There is no show like This Is Us on television; it’s a wholesome family show that takes you on an emotional rollercoaster. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll be angry all before the hour is up.

However, there are many shows that come close to giving you those same fuzzy feelings and will have you falling in love with the cast as quickly as you fell in love with Pearsons.

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While we’re waiting for This Is Us Season 5 to boot back up (and it’ll be awhile due to the coronavirus postponing productions), you can binge-watch these shows instead. 

They’ll help fill the void and guarantee an ugly-cry or two. Sometimes, a good cry is just necessary! 

1. Parenthood

Before there was This Is Us, there was Parenthood. If you love This Is Us because of how much the Pearson family loves each other and enjoy a good cry then I suggest you meet the Bravermans. This family will leave you teary-eyed within five minutes of watching. You’ll immediately start connecting with the characters and seeing parts of your own family in them. And if you need more convincing, it stars Lauren Graham who plays Lorelai Gilmore on the hit, Gilmore Girls.

2. Chasing Life

Just the premise of the show makes us want to cry: a 20-something-year-old aspiring journalist finds her world is turned upside down when she is diagnosed with cancer. And while cancer in itself is always depressing, the beauty of the series is in how April Carver handles the diagnosis, battles the illness with determination and grace, and finds the will to live when it would be understandable for her to give up. Not to mention she has a good group of gals by her side!

3. One Tree Hill

What started as a story about two small-town step-brothers fighting over a spot on the high-school basketball team grew into a tearjerking drama filled with life lessons, suspenseful twists, betrayals, lifelong friendships and an emphasis on the importance of family. As longtime fans know, there is only one tree hill and it’s your home.

4. Gilmore Girls

Since we’re on the topic, we have to include Gilmore Girls on this list. If by some chance you haven’t gotten sucked in by the mother-daughter dynamic between Lorelai and Rory or by the small town charm, you need to run to Stars Hollow ASAP. Their swift dialogue and close relationship makes us want to be friends with them. It’s actually the reason Netflix revived the show years later. Plus, this is the birthplace of our love for Milo Ventimiglia, who played bad boy Jess, and our coffee addiction.

5. Friday Night Lights

Even if football isn’t your thing, you’ll still be captivated by the high school football team at the heart of the show. There’s definitely a camaraderie around sports, especially in a small town that obsesses over the local team. You’ll get glossy-eyed as these characters deal with family hardships, failure, first love, grief and the realization that the glory of being a high school jock isn’t forever.

6. The Fosters

Freeform shows are good at two things — uniting people and making them cry. Two moms, Stef and Lena, raise a non-traditional family; some biological children, some adoptive and some fosters who have been damaged by the system. With such a mix, the painful storylines are aplenty and emotional struggles and societal issues are at the forefront.

See the full list at TV Fanatic! 

There are so many streaming services to choose from, but that hasn’t stopped more from popping up. 

HBO’s service HBO Max launched this week (May 27), and it’s already offering original movies and shows including hits such as Barry, Big Little Lies, Game of Thrones, Sex and the City, and Westworld. 

The service makes it easier for you to binge-watch all their biggest shows in one place including all your favorite Friends episodes! 

In addition, the service is bringing you the whole Harry Potter catalog on demand! 8 movies to fill your summer!

There are also six brand new HBO Max Originals ready to stream: kids-friendly Craftopia, Anna Kendrick’s Love Life, competition series Legendary, a show for a new generation that needs no introduction, Looney Tunes, Sesame Street’s late night offering The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo, and a documentary on the Russell Simmons sexual assault scandal titled On the Record. 

You can snag HBO Max on iOS and Android, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Apple TV, Android TV, Chromecast and web browsers.

HBO parent company hasn’t come to an agreement with Roku or Amazon, so it will not be available there for the time being. 

Check out the full list below:

May 27
HBO Max Originals
Craftopia
Legendary
Looney Tunes Cartoons
Love Life
The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo
On the Record

Series
The Alienist
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
The Bachelor 
The Bachelor 
The Bachelor Australia
The Bachelor Canada
The Bachelor New Zealand
The Bachelor UK 
The Bachelorette 
The Bachelorette Australia
The Bachelorette Canada
Bachelor Pad
Bachelor in Paradise
Bachelor in Paradise Australia
Batwoman
The Big Bang Theory
The Boondocks
Doctor Who
DC’s Doom Patrol Seasons 1 and 2
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Friends
Ghosts
Home
Impractical Jokers Seasons 1-4
Impractical Jokers: Inside Jokes
Independent
Katy Keene
Lipstick Empire
Luther
Nancy Drew
The O.C.
The Office
Pretty Little Liars
Rick and Morty
Robot Chicken
Sesame Street
Stath Lets Flats
Top Gear Seasons 17-25
Torchwood
Trigonometry

Movies
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Abyss
Agent Cody Banks
Alien
Aliens
Alita: Battle Angel
An American in Paris
American Pie
American Pie 2
American Wedding
Apocalypse Now
Arthur
Aquaman
Babe
Babe: Pig in the City
Bad Education
Batmam vs. Superman
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Blast From the Past
Blood Diamond
Bohemian Rhapsody
Boys Don’t Cry
Braveheart
Bridesmaids
Casablanca
Casino Royale (1967)
Casino Royale (2006)
Cast Away
Citizen Kane
Contagion
Cowboys & Aliens
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Die Hard With a Vengeance
Dodgeball
Downton Abbey
Empire of the Sun
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fast Five
Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Fight Club
The Fighter
Friday the 13th
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Good Boys
Gone with the Wind
The Goonies
Gremlins
Hall Pass
The Hangover Part II
Happily Ever Avatar
A Hard Day’s Night
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II
Hey Arnold! The Movie
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
Howl’s Moving Castle
I Married a Witch
It: Chapter Two
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
Joker
Justice League
King Kong
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Last Tango in Paris
The Lego Batman Movie  
Lego: Batman the Movie: DC Superheroes Unite
The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Lethal Weapon movies
Little Shop of Horrors
Lolita
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
March of the Penguins
The Matrix
The Meg
Modern Times
Monsters Vs. Aliens
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
My Left Foot
My Neighbor Totoro
Network
A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise
North by Northwest
The Outsiders
The Pacifier
Ponyo
Practical Magic
The Predator
Princess Mononoke
Prisoners
Pups United
Quantum of Solace
Ready or Not
Rebel without a Cause
Requiem for a Dream
School of Rock
Scooby-Doo: The Movie
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Shaft
Shazam!
Shooter
Singin’ in the Rain
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Slumdog Millionaire
Sophie’s Choice
Snatchers
Spirited Away
A Star is Born (1954)
A Star Is Born (1976)
A Star Is Born (2018)
Strike Up the Band
Stuber
Sucker Punch
Suicide Squad
Superman movie collection
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Team America: World Police
Teen Titans Go! to the Movies
The Times of Harvey Milk
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Tropic Thunder
V for Vendetta
When Harry Met Sally
Wonder Woman
The Wizard of Oz
X-Men: Dark Phoenix

During the WizardWorld-hosted virtual reunion for the cast of The Vampire Diaries, the Salvatore brothers, Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley, who played Damon and Stefan Salvatore, respectively, revealed the name of their joint bourbon brand. 

The brand is called “Brother’s Bond,” Ian revealed, adding that it pays tribute to the alcoholic drink that bonded their characters on The CW series from 2009 to 2017. 

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Here it is. Our passion. Our baby. Ladies and gentlemen please meet, Brother’s Bond Bourbon. Time, quality and passion distilled for you and me. We appreciate your support more than you know. If you are 21 years or older in the United States or legal drinking age in your home country please Go to: Brothersbondbourbon.com to sign up. We can’t wait to share with you! Please share this website address with friends and family. Let’s bond. Love, Ian and Paul

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“Here it is. Our passion. Our baby,” Ian wrote on Instagram. 

“Time, quality, and passion distilled for you and me,” he added adding that anyone over the age of 21 can go to brothersbondbourbon.com to sign up.

The duo announced that they were developing the liquor in September of 2019.  “Can you imagine if the Salvatore brothers had their OWN bourbon? Well, it’s coming! @paulwesley and I have been working our asses off with our incredible team to make this happen,” Ian wrote on Instagram at the time. 

During the Twitch stream on May 27, the actors revealed that they’ve been developing the taste from the ground up and ensuring it was smooth and sweet on the palate.  

“Every single aspect of this we designed ourselves,” Somerhalder said during the virtual reunion, which also included Steven R. McQueen (Jeremy Gilbert), Zach Roerig (Matt Donovan), and Michael Trevino (Tyler Lockwood), among others. 

“This is our baby,” Ian said from his Airstream. He explained that the bourbon is a culmination of their hard work and journey together.

If you were a fan of TVD, you know that bourbon bonded the brothers and defined their kinship. They may have disagreed on a lot, but they always agreed on bourbon. 

It’s unclear when the brand will be available in stores, but we’ll update as soon as we find out!