25 Netflix shows to watch if you miss Friends

Netflix shows like Friends: Dead to Me

Seasons: 3

Created By: Liz Feldman

Starring: Christina Applegate, Linda Cardellini, James Marsden, Max Jenkins, Sam McCarthy, Luke Roessler

When you look at Friends and Dead to Me side by side, they couldn’t be more different. (Say that in the signature inflection of one Chandler Bing.) One’s a traditional multi-cam sitcom that’s as light as a feather, and the other is a dark tragicomedy about trauma and murder. What do these two shows have in common that could entice Friends fans to watch?

Obviously, it’s the fact that Dead to Me stars arguably the greatest Friends guest star of all time, Christina Applegate! In seasons 9 and 10, Applegate appears in two episodes as Amy Green, the conceited older sister of Rachel. The TV veteran won a well-deserved Emmy Award for her performance in the season 9 episode “The One with Rachel’s Other Sister.”

Since 2019, Applegate has starred alongside fellow film and television favorite Linda Cardellini in Dead to Me as Jen, a mourning widow looking for the truth about her husband’s death. While you won’t necessarily get the comforting, carefree humor of Friends, you will get Applegate taking Amy Green to hilariously explicit heights in the amazing and soon-to-be over Netflix original.

Dead to Me season 3 is coming to Netflix soon.