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THE 77 BEST TV SHOWS ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO RIGHT NOW (JULY 2023)
Have a summer fling with The Summer I Turned Pretty
Allison Picurro July 24, 2023 at 2:59 p.m. PT
It's July, which means it's time for a summer fling — and what better show to
get flung by than Amazon Prime Video's The Summer I Turned Pretty, a romantic
drama about confused and horny teenagers on the beach who can't stop batting
eyes at each other? It's the newest addition to our list of the best TV shows to
watch on Prime Video, which also includes the new release The Horror of Dolores
Roach, the final season of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, and Boots Riley's surreal I'm
a Virgo.
An important note about how this list was made: In order to keep the list as
relevant as possible, we're emphasizing recent releases, Prime Video originals,
and critics' favorites. But we're also putting our own personal spin on the
list, with underrated gems we're recommending to our friends, classic favorites,
and important selections that highlight diverse voices. We'll be updating the
list regularly.
Last updated on July 24; the most recent additions are at the top
THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY
For fans of: Summers on the beach, love triangles
Number of seasons: 2
Christopher Briney and Lola Tung, The Summer I Turned Pretty
Dana Hawley/Prime Video
To All the Boys I've Loved Before creator Jenny Han stays comfortably in her
lane with this series about teenage love, teenage love triangles, and teenage
love summers. Lola Tung plays Belly, a young woman who heads out on a summer
vacation to her family beach house, where she's reunited with old friends and
new potential boyfriends in the form of a friendly local and the eldest brother
of her family friend. Things get complicated! In Season 2, the back-and-forth
between boys continues, with the added specter of a potential sale of their
precious beach house hovering over them. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE HORROR OF DOLORES ROACH
For fans of: Empanadas, Washington Heights, the taste of human flesh
Number of seasons: 1
Alejandro Hernandez and Justina Machado, The Horror of Dolores Roach
Jasper Savage/Prime Video
One Day at a Time's Justina Machado stars as a woman trying to make it in New
York's Washington Heights neighborhood after spending 16 years in the clink to
cover for her drug-dealing boyfriend. The only problem? People keep ending up
dead around her. With the help from an old friend who runs an empanada shop, she
figures out a way to hide the evidence, while also creating one of the hottest
restaurants in the area. -Tim Surette [Trailer] [Review]
Watch on Prime Video
JACK RYAN
For fans of: America, bedside table books for your dad, buffed John Krasinski
Number of seasons: 4
John Krasinski and Wendell Pierce, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Philippe Antonello/Prime Video
Amazon takes author Tom Clancy's most famous character and digs into Jack Ryan's
origins with this political thriller starring John Krasinski as the titular CIA
agent, who regularly mops up international conflicts with both brains and brawn.
It isn't trying to reinvent the genre so much as update it for today's era, with
expensive location shoots and top-tier action to draw over the so-so plot. But
for easy Sunday night viewing, that's exactly what you (and your dad) want. In
Season 3, Jack goes on the run while uncovering a vast conspiracy about
reuniting the Soviet Union, and in Season 4, the final season, he's promoted to
deputy director of the CIA and fighting threats both foreign and domestic. -Tim
Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
I'M A VIRGO
For fans of: Boots Riley's sense of surrealism, humongous children
Number of seasons: 1
Jharrel Jerome, I'm a Virgo
Pete Lee/Prime Video
Cosmic thinker, musician, activist, and film director Boots Riley (Sorry to
Bother You) tries his hand at television with this seven-episode coming-of-age
series about a teenage boy growing up in Oakland. But since this is a Boots
joint, you know there's a fun wrinkle. This kid, played by When They See Us Emmy
winner Jharrel Jerome, happens to be 13 feet tall. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
[Review]
Watch on Prime Video
DEADLOCH
For fans of: Murder mysteries, but darkly funny
Number of seasons: 1
Nina Oyama and Kate Box, Deadloch
Amazon Studios
Australian Kate-medians Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan crafted this darkly
comedic series that combines the thrills and intensity of a murder mystery with
the kerfuffles of an odd-couple pairing when a dead man turns up in a Tasmanian
beach town and the local sergeant is forced to team up with an outside senior
investigator. Like, what if Broadchurch was funny? -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Prime Video
PRIMO
For fans of: Feel-good sitcoms
Number of seasons: 1
Ignacio Diaz-Silverio and Christina Vidal, Primo
Jeff Neumann/Amazon Freevee
Missing Mike Schur's universe of thoughtful comedies, like The Good Place and
Parks and Recreation? Check out Freevee's charming Primo, which Schur executive
produces. The coming-of-age comedy, inspired by the childhood of series creator
Shea Serrano, follows San Antonio teen Rafa (Ignacio Diaz-Silverio) as he
navigates high school while being raised by his mother and five uncles, who all
have different ideas for what it means to be a man. -Kelly Connolly [Trailer]
Watch on Freevee (free with ads)
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CITADEL
For fans of: Action, mindless entertainment, Priyanka Chopra stuffing herself
into dresses
Number of seasons: 1
Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Citadel
Prime Video
The critics (mostly) hated Amazon's new action series, but Citadel was never
made for critics. It was made for people who want to turn their brain off and
take in an easily digestible story that's padded with some preetty cool fight
scenes. Game of Thrones' Richard Madden and Quantico's Priyanka Chopra Jones
star as spies for an organization that has no allegiance to any country, but
they have a rocky reunion eight years after their memories are erased and an old
enemy threatens the world with nuclear war. See? Mindless. I enjoyed it because
I went in just looking for eye candy. And the sub-40-minute episodes don't hurt,
either. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
DEAD RINGERS
For fans of: Rachel Weisz, Rachel Weisz, scenes of surgery
Number of seasons: 1
Rachel Weisz, Dead Ringers
Niko Tavernise/Prime Video
What's better than one Rachel Weisz? That's right, two Rachel Weiszes. Dead
Ringers is a modern, gender-flipped take on David Cronenberg's film of the same
name, starring Weisz in the roles originally played by Jeremy Irons. She plays
the toxically co-dependent twin gynecologists (what a collection of words)
Elliot and Beverly Mantle, who, let's say, aren't afraid to violate the
Hippocratic Oath in order to challenge misogyny in women's health care. Consider
us on board. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
JURY DUTY
For fans of: The Office, The Rehearsal, James Marsden
Number of seasons: 1
Jury Duty
Freevee
What if a regular guy was dropped into an episode of The Office and didn't know
it? That's partly the premise of this reality-sitcom hybrid in which one guy
believes he's on jury duty, but it's all been faked and elaborately staged. What
makes the show work is that it's never mean and doesn't set out to humiliate its
mark, who ends the season as the hero and an example of human kindness. James
Marsden co-stars as a ridiculously self-absorbed version of himself. Ignore the
critics' reviews; it's funny and regular people love it. -Tim
Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Freevee (free with ads)
THE POWER
For fans of: Girl power, electric power
Number of seasons: 1
Zrinka Cvitešić, The Power
Robert Ludovic/Prime Video
This one is for the sci-fi YA drama fans out there. It may not be a perfect
adaptation of Naomi Alderman's 2016 novel of the same name, but it still
features a world in which teenage girls suddenly manifest the power to generate
electricity from their fingertips, changing the way they're seen in the world.
Yes, the metaphor is thick, but the message still works and the marvelous Toni
Collette plays the mayor of Seattle. That's all the info you need to decide
whether this is for you or not. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
SWARM
For fans of: Horror, dark comedy, Dominique Fishback
Number of seasons: 1
Dominique Fishback, Swarm
Warrick Page/Prime Video
Janine Nabers and Donald Glover's newest series stars the excellent Dominique
Fishback as an obsessed fan of a pop star who will go to extreme lengths to shut
down the singer's haters. Bloody, violent lengths! Swarm is going to divide the
audience right down the middle, with many appreciating its tongue-in-cheek
horror and statements on social media and pop culture, while others will wonder
what the point of it all is. They're kind of both right in this case. It's a
daring show that almost hits its mark, but comes close enough to make this list.
Experimental TV! Gotta love it. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
CLASS OF '07
For fans of: Yellowjackets, The Wilds, Australian accents
Number of seasons: 1
Class of '07
John Platt/Amazon Studios
The TV trend of groups of women stranded alone to fend for themselves continues
in this Australian comedy, which isn't as dark as Showtime's Yellowjackets but
doesn't shy away from death and disaster, either. An all-girls high school
reunion goes longer than expected after a tsunami isolates the women alone at
their old school, where surviving a natural disaster is almost as dangerous as
surviving all the old drama of high school. Despite the serious situation, Class
of '07 is loaded with silly humor. Yep, there are poop jokes. -Tim Surette
[Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
DAISY JONES & THE SIX
For fans of: Creative types, soapy drama, '70s rock
Number of seasons: 1
Riley Keough, Daisy Jones & The Six
Lacey Terrell/Prime Video
Taylor Jenkins Reid's best-selling novel gets adapted in this miniseries about
the best fictional 1970s rock 'n' roll band that never really was. Told via faux
music documentary, it charts the band's rise from obscurity to biggest band in
the whole frickin' world, and the reasons they broke up after just one album.
Riley Keough stars as the manic pixie Daisy Jones and Sam Claflin stars as
troubled songwriter Billy Dunne, the two creatives whose egos clashed but didn't
stop them from crushing on each other. -Tim Surette [Trailer | Review]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE CONSULTANT
For fans of: German efficiency, corporate cutdowns, getting laid off from being
alive
Number of seasons: 1
Christoph Waltz, The Consultant
Michael Desmond/Prime Video
Christoph Waltz headlines this twisted dark comedy from the creator of Apple
TV+'s Servant about a consultant brought in by a video game company to get
things in order, but he soon begins to pull the strings and take things into his
own hands. The employees will be wishing they could work Saturdays instead of
enduring what's coming for them. The term "corporate horror" seems redundant,
but that's what this show feels like. -Tim Surette [Trailer | Review]
Watch on Prime Video
HARLEM
For fans of: Female friendships, New Yawk City
Number of seasons: 2
Grace Byers and Meagan Good, Harlem
Sarah Shatz/Amazon Studios
In the great tradition of Sex and the City and Living Single, Harlem is a show
about a group of four ladies navigating life in New York City. It was created by
Tracy Oliver, who previously gave us Girls Trip and therefore really knows her
way around Black female friendship, and it's a fun, cozy series that's very much
all about the vibes, hinging on the easy chemistry and funny rapport of the main
cast, which includes Meagan Good, Grace Byers, Shoniqua Shandai, and Jerrie
Johnson. It deals with issues like gentrification, sexuality, and wealth, making
them important elements of the main plot. Call it a hangout show with substance.
-Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Prime Video
THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA
For fans of: Rollin' 20-sided die, potty humor, Invincible
Number of seasons: 2
The Legend of Vox Machina
Amazon Studios
What started out as a streamed broadcast of Dungeons & Dragons played by a crew
of voice actors and friends has naturally become a full-fledged animated series
on Amazon. The Legend of Vox Machina is a scripted animated series from Critical
Role, whose D&D Twitch streams became immensely popular and nearly broke
Kickstarter when the troupe announced the animated project (it crushed the
record for Kickstarter funding with $11.4 million in donations). The vulgar,
beer-swigging seven-warrior-and-one-bear party remains intact as they're hired
to take down a monster ravaging the land, cursing, dropping trou', and leaving a
river of blood and viscera behind them. In Season 2, the group takes on a
quartet of bad dragons and even goes up one's butt. Yep. It's humorous adult
animation with some nudity and naughty words, but the sense of adventure is
legit. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE RIG
For fans of: Accents, climate horror, actors from Game of Thrones
Number of seasons: 1
Iain Glen, The Rig
Amazon Studios
Prime VIdeo's first Scottish production is this supernatural mystery about the
crew of an ocean oil rig off the coast of Scotland who get stuck when the
weather turns spooky. To find their way home, they must battle unnatural forces
and each other. You'll see familiar faces, too, thanks to stars Iain Glen (Game
of Thrones' Ser Jorah Mormont), Emily Hampshire (12 Monkeys, Schitt's Creek),
Martin Compston (Line of Duty), and Owen Teale (Game of Thrones' Ser Allister
Thorne). It's got paranoia, tension, and a very clear message: climate change is
real! -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THREE PINES
For fans of: Small town mysteries, good detectives, ducks
Number of seasons: 1
Clare Coulter, Three Pines
Amazon Studios
Alfred Molina brings detective Chief Inspector Armand Gamache to life in this
adaptation of Louise Perry's novels, and in Season 1, he's in a small town in
Quebec trying to figure out how a diva who no one liked in town got electrocuted
while watching a curling match. How's that for a specific tone and place? Three
Pines isn't the best mystery out there, but it does work thanks to Molina, the
town's eccentric characters, and some Indigenous representation. -Tim Surette
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
RICHES
For fans of: Family drama, primetime soaps, Empire meets Succession
Number of seasons: 1
Riches
David Hindley/Amazon Prime Video
If you enjoy sudsy primetime soaps like Empire and Monarch but wish they were
condensed into fewer episodes so they don't get too silly too fast, the
six-episode Riches from How to Get Away with Murder writer Abby Ajayi might do
the trick. Family members jockey for control of a makeup empire when the
patriarch dies, causing all sorts of mayhem and backstabbing from his wife,
ex-wives, and kids. -Tim Surette
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE ENGLISH
For fans of: Pulpy Westerns, revenge, baby bird skeletons
Number of seasons: 1
Chaske Spencer and Emily Blunt, The English
Diego Lopez Calvin/Amazon Studios
Emily Blunt stars as a British aristocrat — the titular English — who rides
headfirst into the Wild West to avenge the death of her son and teams up with a
Pawnee scout (Chaske Spencer) to survive the hostile lands polluted by
murderers, opportunists, and criminals. In the hands of writer-director Hugo
Blick, it's a stylish and violent take on the genre, filling the lens with
expansive vistas and gory corpses to remind you that while beautiful, the era
was lawless. It's definitely one of Prime Video's best shows of 2022. [Review]
-Tim Surette
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE DEVIL'S HOUR
For fans of: Peter Capaldi as evil incarnate, guessing games
Number of seasons: 1
Peter Capaldi, The Devil's Hour
Henry James/Prime Video
This six-episode psychological thriller with sprinkles of the paranormal is one
of those tiny boxes containing millions of questions that waits until the last
moments to have everything come crashing down. Former Doctor Who Peter Capaldi
plays a sinister prisoner who cryptically powwows with a social worker (Jessica
Raine) who can't seem to stop waking up at 3:33 a.m. every morning with
horrifying visions. Maybe it's the incredibly creepy son she's caring for who's
behind everything? Maybe it's something even worse? The Devil's Hour isn't the
best thriller of the year, but it will certainly do the trick. -Tim Surette
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE PERIPHERAL
For fans of: Westworld, William Gibson, Chloë Grace Moretz
Number of seasons: 1
Chloë Grace Moretz, The Peripheral
Sophie Mutevelian, Prime Video
Chloë Grace Moretz stars in this sci-fi series about a young American woman who
makes a living leveling up the characters of rich people in VR games. She dons a
virtual reality headset that transports her to another world, only this world is
anything but virtual. Based on a William Gibson story, The Peripheral sees
Moretz's character try to figure out why there's a bridge between a world 70
years in the future in London and hers. [Review] -Tim Surette
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
HIGH SCHOOL (FREEVEE)
For fans of: '90s teen dramas, queer coming-of-age stories, indie rock
Number of seasons: 1
Railey and Seazynn Gilliland, High School
Michelle Faye/Freevee
Indie rockers and LGBTQ icons Tegan and Sara Quin teamed up with
actress/director Clea DuVall for this coming-of-age high school story based on
their memoir of the same name about growing up as twin sisters in Calgary,
Alberta in the mid-1990s. It also happens to be really, really good. With roots
in classic high school shows of yesteryear like My So-Called Life and an
authentic look at an age and era, High School covers the ups and downs of
fitting in, coming out, and getting high. And the soundtrack is rad. -Tim
Surette
Watch on Freevee (free with ads)
JUNGLE
For fans of: Drill rap, cyberpunk crime, visuals
Number of seasons: 1
Ezra Elliot and RA, Jungle
Delroy Matty/Prime Video
This British crime drama is set in the near-future and follows a few strangers
who get into violent trouble. But the real draw is the heavy vibe, which uses
drill and trap music, gritty and experimental visuals, a cyberpunk-lite setting,
and rapped dialogue (!!!) for something truly unique. It's like Baz
Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, except instead of Leo DiCaprio talking in
Shakespearean English, it's young gangsters are spittin' fire. -Tim Surette
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER
For fans of: The Elvish language
Number of seasons: 1 (renewed for Season 2)
Morfydd Clark, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Amazon Prime Video
Want to see what half a billion dollars looks like? Amazon's most expensive bet
since same-day delivery is this eight-episode series set in J. R. R. Tolkien's
fantasy world during the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before
the popular trilogy. But hey, there are still dwarves, elves, and orcs, as well
as details on the forging of the Rings of Power and Sauron's rise. In his TV
Guide review, Keith Phipps says the ambitious new series is off to a promising
start and "has already established itself as one of the most visually striking
shows around." -Tim Surette
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
LIZZO'S WATCH OUT FOR THE BIG GRRRLS
For fans of: Dance, being 100% that bitch
Number of seasons: 1
Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls
James Clark/Prime Video
Finally, a reality competition series that prioritizes confidence and joy.
Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls — the 2022 Emmy winner for reality
competition series — follows the pop icon's search for backup dancers, the
titular Big Grrrls, to join her tour. When dance agencies didn't answer her call
for big girl dancers, Lizzo took things into her own hands. "We come with the
energy, the stamina, the flexibility," she says in the first episode. "Big girls
are doing it, honey!" The competition obviously serves up all the tears and
drama you'd expect, but it's also warm and empowering. It's like Top
Model meets So You Think You Can Dance meets, you know, Lizzo. And that's good
as hell. -Kelly Connolly [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
MAKING THE CUT
For fans of: Project Runway, the business of fashion
Number of seasons: 3
Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum, Making the Cut
Amazon Studios
Project Runway went through a makeover back in 2018, so if you happen to miss
having the very stylish duo of Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn on your TV, Making the
Cut is the next best thing. Making the Cut is a fashion competition show,
pitting 12 up-and-coming designers against each other to see who has what it
takes to start the "next big global fashion brand." Now, "big global fashion
brand" is definitely extremely vague language, but there are some seriously
talented contestants on this show, and people get very emotional in nearly every
episode, which is alternately sweet and stressful to watch. Gunn in particular
will always make such great TV as he delivers on his signature brand of
inspirational tough love to push the designers to be their absolute best.
-Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
For fans of: Queer-friendly stories of joy, baseball!
Number of seasons: 1
Melanie Field, Abbi Jacobson, and D'Arcy Carden, A League of Their Own
Nicola Goode/Prime Video
There's no crying in baseball, but there are remakes in Hollywood, and this
twist on Penny Marshall's classic 1992 comedy is the right kind of remake. The
show, created by Will Graham and Broad City's Abbi Jacobson (who also stars),
starts with the same idea as the movie: It's a fictionalized spin on the
real-life World War II-era founding of the All-American Girls Professional
Baseball League. But the series populates that world with all-new characters and
pushes the story in new directions, spotlighting queer and Black baseball
players in a way the movie did not. Add in an all-star cast — which also
includes D'Arcy Carden, Chanté Adams, Kate Berlant, Roberta Colindrez, and Nick
Offerman — and the bases are loaded. -Kelly Connolly [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE OUTLAWS
For fans of: Colorful casts of characters, never knowing what's going to happen
next
Number of seasons: 2
The Outlaws
Amazon Studios
All of a sudden, Christopher Walken is a prolific TV actor! After never being a
series regular on a TV show in his nearly 60-year acting career, the screen icon
now has respectful "And Christopher Walken" billing on two shows in one year.
The first is the excellent Apple TV+ drama Severance, which you should watch if
you haven't. The other is The Outlaws, a nifty little British dramedy about
community service. He plays an American ex-con in Bristol who's doing community
service — or "Community Payback," as it's called in the U.K. — alongside a
disparate group of people whose only thing in common is that they're all there
because their lives aren't going super well. Their lives get intertwined in
surprising, unpredictable ways when one of them hides a bag of stolen cash at
the worksite and the others find it. It's a tonally unique show that combines
elements of a witty workplace comedy and a crime thriller in a way that befits
its odd couple co-creators, The Office's Stephen Merchant (who also co-stars)
and Mayans M.C.'s Elgin James. It's like each of them created half of a show and
then wove them together. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
PAPER GIRLS
For fans of: Stranger Things, time-traveling shows that tie your noodle in knots
Number of seasons: 1
Paper Girls
Prime Video
Prime Video's grab for a slice of that Stranger Things audience is this sci-fi,
'90s set, synth-heavy, teen drama about four girls who get caught in a war
between time-traveling factions from the future. The real draw here is the
attention to the characters, whose journey through adolescence and their
meetings with their future selves are more interesting than the twisty premise.
Before you say that this is a Stranger Things rip-off, know that it's based on
the Brian K. Vaughn and Cliff Chiang comic series, which came out in 2015, a
year before Stranger Things. -Tim Surette [Trailer | Review]
Watch on Prime Video
THE TERMINAL LIST
For fans of: Angry men, the Navy
Number of seasons: 1
Chris Pratt, The Terminal List
Justin Lubin/Amazon Studios
Chris Pratt stars in this hybrid conspiracy/revenge thriller that features the
most unspeakable use of a hatchet this side of Blood Meridian. He plays James
Reece, a Navy SEAL on a mission to punish the people responsible for killing the
other members of his unit. There's a conspiracy behind it, but he doesn't care
too much about the why. He mostly just cares about the how he's going to
terminate everyone. It's a well-made if cliched action show that fits in well
with Amazon's other tough guy offerings like Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan and Reacher.
-Liam Mathews [Trailer | Review]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
CHLOE
For fans of: Ingrid Goes West, but even darker
Number of seasons: 1
Erin Doherty, Chloe
York Tillyer/Amazon Studios
The six-part BBC psychological thriller was all the hotness when it was released
earlier this year in the U.K., but it makes its U.S. debut this summer on Prime
Video. The series follows a woman who is obsessed with her childhood friend's
seemingly perfect social media presence, but when her friend mysteriously dies,
she develops a new alter ego to get into her obsession's inner circle and find
out what happened. You know what comes next; the jig gets very much up. -Tim
Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE LAKE
For fans of: Summers on the lake, complicated family comedy
Number of seasons: 1 (renewed for Season 2)
Jordan Gavaris and Madison Shamoun, The Lake
Peter H. Stranks/Amazon Studios
A gay man (Orphan Black's Jordan Gavaris) who fathered a child whom he gave up
for adoption when he was young reconnects with her at his family's lakeside
cabin in this easy-going comedy. But things get complicated when he finds out
that the cabin has been bequeathed to his picture-perfect stepsister (Julia
Stiles). This show is an easy — if somewhat shallow — distraction. -Allison
Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE BOYS
For fans of: Superheroes with a twist
Number of seasons: 3 (renewed for Season 4)
Antony Starr, The Boys
Prime Video
The Boys is about superheroes, but not the Avengers kind. It would probably be
more accurate to say that this show is about supervillains, or at least,
villains who think they're heroes. Let me explain: The Boys is set in a world
where superheroes are revered as celebrities and work for a giant corporation,
but outside of saving the world, most are abusing their powers and are pretty
bad people. (I'm talking actual Nazi-level bad, in the case of a few
characters.) Enter... the titular Boys, a group of vigilantes who have tasked
themselves with bringing down the corrupt "heroes." A lot of other things
happen, but if you're looking for something that really strives to break the
mold Marvel and DC have created, The Boys is it. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
NIGHT SKY
For fans of: Older people in love, mysterious otherworldly portals
Number of seasons: 1
J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek, Night Sky
Chuck Hodes/Amazon Studios
Amazon's got a thing for older people finding weird passageways to weirder
places. Following Josh Brolin's "cowboy finds a hole" show Outer
Range comes J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek's "couple finds a portal to another
planet" show Night Sky. In it, Simmons and Spacek's characters keep their secret
from everyone... until someone else shows up. Commence the sci-fi mystery! We
like this show for its understated, thoughtful vibe, the intriguing questions it
raises, and the great performances from its cast. -Tim
Surette [Trailer | Review]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE KIDS IN THE HALL
For fans of: Classic sketch comedy, goofy dudes
Number of seasons: 1
Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson,
Kids in the Hall
Jackie Brown/Amazon Studios
Ask your parents what's so funny about a guy squeezing his fingers together and
saying, "I'm crushing your head." Or just watch this revival of Kids in the
Hall, a sketch comedy series from the beloved Canadian troupe of the same name,
and you'll say to yourself, "Hey, it's the guy from Superstore!" The final
season of the original run, which ran on HBO for three seasons and then on CBS,
aired in 1995, and ended with all of them being buried alive. That's crucial
information to understand the trailer. All the guys — Dave Foley, Bruce
McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson — are back and as
silly as ever. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE WILDS
For fans of: Teens, getting stranded, Lost
Number of seasons: 2
Jenna Clause, Sarah Pidgeon, and Mia Healey, The Wilds
Amazon Studios
A mix of Lost and Lord of the Flies, The Wilds stars a mostly unknown cast of
young women with an assortment of issues en route to a spiritual retreat when
their plane crashes on a deserted island, forcing them to work together to stay
alive. It naturally leads to plenty of bickering and politicking, as the group
have different skills and backgrounds, while flashbacks and flashforwards fill
out the rest of the story on both ends of the timeline. And if you think they
ended up there on accident, then you clearly haven't watched enough television
shows. After its huge Season 1 cliffhanger, Season 2 is all about the
boys. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
UNDONE
For fans of: Masterful animation, metaphysical musings
Number of seasons: 2
Angelique Cabral and Rosa Salazar, Undone
Amazon Studios
Rosa Salazar stars in this gorgeous rotoscoped drama as Alma, a woman from Texas
who wakes up after a car accident and discovers she now possesses the ability to
manipulate time — and communicate with her deceased father (Bob Odenkirk). He
recruits her to use her newfound powers to try and prevent his death 20 years
prior. Season 2, which came out in April 2022, expands the show's (roto)scope as
Alma teams up with her sister Becca (Angelique Cabral), who can enter other
people's memories, to figure out a secret their mother (Constance Marie) is
hiding that could tear apart their family as they know it. With 16 addictive
22-minute episodes, Undone is a breathtaking visual feast that demands to be
consumed in a single weekend. –Noelene Clark [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
A VERY BRITISH SCANDAL
For fans of: More British scandals, messy divorces
Number of seasons: 1
Claire Foy and Paul Bettany, A Very British Scandal
Alan Peebles
Just call it British Crime Story. The follow-up to 2018's Emmy-winning A Very
English Scandal has a slightly different title so it's technically not an
anthology like Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story, but the idea is the same:
British people, specifically royals, behaving badly. Whereas "Season 1" focused
on the Jeremy Thorpe affair, this round focuses on the much publicized 1963
divorce between Margaret Campbell (Claire Foy), Duchess of Argyll, and Ian
Campbell (Paul Bettany), 11th Duke of Argyll. I'm guessing Paul Bettany won't be
channeling his WandaVision character and saying "What is grief, but love
persevering," and instead say, "What is Margaret Campbell, but a lying, cheating
*&$%#!!!" -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
OUTER RANGE
For fans of: Yellowstone but weird, Stranger Things but Western, buffalo, holes
Number of seasons: 1 (renewed for Season 2)
Josh Brolin, Outer Range
Amazon Studios
Josh Brolin stars in this show that was probably pitched as "Yellowstone meets
some weird-ass s---, bro!" The Western and sci-fi hybrid series stars Brolin as
a Wyoming rancher who finds something inexplicable on his property, and the
mystery box opens up for viewers complete with glyphs, strange occurrences, and
one giant friggin' hole in the ground. And does Brolin belt out some powerful
monologues? You bet. It's a love or hate it show, but we say YEEHAW give us
more. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE BOYS PRESENTS: DIABOLICAL
For fans of: The Boys but animated, quick hits of variety
Number of seasons: 1
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
Amazon Studios
The success of The Boys is largely a product of its universe, a commercialized,
superhero-filled, f***ed up society that created Homelander, Hughie, and Billy
Butcher. This off-shoot of The Boys is a collection of animated shorts exploring
other stories from this twisted alternate universe, and they span all sorts of
genres, from raunchy humor to odd romance to backstories for some of The Boys'
characters. Additionally, each episode is animated in a different style — anime!
Saturday morning cartoons! Rick & Morty-ish! — and written by some big names,
including Andy Samberg, Akwafina, Seth Rogen, and Aisha Tyler. -Allison
Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL
For fans of: Pastiche, talking fast
Number of seasons: 4 (renewed for fifth and final season)
Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Prime Video
If you've seen even one episode of Gilmore Girls, you're already familiar with
the Amy Sherman-Palladino style: women who talk fast in a way that both annoys
and charms everyone they meet. That same sensibility is also present in The
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Sherman-Palladino's comedy series about Midge Maisel
(Rachel Brosnahan), a 1950s housewife who begins moonlighting as a stand-up
comedian to let off steam from the trials and tribulations of her daily life.
The show follows her successes and her blunders as she traverses the world of
comedy alongside her gruff manager, Susie (Alex Borstein), the ways she tries to
keep her secret life hidden from her eccentric parents (Tony Shalhoub and Marin
Hinkle), and her complicated relationship with her ex-husband, Joel (Michael
Zegen). It's won a ton of Emmys and will probably win a ton more as its run goes
on. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
REACHER
For fans of: Huge dudes punching other dudes, detective work, classic rock
Number of seasons: 1 (renewed for Season 2)
Alan Ritchson, Reacher
Prime Video
Reacher is a TV adaptation of author Lee Child's paperback novels about Jack
Reacher, a brolic former military policeman who wanders around the country using
his brains and his brawn to solve crimes. He was previously played on the big
screen by Tom Cruise, who is not built like TV's Reacher Alan Ritchson, who is
built like Arnold Schwarzenegger if he played in the NFL. He gets off a bus in a
small Georgia town and quickly gets caught up in a conspiracy of currency
trafficking, political corruption, and murder, and helps two local cops unravel
the mystery using his savant-like investigative skills and unfiltered
willingness to say whatever he's thinking. And when he can't talk his way to a
solution, he sure can punch, shoot, and headbutt his way to one. It's a
workmanlike detective/action show that isn't very ambitious but is a lot of fun,
especially for fans of Amazon's other dad-book adaptations Bosch and Tom
Clancy's Jack Ryan. -Liam Mathews [Trailer | Review]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
AS WE SEE IT
For fans of: Representation, tear jerkin'
Number of seasons: 1
Sue Ann Pien, Vella Lovell, Chris Pang, Sosie Bacon, As We See It
Ali Goldstein/Amazon Studios
Jason Katims, creator of Friday Night Lights and Parenthood, has another hit on
his hands — as in hit you right in the feels — with this heartfelt dramedy
series. As We See It follows the struggles and triumphs of Jack (Rick Glassman),
Harrison (Albert Rutecki), and Violet (Sue Ann Pien), three twenty-something
roommates who are on the autism spectrum (the actors all identify as being on
the spectrum as well), as well as their aide Mandy (Sosie Bacon), who helps them
navigate jobs, dating, and their relationships with each other. It's a show that
will make you laugh in one scene and cry in another, and depicts something
rarely seen on television — the lives of adults on the autism spectrum — with
dignity and authenticity. -Liam Mathews [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
WITH LOVE
For fans of: Having a wholesome good time, family holidays
Number of seasons: 1 (renewed for Season 2)
Emeraude Toubia, With Love
Kevin Estrada/Amazon Studios
One Day at a Time co-creator Gloria Calderón Kellett knows her way around a
family comedy. With Love is her latest, a holiday-themed Latinx rom-com that
stars Shadowhunters' Emeraude Toubia and Ugly Betty's Mark Indelicato as
siblings Lily and Jorge Diaz, who are each unlucky in love but still out there
looking for it. The gimmick here is that each of its five episodes takes place
on a different holiday: one is set on Nochebuena, where Jorge brings his new
boyfriend home to meet the parents; another on Independence Day, where Lily and
her new boyfriend move in together. Like the best rom-coms, With Love is a sweet
watch that knows how to break your heart and put it back together again by the
end. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE EXPANSE
For fans of: Spaaaaaace, complex political and social situations, Fedoras
Number of seasons: 6
The Expanse
Syfy
You may have heard people calling The Expanse "one of the best sci-fi shows
ever" and gosh darnit, they're right. The series that Jeff Bezos reportedly
personally saved from cancellation after Syfy axed it is a wonderfully
complicated political thriller that just so happens to take place in space as
Earth and Mars are on the brink of war and an alien somethingorother threatens
all of humankind. Telling an intragalactic story from multiple planets and
multiple points of view, The Expanse is Game of Thrones-level rich. Well, when
Game of Thrones was good. Plus, Thomas Jane plays a detective with a dope hat.
-Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Prime Video
HANNA
For fans of: Espionage, bone-crunching action, tours of Europe
Number of seasons: 3
Esmé Creed-Miles, Hanna
Christopher Raphael
Joe Wright's 2011 film Hanna purposefully kept its focus tight on a story of a
teenage girl trained to be an assassin by a secret organization, limiting most
of the action to a few locations and binding the story to a small group of
characters. But there was clearly more story to tell, and the film's
screenwriter, David Farr, branched things out with Hanna the series. Esmé
Creed-Miles is fantastically blunt as Hanna, who knows how to crush a windpipe
with a swift strike but doesn't know the first thing about being a normal
teenage girl, and Mireille Enos gives one of the best performances of her career
as Marissa, Hanna's enemy-turned-ally. While the first episode follows the
structure and plot of the film for most of its run, the additions — including
one huge and meaningful difference to the character of Marissa — and changes
feel natural and worthwhile in the TV show as it expands its universe and digs
deeper into its characters. Season 2 is an especially great example of this, and
Season 3, the show's final season which was released in late 2021, wraps things
up mostly satisfactorily. Like many of Amazon's shows, budget wasn't spared and
Hanna doubles as a vacation travelogue for Europe as much as it is a high-stakes
spy thriller. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Prime Video
THE WHEEL OF TIME
For fans of: Expansive fantasy worlds, Game of Thrones
Number of seasons: 1 (renewed for Seasons 2 and 3)
Rosamund Pike, The Wheel of Time
Amazon Studios
It's no billion-dollar Lord of the Rings TV series (that's coming soon courtesy
of Prime Video), but Amazon's Wheel of Time is based on another popular high
fantasy book series and has its own goals of becoming the next Game of Thrones.
It's got the usual fantasy boxes to check off: a prophecy about a powerful young
person who will save the world, vast world-building that requires its own atlas
to keep track of, British accents (why is everyone always British?), and a
roster of characters that will take you a few seasons to familiarize yourself
with. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
GOLIATH
For fans of: Billy Bob Thornton, dad shows
Number of seasons: 4
Billy Bob Thornton, Goliath
Amazon Studios
Between Bosch and Jack Ryan, Amazon sure does love a dad show -- case in point,
Goliath! This legal drama centers around Billy McBride (played by Billy Bob
Thornton, total dad bait) a washed-up, hard-drinking lawyer who, at the
beginning of the series, agrees to take on a wrongful death case, and exposes a
vast criminal conspiracy in the process. This show follows the tried and true
procedural format of addressing issues that relate directly to what's going on
in the real world via the fictional cases that McBride takes on. -Allison
Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
UPRISING
For fans of: Sobering looks at history, Steve McQueen
Uprising
BBC/Rogan Productions
Following Small Axe, his impressive five-film suite of movies about West Indian
immigrants in 1960s and 1980s England, director Steve McQueen turns his prolific
lens to a trio of documentaries. Most noteworthy is the three-part docuseries
Uprising, detailing the 1981 New Cross Fire, an act of arson on a birthday party
that left thirteen young Black people dead. Speaking with survivors of the fire,
McQueen paints an intimate picture of a country divided by racism and a
community that was devastated by a heinous act. If you like that, you can check
out the other two films that premiered alongside Uprising: Subnormal, about the
educational scandal of the 1960s and '70s that sent Black children to schools
for "subnormal education," and Black Power: A British Story of Resistance, which
looks at the Black Power movement in England. As usual with McQueen's work, all
are excellent. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
LULARICH
For fans of: Scams, leggings
Number of seasons: 1
LuLaRich
Amazon Studios
If you're Facebook friends with a certain type of person, you may already be
familiar with LuLaRoe, and if you aren't, this four-part docuseries is here to
break down one of the internet's most pervasive pyramid schemes. The show
explores how this multilevel-marketing company (which is known for selling,
among other types of women's clothing, very colorful leggings) hooked its target
demographic of stay at home moms into becoming sellers, and how it exploited
those same people out of money as many of them worked around the clock to try to
get rid of their inventory. The lure of MLMs will never stop being fascinating,
and this one is no exception — plus, the filmmakers conducted interviews with
the company's kooky founders, husband and wife scammer duo DeAnne and Mark
Stidham. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL
For fans of: Watching Hugh Grant play a terrible, shady person
Number of seasons: 1
Hugh Grant, A Very English Scandal
Sophie Mutevelian/BBC/Blueprint Television Ltd
Hugh Grant loves playing jerks who don't respect their wives, this is an
indisputable fact. But a few years before he played the bad husband on The
Undoing, he was playing the bad husband on A Very English Scandal, a show about
a very real sex scandal that went down in the '70s. Grant plays Jeremy Thorpe, a
member of Parliament, who has an affair with Norman Josiffe (Ben Whishaw), a
younger stable hand, which is complicated by the fact that Thorpe is both a
public figure and married with a child. When the scandal blows up in the British
press, a vicious battle breaks out between Thorpe and Josiffe. The best part of
it all is that this show is an incrediby short watch, clocking in at only three
episodes long. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
BILLIONS
For fans of: Capitalism, but make it camp; pissing contests
Number of seasons: 6 (renewed for Season 7 on Showtime; 4 seasons are available
on Prime Video)
Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis, Billions
Jeff Neumann/SHOWTIME
Showtime's financial soap is part prestige drama and part grown-up frat party,
following the reckless assholes of a Wall Street hedge fund as they accumulate
wealth and eat sushi off naked women. That grotesquery is off-putting at first,
but soon becomes the reason to watch as the toxic masculinity sirens become
music to your ears. And if you enjoy acting, Damian Lewis playing the hedge fund
CEO and Paul Giamatti the government lawyer trying to take him down will please.
-Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
BOSCH
For fans of: Troubled cops, the parts of L.A. that aren't so nice, The Shield
Number of seasons: 7
Titus Welliver and Jamie Hector, Bosch
Hopper Stone/Amazon Studios
Author Michael Connelly's rough-around-the-edges cop Harry Bosch comes to the
screen in one of Amazon's most popular series, a prestige dad show about
morality and cleaning up the scum of Los Angeles. Titus Welliver plays Bosch, a
homicide detective who doesn't always play well with authorities, but that might
have something to with the fact that he's always caught up in investigations
against him dealing with police procedure. The police work is much more
authentic than what you're used to, which some might call slow, but it's worth
the watch for some gripping turns and its gritty atmosphere. The show goes on in
the form of sequel series Bosch: Legacy, which is available via Freevee. -Tim
Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
CARNIVAL ROW
For fans of: Fantasy that pulls from real-life politics
Number of seasons: 1 (Renewed for Season 2)
Carnival Row
Amazon Studios
This series is set in a Victorian fantasy world where mythological creatures
have been turned into immigrants and refugees after their exotic homelands were
invaded by humans, because, as we all know, humans ruin most things. Tensions
between creatures and humans rise, but amidst the darkness, a human detective,
Rycroft Philostrate (Orlando Bloom), and a refugee faerie named Vignette
Stonemoss (Cara Delevingne) strike up a curious, and dangerous, bond. It's more
than a little ridiculous, but that's what makes it fun to watch. -Allison
Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
CATASTROPHE
For fans of: Unlikely romantic connections, people being lovingly mean to each
other
Number of seasons: 4
Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan, Catastrophe
Amazon Studios
Co-creators and co-writers Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan star, respectively, as
the affable American Rob and the sardonic, disillusioned Irish Sharon, two
single people who find themselves falling into a relationship after a short
fling in London leaves Sharon pregnant. Catastrophe is the kind of show that
celebrates the joys and frustrations of unexpected romance, telling us that love
isn't easy, but worth having if you can find it. If all that wasn't enough, the
late, great Carrie Fisher makes recurring appearances as Rob's eccentric,
judgmental mother. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
COUNTERPART
For fans of: Fringe, The Americans, if Fringe and The Americans had a baby
Number of seasons: 2
J.K. Simmons, Counterpart
Starz
You want to watch one of the best science-fiction series of the last decade, but
you also want to watch one of the best espionage thrillers of the last decade.
The solution to both is Counterpart, an appallingly underwatched series that ran
on Starz for two seasons from 2017 to 2019. J.K. Simmons stars as a low-level
pencil pusher at a government agency in Berlin where he learns that his job
actually involves work with a top-secret parallel universe, and things only get
more complicated when his counterpart, a hot-shot spy from the other universe,
arrives in his to stir up trouble. It's a brilliant drama that allows its cast
to stretch itself out with the show's fun premise. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
DEXTER
For fans of: Serial killers with feelings, lumberjack beards
Number of seasons: 8
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Showtime
During television's heyday of prestige dramas, Dexter was Showtime's entry into
the crowded space, following a blood spatter expert (Michael C. Hall) who also
happened to be a serial killer. It was an instant hit, with its macabre look at
the mind of a murderer who painstakingly went through the process of killing
other murderers and cleaning up the mess afterward. The show's appeal waned in
later seasons, because Showtime has no issue letting series run out of creative
juices as long as they're still fairly popular, but the early seasons are still
great. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
FLACK
For fans of: The nefarious goings-on of the rich and famous
Number of seasons: 2
Flack
Amazon Prime Video
Anna Paquin's underrated dramedy about an American public relations executive
living in London who spends her time cleaning up celebrity messes is a quick and
fun binge. She deals with everything from pop stars with sex tape leaks to
comedians who make insensitive jokes, and Paquin is just so good at playing the
role of harried fixer. Some people watch Law & Order to get their crime of the
week, others watch Flack for their crisis of the week. -Allison
Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
FLEABAG
For fans of: People trying their best, rule-breaking priests, watching Olivia
Colman be rude
Number of seasons: 2
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag
Amazon
Created by, written by, and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the show centers
around the everyday life of the titular Fleabag (Waller-Bridge), and the ways in
which she fails upwards romantically, professionally, and in her familial
relationships. In its first season, it's an incredibly funny show that's also
about the pain of hidden trauma, but it's in its second season where Fleabag
confidently figures out exactly what it wants to say. As Fleabag begins to
explore her strange, fleeting connection with Andrew Scott's (Hot) Priest,
repairs her complicated bond with her uptight sister Claire (Sian Clifford), and
struggles to figure out the kind of person she wants to be, the show shines. By
the time those two words heard 'round the world are uttered in the series finale
-- "It'll pass;" if you know, you know -- it's abundantly clear that Fleabag has
earned its cathartic, triumphant ending. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
FOREVER
For fans of: Beloved comedians, the afterlife
Number of seasons: 1
Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen, Forever
Amazon Studios
Forever, a wondrously weird, canceled-too-soon series, stars Maya Rudolph and
Fred Armisen as a married couple who are in a rut, not exactly unhappy but
nonetheless going through the motions. When Armisen's character dies suddenly,
and Rudolph's character not long after, they find themselves back together in
the perplexingly lawless afterlife, which is actually just an extremely normal
suburb. They have no idea why they've ended up there or what they're supposed to
be doing, with no one telling them what to do and no real goals set for them.
You can probably already tell that this heads right for "What's the meaning of
life?" territory, but the show explores that concept with sobering nuance.
Rudolph and Armisen are excellent together, and Catherine Keener co-stars in a
very fun supporting role. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
GOOD OMENS
For fans of: Buddy comedies, the concept of Frances McDormand as God
Number of seasons: 1 (Renewed for Season 2)
David Tennant and Michael Sheen, Good Omens
Amazon Studios
Amazon and the BBC's adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's beloved
fantasy-comedy novel Good Omens is about a demon and an angel who team up to
prevent the Antichrist from bringing about the end of the world because they've
grown rather fond of Earth and its inhabitants, and it features some of the best
casting television has ever seen. David Tennant as the hedonistic demon Crowley
is so good it's like he was born solely for this purpose, and the way he plays
off Michael Sheen's angel, Aziraphale, makes for a perfect odd-couple pairing
that leads to the show's best moments. Although the limited series is faithful
to the novel (perhaps to a fault), it doesn't always retain the same magic and
whimsy, so it's really the cast, which also includes Michael McKean, Frances
McDormand, and Jon Hamm, that makes it worth your while. Plus, it's a quick
binge at only six episodes. -Kaitlin Thomas [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
HOMECOMING
For fans of: Government misdeeds and wrongdoings
Number of seasons: 2
Homecoming
Amazon Studios
Based on the podcast of the same name, Homecoming is a slick, sickening thriller
about the lengths the government will go to keep its secrets and the people who
get discarded along the way. Season 1 stars Julia Roberts as a former social
worker who begins unraveling the mysteries of her previous job at the cryptic
Homecoming facility, which claims to be helping soldiers transition back to
civilian life. The key to the gaps in her memory turns out to be a veteran she
connected with at the facility named Walter Cruz (an unmissable Stephan James).
Season 2 introduces Janelle Monáe as another amnesiac with ties to Homecoming,
and it gives the great Hong Chau a lot more to do as a surprisingly powerful
employee of the facility's parent company. The cast list is half the thrill with
this show. -Kelly Connolly [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
I LOVE DICK
For fans of: Kathryn Hahn!
Number of seasons: 1
Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn, I Love Dick
Amazon Studios
If you're feeling the Kathryn Hahn-aissance post-WandaVision, it's time for you
to check out I Love Dick. In it, she plays Chris, an artist who moves to Texas
with her husband and quickly becomes obsessed with a man named Dick (Kevin
Bacon), and she decides to express her attraction by writing sexually explicit
letters to him that she never delivers but still begin to interfere with the way
she lives her life. Think of it as an older, much more explicit To All the Boys
I've Loved Before. Like if To All the Boys I've Loved Before was going through a
mid-life crisis. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
INVINCIBLE
For fans of: Cartoon violence, superhero origin stories, celebrity voices
Number of seasons: 1 (Renewed for Season 2)
Invincible
Amazon
No one would blame you for having superhero fatigue, but Invincible promises to
be a little different from your average Marvel movie. From The Walking
Dead's Robert Kirkman, this animated series follows Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun),
a 17-year-old kid who just so happens to be the son of the world's greatest
superhero. When his own powers begin to develop, he learns some shocking
information about himself and his father's legacy, all while trying to balance
carving out his own identity as a hero with the normal anxieties that come along
with being a teen. Alongside Yeun is an incredibly stacked cast that
includes J.K. Simmons, Sandra Oh, Mahershala Ali, Gillian Jacobs, Seth
Rogen, Mark Hamill, Mae Whitman, and many, many more. -Allison
Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
For fans of: Historical fiction, dystopian universes
Number of seasons: 4
Amazon Studios
Based on the Philip K. Dick novel, the drama imagines a universe in which the
Nazis won World War II. Picking up 20 years after the war, the United States is
now divided into two states: Germany controls the east and Japan controls the
west, while the Rocky Mountain states are a lawless neutral zone. When films and
newsreels created by a mysterious figure, appropriately called the Man in the
High Castle, that show Germany and Japan losing the war, people who have
accepted their fate begin to rebel against the world they're stuck in. -Allison
Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
MODERN LOVE
For fans of: The New York Times, celebrities
Number of seasons: 2
Anne Hathaway and Gary Carr, Modern Love
Amazon Studios
This is a show based on a newspaper column -- specifically the New York Times's
Modern Love -- and if that doesn't sound like the most interesting concept, I
can almost guarantee that at least one episode stars a celebrity you like. It's
an anthology, so every episode is adapted from a different story: There's the
Dev Patel episode, in which he stars as the founder of a dating app who's still
in love with his ex-girlfriend, and the Anne Hathaway episode, where she plays a
woman trying to cope with bipolar disorder. There's also the episode where Tina
Fey and John Slattery go to marriage counseling, and the one where Andrew Scott
has troubles with his surrogate. Season 2 adds episodes starring Minnie Driver,
Kit Harington, and Domnique Fishback. To be honest, this is really more for
hardcore rom-com fans than a general audience, so go in expecting some
sappiness. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
MOZART IN THE JUNGLE
For fans of: When New York City is a character in something you're watching,
classical music, weirdos
Number of seasons: 4
Amazon Studios
Mozart in the Jungle is a true oddball of a show, but there's a lot of sweetness
and joy to be found in it. Rodrigo (Gael García Bernal) is the new conductor at
the New York Symphony, whose flamboyant style puts him at odds with Thomas
(Malcolm McDowell), the now-retired former conductor. Soon after Rodrigo takes
over, he holds auditions for new players, and he hires young, determined oboist
Hailey (Lola Kirke) -- not to play in the symphony, but to be his assistant,
which she settles for with the hope that it will lead to bigger and better
opportunities. The show is filled out by a cast of ridiculous characters, like
the symphony president played by Bernadette Peters and Wallace Shawn's neurotic
pianist, that make the world come alive, and as a bonus, you get to hear some
pretty beautiful music. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
MR. ROBOT
For fans of: Stanley Kubrick, paranoia, hacking
Number of seasons: 4
Rami Malek, Mr. Robot
Elizabeth Fisher/USA Network
Sam Esmail's conspiracy thriller ranges from masterpiece to overcomplicated over
the course of its run, but thankfully it's more of the former than the latter.
Rami Malek made his name as Elliot, a misanthropic hacker whose hobby helped him
try to understand people as much as it got him data, but his anxiety grew after
stumbling across possible secrets from one of the fastest-growing predatory tech
companies in the world. Things escalate to global proportions with most of the
action happening over keyboards and monitors while we sheep were none the wiser.
Mr. Robot pushed plenty of boundaries, most notably how a TV show could be shot.
Watch Season 3's continuous-shot "Runtime Error" to see it in action. -Tim
Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
ONE MISSISSIPPI
For fans of: Tig Notaro, late in life coming-of-age stories
Number of seasons: 2
Tig Notaro, One Mississippi
Amazon Studios
Comedian Tig Notaro stars as a version of herself in this fictionalized account
of the period in her life directly after her mother died. While recovering from
her own brush with cancer, she moves back to her Mississippi hometown to live
with her brother and step-father, reminiscing and learning about her past. This
show really highlights Notaro's strengths as both an actor and a storyteller,
and it's also one of those little hidden gems that will probably make you
wonder, "Where has this been all my life?" -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
PATRIOT
For fans of: The Coen Brothers, cinematography, comedic violence
Number of seasons: 2
Patriot
Amazon Studios
My best piece of advice: Stop everything and watch Patriot now. Steven Conrad's
bizarre spy series stars For All Mankind's Michael Dorman as an aspiring folk
singer dragged into espionage by his father, forcing him to go undercover as an
employee at a pipe-manufacturer in Milwaukee. Yeah, that sounds weird, and it
is, charmingly, and bolstered by artsy cinematography, colorful characters, and
comedy so dark you might be ashamed to laugh. It's one of Amazon's hidden
treasures. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE PURSUIT OF LOVE
For fans of: Period dramas with modern sensibilities, female friendship, Andrew
Scott
Number of seasons: 1
Andrew Scott and Lily James, The Pursuit of Love
Amazon Studios
Amazon's The Pursuit of Love is perfect for anyone who loved that antics of
Netflix's Bridgerton, but are looking for something a tad less sultry. The
three-episode miniseries stars Lily James and Emily Beecham as cousins in the
early half of the 20th century in England as they, ahem, pursue love and grow
up, and how their friendship perseveres despite each wanting different things.
Dominic West and Andrew Scott also star, and the modernization is complete with
a great soundtrack that includes New Order and T. Rex. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
SNEAKY PETE
For fans of: Cons, slippery situations
Number of seasons: 3
Amazon
From the still-smoldering ashes of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston (along with
House's David Shore) created this twisty crime drama about a con man (Giovanni
Ribisi) fresh out of jail who assumes the identity of his still-imprisoned
cellmate in order to avoid thugs who want to kill him. The con job involves
embedding himself into a family as a long-lost relative, which is a ticking time
bomb ready to explode with consequences. Check it out if you're into watching
desperate crooks wiggle out of tight squeezes. Bonus: Cranston plays a mob boss
and Margo Martindale plays a suspicious mom. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
TRANSPARENT
For fans of: Family drama, magical realism
Number of seasons: 5
Gaby Hoffmann and Jay Duplass, Transparent
Amazon Studios
It's hard to discuss Transparent without also bringing up the Jeffrey Tambor of
it all -- Tambor was accused of sexual harassment on the set of the series and
subsequently exited after its fourth season -- but there's also a lot of value
in talking about all the hard work put into this show by actual trans actors,
directors, and writers, like Trace Lysette, Hari Nef, Our Lady J, and more.
Transparent revolves around a family who learns that their parent (Tambor) is a
trans woman, and the ways in which her transition helps her children learn about
their own identities. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
For fans of: Alternative histories, Barry Jenkins' magical touch
Number of seasons: 1
Thuso Mbedu, The Underground Railroad
Amazon Studios
Barry Jenkins made his first big foray into TV with this miniseries based on the
Colson Whitehead novel about an alternate reality that imagines the Underground
Railroad as an actual railroad with trains, conductors, and engineers. Cora
(Thuso Mbedu), an enslaved woman, boards the train in effort to secure her
freedom, all while being pursued by a vicious slave owner (Joel
Edgerton). William Jackson Harper and Lily Rabe co-star. -Allison
Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
UPLOAD
For fans of: The afterlife, but make it funny
Number of seasons: 2
Upload
Amazon Studios
Upload feels a little like the Greg Daniels take on The Good Place you never
knew you wanted. The sci-fi comedy is set in a technologically advanced future
in which humans can be uploaded into a virtual afterlife when they're close to
death. Robbie Amell stars as Nathan, a young app developer who dies in a
self-driving car accident and whose consciousness ends up in the luxurious
digital world known as Lakeview thanks to his shallow but wealthy girlfriend,
Ingrid (Allegra Edwards). The series has a lot of fun taking jabs at our
reliance on technology while imagining what the world of the future will look
like, and Nathan's budding relationship with Nora (Andy Allo), his "angel," or
more accurately, his customer service rep, is a real highlight. -Allison
Picurro [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
ZEROZEROZERO
For fans of: Crime dramas, virtual vacations
Number of seasons: 1
Gabriel Byrne, ZeroZeroZero
ZeroZeroZero is a sprawling crime drama in every sense, following the life cycle
of cocaine from production in Mexico to transport by an American shipping
company to sale by the mafia in Italy. Of course, problems with the shipment
arise, leading to infighting among syndicates and, yep, murder. Come for the
crime, stay for the gorgeous on-location shots. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Watch on Amazon Prime Video
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