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If #LOVE is on your watchlist for its mix of dating-app rivalry, startup ambition and the question of whether algorithms can really understand human attraction, there is plenty to watch around it. The Indian romantic comedy, arriving globally on Netflix, follows rival entrepreneurs Tara Krishnan and Matthew Jebaraj, whose competing dating platforms turn a business argument into a rather inconvenient romantic experiment.
Tara trusts data and compatibility through FOUND, while Matthew backs instinct and immediate chemistry through Find My Bae. Their 60-day dating challenge puts both theories under rather personal scrutiny. With Aishwarya Lekshmi and Arjun Das leading the series, #LOVE has a particularly modern setup, but its ingredients are hardly limited to one show. These 21 series explore dating apps, workplace attraction, matchmaking, technology, ambitious professionals and the eternal problem of two people trying to work out whether they actually like each other.
Shows Like #LOVE
1. Love Alarm (2019)
Love Alarm is probably one of the closest matches if the technology-and-romance side of #LOVE is what interests you most. The South Korean series imagines an app that tells users when somebody nearby has romantic feelings for them.
It turns attraction into something measurable, creating the same basic tension found in Tara and Matthew's disagreement: can technology identify genuine love, or does romance remain stubbornly complicated? There is also plenty of emotional confusion because, naturally, giving humans an app to solve their love lives does not exactly make everything easier.
2. The One (2021)
The One takes the idea of algorithmic matchmaking considerably further. The British science-fiction drama revolves around a company claiming it can identify a person's perfect romantic match through DNA. That makes it a more serious and darker cousin to #LOVE, but the central question is remarkably similar.
If science can supposedly tell you who belongs with you, what happens when your actual feelings refuse to follow the results? The series mixes romance, technology and corporate ambition, making it an interesting choice for viewers drawn to the matchmaking business at the heart of #LOVE.
3. Upload (2020)
Upload is not primarily a dating series, but its combination of technology, romance and workplace comedy makes it an easy recommendation. The story takes place in a future where people can upload their consciousness into digital afterlife environments.
Romance develops alongside corporate interests, artificial intelligence and increasingly strange questions about what makes a relationship real. Like #LOVE, it enjoys putting human emotions inside a world designed around technology. The difference is that #LOVE asks whether an algorithm can find love, while Upload asks whether love can survive when practically everything else has become digital.
4. Starstruck (2021)
Starstruck swaps dating technology for a much more traditional romantic complication: two people meet, have an unexpectedly great time together and then discover that life has made things unnecessarily awkward. The British romantic comedy follows Jessie, whose casual encounter with a famous actor becomes much more complicated than expected. Its charm comes from messy conversations and believable relationship problems rather than grand romantic gestures. For viewers interested in the personal side of #LOVE, particularly the chemistry versus compatibility debate, Starstruck offers a warmer and more grounded alternative.
5. Nobody Wants This (2024)
Nobody Wants This centres on an unlikely relationship between a podcaster and a rabbi whose very different lives create plenty of friction. There is no dating-app competition here, but the series shares #LOVE's interest in people discovering that attraction does not always respect carefully constructed plans. The relationship is constantly tested by family, social expectations and incompatible lifestyles. It is also funny in the way good romantic comedies should be: people make questionable decisions, say the wrong thing and then have to live with the consequences. Romance, apparently, remains undefeated by common sense.
6. Love Life (2020)
Love Life follows Darby Carter through different relationships as she tries to understand what she actually wants from love. Rather than focusing on one romantic pairing, the anthology-style structure looks at how several relationships shape a person's eventual understanding of themselves. That makes it relevant to #LOVE's central question about compatibility. Finding a partner is one thing; figuring out why a particular relationship works or falls apart is another. #LOVE approaches the issue through competing dating philosophies, while Love Life takes the more personal route.
7. The Hook Up Plan (2018)
French romantic comedy The Hook Up Plan follows Elsa, whose friends secretly arrange for a male escort to help her get over an ex. Predictably, the plan becomes much less straightforward once genuine feelings enter the equation. The series has the same playful interest in modern dating and the ridiculous strategies people use to control romantic outcomes. Where #LOVE places dating inside the world of technology startups, The Hook Up Plan puts it among friendship, dating schemes and emotional chaos. The basic lesson remains familiar: humans are terrible at following the plan when feelings get involved.
8. Modern Love (2019)
Modern Love takes a broader look at relationships through separate stories inspired by different forms of love. Its characters deal with romance, friendship, family and unexpected connections, giving the series a wider emotional scope than #LOVE. Still, it fits because both explore the gap between the tidy explanations people create for relationships and the unpredictable reality of actually falling for somebody. #LOVE asks whether love can be calculated; Modern Love repeatedly demonstrates why that calculation is difficult in the first place.
9. Easy (2016)
Netflix's Easy explores relationships, dating and intimacy through interconnected stories set in Chicago. The series is particularly interested in how modern adults navigate commitment, attraction and communication when nobody seems to have received an instruction manual. That makes it a useful companion to #LOVE, especially for viewers interested in the everyday reality behind modern dating culture rather than simply the glossy startup world. Its characters make mistakes, change their minds and occasionally discover that being honest would have saved everyone several episodes.
10. Dating Around (2019)
If the dating experiment in #LOVE is what caught your attention, Dating Around takes the concept into reality television. Each episode follows a single person going on several dates, with the format exposing the differences between immediate attraction and deeper compatibility. That distinction sits right at the centre of Tara and Matthew's argument. Dating Around removes the fictional startup machinery and simply lets people talk, flirt and occasionally make awkward small talk over dinner. Sometimes the algorithm is apparently called "another person at the table".
11. The Big Door Prize (2023)
The Big Door Prize begins with a mysterious machine that claims to reveal people's true potential. Although romance is only part of the story, the series shares #LOVE's fascination with technology promising answers to questions humans normally have to work out themselves. Its characters start reconsidering their relationships, careers and ambitions after receiving predictions about their futures. For anyone intrigued by #LOVE's argument over whether data can explain human compatibility, this offers a more philosophical and comedic variation on the same idea.
12. Emily in Paris (2020)
Emily in Paris brings together workplace competition, romance and ambitious professionals trying to navigate relationships while building careers. Emily's marketing job places her in an environment where professional disagreements frequently spill into her personal life. That makes it a natural recommendation for the workplace-romance side of #LOVE. The two shows have very different tones and settings, but both understand the comic potential of mixing professional ambition with romantic complications. Because apparently separating work and love is too sensible an idea for television.
13. Start-Up (2020)
South Korean drama Start-Up is a particularly strong choice for viewers who enjoy the entrepreneurial setting of #LOVE. It follows young founders trying to build companies in the competitive technology sector while their personal relationships become increasingly complicated. Romance is woven directly into professional ambition, creating the same kind of collision between business and feelings that drives Tara and Matthew's story. The focus is broader and more dramatic than #LOVE's romantic comedy approach, but the startup environment gives the two shows a clear connection.
14. Business Proposal (2022)
Business Proposal combines office romance, corporate rivalry, mistaken identity and comedy into one very efficient package. The story begins when a woman attends a blind date in place of her friend, only to discover that the man she is supposed to reject is her company's CEO. The premise is far more chaotic than the carefully constructed dating theories in #LOVE, but both shows put professional relationships directly alongside romantic ones. If workplace romance and quick-witted comedy are your priority, this one belongs firmly on the list.
15. Love to Hate You (2023)
South Korean romantic comedy Love to Hate You follows a lawyer and a famous actor who have very different attitudes towards relationships. Their initial distrust gradually turns into something neither of them planned for. The series fits #LOVE through its focus on opposing ideas about romance and the way those ideas become harder to defend once genuine attraction enters the picture. It also has a strong professional setting, giving the relationship more than just romantic stakes.
16. Crash Course in Romance (2023)
Crash Course in Romance pairs a former athlete running a side-dish shop with a famous private maths instructor. Their relationship develops despite very different routines and personalities, creating a romance based less on perfect compatibility and more on unexpected chemistry. That makes it an interesting counterpoint to #LOVE's central debate. Tara believes compatibility can be understood through data, while this series repeatedly shows how difficult it is to predict whom someone will actually connect with.
17. My Holo Love (2020)
My Holo Love brings artificial intelligence directly into the romantic equation. A lonely woman becomes connected to an advanced holographic AI, creating a complicated relationship involving technology, identity and human emotion. It shares #LOVE's interest in the point where digital systems collide with genuine feelings. The premise is much more science-fiction driven, but the underlying question remains familiar: if technology can understand us extraordinarily well, does that mean it can understand love?
18. The Flatshare (2022)
The Flatshare follows two strangers who share a flat but rarely occupy it at the same time, communicating through notes and gradually developing a relationship. The setup is less technologically ambitious than #LOVE, but it has the same interest in how connection can develop through unusual systems of communication. Instead of an algorithm deciding compatibility, the characters slowly build an understanding through messages. It is a quieter, more intimate version of the same basic question: what actually creates a connection between two people?
19. Love Is Blind (2020)
Love Is Blind turns dating into an experiment by asking whether people can fall in love without seeing each other first. Participants communicate from separate pods before deciding whether to become engaged, with physical attraction deliberately removed from the opening stage.
That makes it particularly relevant to #LOVE's argument between measurable compatibility and immediate chemistry. The formats are obviously very different, but both are fascinated by whether romance can be tested under controlled conditions. Television has apparently decided that normal dating is not stressful enough.
20. Younger (2015)
Younger mixes workplace comedy, ambition, romance and identity into a story about a woman who lies about her age to restart her career in publishing. As professional relationships become increasingly tangled with personal ones, romance repeatedly interferes with career plans.
It does not have the dating-app premise of #LOVE, but it shares the show's interest in ambitious adults attempting to manage work and relationships simultaneously. The resulting complications are funny precisely because almost nobody manages either side as neatly as they intended.
21. The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022)
The Summer I Turned Pretty is more of a coming-of-age romantic drama, but it belongs here because its central relationships repeatedly challenge the idea that attraction can be neatly understood. The story follows Belly as her relationships with Conrad and Jeremiah evolve over several summers.
Unlike #LOVE, there are no competing dating platforms or corporate wagers, yet the emotional triangle explores the same fundamental tension between what looks right on paper and what a person actually feels. Sometimes there is no algorithm capable of surviving a love triangle.
#LOVE has a genuinely useful hook for a romantic comedy because the dating-app premise is not simply decoration around another predictable workplace romance. Tara and Matthew actually disagree about what makes relationships work, giving the story a built-in argument that can keep the comedy moving even when the romance becomes obvious.
The FOUND-versus-Find My Bae rivalry also gives the series a contemporary setting without requiring it to become a full technology drama. The 60-day challenge is where things should get especially entertaining, because two people confident enough to build dating empires are suddenly forced to test their own theories.
That sounds like the sort of experiment that looks brilliant in a pitch meeting and considerably less brilliant once feelings become involved. If that combination of romance, workplace rivalry, dating technology and chemistry-versus-compatibility is what attracts you to #LOVE, these 21 shows offer plenty of different ways to keep the argument going.
With #LOVE arriving on Netflix on 2 October 2026, the wait gives viewers plenty of time to work through this list. Some lean heavily into dating technology, others focus on office romance, while several simply ask why people continue making complicated decisions when they could theoretically just communicate. Which of these shows would you put at the top of your watchlist after #LOVE, and which one do you think deserves to be added to the list? Share your picks — and, ideally, your reasons — because apparently even choosing what to watch now needs a compatibility test.