18 TV Shows You’ll Love as an INFP
As an INFP, when you open up Netflix or Prime Video or HBO Max, you’re looking for something that will make you feel. Not just a tiny, polite emotion, but a massive, soul-shaking wave of feeling. As an INFP, your brain is kind of like a factory that produces daydreams, deep empathy, and a very specific brand of quirky humor. You need shows with emotional depth, imaginative storytelling, and characters you want to wrap in a warm blanket and protect at all costs.
But finding a good show is hard. We live in an era of formulaic, cookie-cutter TV. You sit on the couch, scroll through a streaming menu, and feel your eyes glaze over at the surface-level entertainment that feels completely hollow. My INFP clients will tell me they spent two hours looking for a show, got overwhelmed by the sheer blandness of it all, and ended up re-watching a comfort movie from 2004. You need weirdness. You need heart. You need a story that actually understands what it means to be human.
To save you from the endless scroll, I asked a bunch of INFPs what they actually watch. These 18 shows come highly recommended by people who share your specific, wonderful brain wiring.
18 TV Shows You’ll Love as an INFP
Stranger Things
The Gist: A group of nerdy kids in the 1980s fights terrifying interdimensional monsters to save their small town.
Why INFPs love it: This show is catnip for your inner child. You get to watch a group of outsiders form an unbreakable bond. You love the found-family trope, and seeing these kids fiercely protect each other hits right in your empathy center. It balances scary monsters with incredibly tender moments. Plus, you absolutely relate to Will Byers just wanting to play Dungeons & Dragons while the rest of the world goes crazy.
Twin Peaks
The Gist: An eccentric FBI agent investigates the murder of a homecoming queen in a logging town filled with incredibly weird people.
Why INFPs love it: It makes absolutely no logical sense, and you love that. You live for the surrealism. You appreciate a show that asks, “What if a log had feelings?” and expects you to take it seriously. Agent Cooper is a deeply moral, weirdly optimistic guy who talks to his tape recorder, and you probably see some of your own quirks in him. It feels like a strange dream you never want to wake up from.
The Haunting of Hill House
The Gist: A fractured family confronts the literal and figurative ghosts of their past after growing up in the most famous haunted house in the country.
Why INFPs love it: You know that ghosts are just trauma with better branding. While other types might just watch this to get scared, you watch it to cry about generational pain. The show perfectly captures how grief isolates people. You will connect deeply with characters like Nell and Luke, who feel the world too intensely and get crushed by it. It is a horror story wrapped in a giant, tragic hug.
Fleabag
The Gist: A dry-witted, self-loathing, grief-riddled woman tries to make sense of her life and her fractured family in London.
Why INFPs love it: Fleabag looks raunchy on the service. I put off watching it for years because I thought it would just be cringey. But nothing prepared me for the depth and gravity that Fleabag brought to the table. The show perfectly captures the messy, contradictory nature of wanting to be loved while simultaneously pushing everyone away. The vulnerability hidden under her sharp jokes and the ENTP way Fleabag irreverently pokes fun at society while struggling to understand her own inner feelings will appeal to your love for complex, nuanced characters battling their inner demons.
Adventure Time
The Gist: A human boy and his magical, shape-shifting dog go on quests in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo.
Why INFPs love it: It looks like a bright, goofy cartoon for kids, but it hides massive, existential themes. From listening to INFPs talk, it seems that they love bright colors wrapped around mild depression. The show asks huge questions about identity, memory, and loss. You will happily follow Finn and Jake through totally absurd situations because the emotional core of the show is always genuine. It honors your need for pure imagination.
The Umbrella Academy
The Gist: Seven highly dysfunctional, super-powered siblings reunite after their awful adoptive father dies to stop an impending apocalypse.
Why INFPs love it: These are the most emotionally damaged superheroes ever put on screen. You love a good misfit. Nobody here has their life together, and their powers often feel like massive burdens rather than cool gifts. Klaus, with his chaotic energy and deep sorrow, will probably become your favorite character instantly. You understand the pain of feeling like you do not belong, even within your own family.
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Gist: A young monk must master four elemental powers to stop a ruthless, militaristic nation from conquering the world.
Why INFPs love it: Do not let the animated format fool you. This show has a better moral compass than most adult dramas. Aang is a pacifist who just wants to ride giant animals and make friends, which is basically the INFP dream. You will completely absorb the spiritual philosophies and the intense character growth. Watching a grumpy, angry teenager like Zuko slowly learn how to be a good person will make your heart physically hurt, but in a good way.
Doctor Who
The Gist: A time-traveling alien picks up ordinary human companions and whisks them away in a blue police box to fight monsters and save planets.
Why INFPs love it: The Doctor is a lonely wanderer who solves problems with curiosity, empathy, and a sonic screwdriver instead of a gun. You crave the boundless imagination of traveling anywhere in space and time. The show routinely breaks your heart by forcing characters to say terrible, permanent goodbyes. You love the raw emotion. It proves that kindness is the most powerful weapon in the universe.
The Good Place
The Gist: A highly selfish woman dies, accidentally gets sent to a heaven-like utopia, and has to hide her awful behavior so she does not get kicked out.
Why INFPs love it: You spend a lot of time worrying if you are a good person. This show turns that exact anxiety into brilliant comedy. You will laugh at the absurdity of the afterlife while absorbing the deep ethical questions the show asks. You care about personal growth, and watching these flawed humans try so hard to improve themselves gives you hope. It is a smart, sweet show about trying your best.
Anne with an E
The Gist: A fiercely imaginative and very talkative orphan girl accidentally gets adopted by an aging brother and sister in the late 1800s.
Why INFPs love it: Anne is one of you. She talks to trees, uses enormous words to describe small feelings, and feels every emotion at maximum volume. You know exactly what it is like to be told you are “too much.” Watching Anne slowly win over her rigid town through sheer, stubborn optimism is incredibly healing. You will recognize your own childhood daydreams in her dramatic monologues.
Brooklyn 99
The Gist: A talented but childish detective and his bizarre coworkers solve crimes under the watch of their strict, robotic captain.
Why INFPs love it: Most workplace comedies are incredibly cynical. This one is pure, wholesome joy. I was surprised by how many INFPs mentioned this show; a cop sitcom very grounded in action just didn’t seem like the quintessential INFP fare. But again and again INFPs mentioned this as a bit of entertainment that helps them unwind and laugh. The humor is absurd, goofy, and endlessly quotable. It gives you a safe, happy place to rest your brain when the real world feels entirely too heavy.
Fullmetal Alchemist
The Gist: Two brothers use forbidden alchemy to try and bring their dead mother back to life, losing parts of their bodies in the process, and then go on a quest to fix their mistake.
Why INFPs love it: You do not shy away from heavy themes. The bond between Edward and Alphonse (who I think is an INFP) will completely wreck you. You appreciate how the show wrestles with grief, the horrors of war, and the price of playing God. It asks hard questions about what makes us human. The tragedy is thick, but the enduring love between the brothers gives you the emotional anchor you need to keep watching.
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Gist: Three brilliant orphans try to protect their massive inheritance from an evil, theatrically obsessed count who will stop at nothing to steal it.
Why INFPs love it: You have a dark, quirky sense of humor, and this show speaks your language. The adults are completely useless, leaving the kids to solve their own problems through reading, inventing, and biting. You love the deadpan delivery and the weird, grim aesthetic. It validates that feeling you sometimes get where you are the only sane person in a world run by absolute lunatics.
Bob’s Burgers
The Gist: A perpetually stressed man runs a struggling burger joint with his loudly enthusiastic wife and three very strange children.
Why INFPs love it: The Belchers are broke, their restaurant is failing, but they absolutely adore each other. You love how supportive they are of each other’s weird obsessions. Tina’s awkward teenage angst, complete with zombie fan-fiction, is a painfully accurate reflection of INFP adolescence. It shows that you do not need to be normal or successful to be happy, as long as you have people who love your specific brand of crazy.
I Am Not Okay With This
The Gist: An angry, grieving teenager discovers she has telekinetic superpowers that trigger whenever she gets upset.
Why INFPs love it: Teen angst is a familiar flavor for you. You know exactly what it feels like to have emotions so big they feel like they might literally blow a hole in the wall. You will deeply relate to Sydney’s messy friendships, her hidden crushes, and her total inability to express what is going on inside her head. It is raw, funny, and honest about how terrible it feels to grow up.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Gist: A diverse crew explores deep space in the 23rd century, seeking out new life and trying to maintain peace across the galaxy.
Why INFPs love it: You are an idealist. You desperately want to believe humanity can get its act together, eliminate poverty, and explore the stars in peace. The franchise tackles massive moral dilemmas and philosophical questions every week. You love the focus on diplomacy over violence. It is an optimistic, hopeful view of the future that makes you feel a little better about the state of the world today.
Mob Psycho 100
The Gist: A middle school boy with god-like psychic powers tries to suppress his emotions and his abilities so he can live a totally normal life.
Why INFPs love it: Mob just wants to be a good boy, but his feelings keep literally exploding. You know what it is like to suppress your massive feelings to fit in. You will love that Mob does not care about being powerful; he just wants to learn how to talk to his crush and lift weights. The show is about learning to accept your whole self, ugly emotions and all, which is the exact journey you are on.
When the Camellia Blooms
The Gist: A shy, single mother opens a bar in a small Korean town and unwittingly becomes the talk of the town, facing gossip, judgment, and even a lurking serial killer—while a sweet, bumbling policeman keeps showing up to support her (and maybe awkwardly flirt).
Why INFPs love it: This is the definition of a comfort show that isn’t afraid to grow teeth. Camellia is soft but strong, dreamy but determined, and perpetually underestimated by literally everyone except the one person who actually sees her. The show will gently fry your heart in a skillet with its romantic moments, then clobber you with swoopy, real-life struggles about loneliness, found family, and loving people who aren’t always easy to love.
What Do You Think?
Do these shows look appealing to you? Do you have any other recommendations for fellow INFPs? Let us know in the comments!
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