Though many people may be Prime Video subscribers simply because they want free two-day shipping, no one should sleep on Amazon’s streaming arm, which has put out some truly impressive original series in recent years. (The streamer racked up 28 Emmy nominations this year.) With shows that run the gamut from teen dramas and fantasy epics to high-concept comic and video game adaptations, it’s a platform with a tremendous amount of variety. Here are our top picks from what to watch on Prime Video.
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The Boys
Stars: Karl Urban, Antony Starr, Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Jessie T. Usher, Chace Crawford, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit
Number of seasons: Five
Based on Garth Ennis’ comics of the same name, this show 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. The series concluded with its fifth and final season in May 2026.
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Catastrophe
Stars: Sharon Horgan, Rob Delaney, Carrie Fisher, Mark Bonnar, Sarah Niles, Tobias Menzies, Ashley Jensen, Frances Tomelty
Number of seasons: Four
Co-created by Horgan and Delaney, plot-wise, Catastrophe pretty much lives up to its title. The biting British comedy sees Sharon and Rob as they go from strangers to unexpected parents-to-be after hooking up one night. The rom-com uses both characters’ deadpan humor and huge egos to its benefit, crafting a relationship that feels incredibly grounded despite their wild circumstances. The show also marks Fisher’s last TV role, and to no one’s surprise, she delivers a remarkable performance as Rob’s mother.
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Daisy Jones & The Six
b Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Suki Waterhouse, Will Harrison, Josh Whitehouse
Number of seasons: One
This buzzy project, 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. Though it’s not the most technically faithful take on its source material, Keogh and Claflin’s electric chemistry powers through any weak spots. (And, honestly? The songs are bangers.)
The post-apocalyptic video game franchise made its way to the small screen in 2024, and the results were pretty damn delightful. A series that’s accessible to newcomers and full of Easter eggs for hardcore franchise fans, the story is set in a retro-futuristic Los Angeles after a nuclear holocaust. Purnell stars as a young woman raised in an underground vault as she sets out into the above-ground Wastelands to find her missing father (MacLachlan). Excellent performances abound, particularly from Goggins as the ruthless, zombie-esque Ghoul. The series has been renewed for a third season.
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Fleabag
Stars: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sian Clifford, Andrew Scott, Bill Paterson, Brett Gelman, Olivia Colman, Angus Imrie
Number of seasons: Two
Based on Waller-Bridge’s one-woman show, this British comedy is equal parts acerbic and heart-wrenching. The first season is a comedic success, but the second 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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Good Omens
Stars: Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Jon Hamm, Nina Sosanya, Maggie Service
Number of seasons: Two and a ninety-minute finale movie
Good Omens is a fantastical biblical farce that never lets up. When the Antichrist arrives on Earth, the angel Aziraphale (Sheen) and the demon Crowley (Tennant) band together to protect the semi-mortal lives they’ve come to know and love. Though the finale wrap-up movie is somewhat uneven and quite bittersweet, Tennant and Sheen’s excellent performances shine.
A sumptuous Spanish-language adaptation of Isabel Allende’s classic novel, The House Of The Spirits unfolds across the better part of a century as it follows three generations of women in the Trueba family through political and societal upheaval in an unnamed South American country. (It’s Chile, though.) Though it makes some fairly significant changes to its source material, the show is remarkably faithful to its spirit, and its themes of fate, class, memory, and resilience still resonate strongly today.
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Invincible
Stars: Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, Walton Goggins, Sterling K. Brown, J.K. Simmons, Gillian Jacobs, Jason Mantzoukas, Zachary Quinto
Number of seasons: Four
Invincible is a bloody good time. The adult-animated drama, based on the comics of the same name by Robert Kirkland, depicts the transformation of teen Mark Grayson, whose father is Omni-Man, into a superhero. What follows is a violent coming-of-age drama that sees Mark struggling to both adjust to his powers and the revelation of his father’s less-than-heroic choices. Invincible is also notable for its strong voice acting and a willingness to subvert familiar superhero tropes. The show has been renewed for seasons five and six.
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A League Of Their Own
Stars: Abbi Jacobson, Chanté Adams, D’Arcy Carden, Roberta Colindrez, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Kelly McCormack, Priscilla Delgado, Nick Offerman
Number of seasons: One
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 that incorporated queer and Black characters in a way the original did not. Sadly, it was canceled after a single season, but it’s still a warm and worthwhile watch.
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My Lady Jane
Stars: Emily Bader, Edward Bluemel, Anna Chancellor, Rob Bryden, Jordan Peters, Kate O’Flynn, Abbie Hern, Oliver Chris, Henry Ashton, Dominic Cooper, Jim Broadbent
Number of seasons: One
A YA fantasy romp set in an alternate 16th-century England where ordinary humans exist alongside Ethians, shapeshifters who can take animal forms and who, as a result, have been barred from society. The story follows Lady Jane Grey (Bader), the infamous Nine Days’ Queen forced to marry Lord Guildford Dudley (Bluemel, who’s now young Poirot), only to discover he’s a secret Ethian who’s been cursed to turn into a horse each day. Its gloriously ridiculous plot, bolstered by the richly realized romance that blossoms between Jane and Guildford, is delightful from start to finish.
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The Legend Of Vox Machina
Stars: Laura Bailey, Ashley Johnson, Matthew Mercer, Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray
Number of seasons: Four
Actor and game designer Matthew Mercer crafted a Dungeons & Dragons campaign years ago, and it became the basis for The Legend Of Vox Machina. In the adult-animated series, a band of eight unlikely heroes goes on a quest to save the realm of Exandria from dark, magical forces. Even if you’re not familiar with the game itself, Vox Machina is absorbing. The series has been renewed for a fifth and final season.
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power
Stars: Morfydd Clark, Charlie Vickers, Robert Aramayo, Benjamin Walker, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Daniel Weyman, Lloyd Owen, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Trystan Gravelle
Number of seasons: Two
The most expensive TV series of all time made its debut in 2022, sweeping us into J.R.R. Tolkien’s Second Age Of Middle-earth. Though the series plays fast and loose with some of the specifics of Tolkien’s history (see also: whatever they’re doing with Gandalf), the lavish world-building, sweeping battle sequences, and a delightful turn from Vickers as Sauron make for an entertaining ride. A third season is set to premiere in November 2026.
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Stars: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Tony Shalhoub, Marin Hinkle, Michael Zegen, Kevin Pollak, Caroline Aaron, Luke Kirby, Jane Lynch
Number of seasons: Five
Amy Sherman-Palladino brings her colorful Gilmore Girls-esque writing, fast conversations, and sharp humor to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which follows Midge, a 1960s housewife-turned-standup-comic. Brosnahan, Borstein, and Shalhoub deliver wonderful performances in this Emmy-winning series, which bowed out in 2023.
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The Night Manager
Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Camila Morrone, Diego Calva, Olivia Colman, Hugh Laurie, Noah Jupe
Number of seasons: Two
Prime Video resurrected this polished British spy thriller whose first season originally aired on AMC for a second outing that’s every bit as good as its debut. Based on a John le Carré novel, season 2 sees Hiddleston reprise his role as Jonathan Pine, an MI6 agent who finds himself dragged back into a case he thought he’d left behind. The series has been renewed for a third season.
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Off Campus
Stars: Ella Bright, Belmont Cameli, Mika Abdalla, Stephen Kalyn, Antonio Cipriano, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Julia Sarah Stone
Number of seasons: One
An adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s popular Briarcliff University series of hockey romance novels, the show’s first season follows a music student (Bright) who strikes an unorthodox deal with the team captain (Cameli). She’ll tutor him so he can pass a class he needs to play; he’ll pretend to date her to make the boy she’s crushing on jealous. Their fake relationship quickly turns real, with swoon-worthy results. The series has been renewed for a second season, which will focus on Ali (Abdalla) and Dean’s (Kalyn) romance.
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Overcompensating
Stars: Benito Skinner, Wally Baram, Adam DiMarco, Mary Beth Barone, Rish Shah, Holmes
Number of seasons: One
TikTok star and comedian Benito Skinner created and stars in this half-hour comedy, which is loosely based on his college experience. Overcompensating follows Skinner’s Benny, a closeted football player who is determined to play it straight and fit in on campus with the help of his older sister and her boyfriend. The show has been renewed for season two.
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Sterling Point
Stars: Ella Rubin, Amélie Hoeferle, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Bo Bragason, Keen Ruffalo, Mabel Strachan, Jay Duplass, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Number of seasons: One
A delightful teen drama that feels like nothing so much as a throwback to the heyday of The CW, Sterling Point follows a teen (Rubin) who inherits an island (yes, an entire island) in Canada and learns a bunch of family secrets in the process, including the existence of a sister she didn’t know she had. Creator Megan Park crafts a delightful coming of age story that takes familiar tropes and makes them feel brand new. A second season has been ordered.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty
Stars: Lola Tung, Jackie Chung, Rachel Blanchard, Christopher Briney, Gavin Casalegno, Sean Kaufman, Alfredo Narciso, Minnie Mills
Number of seasons: Three
It’s hard not to be charmed by The Summer I Turned Pretty, Prime’s adaptation of a novel by Jenny Han. Full of gorgeous scenery, summer parties, soapy twists, and a love triangle for the ages, this addictive story follows Belly (Tung) as she spends the summer at a family beach house and finds herself torn between a charming local and a friend’s eldest brother.
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The Underground Railroad
Stars: Thuso Mbedu, Aaron Pierre, Chase W. Dillon, Joel Edgerton, William Jackson Harper, Amber Gray, Chukwudi Iwuji, Lily Rabe
Number of seasons: One
Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk, Moonlight) delivers a defining work of historical drama and magical realism with The Underground Railroad, based on Colson Whitehead’s novel of the same name. Set in an alternate reality that imagines the Underground Railroad as an actual railroad complete with trains and conductors, the story follows Cora Randall (Mbedu), an enslaved Black woman who attempts to escape Georgia for a life of freedom in the North. It’s a searing, sensational adventure to behold.
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The Wheel Of Time
Stars: Rosamund Pike, Josha Stradowski, Zoë Robins, Daniel Henney, Madeleine Madden, Sophie Okonedo, Marcus Rutherford, Dónal Finn, Kate Fleetwood
Number of seasons: Three
A sprawling adaptation of Robert Jordan’s popular fantasy saga, The Wheel Of Time follows Pike’s Moiraine, an enigmatic Aes Sedai capable of channeling the One Power, as she and her Warder (Henney) track down a group of young adults who may hold the key to saving or damning the world. Remarkably female-focused for a story in this space and full of complex, morally gray characters, the series was canceled after three seasons in 2025.
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