20 Best Romance TV Shows on Hulu 2026
Find 20 Hulu series with chemistry, heart, and drama, from New Girl and Castle to Buffy, The Good Place, and more binge-worthy picks.
If you want a show that mixes attraction, chemistry, and real emotional payoff, this guide to the best romance TV shows on Hulu is a great place to start. The lineup goes beyond straight love stories, with playful picks like New Girl, How I Met Your Mother, and The Good Place, plus soapy favorites such as Desperate Housewives and Married at First Sight. You will also find shows where romance shares the spotlight with suspense or supernatural twists, including Castle and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For viewers who like their relationship drama with family chaos, Modern Family brings plenty of warmth and heart. Whether you want comedy, fantasy, mystery, or a little of everything, these Hulu picks make it easy to find your next watch.
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The Apothecary Diaries
animation · drama · history · mystery · romance
Maomao lived a peaceful life with her apothecary father. Until one day, she's sold as a lowly servant to the emperor's palace. But she wasn't meant for a compliant life among royalty. So when imperial heirs fall ill, she decides to step in and find a cure! This catches the eye of Jinshi, a handsome palace official who promotes her. Now, she's making a name for herself solving medical mysteries!
Directed by Norihiro Naganuma, Akinori Fudesaka, Jun Ôwada, Wataru Nakagawa, Akira KoremotoCast Aoi Yûki, Emi Lo, Takeo Otsuka, Katsuyuki Konishi, Kaiji TangNetflixHuluMore details on IMDb → -
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Modern Family
Won 22 Emmys 3x Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series · 85 nominations
comedy · drama · romance
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Directed by Gail Mancuso, Steven Levitan, Beth McCarthy-Miller, Michael Spiller, Jason WinerCast Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler FergusonHuluPeacock PremiumMore details on IMDb → -
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The Good Place
12 Emmy nominations 3x Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
comedy · drama · fantasy · mystery · romance
Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.
Directed by Dean Holland, Beth McCarthy-Miller, Morgan Sackett, Drew Goddard, Michael SchurCast Kristen Bell, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, D'Arcy Carden, Manny JacintoAmazon Prime VideoHuluPeacock PremiumMore details on IMDb → -
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Won 2 Emmys Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (2000) · 14 nominations
action · adventure · drama · fantasy · horror · romance
Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.
Directed by Joss Whedon, James A. Contner, David Solomon, David Grossman, Michael GershmanCast Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head, James MarstersHuluMore details on IMDb → -
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Castle
4 Emmy nominations
comedy · crime · drama · mystery · romance
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
Directed by Rob Bowman, John Terlesky, Bill Roe, Bryan Spicer, Paul HolahanCast Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Jon Huertas, Seamus Dever, Molly C. QuinnAmazon Prime VideoHuluMore details on IMDb →
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How I Met Your Mother
Won 10 Emmys 4x Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series · 30 nominations
comedy · drama · romance
A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
Directed by Pamela Fryman, Rob Greenberg, Michael J. Shea, Neil Patrick HarrisCast Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson HanniganHuluDisney PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Grey's Anatomy
Won 4 Emmys Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2007) · 40 nominations
drama · romance
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Directed by Kevin McKidd, Debbie Allen, Rob Corn, Chandra Wilson, Allison Liddi-BrownCast Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr., Kevin McKidd, Justin ChambersNetflixHuluDisney PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch
2 Emmy nominations
action · adventure · comedy · drama · family · fantasy · horror · mystery · romance · sci-fi
On her sixteenth birthday, Sabrina Spellman discovers she has magical powers. She lives with her 600-year-old aunts Hilda and Zelda as well as talking cat Salem in the fictional town of Westbridge, Massachusetts.
Directed by Gary Halvorson, Kenneth R. Koch, Brian K. Roberts, Linda Day, Peter BaldwinCast Melissa Joan Hart, Nick Bakay, Caroline Rhea, Beth Broderick, Nate RichertHuluParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Pride and Prejudice
Won 1 Emmy 4 nominations
drama · romance
Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.
Directed by Simon LangtonCast Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, Susannah Harker, Julia Sawalha, Alison SteadmanHuluPeacock PremiumMore details on IMDb → -
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Normal People
4 Emmy nominations
drama · romance
Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other's lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved.
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson, Hettie MacdonaldCast Paul Mescal, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Desmond Eastwood, Aislín McGuckin, Frank BlakeHuluMore details on IMDb → -
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New Girl
5 Emmy nominations Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (2012)
comedy · romance
Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.
Directed by Trent O'Donnell, Erin O'Malley, Jake Kasdan, Fred Goss, Max WinklerCast Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Hannah Simone, Lamorne MorrisHuluPeacock PremiumMore details on IMDb → -
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Once Upon a Time
7 Emmy nominations
adventure · fantasy · romance
There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell.
Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.
Directed by Ralph Hemecker, Ron Underwood, Dean White, Romeo Tirone, Steve PearlmanCast Lana Parrilla, Robert Carlyle, Jared Gilmore, Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer GoodwinHuluMore details on IMDb → -
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Pretty Little Liars
drama · mystery · romance · thriller
Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they begin receiving messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.
Directed by Norman Buckley, Ron Lagomarsino, Chad Lowe, Arlene Sanford, Michael GrossmanCast Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell, Sasha PieterseHuluMaxMore details on IMDb → -
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Dawson's Creek
drama · romance
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.
Directed by Gregory Prange, David Semel, David Petrarca, Michael Lange, Robert Duncan McNeillCast James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson, Mary Beth PeilNetflixHuluMore details on IMDb → -
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Desperate Housewives
Won 7 Emmys Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series (2005) · 38 nominations
comedy · drama · mystery · romance
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.
Directed by David Grossman, Larry Shaw, David Warren, Arlene Sanford, Bethany RooneyCast Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, Ricardo ChaviraAmazon Prime VideoHuluDisney PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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One Tree Hill
drama · romance · sport
In Tree Hill, North Carolina two half brothers share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his skills are appreciated only by his friends at the river court. Popular, affluent Nathan basks in the hero-worship of the town, as the star of his high school team. And both boys are the son of former college ball player Dan Scott whose long ago choice to abandon Lucas and his mother Karen, will haunt him long into his life with wife Deb and their son Nathan.
Directed by Gregory Prange, Paul Johansson, Mark Schwahn, Joe Davola, Thomas J. WrightCast Bethany Joy Lenz, Sophia Bush, James Lafferty, Lee Norris, Paul JohanssonHuluMaxMore details on IMDb → -
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ER
Won 23 Emmys Outstanding Drama Series (1996) · 124 nominations
drama · romance
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
Directed by Christopher Chulack, Jonathan Kaplan, Richard Thorpe, Stephen Cragg, Lesli Linka GlatterCast Noah Wyle, Laura Innes, Laura Cerón, Deezer D, Maura TierneyHuluMaxMore details on IMDb → -
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This Is Us
Won 4 Emmys Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (2017) · 39 nominations
comedy · drama · romance
Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.
Directed by Ken Olin, Chris Koch, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, Kevin HooksCast Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, Justin HartleyHuluMore details on IMDb → -
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Re: Zero - Starting Life in Another World
animation · adventure · drama · fantasy · horror · mystery · romance · thriller
Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she's looking for.
Directed by Masaharu Watanabe, Kazuomi Koga, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya, Yoshinobu Tokumoto, Yoshihito MikamoCast Yûsuke Kobayashi, Sean Chiplock, Rie Takahashi, Kayli Mills, Kôhei AmasakiHuluMore details on IMDb → -
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Love Story
Won 1 Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie (2026) · 7 nominations
biography · drama · romance
An anthology of sweeping true love stories that captured the world’s attention.
Directed by Jesse Peretz, Crystle Roberson Dorsey, Gillian Robespierre, Anthony Hemingway, Max WinklerCast Sarah Pidgeon, Paul Anthony Kelly, Grace Gummer, Ben Shenkman, Alessandro NivolaHuluMore details on IMDb →
Wrapping Up
From funny ensemble comedies to twisty dramas and fantasy-driven love stories, this roundup gives you plenty of options for your next streaming session. The mix of familiar favorites and newer standouts makes it easy to find a show that fits your mood, whether you want something light, emotional, or a little messy in the best way. Bookmark this page and come back whenever you need a fresh pick, because it is updated regularly as the Hulu library changes. With 20 titles to choose from, there is always another relationship to root for.
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