If Sterling Point left you wishing you had a mysterious dead grandfather and a lake house waiting for you somewhere, same. Megan Park’s Prime Video series nails that specific mix of coming-of-age heartbreak, small-community warmth, and slow-drip family secrets, and once Annie’s story wraps for the season, the withdrawal is real. I went digging for shows that scratch the same itch, whether it’s the inheritance-uproots-your-life premise, the love triangle, or just that “gorgeous water backdrop hiding a dozen buried secrets” atmosphere. Here are 11 TV shows like Sterling Point worth adding to your watchlist.
1. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Genre: Romantic Drama | Year: 2022–2025 | Cast: Lola Tung, Christopher Briney, Gavin Casalegno | Where to Watch: Prime Video
It’s almost impossible to talk about Sterling Point without landing here first, since Jenny Han’s adaptation basically defined the modern “coming-of-age love triangle by the water” genre that Sterling Point is clearly speaking to. Belly’s summers with Conrad and Jeremiah hit the same beats Annie goes through with Ellis and Rory: first love, jealousy, and a scenic setting that makes every heartbreak look cinematic. If you want more of that exact emotional register, start here.
2. Outer Banks
Genre: Mystery Adventure Drama | Year: 2020–2026 | Cast: Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, Jonathan Daviss | Where to Watch: Netflix
Swap the Canadian island for the North Carolina coast and you’ve got another tight-knit group of teens whose lives revolve around water, secrets, and a mystery tied to family history. The Pogues don’t inherit an island the way Annie does, but the show’s whole engine runs on buried treasure and generational secrets slowly coming to light, which is exactly the energy Sterling Point builds its mystery around.
3. Ginny & Georgia
Genre: Comedy-Drama | Year: 2021–present | Cast: Antonia Gentry, Brianne Howey | Where to Watch: Netflix
This one trades the island for a quiet Massachusetts town, but the setup rhymes with Sterling Point closely: a teenager relocating to a new community, adjusting to unfamiliar relationships, while a parent’s hidden past keeps resurfacing to complicate everything. If the “new town, new friends, old family secrets” structure of Sterling Point is what hooked you, Ginny’s story hits a lot of the same marks with a sharper comedic edge.
4. My Life with the Walter Boys
Genre: Drama | Year: 2023–present | Cast: Nikki Rodriguez, Noah LaLonde, Ashby Gentry | Where to Watch: Netflix
Jackie loses her family and gets uprooted to a household of strangers in rural Colorado; Annie loses her sense of normal and gets uprooted to an island full of strangers in Canada. Both shows lean hard into a teenage girl rebuilding her identity somewhere unfamiliar, complete with a love triangle between two brothers that complicates every relationship around her. If Annie’s push-pull with Ellis and Rory kept you invested, Jackie’s situation with the Walter brothers will feel very familiar.
5. Virgin River
Genre: Romance Drama | Year: 2019–present | Cast: Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson | Where to Watch: Netflix
This is Sterling Point’s premise aged up a couple decades: a woman leaves her old life behind for a remote, close-knit town built around a lake, and slowly gets pulled into the community’s history, its romances, and its long-held secrets. The pacing and small-town warmth are a close match, even if the cast has traded high school drama for adult relationships.
6. Sullivan’s Crossing
Genre: Drama | Year: 2023–present | Cast: Chad Michael Murray, Morgan Kohan | Where to Watch: The CW, Netflix
A woman returns to the lakeside campground her family runs, forced to reckon with a past she left behind and relationships she never resolved. Like Sterling Point, the setting itself does a lot of the emotional heavy lifting, with a body of water and a family property acting as the backdrop for reconciliation, romance, and slow-release family history.
7. The Wilds
Genre: Mystery Drama | Year: 2020–2022 | Cast: Sarah Pidgeon, Shannon Berry, Jenna Clause | Where to Watch: Prime Video
If it’s specifically the “island full of secrets” angle you want more of, this is the most direct hit on the list. A group of teenage girls strand on a remote island, and the show peels back each of their backstories in flashback while the mystery of how they got there unfolds. It’s darker and more high-concept than Sterling Point, but that isolated-island setting hiding buried truths is the same core idea.
8. Nancy Drew
Genre: Mystery Drama | Year: 2019–2023 | Cast: Kennedy McMann, Leah Lewis | Where to Watch: The CW
A small coastal town, a tight group of young adults, and a mystery rooted in the town’s own history — this one leans further into the whodunit side than Sterling Point does, but the atmosphere of a scenic waterfront community hiding generations of secrets will feel right at home for anyone drawn to how Annie keeps uncovering pieces of her grandfather’s past.
9. Chesapeake Shores
Genre: Drama | Year: 2016–2022 | Cast: Meghan Ory, Jesse Metcalfe | Where to Watch: Netflix
Set in a picturesque coastal town built around one family’s history, this one is a gentler, more family-centered cousin to Sterling Point. The central character returns to a place tied to her family’s legacy, and the show spends its seasons slowly unpacking old wounds, sibling dynamics, and small-town romance against a waterfront backdrop.
10. Locke & Key
Genre: Fantasy Horror Drama | Year: 2020–2022 | Cast: Darby Stanchfield, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones | Where to Watch: Netflix
This is the most literal parallel on the list: siblings inherit a mysterious house from a relative they barely knew, move somewhere unfamiliar, and start uncovering secrets their family kept hidden for generations. It swaps Sterling Point’s grounded family drama for supernatural keys and magic, but that “inherited property is the gateway to your family’s buried past” premise is nearly identical.
11. Roswell, New Mexico
Genre: Sci-Fi Drama | Year: 2019–2022 | Cast: Jeanine Mason, Nathan Parsons | Where to Watch: The CW
A small desert town, a tangle of childhood friends turned love interests, and secrets that reach back a generation, this one takes the Sterling Point formula and adds an alien conspiracy on top. If what you loved was less the specific setting and more the “returning to/settling into a small town where everyone’s connected and nobody’s telling the full truth” structure, this scratches that same itch.
Whether you’re chasing more inheritance-mystery plots, more love triangles by the water, or just more shows where a scenic small town turns out to be hiding decades of secrets, there’s enough here to keep the Sterling Point withdrawal at bay until Season 2. Already made your way through a few of these? Let me know in the comments which one came closest to matching that Sterling Point feeling.
