FX’s hit hangout sitcom, Adults, just released its second season, and the eight-episode installment is an absolute masterpiece. The series follows a close-knit group of friends who all live together in the same house: Samir (Malik Elassal), Issa (Amita Rao), Anton (Owen Thiele), Billie (Lucy Freyer), and Paul Baker (Jack Innanen). Over the course of its two seasons so far, the five friends deal with a number of classic adult problems that come their way, while also causing quite a bit of problems for themselves.
Adults has not yet been renewed for a third season, but after Season 2’s 100% Rotten Tomatoes score and fantastic finale, fans hopefully won’t have to wait long for news. In the meantime, the first two seasons and prequel episode make for the perfect rewatch, but there are a number of excellent and similar shows that fans of Adults can watch while waiting. These are the amazing TV shows that you should watch if you love FX’s Adults.
‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ (2021–2025)
Leighton (Renée Rapp), Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott), Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet), and Bela (Amrit Kaur) laughing in The Sex Lives of College Girls.Image via HBO Max
The Sex Lives of College Girls follows four young women who have just started their first year at a small Vermont college: Leighton Murray (Reneé Rapp), Whitney Chase (Alyah Chanelle Scott), Bela Malhotra (Amrit Kaur), and Kimberly Finkle (Pauline Chalamet). The four of them are all assigned to live in the same suite, and despite their conflicting personalities and very different goals for college, they all become fast friends.
Like Adults, The Sex Lives of College Girls follows a tight-knit group of friends who all live together, both as a group and as individuals. It finds both humor and tension in their love lives, their other friendships, and their on-campus jobs and classes. The show is wildly funny and heartfelt at all the right moments, centering on its main group of friends above all else. For Adults fans looking for a comedy series with another group of friends who are all a little too attached to each other, The Sex Lives of College Girls will make for the perfect next watch.
‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ (2015–2019)
A woman is psyched up by her excited best friend in ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ (2015-2019)Image via The CW
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend follows Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), a successful New York City lawyer who has just made partner at her firm. Instead of feeling the joy that she should at the news, though, Rebecca has a panic attack and runs outside. While there, she bumps into Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III), her ex-boyfriend from a summer camp she dated as a teenager. Convinced that Josh is the key to her happiness, Rebecca makes up a fake reason to move across the country and follow him to his hometown.
For Adults fans who are looking for another chaotic series with quirky characters and an over-the-top sense of humor,Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is the perfect choice for your next watch. The series is absolutely hilarious, with a blend of musical comedy and witty dialogue. It also has a compelling main storyline, as Rebecca has to hide her true motives as she slowly builds a new life for herself in the place where Josh grew up — while, at the same time, concocting an elaborate scheme to bring him back with the help of her new friend, Paula (Donna Lynne Champlin).
‘Party Down’ (2009–2023)
Ken Marino, Ryan Hansen, and Adam Scott look at a phone in ‘Party Down’Image via Starz
Party Down is a workplace sitcom about a group of aspiring actors who all work at a catering company called Party Down to get by in the meantime. Each episode shows them catering a different party, where something always seems to go hilariously wrong. The series was sadly cancelled after just two seasons, but it was revived for a third season over a decade later.
Like Adults, Party Down is realistic about the struggles of being an adult, and the necessity of working odd jobs while working towards major life goals. It is also a wildly funny series that builds on the comedy with each episode, like Adults. The Party Down employees often clash with each other at less than ideal times, and they can never quite anticipate what each event that they cater is going to be like.
‘I Love LA’ (2025–Present)
Rachel Sennott’s Maia smiling with Odessa A’zion’s TallulahImage via HBO
Alongside Adults, another excellent new hangout sitcom that debuted in 2025 is I Love LA. The series follows Maia Simsbury (Rachel Sennott), an LA-based woman in her 20s who dreams of becoming a talent manager. For now, though, Maia is just working for a talent manager and living with her boyfriend, Dylan (Josh Hutcherson). Maia’s life in LA is turned upside down when her ex-best friend from New York City, Tallulah Stiel (Odessa A’zion), follows her to LA and asks her to be her talent manager.
Tallulah is a successful influencer who could finally give Maia the career boost that she needs, but she’s also a whirlwind of chaos, disrupting every aspect of Maia’s life. The two soon fall back into their former codependency, and their rekindled friendship and new working partnership starts to threaten the foundation of the life that Maia has already built in LA. I Love LA is a fun and chaotic sitcom with a messy main friend group and a sharp sense of humor, and Adults fans will be drawn into the wild world of the show immediately.
Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
👑Game of Thrones
🖖Star Trek
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What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
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Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
03
How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
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Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
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What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
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How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
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What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
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What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
‘The Other Two’ (2019–2023)
Helene Yorke and Drew Tarver in The Other TwoImage via HBO Max
The Other Two follows two siblings, Brooke (Heléne Yorke) and Cary (Drew Tarver) Dubek, who are both a little lost in their lives and their careers. When their little brother, Chase (Case Walker), becomes a teen pop sensation, the two have to deal with their own jealousy and complicated feelings related to his fame. Rounding out the family is their mother, Pat (Molly Shannon), who finds her own surprising success along the way.
For Adults fans who love the show’s wildly over-the-top humor, The Other Two is the perfect next watch. It has a number of parody episodes that spoof anything from legal procedurals to couples’ Instagram accounts. The series is also honest about Brooke and Cary’s insecurities and ambitions in a way that will ring true for those who loved the emotionally vulnerable moments in Adults.
‘Overcompensating’ (2025–Present)
Benny and Grace Scanlon looking upset in Overcompensating.Image via Prime Video
Like Adults, Overcompensatingis one of the best new 2025 comedies. It follows Benny Scanlon (Benito Skinner, the show’s creator), an incoming college freshman and closeted gay man. While trying to stay under the radar and fit in, Benny develops an intense friendship with fellow freshman Carmen Neil (Wally Baram), and rushes a secret society called Flesh and Gold.
Adults fans looking for more Owen Thiele will be thrilled to watch him as Overcompensating‘s George, an openly gay student who becomes a friend and confidant for Benny. The series is also very silly and wonderfully weird in its humor, with bits like a talking Megan Fox poster who regularly gives Benny advice, and a hilarious interaction where Benny and George communicate without saying a single word.
The cast of ‘Community’ Season 4, including Joel McHale, Donald Glover, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Yvette Nicole Brown and Danny Pudi.Image via NBC
Ken Jeong as Ben Chang in Community, Season 1, Episode 13, standing at the front of a classroom, holding up his right pointer finger. There is a boombox and lamp on the desk next to him.Image via NBC
The cast in claymation in Abed’s dorm room around the TV, in Community “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas”.Image via NBC
Jim Rash as Dean Craig Pelton, wearing a crop top, covered in paintball marks in the Community episode “A Fistful of Paintballs”Image via NBC
The main characters of ‘Community’ stand in front of a window in a study room, with most of the crew holding takeaway coffee cups and sporting pouty faces as they stand behind a frustrated Troy Barnes (Donald Glover).Image via NBC
The cast of ‘Community’ Season 4, including Joel McHale, Donald Glover, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Yvette Nicole Brown and Danny Pudi.Image via NBC
Ken Jeong as Ben Chang in Community, Season 1, Episode 13, standing at the front of a classroom, holding up his right pointer finger. There is a boombox and lamp on the desk next to him.Image via NBC
The cast in claymation in Abed’s dorm room around the TV, in Community “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas”.Image via NBC
Jim Rash as Dean Craig Pelton, wearing a crop top, covered in paintball marks in the Community episode “A Fistful of Paintballs”Image via NBC
The main characters of ‘Community’ stand in front of a window in a study room, with most of the crew holding takeaway coffee cups and sporting pouty faces as they stand behind a frustrated Troy Barnes (Donald Glover).Image via NBC
Community follows Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), a successful lawyer who gets exposed for faking his college degree and has to go to Greendale Community College. While there, Jeff starts a study group that ends up becoming extremely tight-knit. Community also regularly implements meta humor, homages to movies and television shows, and a number of science fiction elements.
For Adults fans who love the show’s found family element, Community is the perfect next watch. The central study group is extremely close and codependent, and they lean on each other while feeling insecure about the places that they are at in their lives. The series has a similar wacky humor to Adults, as well as a dedication to continuity throughout its episodes.
‘What We Do in the Shadows’ (2019–2024)
Nandor and Guillermo standing next to each other in What We Do in the Shadows Season 6Image via FX
After watching Adults, fans may be looking for another show about a group of people who all live together in one house. What We Do in the Shadows fits this description, but with one twist: the main characters aren’t people – they’re vampires. The series uses a mockumentary format to show the daily (after)lives of four vampires and their familiar, who all live together in a Staten Island mansion.
Even with its fantastical twist, What We Do in the Shadows feels very similar to Adults in a lot of ways. Both series have a tight-knit central friend group who regularly clashes with each other and get up to a number of hilarious schemes. The What We Do in the Shadows crew will make even the most outlandish moments in Adults look tame, taking it up a notch with its supernatural elements.
‘New Girl’ (2011–2018)
Winston, Schmidt, Cece, Jess, and Nick looking out their balcony in the ‘New Girl’ series finale.Image via FOX
New Girl follows Jess Day (Zooey Deschanel), an optimistic woman who suddenly has to move out of her apartment after her long-time boyfriend cheats on her. She ends up living in a loft with a group of guys that she met on Craig’s List, and from there, a great deal of hilarious chaos ensues. Each episode shows the characters going about their lives and their jobs, while often clashing as loftmates.
Like Adults, New Girl has a tight-knit central friend group and a number of wildly funny episodes. Some of the best moments in Adults involve storylines like Anton accidentally befriending a local “stabber” (Ray Nicholson), and Billie feeding everyone raw chicken that her boyfriend (Charlie Cox) eats while high on ketamine. New Girl has a number of hilarious storylines like this, with episodes where Nick (Jake Johnson) and Jess hunt down someone they think is a serial killer, and one where the group gets stuck in the desert overnight.
‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ (2005–Present)
Danny DeVito, Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, and Kaitlin Olson on a game show in ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’.Image via FX
With 18 seasons and counting, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the longest-running live-action sitcom of all time. The series follows the chaotic schemes of a group of friends who call themselves The Gang. In spite of running a bar together, they rarely do actual work, and spend most of their time pursuing various meaningless goals and ruining the lives of those around them.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has a similar style of comedy to adults, with sharp dialogue, very specific humor, and some especially weird and creative storylines. Like the main characters in Adults, the gang are constantly failing at life, and they balance between planning outrageous schemes and dealing with normal financial and emotional problems.
