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Shows Like Jesus

If you loved Jesus's 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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Miss Austen
6.2

Miss Austen

2025

Miss Austen takes a literary mystery – Cassandra Austen notoriously burning her famous sister Jane’s letters – and reimagines it as a fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love, while creating in Cassandra a character as captivating as any Austen heroine.

Chesapeake Shores
7.8

Chesapeake Shores

2016

A divorced mom deals with an old romance and complicated family issues when she returns to her hometown with her twin daughters.

Genesis
7.8

Genesis

2021

The story of the first 2,300 years of humanity and recounts events exclusively from that period. The plot begins by giving us a greater understanding of why we exist and how we turned from perfection to imperfection. The origin of all social and racial problems is there at the beginning of everything, when via one decision a human being who only knew good and enjoyed it so much also chose to know evil.

Offspring
6.9

Offspring

2010

An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.

Sanditon
7.6

Sanditon

2019

The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.

The Rich and Lazarus
7.5

The Rich and Lazarus

2017

After the death of Joshua, the Hebrew people begin to "go their own way", turning their backs on God and beginning to worship pagan gods. But when the prophet Jeremiah tries to warn them, his own people try to stone him, calling him a traitor and false prophet, but his prophecy is fulfilled with the arrival of King Nebuchadnezzar II and his wife Queen Amytis. And in another part of the story involves the love triangle involving Joana, Zac and Asher, who at the beginning of the novel were childhood friends, but over time the trio is growing and Zac and Asher fall in love with Joan, but she corresponds only to Asher.

The Young and the Restless
7.0

The Young and the Restless

1973

The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin and Winters families.

Parenthood
7.5

Parenthood

2010

The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.

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Resurrection
7.3

Resurrection

2014

The people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to reappear.

Jezabel
7.4

Jezabel

2019

The story of Phoenician princess Jezebel, an idol worshipper who marries King Ahab and uses her beauty and wickedness to try to impose on the Israelite people the worship of her pagan gods.

India: A Love Story
7.5

India: A Love Story

2009

The daughter of a traditional, rich Indian family falls in love for a Dalit, and "untouchable" man.

Joan
6.6

Joan

2024

A penniless mother makes an impulsive decision in the jewellery shop where she works, and is propelled into a different world.

Swagger
7.8

Swagger

2021

A basketball prodigy must navigate a maze of pressure if he's going to overcome the odds against him and learn what it truly means to have swagger.

Neverwhere
6.7

Neverwhere

1996

Richard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his life is gone and he's pulled into the fantastical world of London Below. Pursued by the murderous Messrs. Croup and Vandemar, Door and Richard with the help of Hunter and the Marquis de Carabas, attempt to find the Angel Islington, who knows the secret behind the murder of Door's family, and possibly a way for Richard to go home.

Annika
7.1

Annika

2021

The sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed, as she heads up a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) that is tasked with investigating the unexplained, brutal, and seemingly unfathomable murders.

Harry Wild
6.8

Harry Wild

2022

A recently retired English professor discovers a real knack for investigation and cannot help but interfere with the cases assigned to her police detective son.

Dangerous Liaisons
6.2

Dangerous Liaisons

2022

A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by using the power of seduction. TV adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses".

Days of Our Lives
6.1

Days of Our Lives

1965

The Horton and Brady broods endure the romantic trials of life in Salem, a Midwestern hamlet filled with evil geniuses, star-crossed lovers and a rich family history.

Army Wives
7.5

Army Wives

2007

Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, one army husband, and their families.

Sweet Magnolias
7.7

Sweet Magnolias

2020

Lifelong friends Maddie, Helen and Dana Sue lift each other up as they juggle relationships, family and careers in the small Southern town of Serenity.

Why These Shows Are Similar

These recommendations share core qualities with Jesus (2018): 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 Jesus.

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