24 Shows Like "Gilmore Girls" For When You're Craving a Comfort Watch — or a Bit of Drama

What does a steamy medical drama have in common with "Gilmore Girls"? Like Amy Sherman-Palladino, Shonda Rhimes has created a world filled with complicated women including Meredith Grey, Miranda Bailey, and Cristina Yang. While the medical drama creates a level of devastation and sadness that's not often at the forefront of "Gilmore Girls," "Grey's Anatomy" also embraces familiar themes of love and friendship. If you're looking for more heartbreak than Emily Gilmore passive-aggressively turning her back on Lorelai, you will definitely get more drama with the deaths and disasters on "Grey's." And if you've ever wished "Gilmore Girls" was twice as long, you'll have many, many episodes of "Grey's Anatomy" to binge.