If You Loved the Office, Watch These Shows Next

The obvious one. Greg Daniels and Michael Schur created both, and the DNA is identical: mockumentary format, an ensemble of workplace weirdos, a protagonist who is either the heart of the show or a walking disaster depending on the episode. Parks and Rec has Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), a bureaucrat at the Pawnee, Indiana parks department who is aggressively, almost pathologically optimistic about local government.

The catch: season 1 is rough. Six episodes of Amy Poehler doing a watered-down Michael Scott impression. Push through to season 2 and then you're done for. The show finds its voice fast — Leslie stops being a joke and becomes the reason you watch, Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) becomes an icon, and the show basically invents a new way of being a workplace comedy. Less cringe, more warmth. All seven seasons are on Peacock.

This is the one. Abbott Elementary is a mockumentary set in an underfunded Philadelphia public school, created by and starring Quinta Brunson as Janine Teagues, a second-grade teacher who is relentlessly, sometimes infuriatingly optimistic about a job that keeps failing her.

If you loved The Office for the specific experience of watching someone keep their chin up inside a broken institution, this is that show, except better-written and with something more genuine to say. The principal, Ava Coleman (Janelle James), is doing a bit that could have gone wrong in a hundred ways and somehow never does. Season 5 premiered in October 2025 on ABC. New episodes land on Hulu the day after they air.

And here's the detail worth knowing: Randall Einhorn, who directed half of the best Office episodes, is an executive producer on Abbott Elementary. The mockumentary camerawork feels exactly right because the same person is doing it.

Cloud 9 is a Walmart-sized megastore in St. Louis. The employees are America Ferrera as Amy, a sharp floor worker who never planned to stay; Ben Feldman as Jonah, an idealist who talks too much; and a rotating cast of coworkers who range from genuinely sweet to deeply strange.

Superstore ran six seasons on NBC from 2015 to 2021 and never got close to the cultural footprint it deserved. Which is frustrating, because the show is consistently excellent — especially in seasons 2 through 4, when it starts taking on immigration, unionization, and retail labor in a way that feels real without ever getting preachy. It's a funnier show than it has any right to be given the material, and the Amy/Jonah relationship earns its payoff in a way the Jim/Pam arc arguably didn't. All six seasons are on Peacock and Hulu.

Not a workplace comedy, technically. What We Do in the Shadows follows a group of vampire roommates in Staten Island as they navigate modern life. The mockumentary format is the same, the documentary crew is the same premise, and the comedy of watching ancient creatures fail at ordinary situations maps directly to watching Michael Scott fail at ordinary management.

The show is in its sixth season and has gotten genuinely strange in the best way — there are episodes that would not work in any other format on television. Kayvan Novak as Nandor is one of the great comedic performances of the last decade, and nobody talks about it enough. Everything is on Hulu.

Not a mockumentary, not a workplace show. But if what you loved about The Office was the found-family arc — the idea that a random group of people forced together ends up meaning something to each other — Schitt's Creek delivers that more cleanly than almost anything else.

The Rose family loses everything and lands in a town they once bought as a joke. Six seasons of them slowly becoming people who would choose to stay. Dan Levy and Eugene Levy are genuinely funny together in a way that doesn't feel like a bit, and Moira Rose (Catherine O'Hara) has lines that will make you pause and rewind. The finale is one of the most satisfying in recent TV. Stream it on Hulu or Peacock.