What to read, watch, and listen to if you lovedThe Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett · Book · 2026
If you loved The Calamity Club, start with The Housemaid (Paul Feig, 2025) — a film on the same thread. Below: 4 films, 4 series and 2 podcasts, each matched to The Calamity Club across media.
You loved The Calamity Club because it masterfully exposes the dangerous, hidden tensions lurking just beneath the polished surface of exclusive social circles.
Films on the same thread
The Housemaid
Paul Feig · Film · 2025
Explores: Class Conflict, Gaslighting, Identity Theft.
Like The Calamity Club, this film explores the volatile intersection of class conflict and domestic secrets, showing how desperate individuals navigate the treacherous power dynamics of the wealthy.
Strung
Malcolm D. Lee · Film · 2026
Explores: obsession, power dynamics, mental fragility.
The Calamity Club highlights how elite settings breed psychological unrest, a theme mirrored here as a protagonist finds her sanity tested while working for an enigmatic, high-status family.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Olivia Newman · Film · 2026
Explores: Grief and healing, Intergenerational friendship, Hidden secrets.
If you appreciated the way The Calamity Club centers on women forming unexpected bonds, this story of intergenerational friendship and hidden secrets will resonate with your sensibilities.
The Thursday Murder Club
Chris Columbus · Film · 2025
Explores: Retirement Community, Friendship, Justice.
The Calamity Club depicts women navigating complex social landscapes, much like this film where a group of amateur sleuths band together to solve mysteries and outsmart authority figures.
Series on the same thread
IT: Welcome to Derry
Andy Muschietti · Series · 2025
Explores: Childhood Trauma, Ancient Evil, Group of Friends.
Both The Calamity Club and this series focus on small-town secrets, illustrating how a tight-knit community can harbor dark, buried truths that threaten the safety of its inhabitants.
Your Friends & Neighbors
Jonathan Tropper · Series · 2025
Explores: wealth inequality, midlife crisis, moral decay.
Much like the class struggles in The Calamity Club, this show examines moral decay and wealth inequality, following a man who dismantles his own social circle to survive.
The Madison
Taylor Sheridan · Series · 2026
Explores: Drama.
The Calamity Club captures the tension of characters forced into new environments, a feeling echoed as the Clyburn family navigates the transition to a remote and untamed landscape.
M.I.A.
Bill Dubuque · Series · 2026
Explores: family legacy, underworld survival, ambition.
Like the characters in The Calamity Club who are emboldened by their circumstances, Etta embarks on a dangerous journey through a complex underworld to escape her family legacy.
Podcasts on the same thread
CounterClock
Audiochuck · Podcast · 2025
Shares a thread with The Calamity Club: historical mystery.
If the historical mystery elements of The Calamity Club drew you in, you will appreciate how this podcast digs into decades-old homicides to uncover long-buried truths and justice.
The Deca Tapes
Lex Noteboom · Podcast · 2025
Explores: social isolation, paranoia, confinement.
The Calamity Club emphasizes the fragility of human connections, a theme explored here through the paranoia and distrust that arise when individuals are confined in a mysterious space.
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Common questions
Is The Calamity Club a sequel to The Help?
No, The Calamity Club is not a sequel to The Help. It is a standalone novel by Kathryn Stockett set in 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, featuring a new group of characters navigating the hardships of the Great Depression.
When is The Calamity Club set?
The Calamity Club takes place in 1933 in Oxford, Mississippi. The story follows a diverse group of women as their lives intersect during the transition from summer to fall while the economic pressures of the Depression intensify.
Who wrote The Calamity Club?
The Calamity Club was written by Kathryn Stockett. It marks her return to writing following her previous work on the bestselling novel The Help.
What is the premise of The Calamity Club?
The Calamity Club focuses on a group of women in 1933 Mississippi, ranging from socialites to criminals. As the Depression grips the region, the characters must choose between holding onto the past or acting on the desperation caused by their current circumstances.