Women like Margot

How we chose them

We did not pick by looks or by tag. We picked by premise: a woman whose job, family position or situation gives her some authority over you, the way Margot's therapist role does. Ages in these profiles range from 33 to 55, so the shelf covers more ground than Margot alone. Each name below links to a short profile in our own words, and five of them have a series page as well. None of this is a ranking, just a map.

Professionals of intimacy and care

The closest relatives share Margot's line of work, or something near it.

• Francesca Dalmoro is a sex therapist, single, 42 in her profile. On paper she is Margot's nearest colleague.
• Monica Salazar is an online sexologist, 33, and also your sister's best friend, which adds a social complication Margot never has.
• Mio Sasaki is a massage therapist, 38 and married, whose care is physical rather than conversational.

If the consulting room is what drew you to Margot, start here.

Mothers of friends

Margot plays a friend's mother in one of her series, and two characters on our shelf make that their whole identity.

• Carrie Lowell, 40, is your buddy's mom and works as a gallery assistant downtown.
• Amanda Langford, 37, is a married home stager who leads Packing Up My Best Friend's Mom, five episodes with two free.

Compare either of them with Margot's My Best Friend's Mom Has One Rule to see how one premise changes with the lead.

Stepmothers and mothers-in-law to be

Family roles with built-in tension are a Margot specialty, and these two share it.

• Kara Prescott, 38, is your stepmom and a real estate agent.
• Josie Villanueva, 40, owns a Pilates studio and is a stepmom in her profile. She stars in Bachelor Party with My Fiancée's Mother, five episodes with two free, a premise that sits right next to Margot's My Bachelor Gift was My Fiancée's Mom.

Watching both openers back to back is an instructive exercise in casting.

Women who hold the keys

Some characters have authority because of where you live or what they own.

• Renata Marrero, 37, is your landlady, described in her profile as a cougar. Her series is My First Night Shift, five episodes with two free.

Renata's control is practical rather than clinical. Where Margot sets an exercise, Renata sets the house rules, which makes her a good next step if you enjoyed the housesitting story.

Married women with their own secrets

Margot's series often put a marriage or an engagement under pressure. These characters carry that from the start.

• Veronica Parker, 55, is a housewife and former real estate agent. She leads The Anniversary Massage, six episodes with two free.
• Courtney Marlowe, 38, is a married erotic art curator, star of Courtney's Secret, five episodes with two free.

Veronica is the oldest woman on our shelf, and Courtney's job is the closest to Margot's subject matter outside therapy.

Same price logic everywhere

The five series linked on this page work like Margot's: the first two episodes cost nothing, and each paid episode costs 12 tokens. So you can test a lead for free exactly as you would test Margot. If you have not done that with her yet, what is free and the watch order are the best places to start, and the series hub lists all five of hers.

Back to the original

If none of these replaces her, that says something about what you liked. Margot's mix of calm, precision and attention is fairly specific. Her full profile explains the traits Candy wrote into her, and her roles shows how they survive across five very different stories.