How many have you watched?
It feel like several millennium ago that Amazon was a humble on-line Christian Bible retailer compete to advertise out the brick - and - mortar joints where blase gamey schoolers pay heed out when there was nothing else to do . sacrifice that founder Jeff Bezos has progressively fix his eye on taking over the world ( and outer outer space ) , it makes common sense that Amazon is exert itsPrime Videosubscription perk as a weapon against Netfilx and other baron players inthe streaming wars .
With a material selection of Amazon Prime originals since the first batch of shows drop back in 2013 , you have some choices to make about which to prioritise . That ’s where this ranking come in . For now , we ’ve limited our oscilloscope to English - nomenclature production ( sorry , You Are desire ) and script display ( so , noThe Grand Tour ) , and excluded continuations of serial that began elsewhere ( e.g. ,The Expanse ) , tyke ’s programming , and anything branded as an Amazon Original in the United States but actually bring about or co - produce by an international company ( such asCatastrophe , Fleabag , Good Omens , ZeroZeroZero , Small Axe , etc . ) . Even with those minute guidelines in position , there ’s still ( presently ) 48 Amazon Prime original series to contend over . Let ’s get to it !
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48.Betas(2013–2014)
1 time of year , 11 episodesBefore there wasSilicon Valley , sport T.J. Miller spouting offcrude jokesand somewhat sagacious witticisms , there wasBetas , sport Jon Daly spout off earthy jokes and pretty sagacious witticisms . The four leads ( basically three nerds plus Daly ) notice themselves fighting the clock and enlisting help ( enterPEN15 ’s Maya Erskine ) to get their new dating app funded and subsequently launched . During the many mischance of the cast , the show tries — withsomesuccess — to shine a limelight on the more rock candy and roll side of the technical school scene , with plot points repeatedly focusing on sexual activity , drug , and Daly ’s belligerence . All in all , you ’re sound off rewatching HBO’sSilicon Valleyinstead . Watch it now on Amazon
47.Solos(2021)
1 time of year , 7 episodesAs a dramatic form , the soliloquy can be unforgiving . Even with a cast full of celebrated face , slick production purpose , and a succession of gamy - concept science - fiction premises , Solos , a pandemic - epoch anthology experiment in the venous blood vessel of HBO ’s more groundedCoastal Elites , struggles to hold your attention . Stars like Anne Hathaway , Anthony Mackie , Helen Mirren , Uzo Aduba , and Constance Wu do their best with overwritten globs of text , most good manners of creator David Weill ( Amazon ’s revenge dramaHunters ) , that demand they sell every teary-eyed - eyed confession , awkward pop culture gag , and cautiously telegraphed narration turnabout . These mini dystopian melodrama were likely cant in the vein ofBlack Mirror , with a special vehemence on narration of closing off and loss , but they miss the satirical bite of Charlie Brooker ’s best technical school parables . follow it now on Amazon
46.The Dangerous Book for Boys(2018)
1 season , 6 episodesBryan Cranston co - created this series , base on a Koran of the same name , and although it ’s only six episodes , it manages to overload you with saccharine sentimentality in a fraction of that prison term . It concentrate on brothers who , with their female parent , are trying to serve the dying of the male child ' father . fortuitously , he left a — spoiler — dangerousbook for son that transports them into a whimsical universe that serve as a variety of ad hoc group family therapy . It ’s kind of like a secularHeaven Is for Real , in all its cloying anti - gloriole . find out it now on Amazon
45. Jean-Claude Van Johnson(2016–2017)
1 time of year , 6 episodesWhat happens to an maturate action star beginning to understand that he has become more of a punchline than he ever hop-skip or intended ? He goes super meta . Unfortunately , the meta - seriesJean - Claude Van Johnsonfails to convince anyone that JCVD possesses the comedic chops to carry an extended trick in which Van Damme is Van Damme , but he’salsoVan Johnson , a secret agent who ’s trying to bust drug runners and win back his old sexual love . The action mechanism set pieces commonly end with JCVD ’s catchphrase , " Ohhhhh fuck … " because so many military action - moving picture chronological sequence are unrealistic , get it ? Most of the jokes are Riff on his old movies , but they rake more as a resume than any real self - awareness ; there ’s only so much humor to mine from " Looperis a ripoff ofTimecop " riffs . Watch it now on Amazon
44.Mad Dogs(2015–2016)
1 season , 10 episodesSteve Zahn and Billy Zane star side - by - side in an Amazon show ? Sounds delicious ! Suffice to say , that delight turns to muddiness and aggravation fairly cursorily during the show ’s 10 instalment . The plot of land devolves as the characters make one big decision after another , often bickering amongst themselves and throw contumely at each other in dire situations . The one time they actually work together is to immobilize a little somebody in a well . despoiler alert : It fails . The filming and focusing is good , but ultimately the most interesting thing about this show is that Steve Zahn catch dengue fever while filming it . watch out it now on Amazon
43.Hand of God(2014–2017)
2 seasons , 20 episodesThis show so urgently wants to be prestige television that you may almost see the crushed can of Red Bull in the writers ' elbow room at 3 am make their direction into the book . The plot(s ) can not adequately be described in indorsement form , but here ’s an attempt : Ron Perlman plays a judge who ’s accuse of slay a fuzz , and whose Word recently entrust felo-de-se , and who went half-baked / hears the voice of God / communicates with his aforementioned dead son ( now in the afterlife , but perchance sent his " pronunciamento " to Perlman , who shouted it in tongues as he brook naked in a public fountain ? ) . Perlman ’s dead son also created a secretive computer political program that an malevolent Silicon Valley technical school entrepreneur sharply covets because Big Data Is the Key to the Future . Also , there ’s Perlman ’s wife and her whole family , and a corrupt police force department , among other plotlines . It ’s what we in the blurb business sector call " busy . “Watch it now on Amazon
42.Crisis in Six Scenes(2016)
1 time of year , 6 episodesWhileCrisis in Six Scenesdidn’t do much to change the television landscape , Amazon ’s partnership with Woody Allen advanced the narrative that TV is the New Movies . yield the accusation that have swirled around Allen for 10 , Amazon could have find a safer auteur to solicit with its one thousand thousand of Bezos Pearl Buck , but Allen ’s six - section comedic series sic against 1960s leftover - wing stem manages to be odd , and even insightful about personal commitment to political action . While some ( OK , much ) of Allen ’s humor is a snatch , shall we say , old - fashioned , there ’s a bunch of room inCrises in Six Scenesfor a expectant operation from ( get quick for this ) Miley Cyrus as a ultra blowout . Watch it now on Amazon
41.Tell Me Your Secrets(2021)
1 season , 10 episodesThis bleak , morose thriller was originallydeveloped and shot as a TNT show , and , at least in theory , it ’s not difficult to ideate it airing alongside likewise sorry menu like the crime dramaAnimal Kingdomor the sci - fi dystopian nightmareSnowpiercer . But , distinctly , someone at the internet thoughtTell Me Your Secretsdidn’t quite study , which direct to it sitting on the ledge for a recollective time beforesurfacing on Amazon Prime , where it failed to make much of an impact . Despite a talented cast , including Amy Brenneman ( The Leftovers , Judging Amy ) as a mother searching for her lose daughter and Lily Rabe ( American Horror Story , The Undoing ) as a woman know in witness protection after falling in love with a sequential killer , the show ’s conversant portmanteau of credulity - strain melodrama , timeline shifting narrative complexity , and rug - pulling eddy never actually coheres . The secrets prognosticate by the title , buried beneath a blockheaded grease of gizmo and clichés , rarely finger deserving unearth . check it now on Amazon
40.The Last Tycoon(2016–2017)
1 season , 9 episodesAmazon go all in on F. Scott Fitzgerald , and the results were … expensive ! Also , not worth it . In its former pursuit tofind the nextGame of Thrones , Amazon give away that flow dramas are not the kind of massive hits that generate online possibility and interminable watercooler talk . specially in the case ofThe Last Tycoon , a Kelsey Grammer - led serial about pre - world-wide War II Hollywood , based on Fitzgerald ’s unfinished last novel — while hatful of sentence , money , and attention went into production , the committal to writing is wilted and the final intersection is all style , no message . In another universe of discourse , that could serve as a vehicle to research Hollywood ’s obsession with figure of speech , but inThe Last Tycoon , it mostly falls level . Watch it now on Amazon
39.Z: The Beginning of Everything(2015–2017)
1 season , 10 episodesImagine your mellow school day English year just finished readingThe Great Gatsby . Everybody did delicately on their character developing essay . Your instructor wants to celebrate — but in a manner that still instruct you something . In an idealistic domain , this would stand for make everyone take Therese Anne Fowler’sZ : A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald , the reimagined accounting of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald ’s Flapper - epoch celebrity romance . ( C’m on , get to know the mass behind the Great American Novel ! ) But , wow , duo probs : That book ’s not on the syllabus , and your teacher still has to get to Vonnegut . Time for a fast course of instruction motion picture day ? If only this Christian Bible existed in … await , yeah , The Beginning of Everythingis just that , a morsel - sized adaptation of Fowler ’s book . As such , it ’s complete for a day or two of literary dreaming , like a soapy version of Spark Notes . Christina Ricci , as the title letter , is majuscule . unluckily , likeThe Last Tycoon , this Fitzgerald - themed show fail to make it to a second time of year — Amazon pull in the plug after ab initio giving a green light . Watch it now on Amazon
38.Panic(2021– )
1 season , 10 episodesWhat if the Hunger Games was set in present - day Texas?is basically the claw for Amazon ’s YA fantasy thrillerPanic , based on Lauren Oliver ’s 2014 novel . Only Panic , the game mysteriously organized for fine-tune seniors at the local gamey schoolhouse , is about finish unsafe dares for an ultimate cash trophy that could be one especial teen ’s ticket out of their pocket-size rural townsfolk . Coddling its mark audience as if they were overly squeamish , Panicis less successful as a show than it is as a point for the next obsessed - over stripling It son in Ray Nicholson . It ’s unlikely you ’ll be drawn in by its conversant provocation . watch out it now on Amazon
37.Good Girls Revolt(2015)
1 season , 10 episodesIt ’s voiceless to talk aboutGood Girls Revolt , Amazon ’s ' sixty drama , without mentioningMad Men . The costumes . The office sets . The questionable hairstyles . It ’s not thatMad Menmakes all future shows ready in the ' 60 irrelevant — there are clearly a kitchen range of narration to be told about America in that turbulent time — but the job with Maker Dana Calvo ’s point composition , which chronicles a fictionalizedNewsweek - dash weekly powder magazine based out of New York in 1969 , is that it never quite finds its dramatic footing . It might have discovered a strong representative in Season 2 , but , in a price - cutting move , the series was strike down by Amazon after only one season , imply it will sadly never emerge from Don Draper and Peggy Olson ’s long phantasm . keep an eye on it now on Amazon
36.Utopia(2020)
1 season , 8 episodesAmazon ’s adjustment of the British Channel 4 sci - fi thriller went through wad of loop before the American version finally came out ( at one point it was suppose to belong to HBO and be directed by David Fincher ) . The result , an absurdist black funniness about a group of misfits follow the trail of a religious cult comic they trust will predict the end of the universe , is more of a girl than a hit , taking its gonzo elements way too in earnest . The serial was dinged for its ill - timed spillage — a show about a regime lie down about a pestilence and manufacturing fake vaccines for some moody purpose was n’t exactly the kind of entertainment we were all in the mood for in fall 2020 — and canceled after one time of year , so if you really are dying to check it out , at least it ’s not much of a time investment . Watch it now on Amazon
35.Them(2021– )
1 time of year , 10 episodesMarvin Little’sThem , executive produced by Lena Waithe , is an incredibly fashionable , if frequently hollow , period of time revulsion small-arm that turn to the racial terror of Los Angeles in the 1950s . Deborah Ayorinde and Ashley Thomas star as a Black pair who moves their two unseasoned daughters from the South to California where they are immediately tortured by their white neighbor , who try out to harass them out of their home . But in plus to the surface - level racialism going on , there is something either supernaturally or psychologically troubling afoot . Little ’s show is streamlined , but at once received pushback from critic who wondered whether its extreme brutality attain anything . look out it on Amazon
34.Comrade Detective(2017)
1 time of year , 6 episodesComrade Detectiveis one of Amazon ’s most ambitious show , which intend it tends to separate opinion . It ’s a Rumanian buddy - cop action - funniness set in the eighties with a communist backdrop ; it ’s in Romanian , but dubbed in English with an all - asterisk vocalism cast that include Channing Tatum , Joseph Gordon - Levitt , Chloë Sevigny , Mahershala Ali , Kim Basinger , and many , many more . It ’s eminent - conception , but lover of weird humor a la Adult Swim will find a lot to love in the Eastern Bloc Seth and cheesy , propagandistic dialog . Watch it now on Amazon
33.Gary Busey: Pet Judge(2020– )
1 time of year , 6 episodesIn 2003 , Comedy Central broadcast a show calledI’m with Buseythat mined the actor ’s oddball behavior for laughs while pairing him with a immature comedy writer . Gary Busey : Pet Judge , an absurdist take on the reality homage show genre , puts theUnder Siegestar in robes and asks him to make opinion on a figure of ( made - up ) beast - based conflict . It ’s both on the dot what it sounds like — there ’s plenty of Busey being Busey — and a bit strange than you might have a bun in the oven , packed with dry sense of humour and presented without too many wink nods to its own surreal conceit . If this were a one - off Adult Swim show you stumbled onto while communication channel surfboarding or a Funny or snuff it sketch from the site ’s more anarchical former days , it might feel like a genuine furore discovery you ’d desire to portion out with a booster . In the oasis of Amazon ’s streaming oblation , it mostly just feel out of shoes . Watch it now on Amazon
32.Tom Clancy’sJack Ryan(2018– )
2 seasons , 16 episodesWhether or not you enjoyJack Ryandepends for the most part on your preexist beliefs : Do you enjoy firefights and believe theCIA is an institution Americans should " care for " ? Or do you retrieve the media has go way overboard in painting the military - industrial composite in a positive luminousness ? The former radical of suburban dads will love this show ground on the Tom Clancy character ( played with scrawny - guy - discovers - creatine energy byThe Office’sJohn Krasinski ) , which take post in a world where idealistic broker the public never learn protect destitute civilian from calamity like " another 9/11 " and " a atomic Venezuela . " The latter group of Twitter activist will likely express mirth at the supposed threat of nuclear Venezuela , and writhe uncomfortably when a CIA - backed coup in Latin America is present as a necessary and imposing enactment . Whatever your vox populi , it ’s well-heeled to see whyJack Ryanis one of Amazon ’s few big - budget success : It does n’t skimp on shoot - em - up lot while , it moves quickly , and it delivers the comforting fantasy of a spy inspection and repair filled with humble Good Shepherd . Watch it now on Amazon
31.Lore(2017–2018)
2 seasons , 12 episodesAs a podcast , Aaron Mahnke’sLorewas already addictive . Now , it ’s a star - studded Amazon anthology , with six of the most pop original episodes — the origins of vampire , changelings , wolfman , séances , possess skirt , and icepick frontal lobotomy — adapted as intercrossed revulsion - docuseries . ( Meaning you get a portmanteau word of archive fabric and re - enactments . ) As you larn about the history of changelings , for exemplar , you ’ll seeTeen Wolfstar Holland Rodentake on the role of Bridget Cleary , the Irish cleaning lady whose hubby murdered her because he think she was abducted by fairies . Like its first loop , the television show is mature for a gripping , and enlightening , marathon . determine it now on Amazon
30.Modern Love(2019– )
1 season , 8 episodesAmazon went about adaptingThe New York Times ' most split - jerking recur column for this anthology series , which portrays vignettes about love ( romantic and otherwise ) in the big metropolis . The show , executive produce byOncedirector John Carney , leans intemperately on its ability to make you cry , and has number under criticism for its lack of variety . But if you ’re look for star power , this one has it : Anne Hathaway , Tina Fey , and Dev Patel all appear . Watch it now on Amazon
29.Goliath(2016– )
3 time of year , 24 episodesGoliathknows incisively what it is . This sound drama from David E. Kelley , creator of internet video juggernauts likeThe Practice , Boston Legal , andBig Little Lies , is mash - up of old school John Grisham novels and tardily - cooked " character - repulse " cable shows with peck of HBO - caliber profanity . ( A tip of how cookie - cutter this show can be : It ’s working deed was just " tribulation . " ) What makes it all somehow mold ? Fucking Billy Bob Thornton . The Oscar - succeeder play Billy McBride , a washed - up alcohol-dependent attorney who look off against his old firm , and he refuse to sleep - walk through a role that fit his hardscrabble public role like a rumpled suit . Though William Hurt , Maria Bello , and Olivia Thirlby are all on helping hand as sound expert , this is the Billy Bob show all the way . Sure , Goliathis basicallyBad Lawyer — but that ’s near enough . check it now on Amazon
28.Alpha House(2013–2014)
2 season , 21 episodesThis two - time of year political sarcasm serial publication fromDoonesburycreator Garry Trudeau adds yuk - yuk sitcominess to the 47 - twelvemonth - onetime comic strip ’s insurance wonk humour . ThinkVeepfor theCheerscrowd . The show follows four Republican Senators ( play by John Goodman , Clark Johnson , Matt Malloy , and Mark Consuelos ) who spend their day on Capitol Hill , their night in a row family they rent together , and most waking moments stress to do as piddling workplace as possible . This try out difficult . If Sarah Palin is n’t rip them for being left of the Tea Party , LGBTQ activists are decrying their societal indifference . With cameos from Hollywood veterans ( Bob Balaban , Cynthia Nixon ) and politician ( Elizabeth Warren , John McCain ) alike , Alpha Houseis low - key lampooning that reminds us there was a sentence when TV could finger gaga than real life sentence . Watch it now on Amazon
27.Forever(2018)
1 season , 8 episodesWhen the first promo forForevercame out , something was miss . That something , namely , was any gloss of a plot . All the series seemed to be about was that Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph were playing a matrimonial couple who had pass on a familiar stagnation . And when it in conclusion debuted , the serial was , in a way , just that — but it was also so much more . Foreverturns into an exploration of the afterlife and what paradise look like for different people . For Oscar ( Armisen ) , it ’s living in precisely the same way with his married woman June ( Rudolph ) by his side . For June , there ’s a hungriness for something more . The first time of year , which sets some of the existence ’s basis linguistic rule , feels like just an appetizer for what ’s to come , which make it inauspicious that Amazon opted not to find fault it up for a 2d season . Watch it now on Amazon
26.One Mississippi(2016–2017)
2 seasons , 12 episodesThere wasLouis CK vs. Tig Notaro beefbehind the evolution and production of this autobiographical adaptation of Notaro ’s aliveness , for which CK still serves as executive manufacturer , long before the stories aboutLouis CK ’s behaviorbecame public . Notaro ’s personal story is sincerely harrowing , a battle against two deadly unwellness ( breast cancer and C. diff ) , plus the destruction of her female parent , making this almost certainly the most depressing show you ’ll ever see from a comedian . Not that that ’s needs a big thing — finding humor in darkness is one of Notaro ’s strongest endowment — but from time to time the dark mood can finger monotonous , with Notaro ’s deadpan delivery emphasizing , rather than complementing it . Watch it now on Amazon
25.Hanna(2019– )
2 seasons , 16 episodesThe 2011 movie rendering ofHanna , starring Saorise Ronan as the eponymous stripling who get up in the woods with her father and tactically trained for murder , got stretch forth into this Amazon series . The New York Timescalled it " genetically alter , " which is as accurate a description there is for this show . Where the movie was suspenseful , action - compact , and fun , the seriesfeels to a fault procedural , mired in a mystery over eight 45 - hour episodes that ’s already been riddled . But there ’s a solid performance from Esmé Creed - Miles as the feral Hanna forced to sort through the human race when her and her father Erik ’s ( Joel Kinnaman ) hideout gets snuffle out by the CIA agent he used to be a contract grampus for . ButHannaespecially hurt due to slow pacing , constitute even big showdowns and reveals feel like extended foreplay . Watch it now on Amazon
24.The Man in the High Castle(2015–2019)
4 season , 40 episodesAh , yes , The Man in the High Castle , a unhinged chronicle about an America rule by two foreign tycoon . Ha ! This substitute - story thriller , in which the Nazis gain World War II , imagines life in America if Germany captured a monumental glob of acres to the east of the Rockies and give Japan the West , with the renegade subject of the title carrying the banner for America in secret . The saga is adapt from Philip K. Dick ’s 1960s novel , make all the complex characters , blazing storylines , addictive world building , and political intrigue small - screen ready . It ’s a atrocious but immeasurably bingeable thought experimentation , kind of likeColonysans unknown . Watch it now on Amazon
23.The Romanoffs(2018)
1 season , 8 episodesMatthew Weiner ’s much hoped-for follow - up to his near perfectMad Menwasn’t the frothy , fun geographic expedition into why so many royal pretenders are running around that we expected . It partially is that , but more so , it ’s a darkly mean study of the worst kind of citizenry , the sort who dwell and control in their despair to give their dull existences some impressive , esoteric significance . The anthology series is n’t for everyone , and it ’s made more than a few missteps in attempting to tackle seasonable issues ( e.g. , one instalment revolve around imitation molestation accusations left more than a few viewers with a dour taste in their mouths ) , but if you ’re ever in the mood to watch some fashionable , horrible rich people make utter fools of themselves in royal court juries , on the lot of bad television shows , and onboard a ridiculously ostentatious Russian Empire - themed cruise , this one ’s for you . Watch it now on Amazon
22.Hunters(2020– )
1 time of year , 10 episodesHuntersis out for blood . The series from entrant David Weil and co - executively produced by Jordan Peele , is an unhinged grindhouse series about Nazi huntin ' that surprise in more ways than one , from its wit , camp , and Blaxsploitation brainchild nod , to the very graphic bloodshed that spread out as a group of underdog track down Nazis lurking in ' 70 America . The serial publication thread Al Pacino to television receiver as Meyer Offerman , a man who sees it as God ’s will to mobilise his group of Nazi Hunters and take his latest military recruit , 19 - year - old Jonah ( Logan Lerman ) , under his backstage for financial aid in seek vengeance after a cataclysm unfolds in his own life . While the show may not be what you expect , it has its major power — which is emboldening the disenfranchise — and a sentiency of catharsis follows suit . Watch it now on Amazon
21.Truth Seekers(2020)
1 time of year , 8 episodesFrequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been making great drollery series and movie together since asterisk together in nerdy sitcomSpacedand Edgar Wright’sCornetto Trilogy , and they come along together again inTruth Seekers , a show about amateur extrasensory researcher working for a broadband installation party who keep encountering hauntings wherever they go . A comedic riff onThe X - FilesandGhost Hunters , the show is svelte but has its moments , let in a character whose name is really Elton John , a World War II soldier whose soul has been stupefy inside a radio since the ' 40s , and a woman haunt by a sinister stria of digital ghosts . view it now on Amazon
20.Carnival Row(2019– )
1 season , 8 episodesYou get ta reach it toCarnival words : It for sure is a show about an alternate urban illusion universe of discourse where the world of humanity and the humankind of the faerie are incessantly at war with each other , starring Cara Delevingne as a winged fey named " Vignette Stonemoss " and Orlando Bloom as human investigator " Rycroft Philostrate , " caught in a passion / hatred relationship in London ’s seamy back back street , stalked by a magical Jack the Ripper . There ’s really no telling who this show is for , but if it sound like it ’s for you , you ’ll emphatically want to give it a shaft . Watch it now on Amazon
19.The Tick(2016–2019)
2 seasons , 22 episodesWhen rooter learn Ben Edlund ’s satirical big blue-blooded glitch of jurist was getting the Amazon discourse , many wondered : Would anyone really be able to adequately replace original hot - action at law star Patrick Warburton ? Would this reboot be able to foreshorten through all the other streaming superhero bullshit ? The good news : yes . Peter Serafinowicz nails the sheer airheadedness of the The Tick , helping Arthur ( Griffin Newman)—the real genius , a inadequate , broken , obsessional man — to bug into his potential and uncover a nefarious conspiracy . Their report , more importantly , come throng with legit emotion , activeness , and tons of weird sport . ( " When destiny verbalize , she speaks to me . She say , ' Hi , ' by the way ! " ) observe this thing is like rediscover your erotic love of an old plaything — one that yells , SPOOOOOOOOON ! ! ! ! with an exhilarating sense of heady abandon . Watch it now on Amazon
18.Patriot(2015–2018)
2 season , 18 episodesIf your favorite matter are ( in any order ) espionage , folk euphony , soliloquies on human fragility , and quirky humor , you will enjoy this show . Vastly different from the other Amazon show about the CIA , Patriottracks the increasingly unstable excited state of John Tavner , a.k.a . John Lakeman , who ’s tasked with posing as a pipage engine driver so he can travel to Europe to prevent Iran from receive full nuclear capability . Also , he ’s a folks vocalist with a penchant for inserting classified information into his lyrics , and John Locke fromLost(Terry O’Quinn ) is both John ’s dad and his boss . God Almighty and executive producer Steven Conrad gave us the public ofThe Pursuit of HappynessandThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty — Patriotis better than both of those without a uncertainty , possessing an ironic sensibility that seems ego - aware at time . It ’s also just plain eccentric in a way that most shows are n’t , and we can appreciate the endangerment it aim . Watch it now on Amazon
17.Too Old to Die Young(2019)
1 season , 10 episodesNicolas Winding Refn and Ed Brubaker wrote every provocative , weird , and gory sequence ( Halley Gross get together them for the final two sequence ) , with director Refn shooting it all in his theme song coloured and deliberately unhurried flair . Some might reason that Refn care more about style than center , and it ’s fair to say that the plot is less compelling than its visuals . ButToo Old to Die Youngis likeOnly God Forgives , divulge BadandTwin Peaks : The Returnput into a blender , with amazingly awe-inspiring put up performance by William Baldwin as a super - moneyed , tops - creepy dad and byDie Hardscene - thief Hart Bochner as a MAGA - inspired police headman , plus a compelling turn by Jena Malone as a conspiring ghostlike therapist . It also has aDrive - esque railway car chase , that should be grounds enough to control it out . Watch it now on Amazon
16.I Love Dick(2016–2017)
1 season , 8 episodesTransparentcreator Jill Soloway ’s second Amazon series is like a screenland - printed Warhol take on the ardour emoji : syncopated , artful , and satisfyingly vicious . found on Chris Kraus ’s 1997 art - world - dominating memoir of the same name , the show stars Kathryn Hahn ( WandaVision ) as Chris , a bomb New York City film maker who follow her writer husband , Sylvère ( Griffin Dunne ) , to Marfa , Texas , where he ’s earned a inquiry fellowship with pedantic virtuoso Dick ( Kevin Bacon ) . His aura work the community into a hotbed of intelligentsia and psycho - sexuality , which snap Chris ’s world in half . The crass and poetic collide as she pieces it back together , giving Soloway , along with playwright Sarah Gubbins , the chance to throw convention out the window . From Louise Bourgeois references to episodes devoted to 4th - wall - break in flashbacks , I Love Dickdoes everything it can to pierce the esoteric - yet - essential idea of art and its inseparable comrade : sex activity . Watch it now on Amazon
15.Blade of the Immortal(2019– )
14.Sneaky Pete(2015–2019)
3 seasons , 30 episodesPerhaps the name turn you off . Maybe it was the idea of spend hours watching " that guy rope " actor Giovanni Ribisi play the titulary conman . We get that . ButSneaky Pete ’s subtle charm materialize if you view it as a companion piece toJustified(Graham Yost serve as showrunner and Margo Martindale plays the wise matriarch of a rural bail - James Bond business ) andBreaking Bad(Bryan Cranston serves as executive producer and recurs as a Heisenberg - y gangster).Watch it now on Amazon
13.Red Oaks(2014–2017)
3 seasons , 26 episodesWhenRed Oaksfirst debuted , we might have called the show a hard underrated entry in the Amazon canyon . But the secret ’s out about this intelligent - yet - raunchy ' 80s - style comedy adjust in Red Oaks , a fabricated country social club in a sleepy New Jersey suburbia — ifWet Hot American Summerwere a TV series directed by John Hughes , this is what you ’d get . The show stars David ( Craig Roberts ) , a young NYU pupil back for summertime to instruct lawn tennis lessons at the club , but characters like Nash ( Ennis Esmer ) and Wheeler ( Oliver Cooper ) hijack every scene they ’re in with hilarity , humanness , and just the right amount of off - colouring material jokes you ’d await to find in any classic ' 80s teen movie . Watch it now on Amazon
12.Tales from the Loop(2020– )
1 season , 8 episodesTales from the Loopis a series suck up from of the work of Swedish optical creative person Simon Stålenhag . That might seem like a pretentious issue for a show , but Stålenhag made a name for himself by painting primarily imaginative , abandoned robots , so this sci - fi serial is actually an opportunity for some challenging , disingenuous TV . Each episode tells a narration about a resident in a Midwestern Ithiel Town that interacts with the so - holler " cringle , " a installation that purportedly makes fantastical things get along lawful . Tales from the Loopdoes on the dot that — make the insufferable possible with its various storylines and gorgeous motion-picture photography — while incubate the most human of topics , mean this loose adaptation is capable to make something beautiful and affecting . Watch it now on Amazon
11.The Wilds(2021– )
1 time of year , 10 episodesSwiping generously fromLord of the FliesandLost , particularly in the way it laces backstory with on - the - island mischief and ominous " ostentate - forward " reveals , The Wildsis not a particularly original serial . The plot mechanics that get the teenage young lady at the narration ’s shopping centre in this heightened dangerous scenario — they’re all head to Dawn of Eve , a sinister - sound adult female ’s authorisation retreat , when their plane falls from the sky — take some clip to set up , and some characters in the large , sprawling ensemble CAT scan as needlessly broad betimes on , but the execution is often nervy and surprising . The cagey dialogue , the rumbling electro - score good manners of Cliff Martinez , and the winningly vulnerable functioning make this a worthy heir to many of the sharp , fashionable teen show of the WB ’s previous ' 90 and early ' 00s heyday . It tickle with a gumption of function and urgency that distinguishes it from a number of other biscuit - cutter YA - adjacent smasher currently choke off up other streaming weapons platform . Watch it now on Amazon
10.Mozart in the Jungle(2014–2018)
4 seasons , 40 episodesDo you like whimsicality ? Do you like Gael Garcia Bernal ? Do you like ascertain the clichéd trope of a immature , elevated oboist attempt to break into the New York Symphony while navigating her own ambitions , passions , and sexuality , while sometimes salute too much ? Then you ’ll love this show . Bernal dally a raw maestro who ’s brought into the symphonic music to attract a younger audience with his unconventional … well , everything . He drink his afternoon tea a very specific elbow room , he sometimes wears string of beads in his hair , and he ’s emotionally beholden to a misanthropic lover / activist who smashes her violin a tidy sum . The show is a plenty of playfulness to watch , and Lola Kirke ( the said oboist ) straddles the bank line of unwavering authority and crippling doubt , making the show approachable even to those who had to Google " oboist . “Watch it now on Amazon
9.Upload(2020– )
1 time of year , 10 episodesWithUpload , it ’s as ifThe OfficeandParks and RecreationshowrunnerGreg Danielsput the best rom - com , sci - fi , societal satire , and slaying secret elements into a liquidizer knowing full well that the end result would be successfully thought - agitative and humorous . The series posits a not - so - distant time to come where a technological breakthrough has made a variety of digital afterlife scenarios useable to extend one ’s life for century — which may sound familiar in the geezerhood ofBlack Mirror — but no sci - fi take on the afterlife is as heartwarming , funny , and unexpected as Daniels ' . Navigating the digital afterlife with Robbie Amell ’s Nathan , a tech entrepreneur who dies unexpectedly and come down for his support , customer serving " angel " Nora ( Andy Allo ) , it ’s an oddball journey withheavenly outcome . Watch it now on Amazon
8.Homecoming(2018– )
2 time of year , 17 episodesAdapted from the popular podcast of the same name , Homecomingtracks Heidi Bergman ( Julia Roberts ) as she tries to patch together her work as a therapist at a treatment center for veterans with PTSD . Over the 10 fast - paced episodes ( each one clocks in at around half an hour ) of the first season , the mystery of what a government contractor actually intends to do with the veteran blossom forth in lockstep with Bergman ’s own investigation into the missing memories of her previous job . It ’s the rare cyclosis show that does n’t feel bloated , and leaves plentitude of room for new storylines to develop in succeeding seasons , though its second installation with Janelle Monáe did n’t reach the same mystery story box depths as its first . Watch it now on Amazon
7.Transparent(2014–2019)
5 season , 41 episodesIt ’s grow theawards . It ’s got thecritical acclamation . The show recede a considerable amount of steam after starJeffrey Tambor ’s outlet due to harassment accusations , but the serial had built a strong enough foot and casting to carry the load go ahead . While most of the trivial attention on the show focuses on its groundbreaking subject , the fact that it treat a transgender woman ’s transition with depth , humor , and a family story determined to show the characters as the multifaceted , sometimes surly humans they are makesTransparentrise above almost all of its fellow Amazon original . Watch it now on Amazon
6.Invincible(2021– )
1 season , 8 episodesLike fellow Amazon seriesThe Boys , Invincibleis an anti - superhero superhero series , full of intense bloodshed , acuate quips , and the collateral damage that comes with have the power to obliterate an entire skyscraper with a exclusive blow . Adapted fromThe walk Deadcreator Robert Kirkman ’s long - running comedian , the animated serial breathes fresh aliveness into its source material with a few fictional character revamps and chronological swop , but mostly run thanks to its utterly stacked casting — Steven Yeun as a adolescent balancing high school life while learning that he can fucking fly , Sandra Oh as his human mother , J.K. Simmons as his unassailable - than - god sire , and Gillian Jacobs , Zazie Beets , Jason Manztoukas , Walton Goggins , etc . smother them — who all add the necessary asperity and capture to their characters wading into a messy macrocosm - wide confederacy stuck with the idiosyncrasy of an earthbound mindset . see it now on Amazon
5.The Boys(2019– )
2 seasons , 16 episodesOur cup runneth over with shows and movies about superheroes behaving badly , andThe Boys , base on the darkly comedic comedian by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson and developed for goggle box bySupernatural ’s Eric Kripke , is one of the good ones , introducing an eclectic cast of high - powered humans and swiftly revealing how painful they all are . The Boyscreates a mankind where superheroes are commodified into activity figures and grand packaging stunts so that jumbo pot can make buckets of money — why does this sound so familiar ? It ’s biting social commentary with an spare - mean run , and it ’s a flock of bloody fun , with a secure second season that deepens the story without get its foot off the gas . follow it now on Amazon
4.Bosch(2014–2021)
7 seasons , 68 episodesThe first season of Amazon’sprocedural seriesfinds Harry Bosch ( Lost ’s Titus Welliver ) under sound ardor for shooting a suspect two years earlier — hotter ( and more relevant ) water than his television detective predecessors . His investigation of a sadistic in series killer become an escape for the tortured officeholder ( he ’s also a veteran of Afghanistan , and the boy of a murder prostitute ) , and as the serial progresses , a healing unconscious process . By Season 2 , Bosch cut down down to a grizzly neo - noir , aMiami Vicefor theTrue Detectivefan , which should be celebrate as peak airport - novel TV . The subsequent seasons are similarly sharp and reliable , deport complicated enigma get out straight from the pages ofBoschcreator Michael Connelly ’s many , many good - vender and change the relationship between our weary Hero of Alexandria and his similarly strong - head teenage girl Maddie ( Madison Lintz ) . Though it might just look like another gun trigger - happy bull show to some , Boschis one of the more underrated , under - discussed dramas of the streaming era , a sturdy throwback made with admirable slyness and flashes of wit . Bring on the spinoff!Watch it now on Amazon
3.Undone(2019– )
1 season , 8 episodesIt ’s rare to see Rotoscope animation outside of a handful of Richard Linklater movies , and Amazon’sUndoneis the first episodic TV series to utilize the phantasmagoric and trippy technique . It ’s more than a technological effort , though ; the Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob - Waksberg - create serial also tell a wildly compelling , rum , and heartbreaking secret - box , reality - questioning story . After a horrible motorcar accident puts Alma Winograd - Diaz ( Rosa Salazar ) into a coma , she wakes with the power to communicate with her quantum physicist father , Jacob ( Bob Odenkirk ) , who enounce he was murdered because of his research into meter travel . Alma ’s young sister Becca ( Angelique Cabral ) , female parent Camila ( Constance Marie ) , and boyfriend Sam ( Siddharth Dhananjay ) all think she ’s turn a loss it while she on the QT experiments with bending time and dimension under her dad ’s counselling . Each 20 - something second episode is stuffed with an emotional spectrum that ’s draining , butUndoneis so good that it ’s hard to block off watch until the very conclusion . check it now on Amazon
2.The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel(2017– )
3 seasons , 26 episodesAfter putting her acclaimed revival ofGilmore Girlsto rest , writer - director Amy Sherman - Palladino reverse her care to the story of a dump 1950s housewife with a sailor ’s mouth and phase , Greenwich Village ’s The Gaslight Cafe , on which to vent . Like a young Joan Rivers , " Midge " Maisel ( Rachel Brosnahan ) is on fire when she ’s performing stall - up for bohemian crowds , toasting her own wedding party , or spar with her father at synagogue . Sherman - Palladino once again provides her lead with a motormouth , but it ’s Brosnahan ’s conflicted performance — carried by clowning , reined in by the paranoia of organic structure image and distaff expectations — that makes it as compelling as it is libertine . WithMad Menbehind us , it ’s time for the delirious women ofMrs . Maiselto confiscate the period of time - play spot . With its pile of Emmys , it certainly has . Watch it now on Amazon
1.The Underground Railroad(2021)
1 season , 10 episodesThe Underground Railroad , Barry Jenkins ' extraordinary adaptation of Colson Whitehead ’s book , is not just the respectable series to ever stream on Amazon , it ’s a landmark of this era of television . The serial publication pop out in Georgia where Cora Randall ( the stunning Thuso Mbedu ) is a slave . When she escapes with her lover Caesar ( Aaron Pierre ) , they are innovate to Whitehead ’s fundamental conceit : That the Underground Railroad was in reality a arrangement of locomotive . Jenkins captures the unnerving magical realism of Whitehead ’s approximation — helped by another fantastic grade by Nicholas Britell — all while never lose the weight unit of the terrible history he is representing . The show unfolds slowly , but confront its consultation as its characters , in Jenkins ' now classic closeups , gaze directly into the tv camera . Watch it now on Amazon
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