph signal: this title appears close to the anchor show in recommendation data. In practical terms, In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D." Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.

How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother is a strong follow-up to Community because it offers relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a comparable sense of character-led storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Recommendation graph signal: this title appears close to the anchor show in recommendation data. In practical terms, A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.

grown-ish

grown-ish is a strong follow-up to Community because it offers relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a comparable sense of character-led storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Quality fallback: this title survived the same relevance and quality filters as the main recommendations. In practical terms, Zoey Johnson heads to college and begins her hilarious journey to adulthood but quickly discovers that not everything goes her way once she leaves the nest.

Arrested Development

Arrested Development is a strong follow-up to Community because it offers relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a comparable sense of character-led storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Recommendation graph signal: this title appears close to the anchor show in recommendation data. In practical terms, The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

Entourage

Entourage is a strong follow-up to Community because it offers relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a comparable sense of character-led storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.

Coupling

Coupling is a strong follow-up to Community because it offers relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a comparable sense of character-led storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Recommendation graph signal: this title appears close to the anchor show in recommendation data. In practical terms, Six friends in their thirties navigate dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps on their quest to find love.

Malcolm in the Middle

Malcolm in the Middle is a strong follow-up to Community because it offers relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a comparable sense of character-led storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Quality fallback: this title survived the same relevance and quality filters as the main recommendations. In practical terms, A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a strong follow-up to Community because it offers relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a comparable sense of character-led storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Quality fallback: this title survived the same relevance and quality filters as the main recommendations. In practical terms, Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead…

Strong Girl Bong-soon

Strong Girl Bong-soon is a strong follow-up to Community because it offers relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a comparable sense of character-led storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, Born with supernatural strength, Bong-soon fights evil and procures justice while getting tangled in a love triangle with her CEO boss and cop crush.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm is a strong follow-up to Community because it offers relationships, atmosphere and character connection and a comparable sense of character-led storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Quality fallback: this title survived the same relevance and quality filters as the main recommendations. In practical terms, The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

What makes a good show like Community?

A good replacement for Community is not just another show in the same broad genre. The best matches keep the parts viewers remember most: community, relationships, and emotional connection, a warm atmosphere and character-led storytelling. That is why the ranking combines several signals before a title reaches the final list.

How these recommendations are chosen

Audience behaviour: Reddit-style co-mentions and pair signals help identify shows viewers naturally compare or recommend together. Recommendation graph: TMDB recommendation data helps identify titles that sit close to the anchor show. Story fit: genre overlap, semantic keywords and concept-specific guardrails reduce lazy matches that share only a surface-level category. Quality control: vote average, vote count, popularity and freshness checks help remove weak or low-confidence titles from public SEO pages.

Editor's verdict

The strongest starting point is New Girl, The Bear, and Scrubs because the list balances similarity, quality and viewer behaviour. For best results, choose the recommendation that matches the part of Community you liked most: tone, characters, setting, mystery, tension or long-form payoff.

Common questions

Frequently asked questions

Why do fans of Community often like these shows too?

They tend to share community, relationships, and emotional connection, which is often a better guide than genre alone when you are deciding what to watch next.

What should I watch after Community?

New Girl, The Bear, and Scrubs are a strong place to start because they echo the overall feel of Community without being carbon copies of it.

How were these shows chosen?

The ranking blends audience behaviour with similarity signals, then filters for stronger tonal fit so the final list feels closer to what fans of Community usually want.

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