4 Shows Like Heartstopper (2022) to Watch When You're Done

This warm 2022 series follows shy Charlie and rugby-playing Nick as an unlikely friendship blossoms into first love, navigating school, identity and acceptance with rare gentleness. Sweet, hopeful and disarmingly kind, it became a comfort-watch sensation. If its tender coming-of-age romance charmed you, seek out heartfelt teen dramas about self-discovery, friendship and the courage of young love.

If you loved Heartstopper (2022), here are 4 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 The Summer I Turned Pretty, Euphoria, Xena: Warrior Princess. 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.