16 Shows Like FUBAR (2023) to Watch When You're Done
Updated August 2026
View FUBAR details →If you loved FUBAR (2023) by Matt Thunell, here are 16 TV series that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Crash Landing on You, Slow Horses, Shameless. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
The Best Shows Similar to FUBAR
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the shows that share the most with FUBAR in terms of theme, narrative tone, and cinematic style. Every recommendation goes beyond genre — we evaluate the type of conflict, pacing, dramatic context, and the experience they create for viewers.
Crash Landing on You
2019 · Jang Young-woo
A paragliding mishap drops a South Korean heiress in North Korea -- and into the life of an army officer, who decides he will help her hide.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Slow Horses
2022 · Julian Stevens
Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Shameless
2011 · Iain B. MacDonald
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 th
In common: Comedy · Drama
Young Sheldon
2017 · Jim Parsons
The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Gilmore Girls
2000
Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Teen Wolf
2011 · Marty Adelstein
Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his pr
In common: Comedy · Drama
XO, Kitty
2023
Teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey thinks she knows everything there is to know about love. But when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she'll soon realise t
In common: Comedy · Drama
M*A*S*H
1972 · Burt Metcalfe
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of pract
In common: Comedy · Drama
Heartland
2007 · Jordy Randall
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they ke
In common: Comedy · Drama
Mom
2013
Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety
In common: Comedy · Drama
Entourage
2004 · Ally Musika
Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
In common: Comedy · Drama
Jane the Virgin
2014
A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly religious family and make the right choices concerning
In common: Comedy · Drama
Californication
2007 · David Duchovny
A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoi
In common: Comedy · Drama
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
2018 · Matt Thunell
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse th
In common: Action & Adventure · Drama
Nikita
2010
Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.
In common: Action & Adventure · Drama
Secret Invasion
2023 · Kyle Bradstreet
Nick Fury and Talos discover a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years.
In common: Action & Adventure · Drama
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1972 · Francis Ford Coppola
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his y
12 Angry Men
1957 · Sidney Lumet
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and sh
Schindler's List
1993 · Steven Spielberg
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Seven Samurai
1954 · Akira Kurosawa
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011 · Quentin Tarantino
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vo
Rear Window
1954 · Alfred Hitchcock
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.