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High Tides moves at the pace of a long summer afternoon, letting its teenage characters drift between friendship and first-love feelings without forcing any of it toward a tidy resolution. The Belgian seaside setting keeps everything close and unhurried, the kind of small world where the same faces keep turning up and every small moment carries a little more weight than it would elsewhere.
What the characters are working through is mostly internal: questions about who they are and where they belong, rather than crises imposed from outside. Romantic and platonic feelings develop alongside each other, neither one crowding out the other, and the show stays genuinely hopeful without smoothing over the uncertainty that makes that age feel so unsteady.
sunny coming-of-age, summer friendship and Drama
Drama
Season 3 · 8 episodes
VRT 1
Follows a group of teenagers as they spend the summer at the Belgian seaside while searching for love, friendship and most importantly, for themselves.
Start with the closest match, then check out two more shows with a similar feel, pace, mood, or theme.
Three close friends set off on a journey to Ayvalik and then to their reshaped future.
Another Self brings the same warm, unhurried summer feeling as High Tides, with friendship doing the heavy lifting as characters reset their lives. Close female bonds, family pressure, and small-town routines create cozy emotional momentum, then the healing lands quietly, not explosively.
A love triangle between one girl and two brothers. A story about first love, first heartbreak, and the magic of that one perfect summer.
The Summer I Turned Pretty matches High Tides with a summer setting where romance and friendship grow side by side, and every choice feels personal. The beach-town closeness, family tension, and lingering first-love heartbreak keep the pacing tender and addictive, with more dramatic stakes and sharper longing than High Tides.
After moving to a quiet rural town to heal from past heartbreak, a withdrawn teacher slowly rediscovers warmth and joy through her unexpected connection with a rough-around-the-edges but kindhearted local man.
Spring Fever shares High Tides’ gentle, feel-good pace, focusing on self-discovery through everyday moments rather than big plot fireworks. Guarded hearts thaw with rural backdrop warmth, small jokes, and slow-burn tension, but it leans lighter and more romcom than the beach coming-of-age drama.
