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2017
82 eps
CBC / Netflix
Comedy Drama Slice Of Life
Ensemble Female Friends Career Woman
Four mothers meet at a mommy-and-me class and become each other's survival system — navigating postpartum depression, career ambition, marriage stress, and the particular madness o…
Like We Are All Trying Here, Workin' Moms is built around ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world. The emotional territory — mental health — is the same. Same honest energy throughout.
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2022
Netflix
Drama Slice Of Life
Dying Protagonist Life Reassessment
A buttoned-up London civil servant is told he has months to live. He has spent his whole life doing nothing — and decides, with the last of his time, to do one thing. A British rem…
Same melancholic energy throughout.
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2020
Drama Slice Of Life
Journey Narrative Found Community
After losing her job and home when the US Gypsum plant in Empire, Nevada closes, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road — joining a community of modern-day nomads living in th…
Same melancholic energy throughout.
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2022
Apple TV+
Drama Slice Of Life
Healing Friendship Veteran Returns
Lynsey, a soldier brain-injured in Afghanistan, returns to New Orleans to recover and waits to redeploy. She and a pool-service worker named James form an unexpected friendship bui…
Same melancholic energy throughout.
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2014
3 eps
Comedy Drama Slice Of Life
Male Friendship Found Family
Two gentle, slightly hapless members of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club spend their weekends searching muddy Essex fields for buried treasure, talking about life, and finding som…
Like We Are All Trying Here, Detectorists is built around ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world. Same melancholic energy throughout.
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2019
30 eps
Hulu
Comedy Drama Slice Of Life
Flawed Protagonist Family Pressure
Ramy Hassan is a first-generation Egyptian-American Muslim in New Jersey trying to reconcile his religious faith with his very imperfect everyday life. Created by and starring Ramy…
If you loved We Are All Trying Here's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Ramy delivers exactly that. Same honest and warm energy throughout.
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2022
Drama Slice Of Life
Single Location Redemption Arc
Charlie is a 600-pound English teacher who hasn't left his apartment in years, grieving the man he loved. With one week left to live, his estranged teenage daughter reappears — and…
The Whale scratches the same itch as We Are All Trying Here — different world, same emotional frequency.
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2016
5 eps
Comedy Drama Slice Of Life
Single Mother Family Comedy
Sam Fox is a working actress and single mother of three daughters in Los Angeles — managing her career, her chaotic household, her aging mother, and a social life that keeps slippi…
If you loved We Are All Trying Here's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Better Things delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — self worth — is the same.
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2015
24 eps
France 2 / Arte
Comedy Drama Workplace
Ensemble Workplace Will They Wont They
A Parisian talent agency is thrown into chaos when its founder dies suddenly, leaving four agents — each with their own talent, dysfunction, and clientele — to keep the business ru…
If you loved We Are All Trying Here's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Call My Agent (Dix pour cent) delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — loneliness — is the same. Same warm energy throughout.
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2010
Drama Family Slice Of Life
Family Saga Ensemble Cast
Like We Are All Trying Here, it leans hard into slice of life.