NoBadPicks

Shows Like Romance Is a Bonus Book

If you loved Romance Is a Bonus Book'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.

Top Picks

Thirty-Nine
8.3

Thirty-Nine

2022

Leaning on each other through thick and thin, a trio of best friends stand together as they experience life, love and loss on the brink of turning 40.

A Gentleman's Dignity
8.0

A Gentleman's Dignity

2012

Four men with complicated love lives refuse to admit they're getting older, and attempt to prove that forty is the new thirty!

Togetherness
6.7

Togetherness

2015

Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.

You're the Worst
7.4

You're the Worst

2014

Narcissistic, brash, and self-destructive Jimmy Shive-Overly thinks all relationships are doomed. Cynical, people-pleasing, and stubborn Gretchen Cutler knows that relationships aren't for her. So when they meet at a wedding, it's only natural that the two of them go home together.

High Fidelity
7.6

High Fidelity

2020

Rob Brooks, a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn revisit past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one true love.

Love Life
6.9

Love Life

2020

A romantic comedy anthology series which follows a different protagonist each season on the journey from first love to last love, with each half-hour episode chronicling one of their relationships.

Sweet Revenge
6.6

Sweet Revenge

2017

A teenager manages to stumble upon a phone application, where, upon writing a person's name, that person is punished. Moreover, she uses this newfound power for her own benefit.

Carmilla
7.8

Carmilla

2014

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.

More Shows Like Romance Is a Bonus Book

Because This Is My First Life
8.2

Because This Is My First Life

2017

Two housemates get married for financial convenience, but discover nothing is simple when it comes to demanding in-laws — or facing their growing bond.

Tyler Perry's Sistas
8.4

Tyler Perry's Sistas

2019

There's nothing that bonds a group of single black women together more than sidestepping the land mines of living, working and dating in Atlanta. In a sea of swipe-lefts, social media drama and unrealistic #relationshipgoals, these friends try to find their Mr. Right.

Be Melodramatic
7.9

Be Melodramatic

2019

At the start of their 30s, three friends navigate the demanding entertainment industry while juggling love, careers and dreams.

The Bold Type
7.7

The Bold Type

2017

A glimpse into the outrageous lives of Jane, Kat and Sutton, who are working at the nation's top women's magazine, Scarlet, while navigating their careers, identities and individual voices.

It's Okay, That's Love
8.0

It's Okay, That's Love

2014

From mere co-talkshow guests to being off-screen roommates? Things get steamier and awkward between a psychologist and novelist in their entanglement.

Tastefully Yours
8.4

Tastefully Yours

2025

Driven to claim top culinary honors, an arrogant heir meets a low-profile but stubborn chef whose recipes astonish him — sparking an unlikely romance.

Lovestruck in the City
7.7

Lovestruck in the City

2020

Heart stolen by a free-spirited woman after a beachside romance, a passionate architect sets out to reunite with her on the streets of Seoul.

Ally McBeal
6.5

Ally McBeal

1997

Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!

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.

Queen of Tears
8.4

Queen of Tears

2024

The queen of department stores and the prince of supermarkets weather a marital crisis—until love miraculously begins to bloom again.

Younger
6.8

Younger

2015

Liza Miller, a suddenly single stay-at-home mother, tries to get back into the working world, only to find it’s nearly impossible to start at the bottom at 40-year old. When a chance encounter convinces her she looks younger than she is, Liza tries to pass herself off as 26 and lands a job as an assistant at Empirical Press. Now she just has to make sure no one finds out the secret only she and her best friend Maggie share.

Girls
6.4

Girls

2012

The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.

Why These Shows Are Similar

These recommendations share core qualities with Romance Is a Bonus Book (2019): 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 Romance Is a Bonus Book.

See full details for Romance Is a Bonus Book (2019)

People Also Search For