01 A single mother pretends to be younger to restart her career, and love complicates things fast.
10 Best Romantic Comedy TV Series
By Vlad Zakh · August 25, 2026
New Girl and How I Met Your Mother built ensembles around will-they-won’t-they, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend made the genre’s own tropes the joke, and Sex and the City remains the show most people measure the genre against. Younger sees a single mother pose as younger to restart her career, Jane the Virgin plays a telenovela premise straight, Insatiable is a dark satirical spin, and Girls is messier and less romantic, which is its appeal. Never Have I Ever and Emily in Paris round out the list.
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02 A telenovela premise played completely straight, funny and genuinely romantic all at once.
03 A dark, satirical spin on the genre that leans hard into its own absurdity.
04 Messier and less romantic than the genre norm, which is exactly its appeal.
05 A teen romantic comedy with real emotional stakes underneath the jokes.
06 Glossy, low-stakes romantic comedy built for pure escapism.
07 Still the show most people measure the entire romantic-comedy genre against.
08 A musical comedy that's smarter about romantic obsession than almost anything in the genre.
09 A framing device built entirely around one long romantic mystery.
10 A loft full of flatmates whose friendships slowly, believably become something more.
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