Shows Like Budding Romance
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High Fidelity
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.

From Scratch
An artist finds romance with a chef in Italy and embarks on a life-changing journey of love, loss, resilience and hope across cultures and continents.

Star
Star is a tough-as-nails young woman who came up in the foster care system and decides one day to take control of her destiny. She tracks down her sister, Simone, and her Instagram bestie, Alexandra, and together, the trio journeys to Atlanta with the hope of becoming music superstars.

Sullivan's Crossing
After Neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan’s personal and professional life are thrown into turmoil she returns home to Sullivan’s Crossing. While there, Maggie is forced to navigate her complicated present while confronting the painful past she has chosen to ignore for years.

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

The Newsreader
An unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change; a star newsreader and an ambitious bisexual reporter join forces in a ruthless 1986 newsroom, as events unfold that will change their lives.

Autumn in My Heart
Two men and two women, their relationship begins in tragic fates, and it grows into love, agony, and parting.

How I Met Your Father
In the near future, Sophie tells her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options.
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Love Your Enemy
Born on the same day and with the same name, Seok Ji-won and Yoon Ji-won have been enemies for generations, and reunite after 18 years.

Ambitions
A multigenerational family saga centered around one woman who, having recently relocated and intent on revitalizing her marriage, finds herself going head to head with some of the most powerful and deceitful players in the city.

Love Scout
Yoo Eun-ho, a single dad armed with perfection, becomes the secretary of Kang Ji-yun, the CEO of a popular headhunter company, who doesn't do anything except work.

Love in Contract
Contract marriage master Choi Sang-eun's alternate day romance with a long-term mystery client on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and a new superstar client on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Little Voice
Meet Bess King, a uniquely talented performer struggling to fulfill her dreams while handling rejection, dating drama, and family issues. This is a story about finding your authentic voice—and the courage to use it.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Rebecca Bunch is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything - her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan - in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance and adventure: suburban West Covina, California.

Nice to Not Meet You
A hateful romance between a professional detective actor who wants to become a melodrama master and a female reporter who was demoted from a political reporter who won the Reporter of the Year award to the entertainment department.

Offspring
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.

Bloom
One year after a devastating flood kills five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears with the power to restore their youth.

Once Upon a Small Town
Against his wishes a veterinarian from the big city relocates to the countryside, where he meets a policewoman, a town insider with a friendly secret.

Link: Eat, Love, Kill
Eun Gye-hoon, a famous chef, opens a restaurant in a town he lived when he was a little kid. In the past, he had a twin sister. But after a traumatic incident tat the hometown, the family lost her. He used to have a strong emotional link to his sister, able to synchronize with any kinds of feelings she was having. When Noh Da-hyun, a young woman in need of help, visits him one day, Gye-hoon starts to feel that strong link again.
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