Series to watch if you love Hazbin Hotel

The success of Hazbin Hotel, whose upcoming second season is awaited like the coming of a prophet by its fandom, is one of those heart-warming stories that probably not even creator Vivienne Medrano imagined could reach such levels. Having landed on Prime Video this year, it has already been renewed for a fourth season, given life to a spin-off and hailed as an indispensable cult by millions of people. So that moment has come.

Yes, that one, you know: the one in which I address the aforementioned Hazbin Hotel fandom by recommending 10 other series that they might appreciate. The temptation was to play it safe and only recommend animated series, of what is lately called “adult animation.” However, I decided that it would be too easy, and I also threw a bit of live action into the mix. You can find our recommendations below, in the most classic of alphabetical orders.

10: Crazy Ex Girlfriend

Hazbin Hotel is a series that talks about demons and it does so also through its songs. Crazy Ex Girlfriend is also a musical that talks about demons, in its own way: the internal ones of its protagonist Rebecca Bunch and the large group of extraordinary characters that revolve around her. Try it, and if you like musicals you will not be able to do without it.

9: Disenchantment

From one of the fathers of “adult animation” (Matt Groening, the inventor of the Simpsons, but maybe it didn’t need to be specified), an animated fantasy series that doesn’t talk about Satan and the afterlife, but about equally bizarre and crazy topics and situations. And since it’s a fantasy, it also has a gripping and always surprising horizontal plot. After the first season, people kind of stopped talking about it, and that’s a shame.

8: Good Omens

Based on the novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, but not too subtly distorted for its television version, Good Omens deals with angels and demons with surreal irony – like Hazbin Hotel, in short, but with fewer songs and more time spent in the world of the still-living humans. We await the third season, which will also be the last.

7: Helluva Boss

It is impossible not to mention the spin-off of Hazbin Hotel, set in the same universe but focused on the corporate misadventures of a group of employees of a company that deals with contract killings.

6: Hilda

The adventures of a girl who grew up in the woods of a place that looks a lot like Norway but is never identified as such, and who moves with her mother to the city - where she will discover that strange creatures do not live only in the wild. There is also a movie, which is placed between the second and third seasons: catch up on everything, as soon as possible.

5: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

There is no hell but there is still the post-apocalypse, in this series created by Radford Sechrist starting from his web comic. More adventurous and classically young adult than Hazbin Hotel, always imbued with optimism and neon colors, it is also one of the most psychedelic and delirious animated series of recent years.

4: Lucifer

It has become a classic by now: released in 2016, completed in 2021, it focuses on what, if you like, is the father of the protagonist of Hazbin Hotel – that is Lucifer, obviously. Someone even tried to censor it because it portrayed Satan as a lovable character: if that's not enough to pique your curiosity…

3: The Good Place

It shares the setting with Hazbin Hotel (the afterlife and its power structures), but compared to Vivienne Medrano’s series it is more meditative and philosophical – literally, since almost every episode contains at least one moment in which the characters discuss philosophical topics, from the meaning of life to free will to the nature of altruism. A masterpiece, with one of the best finales in recent years of television.

2: The Owl House

The story of a girl who accidentally ends up in Hell and, instead of panicking, decides she wants to become a witch despite not having magical powers. At least that's the beginning of the story, which over the course of its three seasons takes increasingly unexpected and adventurous directions.

1: Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

I opened with a live action series that was half musical, I close… with the same thing: in the series created by Austin Winsberg, Jane Levy plays a girl who discovers she can read minds – only everything she discovers is presented to her in the form of a song. More optimistic and less psychologically oppressive than Crazy Ex Girlfriend, it also gave birth to a Christmas movie, Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas.