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A year-long wait for your favourite Netflix shows can look like a lot of things, from patiently marking the calendar to impatiently joining re-watch parties.

But when the series actually returns, just like the hilarious sitcom Leanne did, you finish it at the first chance you get, resetting the cycle of anticipation while craving more. Although it’s just the paradox of the streaming era, undoing the deed is not an option.

What you can do instead is opt for a marathon of Netflix shows that either share the core relatable humour or simply the focal reminder that it’s never too late to reinvent yourself.

So, if you want more titles on your watchlist to capture the same comedic energy, relatable life reboots, and crazy-but-lovable family dynamics, here are five Netflix shows to stream after completing the second season of Leanne.

Five Netflix shows to binge after Leanne:

A Man on the Inside (2024-Present)

If you want a Netflix show with the same gentle, feel-good comedic pacing and focus on older adults reinventing their lives, A Man on the Inside is just the follow-up you might be unknowingly looking for. The spy comedy drama stars Ted Danson as a recent widower and retired engineering professor, Charles Niwendyck, who gets a new lease on life when he answers an ad from a private investigator after his daughter suggests he get a new hobby, real purpose.

He is quickly hired by Julie, the no-nonsense private eye, to act as her “man on the inside” to solve the theft of a valuable family heirloom necklace. While Charles is required to pose as a new resident of the Pacific View Retirement Community in the debut season of A Man on the Inside, the second season had him taking on more serious reins as Julie dispatches him to impersonate an engineering professor to investigate acts of theft and vandalism targeting a controversial, abrasive major donor.

Grace and Frankie (2015-2022)

Leanne shows what it’s like to navigate unprecedented late-in-life singlehood and still keep the door open to companionship despite heartbreak. In a way, Grace and Frankie too heavily leans into women navigating unexpected single life with heart and humour, focusing on the need to find a support system, the quirkier, the better. The Netflix comedy series follows Grace Hanson, a retired cosmetics mogul, and Frankie Bergstein, a bohemian artist, whose lives are upended when their husbands announce they are in love and plan to marry.

While the two women have historically harboured mutual dislike towards one another, they are forced to share a beach house to steer the emotional fallout as they find themselves overwhelmed with difficult questions they don’t have answers to. Grace and Frankie revolves around the pair’s journey over seven seasons as they evolve into unlikely best friends and business partners from once uneasy roommates, unknowingly offering one another an opportunity to start anew.

Mom (2013-2021)

Although not exactly a Netflix original, the CBS sitcom Mom is created by the co-creator of Leanne, Chuck Lorre and happens to be available on the platform, giving fans a perfect opportunity to dive into his signature rapid-fire humour in a different setting. The laugh-out-loud comedy series follows newly sober single mother Christy Plunkett, working as a waitress in Napa, California, who tries to turn her life and dysfunctional family around.

While sobriety is easier said than done, Christy has to deal with her passive-aggressive, recovering-alcoholic mother, Bonnie, at the same time, navigating an unbelievably complicated relationship dynamic. Mom explores three generations of familial dysfunction – Christy, her teenage daughter Violet, and Bonnie – who make repetitive bad decisions, facing recurring cycles of addiction and teen pregnancy until the all-women support network Alcoholics Anonymous takes centre stage.

The Ranch (2016-2020)

While The Ranch has a slightly more rustic, blue-collar ranch setting in Colorado instead of the Southern charm emotive of Leanne, the multi-cam comedy shares several similarities with comedian Leanne Morgan’s sitcom, including resets, messy divorces, complex family dynamics, and late-in-life reboots. The Netflix comedy follows former high school and semi-pro football star Colt Bennet, who returns to his family’s struggling Iron River Ranch in the small fictional town of Garrison.

After years away pursuing a fading athletic career, Colt tries his best to fit into rural life and help run the family business with his weathered, traditionalist father, Beau, and his cynical older brother, Rooster, navigating chaotic family dysfunction, financial strain, and fractured relationships. Although The Ranch primarily centres on Colt’s efforts at reintegrating himself into the life he left, the series explores the friction between modern realities and old-school rugged individualism that consumes him daily.

One Day at a Time (2017-2020)

To end the post-Leanne watch party, we recommend One Day at a Time, the contemporary reimagining of the classic 1960s sitcom. The multi-cam comedy centres on newly single Army veteran and nurse Penelope Alvarez as she navigates the daily chaos of civilian life, working demanding shifts, managing her PTSD from military service, and steering two strong-willed teenagers through modern adolescent struggles.

Living under one roof, the multi-generational Alvarez household juggles old-school Cuban heritage with progressive American livelihoods, sparking frequent clashes that carry equal parts heart and humour. One Day at a Time handles heavy life moments with light-heartedness and relatable wit as the tight-knit, hilarious family structure, similar to the clan surrounding Leanne, goes all out to make viewers feel right at home.