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Sweet Magnolias

★ 7.3 29K votes 2020–present 5 seasons · 50 episodes Returning Series Netflix
Small townA tight community where everyone knows everyone.This show: 9/10FriendshipA friend group's dynamics carry the show.This show: 9/10Warm glowQuiet happiness, the TV equivalent of a hug.This show: 8/10CozyGentle, low-stakes comfort you can safely relax into.This show: 8/10Feel-goodReliably uplifting television that leaves you lighter than it found you.This show: 8/10WholesomeKindness and decency at the core, with barely a trace of cynicism.This show: 8/10Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 8/10Easy watchingLow-demand television where half your attention is enough.This show: 8/10
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Starring
JoAnna Garcia SwisherBrooke ElliottHeather HeadleyLogan AllenAnneliese JudgeJamie Lynn Spears
Written by
Sheryl J. Anderson
Starring
JoAnna Garcia SwisherBrooke ElliottHeather HeadleyLogan AllenAnneliese JudgeJamie Lynn Spears
Written by
Sheryl J. Anderson
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"Small-town comfort drama built on friendship and sweet tea"

Three childhood best friends in a small South Carolina town navigate marriages, careers, and grown kids after one of them opens a spa that becomes the community's social hub. Based on Sherryl Woods' novels, it's unabashedly cozy small-town drama, heavy on Southern charm, sweet-tea porches, and soap-opera romantic entanglements. The pace is gentle and episodic, leaning on warm friendships and scenic small-town Americana rather than tension or surprise. It's comfort viewing meant to be half-watched while folding laundry, carried by likable leads and low-stakes melodrama rather than sharp writing.

Watch it for

the warm, low-stakes friendship dynamic between the three leads carries every episode.

Maybe skip if

you find predictable romantic melodrama and gentle pacing more sleepy than soothing.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

Season 12020
7.74K108h 3m
Lifelong friends Maddie, Helen and Dana Sue lift each other up as they juggle relationships, family and careers in the small, Southern town of Serenity.
Season 22022
7.63K108h 24m
Together, the Magnolias work through new relationships, old wounds and town politics as the sweet parts of life blend with the salty and the sour.
Season 32023
7.72K108h 31m
In the aftermath of the fight at Sullivan's, the Magnolias face new struggles as heartache and family drama put their relationships to the test.
Season 42025
7.82K108h 18m
It's a very Serenity holiday season as the Magnolias weather a tragedy, a town crisis and a fierce storm in the weeks from Halloween to Christmas.
Season 52026
7.7787107h 48m

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

JoAnna Garcia Swisher Maddie Townsend
Brooke Elliott Dana Sue Sullivan
Heather Headley Helen Decatur
Logan Allen Kyle Townsend
Anneliese Judge Annie Sullivan
Jamie Lynn Spears Noreen Fitzgibbons
Justin Bruening Cal Maddox
Dion Johnstone Erik Whitley
Chris Medlin Isaac Downey
Brandon Quinn Ronnie Sullivan

Crew

Sheryl J. Anderson

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