Shows Like Bad Buddy
If you loved Bad Buddy's Comedy and Drama storytelling, these series deliver a similar experience — chosen for tone, narrative quality, and viewer satisfaction. Each includes where to stream it now.
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TharnType
Type hated the idea of sharing a room with a gay guy. But now, he's starting to question what he thought he knew.

SOTUS
A strict senior and a defiant freshman clash under the SOTUS system—but resistance slowly turns into something tender.

Felicity
Felicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program to follow her long time crush to college in New York City. Things get even more complicated when she meets her dorm's resident advisor and they fall in love.

Together with Me
After realizing they want to be more than just friends, childhood buddies Knock and Korn must confront obstacles before becoming an item.

Lovely Writer
Gene, a successful BL novelist, meets Nubsib, a deceptive actor auditioning for the lead role in the drama adaptation of his book. Chaos unfolds.

I Told Sunset About You
Tender emotions and new yearnings awaken in childhood friends Teh and Oh-aew when they cross paths in a Chinese language class during senior year.

Love Mechanics
Vee has a girlfriend. Mark has feelings. One moment changes everything, and now they must face what love really means.

Love In The Air
Rain plots to make Phayu fall for him to ruin his reputation, while Sky grapples with his feelings for Prapai, in this whirlwind of emotions and growing love.
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We Are
A group of university friends navigate academics, friendships, and romance as they deal with the ups and downs of campus life.

Married
Married is a half hour comedy about being miserably in love. Russ and Lina Bowman can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt, and suburbia rained on their romance -- but every once in a while, in between the arguments about their declining sex life and who's driving carpool, they are reminded what drew them together in the first place -- they're best friends. The show also features Russ and Lina's friend AJ, who is recently divorced and pretending he's over his wife, and their other friend Jess, who is married to a much older man who can't keep up with her.

Cold Feet
Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which is as confused as it is liberated by the choices it faces, will the chill in their feet put out the passion that burns in their hearts?

2Moons: The Series
The story of six university students facing new challenges like: studying hard, making new friends and enemies, and unexpectedly falling in love with the least likely person.

My Love Mix-Up!
Atom has a crush on Matmee, but a mix-up over an eraser makes Kongthap think Atom likes him instead—leading to unexpected feelings and confusion.

Your Sky
Due to an unforeseen situation, a naive freshman and the campus’s popular senior agree to pretend to be a couple — but their fake deal begins to affect their real feelings.

Why R U?
Zon, an aspiring sci-fi writer, faces challenges as romantic tensions arise with Saifah, mirrored in his sister's BL novel, while Tutor navigates his own struggles.

Carmilla
Laura Hollis, a newly enrolled college student at Silas University, shares a room with Betty, who mysteriously disappears all of a sudden. Little does Laura know that after this fateful night, nothing will be the same in her life, starting with meeting her new roommate from hell, Carmilla Karnstein. "Carmilla" is a single-camera, scripted transmedia series that puts a modern spin on the cult classic Gothic vampire novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. It's a story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire.

Emma
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightley.

My So-Called Life
The life of a 15 year-old high school student, whose angst-ridden journey through adolescence, friendship, parents, and life teaches her what it means to grow up.

Faking It
A romantic comedy about two best friends who love each other -- in slightly different ways. After numerous failed attempts to become popular, the girls are mistakenly outed as lesbians, which launches them to instant celebrity status. Seduced by their newfound fame, Karma and Amy decide to keep up their romantic ruse.

Saved by the Bell
Lovable schemer Zack Morris leads his pals on adventures at California's Bayside High School. The friends navigate relationships, final exams, school dances, breakups and more while frequently frustrating their principal, Mr. Richard Belding, who does his best to keep them in check.
Why These Shows Are Similar
These recommendations share core qualities with Bad Buddy (2021): Comedy and Drama themes, similar pacing, and comparable production quality. NoBadPicks uses TMDB collaborative filtering, genre matching, and AI analysis to surface series most likely to resonate with fans of Bad Buddy.
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