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Shows Like The Sex Lives of College Girls

If The Sex Lives of College Girls worked for you because of its tone, memorable characters, and story momentum, start with Skins, Nobody Wants This, and Never Have I Ever. The list leans toward drama and comedy stories with a similar sense of storytelling. It prioritises shared tone and story shape rather than relying on broad genre matching alone.

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Recommendations tuned for fans of The Sex Lives of College Girls

Audience fit

Why The Sex Lives of College Girls fans may like these shows

If you enjoyed The Sex Lives of College Girls, try Skins, Nobody Wants This, and Never Have I Ever. These recommendations focus on drama and comedy shows that share a similar overall feel and a similar storytelling rhythm.

Ranked recommendations

The closest TV shows to watch after The Sex Lives of College Girls

Each recommendation includes the reasoning behind the pick, so you can see why it may suit fans of The Sex Lives of College Girls.

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Skins

Skins is a strong follow-up to The Sex Lives of College Girls because it offers a similar overall feel and a comparable sense of storytelling. Shared genre fit: Drama and Comedy Recommendation graph signal: this title appears close to the anchor show in recommendation data. In practical terms, Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

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Nobody Wants This

Nobody Wants This is a strong follow-up to The Sex Lives of College Girls because it offers a similar overall feel and a comparable sense of storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy and Drama Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, An agnostic sex podcaster and a newly single rabbi fall in love, but can their relationship survive their wildly different lives and meddling families?

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Never Have I Ever

Never Have I Ever is a strong follow-up to The Sex Lives of College Girls because it offers a similar overall feel and a comparable sense of storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy and Drama Recommendation graph signal: this title appears close to the anchor show in recommendation data. In practical terms, After a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and feeling won't make it easy on her.

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Shameless

Shameless is a strong follow-up to The Sex Lives of College Girls because it offers a similar overall feel and a comparable sense of storytelling. Shared genre fit: Drama and Comedy Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's…

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Chicago Fire

Chicago Fire is a strong follow-up to The Sex Lives of College Girls because it offers a similar overall feel and a comparable sense of storytelling. Shared genre fit: Drama Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful…

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Strong Girl Bong-soon

Strong Girl Bong-soon is a strong follow-up to The Sex Lives of College Girls because it offers a similar overall feel and a comparable sense of storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy and Drama 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.

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Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo is a strong follow-up to The Sex Lives of College Girls because it offers a similar overall feel and a comparable sense of storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy and Drama Quality fallback: this title survived the same relevance and quality filters as the main recommendations. In practical terms, A competitive swimmer crosses paths with his childhood friend, a rising weight lifting star, and realizes that she has a secret crush on his cousin.

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You Me Her

You Me Her is a strong follow-up to The Sex Lives of College Girls because it offers a similar overall feel and a comparable sense of storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy and Drama Recommendation graph signal: this title appears close to the anchor show in recommendation data. In practical terms, An unusual, real-world romance involving relatable people, with one catch - there are three of them! You Me Her infuses the sensibilities of a smart, grounded indie rom-com with a distinctive twist: one of the two…

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The Crown

The Crown is a strong follow-up to The Sex Lives of College Girls because it offers a similar overall feel and a comparable sense of storytelling. Shared genre fit: Drama Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the…

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grown-ish

grown-ish is a strong follow-up to The Sex Lives of College Girls because it offers a similar overall feel and a comparable sense of storytelling. Shared genre fit: Comedy Recommendation graph signal: this title appears close to the anchor show in recommendation data. 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.

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House

House is a strong follow-up to The Sex Lives of College Girls because it offers a similar overall feel and a comparable sense of storytelling. Shared genre fit: Drama Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

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MobLand

MobLand is a strong follow-up to The Sex Lives of College Girls because it offers a similar overall feel and a comparable sense of storytelling. Shared genre fit: Drama Story-shape signal: this title was selected because its themes and tone are a close fit. In practical terms, Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.

What makes a good show like The Sex Lives of College Girls?

A good replacement for The Sex Lives of College Girls is not just another show in the same broad genre. The best matches keep the parts viewers remember most: tone, memorable characters, and story momentum, a character-driven atmosphere and 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 Skins, Nobody Wants This, and Never Have I Ever because the list balances similarity, quality and viewer behaviour. For best results, choose the recommendation that matches the part of The Sex Lives of College Girls you liked most: tone, characters, setting, mystery, tension or long-form payoff.

Common questions

Frequently asked questions

Why do fans of The Sex Lives of College Girls often like these shows too?

They tend to share tone, memorable characters, and story momentum, which is often a better guide than genre alone when you are deciding what to watch next.

What should I watch after The Sex Lives of College Girls?

Skins, Nobody Wants This, and Never Have I Ever are a strong place to start because they echo the overall feel of The Sex Lives of College Girls 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 The Sex Lives of College Girls usually want.

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