FX’s newest hangout comedy, Adults, is one of the funniest new sitcoms in a while. 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 the first season, the five of them deal with a number of classic adult problems, while also getting up to a number of over-the-top antics.
Adults has not yet been renewed for a second season, but the renewal will likely come soon after the first season airs its last two episodes on FX. While waiting for a renewal announcement, there are a number of excellent and similar shows that fans of Adults can watch and rewatch in the meantime. These are 10 great TV shows that you should watch if you love FX’s Adults.
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‘Party Down’
3 seasons
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.
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‘The Other Two’
3 seasons
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.
- Release Date
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2019 – 2022
- Network
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Comedy Central
- Directors
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Chris Kelly
- Writers
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Chris Kelly, Sarah Schneider
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‘Overcompensating’
1 season
Like Adults, Overcompensating is 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.
6 seasons
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.
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‘What We Do in the Shadows’
6 seasons
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 gets 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.
- Release Date
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2019 – 2024
- Showrunner
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Paul Simms
- Directors
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Kyle Newacheck, Jason Woliner, Jackie van Beek
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‘New Girl’
7 seasons
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.
- Release Date
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2011 – 2017
- Network
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FOX
- Showrunner
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Elizabeth Meriwether
- Writers
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Elizabeth Meriwether
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‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’
16 seasons
With 16 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.
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‘Crashing’
1 season
Like Adults, Crashing follows a group of people living together to save money. In Crashing, though, most of them were not friends beforehand, and they all met when they chose to become property managers at an abandoned hospital. The series starts when two new people move into the hospital: Lulu (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), whose childhood friend lives there, and Colin (Adrian Scarborough), who met everyone while there for a work party.
Like Adults, Crashing is a surprisingly grounded series. The characters worry about their finances, have jobs that they aren’t passionate about, and deal with problems like fighting over coveted toilet paper. The show balances between humor and heart, as the characters hold chaotic dinner parties, get into messy arguments, and ultimately support each other through everything.
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‘Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23’
2 seasons
Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 follows June Colburn (Dreama Walker), an enthusiastic woman who moves to New York City for her dream job. When the job falls apart, June has to move in with Chloe (Krysten Ritter), a conwoman and party girl who has been rotating through roommates as a money-making scheme. The two are a surprisingly great match as roommates, and they end up becoming unlikely friends as well.
For Adults fans who love watching the characters try to raise money with plans like selling Samir’s parents’ gun and trying to blackmail Billie’s boss, Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 will be a very fun next watch. The series has a wildly bizarre sense of humor, with episodes that show Chloe ruining people’s lives as a Halloween prank and impulsively tricking June into fleeing to the Hamptons for a weekend trip.
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‘Happy Endings’
3 seasons
Happy Endings follows an extremely close-knit friend group: Jane (Eliza Coupe), Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.), Penny (Casey Wilson), Max (Adam Pally), Dave (Zachary Knighton), and Alex (Elisha Cuthbert). When Alex suddenly leaves Dave at the altar, the rest of their friends struggle with the awkwardness and constant fighting while trying to all keep their friend group together.
At the heart of both Adults and Happy Endings are a friend group where everyone is more than a little bit obsessed with each other. Like the Adults characters have a routine where they regularly use their house meetings to hold each other accountable to their goals, the Happy Endings friend group has a number of rituals. They have their own shorthand, regular holidays, and traditions that they honor on very specific occasions.