Now that it has several original series to promote—including Catastrophe and the award-winning Transparent—Amazon has decided to go ahead and launch its Prime Video component as a standalone streaming service. According to Mashable, Prime Video is cutting the cord from its retail-giant parent company, in a sense, announcing that its film and TV offerings will be available for $8.99 a month. This is presumably great news for anyone interested in watching Mozart In The Jungle and/or Chi-Raq, who worried about having to subscribe to Amazon Prime and its “every day could be Black Friday” sentiments.