Are you really making the most out of your Amazon Prime subscription? Sure, you’ve got paper towels and cat litter coming in like clockwork. But if you’re not regularly combing through the service’s streaming catalog, then you’re missing out on hundreds of hours of killer TV. Since getting into the original-content game, Prime Video has churned out some great series—award-winners such as Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, current faves like Fallout (which premiered in April), and lesser-known left-turns including Patriot. And that’s not counting all of the fine shows that debuted elsewhere, like the beloved comedy Catastrophe.
This list is in alphabetical order. It was last updated on April 22, 2024. It will update monthly.
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The Boys (Prime Video: 2019-)
The Boys (Prime Video: 2019-)
Stars: Karl Urban, Antony Starr, Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Jessie T. Usher, Chace Crawford, Elisabeth Shue, Colby Minifie, Aya Cash, Claudia Doumit
Number of seasons included with subscription: 3
Let’s be honest: If superpowers were real, then American capitalism would turn the people who have them into egomaniacal celebrities with god complexes faster than you can say, “So…is the city paying for that?” Based on Garth Ennis’ comics of the same,The Boys imagines a group of vigilantes intent on exposing so-called superheroes in a world where corporate overlords control them. It’s like Watchmen, only way more fun and, frankly, disgusting.
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer (The WB: 1997-2001, UPN: 2001-2003)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (The WB: 1997-2001, UPN: 2001-2003)
Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanaz, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Stewart Head
Number of seasons included with subscription: 7
Our apologies to True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, and What We Do In The Shadows—but no vampiric TV show will ever be quite as iconic as Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Sure, creator Joss Whedon imploded his career. But that’s no reason to punish yourself or this stellar cast by writing off the show altogether. Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as the titular Buffy, a young woman who discovers she’s destined to seek and slay demons in the small town of Sunnyvale. At least, she’s got friends (and an ancient prophecy) backing her up.
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Catastrophe (Channel 4/Prime Video: 2015-2019)
Catastrophe (Channel 4/Prime Video: 2015-2019)
Stars: Sharon Horgan, Rob Delaney, Carrie Fisher, Mark Bonnar, Sarah Niles, Tobias Menzies, Ashley Jensen, Frances Tomelty
Number of seasons included with subscription: 4
Co-created by Horgan and Delaney, plot wise, Catastrophe
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Daisy Jones & The Six (Prime Video: 2023)
Daisy Jones & The Six (Prime Video: 2023)
Stars: Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Suki Waterhouse, Will Harrison, Josh Whitehouse
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
This buzzy miniseries, based on the beloved book by Taylor Jenkins Reid, charts the rise of the show’s titular band, a Fleetwood Mac-esque rock group in the 1970s. As Mary Kate Carr put it in her review: “As an adaptation, the series is a success, thanks to the competent work of creators Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber and Neustadter’s co-showrunner Will Graham. Anything jettisoned from the source material is barely missed, and what’s brought to life exists even more vibrantly than on the page.”
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Dead Ringers (Prime Video: 2023)
Dead Ringers (Prime Video: 2023)
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Britne Oldford, Poppy Liu, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Chernus
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
This miniseries, a female-centered riff on David Conenberg’s shocking 1998 film of the same name, stars Rachel Weisz as twin gynecologists. As David Cote put it in his positive review of the show: “Created by Alice Birch (Normal People), who ran an all-women writers’ room, Dead Ringers is chic, potty-mouthed, and unafraid to wallow in bodily fluids.”
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Downton Abbey (ITV: 2010-2015)
Downton Abbey (ITV: 2010-2015)
Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Joanne Forggatt, Phyllis Logan, Jessica Brown Findlay, Rob James-Collier, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Lesley Nicol
Number of seasons included with subscription: 6
Created by Julian Fellowes, Downton AbbeyDownton Abbey offers long-haul character development that remains some of the best the genre has ever witnessed on the small screen.
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Expats (Prime Video: 2024)
Expats (Prime Video: 2024)
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Yoo, Brian Tee, Tiana Gowen
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
The Farewell’s Lulu Wang concocted this affecting dramatic miniseries, which centers on a group of expatriates residing in Hong Kong. As Saloni Gajjar put it in her positive review of the project: “The show does risk self-indulgence at times, especially with its luxurious pacing and the way it milks one horrendous incident in the lives of its leading trio for theatrical effect. Luckily, the expected bouts of melodrama are circumvented because Expats grounds itself in an unflinching reality, no matter how sad, shocking, or sublime.”
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Fairfax (Prime Video: 2021-)
Fairfax (Prime Video: 2021-)
Stars: Skyler Gisondo, Kiersey Clemons, Peter S. Kim, Jaboukie Young-White
Number of seasons included with subscription: 2
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Fallout (Prime Video: 2024-)
Fallout (Prime Video: 2024-)
Stars: Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias, Xelia Mendes-Jones, Walton Goggins
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
The post-apocalyptic video-game franchise finally made its way to the small screen this year, and we were pretty damn delighted with the results. As William Hughes put it in his recap of the season-one finale: “Whereas, say, The Last Of UsFallout universe without slavishly recreating them. It’s both heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, genuinely moving and horrifically, gut-churningly violent.” Not so surprisingly, the series has been renewed for a second season.
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Fleabag (Prime Video: 2016-2019)
Fleabag (Prime Video: 2016-2019)
Stars: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sian Clifford, Andrew Scott, Bill Paterson, Brett Gelman, Olivia Colman, Angus Imrie
Number of seasons included with subscription: 2
Based on Waller-Bridge’s one-woman show, British comedy Fleabag is equal parts acerbic and heart-wrenching. The first season is a comedic success, but the second season fully manages to sweep audiences off their feet with a love story from hell. Hot Priest wouldn’t approve of that phrasing, but come on, the romance was true emotional torture—in a great way. The show nabbed multiple Emmy wins in 2019, and remains one of the easiest binges on Prime.
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Friday Night Lights (NBC: 2006-2011)
Friday Night Lights (NBC: 2006-2011)
Stars: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Taylor Kitsch, Jesse Plemons, Aimee Teegarden, Gaius Charles, Adrianne Palicki, Michael B. Jordan
Number of seasons included with subscription: 5
A series that transcended both high-school and sports shows (and seemed to be almost tailor-made for viewers who don’t particularly like those genres?), Friday Night Lights has a lot going for it: some charming young talent, a strong aesthetic thanks its three-camera-and-minimal-blocking setup, an authentic-feeling small-town backdrop, a very good score and soundtrack, and, as just about everyone who enjoys the show has commented, maybe the best married couple on TV in the form of Coach and Tami Taylor. Those locker-room speeches are pretty damn good, too.
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Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace (Channel 4: 2004)
Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace (Channel 4: 2004)
Stars: Matthew Holness, Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
“I’m one of the few people you’ll meet who’s written more books than they’ve read.” So says the titular star of this brilliant, hilarious one-season-and-done cult curiosity, in which a bad horror writer (Matthew Holness) looks back on his bad horror TV series from the ’80s, one that up until this fictional making-of doc had only aired in Peru. In his deep dive into the show, Erik Adams called it “the unlikely, six-episode intersection of such iconic Britcoms as The Office, The IT Crowd, and Father Ted—with bits of I’m Alan Partridge and Da Ali G Show thrown in for good measure.”
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Good Omens (Prime Video: 2019-)
Good Omens (Prime Video: 2019-)
Stars: Michael Sheen, David Tennant
Number of seasons included with subscription: 2
Created by Neil Gaiman—and adapted from his and Terry Pratchett’s beloved 1990 novel of the same name—Good OmensSeason two of the series dropped in 2023.
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House, M.D. (Fox: 2004-2012)
House, M.D. (Fox: 2004-2012)
Stars: Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard, Lisa Edelstein, Jesse Spencer, Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Olivia Wilde, Peter Jacobson, Kal Penn
Number of seasons included with subscription: 8
We’ll admit: Gregory House is a terrible doctor whose flippant mistreatment of patients was always unacceptable. We’ll also admit: He’s one of funniest medical providers in TV history (second only to 30 Rock’s Dr. Leo Spaceman). In this long-running hospital dramedy, Hugh Laurie stars as the titular House M.D., a smarmy diagnostician whose lack of bedside manner would lose him his license if he weren’t also a scientific genius. Come for the promise of the killer one-liners; stay because of the super soapy drama.
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I’m A Virgo (Prime Video: 2023-)
I’m A Virgo (Prime Video: 2023-)
Stars: Jharrel Jerome, Mike Epps, Carmen Ejogo, Walton Goggins, Brett Gray, Kara Young
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
Boots Riley (Sorry To Bother You) cooked up this wonderfully weird series, which follows a 13-foot-tall teen, Cootie (Jharrel Jerome), in Oakland. As Jenna Scherer put it in her review: “Riley’s brilliance is to create a fictional setting so over-the-top that it sneaks up on us how close it is to our own. It allows us to realize how outlandish our reality truly is—existence in an impossibly cruel, racist, classist system that is nonetheless marked by flashes of beauty and radical kindness from the very people it exploits.”
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Invincible (Prime Video: 2021-)
Invincible (Prime Video: 2021-)
Stars: Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, J.K. Simmons, Gillian Jacobs, Zazie Beetz, Walton Goggins, Jason Mantzoukas, Zachary Quinto
Number of seasons included with subscription: 2
InvincibleSaloni Gajjar’s review of the show’s second season, which wrapped up in April: “These episodes are jam-packed with the gory action Invincible specializes in, feature some big twists (not news for readers of Robert Kirkman’s source material, of course), and rely on Steven Yeun’s poignant performance to anchor it all.”
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Key And Peele (Comedy Central: 2012-2015)
Key And Peele (Comedy Central: 2012-2015)
Stars: Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Ty Burrell, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Melanie Lynskey, Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Eric Edelstein
Number of seasons included with subscription: 5
Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key have been comedy work wives since MadTV, and they even show up together in the first season of Fargo. Their Emmy-winning Comedy Central sketch comedy remains an iconic gift. For five seasons, the duo covered societal topics with a myriad of skits with memorable characters, from Peele’s take on President Obama to Key’s angry teacher Mr. Garvey.
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A League of Their Own (Prime Video: 2022)
A League of Their Own (Prime Video: 2022)
Stars: Abbi Jacobson, Chanté Adams, D’Arcy Carden, Roberta Colindrez, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Kelly McCormack, Priscilla Delgado, Nick Offerman
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
Can you remake something as beloved as A League Of Their Own without mucking it up? Apparently you can, as Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson’s reboot of the 1992 classic turned out to be fun (and funny) as hell, with a refreshingly wider scope to boot. As Jenna Scherer put it in her positive review of the first (and only) season: “Maybe most importantly for fans of the original movie, this League is also a good old-fashioned underdog sports drama, complete with training montages, rousing locker room speeches, and edge-of-your-seat home runs.”
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power (Prime Video: 2022-)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power (Prime Video: 2022-)
Stars: Morfydd Clark, Lenny Henry, Sara Zwangobani, Dylan Smith, Markella Kavenagh, Robert Aramayo, Benjamin Walker, Ismael Cruz Córdova
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
The most expensive show of all time made its debut in 2022, sweeping us into J. R. R. Tolkien’s Second Age of Middle-earth. As Matt Schimkowitz wrote in his recap of the premiere: “Showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay’s interpretation of Tolkien’s world doesn’t merely fit neatly with the world Peter Jackson created in the early 2000s, but it also folds into a larger cultural story about Tolkien and what his work continues to inspire in people.”
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The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart (Prime Video: 2023)
The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart (Prime Video: 2023)
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Alyla Browne, Asher Keddie, Leah Purcell, Frankie Adams, Alexander England
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
This sweeping, Australia-set miniseries stars Sigourney Weaver and Alycia Debnam-Carey as, respectively, the matriarch of a refuge for abused women and her granddaughter. And as Max Gao put it in his review of the adaptation: “The show largely succeeds as a powerful depiction of solidarity and sisterhood, showing what can happen when women are given the freedom to blossom together.”
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video: 2017-2023)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video: 2017-2023)
Stars: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Tony Shalhoub, Marin Hinkle, Michael Zegen, Kevin Pollak, Caroline Aaron, Luke Kirby, Jane Lynch
Number of seasons included with subscription: 5
Amy Sherman-Palladino brings her colorful Gilmore Girls-esque writing, fast conversations, and sharp humor to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The show follows Midge Maisel, a 1960s housewife-turned-standup-comic. Brosnahan, Borstein, and Shalhoub deliver remarkable performances in this Emmy-winning series, which wrapped up its fifth and final season in 2023.
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The Mindy Project (FOX: 2012-2015; Hulu: 2015-2017)
The Mindy Project (FOX: 2012-2015; Hulu: 2015-2017)
Stars: Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz, Chris Messina, Ed Weeks, Xosha Roquemore, Adam Pally, Beth Grant, Fortune Feimster, Garret Dillahunt
Number of seasons included with subscription: 6
After writing for and starring in The Office for eight seasons, The Mindy ProjectTMP remains an overall hilarious sitcom (featuring several notable guest stars, from Bill Hader to Ana Ortiz to Timothy Olyphant). Kaling established herself distinctive comedic voice and as a leading lady during its six-season run, which also marked the first time a South Asian actor starred in their own primetime sitcom.
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Mirzapur (Prime Video: 2018-)
Mirzapur (Prime Video: 2018-)
Stars: Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Rasika Dugal, Shweta Tripathi Sharma, Divyenndu, Vijay Varma, Vikrant Massey
Number of seasons: 2
Think of MirzapurSuccession, with way more violence and entertaining Hindi-language crass words. Set in rural India, the drama follows an iron-fisted crime lord, Kaleen Bhaiyya (Tripathi), who wields immense political power in the small titular town. Multiple people vie for his inheritance, including his sinister heir and two of Kaleen’s new employees. Mirzapur is an intense and fast-paced thriller, one of many hailing from Prime Video India (Paatal Lok is another great option).
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Prime Video: 2024-)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Prime Video: 2024-)
Stars: Donald Glover, Maya Erskine
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
Glover and Erskine make a winning team in this creative, thoughtful, fantastically soundtracked spin on the 2005 film, playing “husband and wife” spies for a secret organization. As Saloni Gajjar put it in her review: “Mr. & Mrs. Smith’s most appealing thrills aren’t found in its gun-toting action scenes, high-octane chases in stunning locales, or undercover sleuthing. No, the true adventure here lies in the dissection of a nuanced, somewhat cursed relationship.”
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Mr. Robot (USA Network: 2015-2019)
Mr. Robot (USA Network: 2015-2019)
Stars: Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin, Grace Gummer, Martin Wallström, Michael Cristofer
Number of seasons: 4
Sam Esmail’s riveting thriller follows Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity hacker who struggles with clinical depression and dissociative identity disorder. He’s recruited by an anarchist who calls himself—you guessed it—Mr. Robot to destroy debt records of a giant conglomerate. Dennis Perkins noted in his review of the pilot: “It’s something of a backhanded compliment to say that Mr. Robot is entertainingly derivative. But it’s the show’s over-reliance on aping a handful of familiar predecessors that, in addition to a compelling lead, keeps its pilot episode zipping along.”
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Patriot (Prime Video: 2015-2018)
Patriot (Prime Video: 2015-2018)
Stars: Michael Dorman, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Chernus, Kathleen Munroe, Aliette Opheim, Chris Conrad, Terry O’Quinn, Debra Winger
Number of seasons included with subscription: 2
For what is, on paper, a spy thriller, Patriot
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The Power (Prime Video: 2023-)
The Power (Prime Video: 2023-)
Stars: Toni Collette, Auliʻi Cravalho, John Leguizamo
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
The streamer’s adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s bestselling book, about teen girls obtaining electrical—you guessed it—powers, boasts some thought-provoking world-building and neat special effects. As Meredith Hobbs Coons put it in her review: “One of the challenges of adapting a novel for the big or small screen is that the level of detail the original can accomplish is often hard to match, but the economy with which exposition is delivered in this show is impressive—and not just that: It’s resonant.”
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Riches (Prime Video: 2022-)
Riches (Prime Video: 2022-)
Stars: Deborah Ayorinde, Hugh Quarshie, Sarah Niles, Brendan Coyle, Hermione Norris
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
With dashes of Succession, Industry, and Dynasty, this soapy British series from Abby Ajay follows folks vying for control of their family’s cosmetics empire. As Quinci LeGardye put it in her review: “We’ll check out any show that features estranged relatives going at it for chunks of the family fortune, be they Roys, Lyonses, Greenleafs, or Gemstones. Enter Prime Video’s Riches, a welcome addition to a popular sub-genre, with a cultural twist that gives the formula an exciting boost.”
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Small Axe (Prime Video: 2020)
Small Axe (Prime Video: 2020)
Stars: John Boyega, Michael Ward, Kadeem Ramsay, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby, Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, Sheyi Cole, Naomi Ackie, Gary Beadle
Number of seasons included with subscription: 1
Technically speaking, Small Axe