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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.
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 and High Tides both deliver warm, unhurried summer drama where friendship does the heavy lifting. Close female bonds, family messiness, and quiet healing play out in a small-town rhythm that feels intimate, even when romance and old hurts tug at the edges.
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 brings the same summer-long emotional focus as High Tides, with first-love feelings and family closeness front and center. The beach setting stretches every awkward glance into real heartbreak, and the love-triangle pressure adds sharper tension than High Tides’ gentler self-discovery.
After moving to a quiet rural town to heal from past heartbreak, a withdrawn teacher slowly rediscovers warmth and joy through her unexpected connection with a rough-around-the-edges but kindhearted local man.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’ slow-bloom comfort, watching young people find themselves through small moments and steady warmth. Guarded hearts thaw with gentle rural romcom pacing, trading High Tides’ beach-coming-of-age searching for a lighter, more low-conflict romance glow.
