Asian Dramas Like Friends

Five families in a Seoul neighborhood navigate life, love, and growing up in the late 1980s.

If you loved Friends's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Reply 1988 delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

Five doctors who have been friends since med school navigate hospital life, love, and their band practice.

Like Friends, Hospital Playlist is built around ensemble where every character earns their screen time. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

A straight architect pretends to be gay to rent a room from a woman who only trusts gay men. As fake platonic roommates slowly develop real feelings, his pretence becomes increasin…

Like Friends, it leans hard into friends to lovers. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

A big-city dentist moves to a seaside village and clashes with the charming village handyman.

The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

Three friends scrape together their savings to buy a crumbling motel in a coastal town, dreaming of turning it into a boutique destination. What they didn't budget for: the local g…

Both are built around a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

A college weightlifter navigates love, friendship, and dreams alongside a swimmer at a sports university.

Like Friends, it leans hard into friends to lovers. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

A professional art curator secretly leads a double life as a devoted K-pop fangirl until her new boss discovers her secret.

The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

Four men in their early 40s — childhood friends who've stayed immature in love — navigate romance, heartbreak, and growing up alongside a high school ethics teacher who won't give …

Like Friends, it leans hard into friends to lovers. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

Four former members of a once-popular girl group navigate love, heartbreak, and the messiness of their 30s, proving that life rarely goes as planned but second chances are always p…

Like Friends, it leans hard into friends to lovers. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

A gifted but unemployed chef is forced to return to her rural hometown, where she discovers the boy who used to steal vegetables from her grandmother's garden has grown into the to…

The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.