59 best TV series on Amazon Prime for your next night in
Worried you've completed Netflix? Never fear, Amazon Prime Video is your next best bet for some of the best TV series to ever grace the small screen.
Yes, there once was a time when we would worry about exhausting all our viewing options… a time when we believed we might come to the end of everything Netflix had to offer and be left with nothing to do but actually talk to our friends or leave the house. Then, Amazon Prime Video came along, and thanks to on-demand streaming services, with its vast array of exclusive series, award-winning original TV, and exciting movie content to feast our eyes on, we've never worried again.
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There are some of the most iconic TV shows of all time, and while some of them have over 20 seasons (looking at you, Grey's Anatomy), now is the perfect time to nobly take on such a gargantuan viewing task and truly test your endurance. Hey, someone has got to do it.
So, from award-winning original dramas to laugh-out-loud comedy classics, these are some of the best series on Amazon Prime to watch right now.
Erika Doss/PrimeThe Summer I Turned Pretty
Does this show need any introduction at this point? The TV adaptation of Jenny Han's YA novels have captured the hearts of a thousand romantics. It follows the story of Belly and her childhood sweethearts Conrad and Jeremiah – and a fraught love triangle that forms between the three. Who will she choose?
© 2025 Amazon Content Services LLCThe Girlfriend
Starring Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke (and directed by the former a well) this adaptation of Michelle Frances' novel of the same name is a sexy, shocking look at a hellish rivalry between mother Laura (Wright) and her son Daniel's new girlfriend Cherry (Cooke). After getting off to a rocky start, the two women's competition for Daniel's allegiance goes to bloody, screwed up, compelling places.
ROBERT VIGLASKY PHOTOGRAPHYThe Assassin
Keeley Hawes playing a hitwoman? There are no downsides to this premise. The Assassin sees Hawes portray a retired assassin, who must come out of hiding when herself and her estranged son are pursued by an anonymous killer.
Jessie RedmondWe Were Liars
Based on the YA novel by E Lockhart, We Were Liars follows the story of Cadence "Cady" Sinclair Eastman returns to her family's wealthy private island to try and piece together what happened to her two years prior, after an incident that left her with amnesia. Turns out what happened was deadly.
Macall Polay/Courtesy Everett CollectionSweetbitter
Adapted from the 2016 novel of the same name by Stephanie Danler and starring Yellowjackets and Sweetpea actor Ella Purnell, the series explores the story of 22-year-old Tess is met with many temptations after moving to New York City and landing a job at a famous restaurant. Sweetbitter is an early demonstration of Purnell's talents – don't miss out.
©Hulu/Courtesy Everett CollectionThe Great
Elle Fanning plays an iconic Catherine The Great, who marries Nicholas Hoult's perfectly hateable Peter III of Russia and tries to fight her way out of his world of backward beliefs. The black comedy TV series charts her rise from outsider to the longest-reigning female ruler in Russian history. Hilarious, offbeat, delicious.
Colin Hutton/Drama RepublicUs
Adapted from David Nicholls' amazing novel, this BBC TV series takes a look at one family's European trip, viewed by Douglas (Tom Hollander) as a means of saving his marriage. Also starring Thaddea Graham, Saskia Reeves and Tom Taylor and adapted for the screen by Nicholls himself, Us explores family dramas and dynamics – all against the backdrop of some beautiful European locations.
Jasper Savage/AmazonCruel Intentions
Yes, we're revisiting the world of one of the most iconic 1990s films. While sharing some of the storylines and dynamics of the movie starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reese Witherspoon, this adaptation definitely has millennial and Gen Z vibes. It takes place at an American university, not on New York's Upper East Side, but features a similar plotline in the form of Caroline Merteuil (played by Sarah Catherine Hook, also set to star in the upcoming third season of The White Lotus) who is definitely an iteration of SMG's character in the movie, Catherine. She persuades her step brother Lucien to seduce the new girl on campus (and daughter of the Vice President of the United States) Annie Grover to further her quest for power on campus. Not to be missed.
Glen Wilson/AmazonExpats
Starring Nicole Kidman, this series sees three expat women who are living in Hong Kong meet by chance at a birthday party, soon discovering they are connected from a dark shared past.
Jonathan Prime/AmazonMy Lady Jane
Serious Bridgerton vibes here. Aside from the sexy period drama encounters, the TV series re-imagines what a real-life monarch, Lady Jane Grey, could've achieved, and the life she'd have lived, if she hadn't been beheaded nine years into her reign back in 1553.
David LeeMr & Mrs Smith
Because who doesn't love a remake? Based on (but not completely the same as) the 2005 movie original starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, this Amazon TV series revisits the story of two married spies on a mission together. This time, unlike the Noughties original, they marry for the purposes of the mission, putting their survivals skills and relationship to the test. Stars Donald Glover, Maya Erskine and Michaela Coel.
MATT SQUIREDead Hot
Starring Rye Lane's Vivian Oparah, Extraordinary's Bilal Hasna and Chewing Gum star Olisa Odele, Dead Hot tells the story of Elliot (Hasna) and Jess (Oparah) who are reeling from the loss of Peter, Jess' twin brother and the love of Elliot's life. When someone contacts Jess claiming to be Peter, we are taken on a twisty rollercoaster of a journey through Liverpool as the duo set out on a quest for the truth.
Lacey Terrell/Prime VideoDaisy Jones & The Six
Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid's bestselling novel and the true story of the drama behind the scenes for infamous band Fleetwood Mac, Daisy Jones follows the story of a handful of musicians in the 1970s. Starring Riley Keough as femme fatale Daisy Jones, Suki Waterhouse as her bandmate Karen and Sam Claflin as lead singer Billy.
LANDMARK MEDIA / Alamy Stock PhotoLove & Death
Starring Elizabeth Olsen, this series follows the true story of Candy Montgomery, a housewife from Texas who became the prime suspect in a murder investigation in 1980.
David GennardHenpocalypse!
A hen party meets the end of the world – imagine the drama. A gang of excitable friends hole up in a Welsh cottage to wait out the apocalypse. Also stars Danny Dyer. Sounds like a riot.
Aimee SpinksGentleman Jack
The historical drama Gentleman Jack, starring Suranne Jones, is the dramatisation of the life of lesbian trailblazer, voracious learner, and cryptic diarist Anne Lister, who, while dressing in head-to-toe black, charmed her way into high society while having no intentions of marrying a man back in West Yorkshire, England in 1832. We've already binge-watched its two seasons, so make sure you do!
Channel 4It's A Sin
The smash-hit television show of 2021, It's A Sin chronicles the life of a group of gay friends living in London between 1981 and 1991 during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United Kingdom. The show received critical acclaim and became the most nominated show at the British Academy Television Awards, receiving eleven nominations. Importantly, the drama miniseries created arise in HIV testing.
Amazon PrimeThem
Love a good horror? Look no further than Them, which is executive produced by Lena Waithe. This flick sees a black family moves from North Carolina to an all-white neighbourhood in Los Angeles during the Second Great Migration in 1953. However, the transition is anything but smooth as their idyllic home transforms into an epicentre of evil forces that threaten to destroy the family, who are already terrorised by their less-than-welcoming neighbours.
©2020 Amazon Prime Video; photo by Jan ThijsThe Wheel Of Time
Rosamund Pike can do no wrong in our eyes, so you need to check her out in the fantasy show The Wheel Of Time that rivals Game Of Thrones. Rosamund plays a powerful sorceress, Moiraine, who, in a quest to find the Dragon Reborn, makes her way to a small village known as the Two Rivers, where a battle ensues to find out who the ancient warrior is and whether the world will be saved. There's a lot of R-rated violence in this one, so watch with caution, but the dashes of humour more than make up for it!
Amazon PrimeThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is set during Middle-Earth's Second Age and tells the story of Sauron's evil master plan to become the world's dictatorial ruler and Middle-earth's various races uniting to stop him. Of course, LOTR fans will fall in love with this stunning fantasy series.
Amazon PrimeThe Wilds
If you were a fan of Yellowjackets, you'd love The Wilds. Basically, a group of teenage girls from very different backgrounds finds themselves stranded on a remote island following a plane crash. However, while they attempt to fight for survival, they are unaware that they have become the subjects of an elaborate social experiment! Despite the critical acclaim, this show only has two seasons, so it should definitely provide a quick and highly nail-biting watch.
Amazon PrimeMr. Robot
Years before Rami Malek bagged the villainous role of Lyutsifer Safin in 007's No Time To Die, he headed up the drama Mr. Robot, in which he played anxiety-riddled cyber-security engineer Elliot who works for a huge corporation by day and hacks felons by night. Things take a drastic turn when Mr Robot, a cryptic anarchist, recruits him to take down the company he works for. Rami is so good in the role that he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series after the first season.
Amazon PrimeReacher
Alan Ritchson stars as the titular Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator who has recently entered civilian life when he is falsely accused of murder in Margrave, Georgia. He relies on his expertise to free himself and helps authorities get to the bottom of the case. This one is a must-watch for those into mysteries and thrillers, and it also stars Willa Fitzgerald, who is one to watch for the future in Hollywood!
Amazon PrimeHanna
Esmé Creed-Miles is phenomenal as the titular Hanna in this television series. Based on the 2011 film of the same name starring Saoirse Ronan, the thriller/drama tells the story of Hanna as she tries to unearth the truth about who she really is after being raised in the forest and now being in hot pursuit of a CIA agent.
A Very British Scandal
Clare Foy is sensational in this historical drama series about a real-life aristocratic affair, and subsequent divorce, that got very, very nasty in 1963 - from the creators of the similarly titled A Very English Scandal. We were gripped.
Lovestruck High
OK, we may be far beyond secondary school but that doesn’t stop us getting nostalgic about teenage love – and fuelling that nostalgia is this new dating show, set in an American high school, which gives 15 British dating hopefuls a chance to have their very own ‘high school romance’. Yes, we’re loving the cross-cultural tropes – but not as much as we love the inspired choice of narrator: none other than Lindsay Lohan (yes, talking of nostalgia!).
Sarah ShatzHarlem
This Amazon Original comedy series is FUN with a capital F. It follows four BFFs in their thirties living in Harlem, New York, chronicling their lives as they move through personal, romantic and professional situations. Executive produced by Amy Poehler together with Pharrell Williams.
HBOEuphoria
Regular GLAMOUR readers will know that we are big Euphoria fans, so it will come as no surprise that the teen drama series is high up on our Amazon Prime must-watch list. Starring Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi, the show follows a group of high school students as they struggle with drugs, love, social media and money, all while trying to establish their identity. Basically, a raunchier, more sordid version of the classic coming of age story.
AmazonLouis Theroux: Forbidden America
All hail the king of documentaries, Louis Theroux. And this time, the awkward chat heavyweight returns to the United States to explore the impact of the internet and social media on some of the most controversial corners of American society. Louis meets an assortment of content creators: young and inflammatory far-right streamers, rap stars who share their chaotic and violent lives with their online fans, and porn performers who earn a living via online subscription services using their power to call out the behaviours of alleged industry predators.
AmazonLove Life
We'd watch anything starring Anna Kendrick, but it helps when the film or series is also brilliantly funny and watchable. Love Life is an anthology romantic comedy series that follows a millennial New Yorker’s quest to find her "person," with each episode telling the winding, relatable story of the one that got away.
AmazonTop Boy
The drama takes viewers into the housing estates of east London. There is tension between the drug gangs that operate almost openly and those who strive to live honest lives against the odds in the crime-riddled area. That tension is explored through the interlocking stories of 20-something drug dealer Dushane, who is determined to become the area's Top Boy, and good-natured but vulnerable teenager Ra'Nell, who is forced to grow up quickly following his mother's breakdown and enforced absence. The programme combines elements of a tense gangster thriller with subtle social realism, some tenderness, innocence and wry humour.
Photographer: Des WillieI Hate Suzie
We've always loved Billie Piper, particularly since she played the lead in the controversial Secret Diary of a Call Girl, and you'll watching her as Suzie Pickles in I Hate Suzie just as much. The show follows Suzie as her life upended when she is hacked and pictures of her emerge online in an extremely compromising position. Aided by her best friend and manager, Naomi, Suzie tries to hold her life together.
Warner BrosThe Flight Attendant
The series follows a flight attendant (played by Kaley Cuoco)'s life as it is turned upside down after she wakes up in a hotel room with a dead man but with no memory of what happened.
AmazonClique
We stan a seductive thriller. This one follows Holly, as she attends university with her childhood best friend. But when her friend becomes embroiled with an exclusive group of people and her behavior changes, Holly becomes concerned for her and decides to investigate. Now, a new term has started and Holly lives with some younger student activists. A new group of young men - all smart, all magnetic in their charisma - take an interest in Holly. These young men, led by charismatic, Jack have a no-nonsense attitude to what they see going on with the university administration and take matters into their own hands.
AmazonThe Split
The internet lit up after The Split first aired, and for good reason. The British legal drama follows the Defoes, a family of sisters working as divorce lawyers, as they come face-to-face with their past after their estranged father returns to the fold.
Alison Cohen RosaThe Gilded Age
Another day, another historical drama. That's no insult by the way, we can't get enough of them, so we were excited to see The Gilded Age drop on the streaming platform. It follows Marian Brook, a rural girl, as she moves to New York after her father's death. However, things get complicated when she must assimilate into the clan of a railroad tycoon.
Amazon PrimeJustin Bieber: Our World
Beliebers, it's time for us to assemble!
Justin Bieber’s highly anticipated documentary is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video – and there is a fair bit to unpack. The documentary gives us a backstage and onstage pass, as this global music phenomenon prepares for a record-breaking New Year’s Eve 2020 concert after a three-year hiatus. As stated in the official synopsis, it follows "Bieber and his close-knit team in the month leading up to the show, as they rehearse and construct a monumental stage while adhering to strict health and safety protocols. The film also captures personal, self-shot moments between Bieber and his wife Hailey."
Amazon PrimeLuLaRich
Documentary series LulaRich investigates the dark side of billion dollar clothing empire, LuLaRoe, after it is accused of misleading thousands of women with their multi-level marketing platform. It's a gripping must-watch!
Kevin Can F*** Himself
Schitt's Creek star Annie Murphy takes the lead in dark comedy, Kevin Can F** Himself. The show is set in Worcester, Massachusetts and follows Allison Mc Roberts, who is described as a quintessential housewife trapped in an unhappy marriage to husband Kevin, "an insensitive and unambitious man-child."
The series sees Allison attempt to break free from the shackles of her miserable life by breaking conventional norms and standing up for what she wants, whilst plotting to escape her marriage and start a life of her own. Unlike your usual sitcom, the show blends a little drama in with emotive scenes and a deconstruction of traditional sitcom tropes, particularly when it comes to the portrayal of women.
Nine Perfect Strangers
Dubbed “the new Big Little Lies” due to its cinematic similarities to the hit HBO show, and the fact that Nicole Kidman is in the leading role, Nine Perfect Strangers is based on Liane Moriarty's novel of the same name and follows nine strangers as they set out to de-stress at a wellness resort run by Kidman's character. But, of course, as any good drama goes, all is not that it seems.
Amazon PrimeBirds of Paradise
Starring Diana Silvers and Kristine Froseth, the series follows two dancers at an elite ballet academy in Paris as they compete for a contract to join the highly coveted Opéra national de Paris. The series is adapted from the novel, Bright Burning Stars by A.K Small.
Modern Love
Modern Love is a TV-adaptation of The New York Times' popular anthology series of the same name. Now on its second season, it explores love and human connections in all of its forms: the ups, downs and the complicated. Each episode is inspired by a different essay from the newspapers' Modern Love column (FYI, there's also a podcast version) and let us tell you, there won't be a dry eye in the room whilst watching this, so get your tissues at the ready!
Outlander
Based on the novels of Diana Gabaldon, Outlander follows Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe), a married combat nurse living at the end of World War II, who time travels back to 1743 Scotland. There, she falls for Scottish warrior Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) but, true to history, Claire discovers the tension between the Scottish Highlanders and the British Redcoats. Each season adapts one of Gabaldon's novels.
Parks and Recreation
If you're in need of a proper good laugh, may we suggest this political satire sitcom starring Amy Poehler as lively and optimistic Leslie Knope, who works for the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, a fictional town in Indiana. The show's seven series follow the department's public officials as they try to make their hometown a better place, and also star Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Adam Scott and Rob Lowe.
House
House is one of the most successful medical dramas ever, and was the most-watched TV show in the world in 2008. Hugh Laurie is the moody, mysterious Dr. Gregory House whose job it is to solve the strange cases that come his way. Its brilliant eight seasons are all on Amazon Prime and are worth a rewatch, or binge-watching for the first time.
The Marvellous Mrs Maisel
A Prime Original Series, The Marvellous Mrs Maisel is set in the late 1950s and follows Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) who has everything she's ever wanted – husband, two kids and an idyllic Upper West Side apartment. But when her life takes an unexpected turn, she decides to go from housewife to stand-up comic. The series won the Golden Globe for Best TV Series in 2018.
Upload
This sci-fi comedy makes a great watch of an evening. Starring Robbie Amell and Andy Allo, the series is set in 2033 where dying people can upload their consciousness to a digital afterlife. When party boy Nathan gets uploaded to a virtual resort he meets customer service 'angel' Nora, who slowly helps him discover what's truly important.
Modern Family
If you didn't watch it when it first aired over 10 years ago, the mockumentary-style sitcom follows three endearing, dysfunctional families as they try to juggle the demands of being, well, modern families.
Homecoming
Homecoming is a psychological thriller based on the U.S podcast of the same name. Heidi Bergman (Julia Roberts, in the first regular TV series role of her career) used to be a caseworker at Homecoming, a facility helping soldiers transition to civilian life, but is now living a new life a small-town waitress living with her mother. Years later, the Department of Defense questions why she left Homecoming, and Heidi starts to realise there's more to the facility than she let herself believe.
Grey's Anatomy
Another U.S medical drama series that has big binge-watching credentials, which is lucky, as the show has 21 seasons. Created by Shonda Rhimes, it focuses on doctors at a Seattle teaching hospital who must make life-changing decisions to become the best at what they do.
Good Omens
Based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens is a six-part miniseries starring David Tennant, Michael Sheen and Frances McDormand. It follows an Angel and a Demon who must stop the end of the world, by finding an 11-year-old Antichrist who is unaware that he is supposed to bring Armageddon, and save the world before it's too late. Perfect for sci-fi fans.
The Night Manager
If you missed this Tom Hiddleston-starring series when it first aired on BBC back in 2016, then you're in for a treat because you can now watch it on Amazon Prime. Adapted from John le Carré’s best-selling spy novel, The Night Manager follows the manager of a Cairo hotel, Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston), in his quest to bring down international arms dealer Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie).
Little Fires Everywhere
Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington (two of our Hollywood faves) team up in this binge-worthy drama.
Based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestselling book, the plot explores race, identity, the burden of keeping secrets and the ferocious pull of motherhood in the idyllic Ohio suburb of Shaker Heights in the late 1990s. Sparks fly when the ordered life of status-obsessed Elena (Witherspoon) is disrupted when free-spirited artist Mia Warren (Washington) moves to town. With their children’s lives overlapping and the class-based society imploding around them, the little fires of their lives cause a life-changing physical and metaphorical fire.
This Is Us
This Is Us is a superbly acted dramedy following a set of triplets – alternating between their past with their two parents, and their distinct paths they've chosen as adults in the present – as they face the highs and lows of life. Warning: you will need tissues and ice cream.
Desperate Housewives
Guys, does Desperate Housewives need an introduction? If it does, it's a widely-loved show following the lives of female friends in a suburban neighbourhood, and the mysterious suicide of a neighbour.
The Handmaid's Tale
Based on Margaret Atwood's classic novel, The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Offred (Elizabeth Moss) in the dystopian and totalitarian society of Gilead.
BBCFleabag
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's masterpiece Fleabag is one of the best TV shows to come out of Britain and its got a plethora of awards to prove it, including an Emmy, a BAFTA and a SAG award. The two season series follows a dry-witted woman, known only as Fleabag, who navigates life and love in London in the midst of a tragedy with absolutely no filter. Based on Waller-Bridge's 2013 one-woman show of the same name, it is hilarious, emotional and so relatable. We stan!
Amazon PrimeCruel Summer
Jessica Biel's dark, ‘90s-set thriller takes place over the course of three summers. It follows two teenagers in a Texas town as a girl goes missing and another mysteriously takes over her life. Olivia Holt plays Kate, the blonde and bubbly popular girl who is adored by everyone, while Chiara Aurelia takes the role of her quirky classmate and school outcast, Jeanette, who is blamed for her disappearance. But what really happened? You'll have to get stuck in to find out.
Amazon PrimeBelow Deck
If you love a reality TV series as much as we do, then Below Deck is one of you. It follows the lives of a group of crew members (known as yachties) on a luxury yacht that measure well over 100 feet long and as you can expect, there's a lot of drama onboard. Each episodes features a new set of passengers, from millionaires to party animals, as the the yacht takes the crew from one dreamy location to the next. It's a fun watch and the yachties' lifestyle and ‘work hard play hard’ motto will definitely have you reconsidering your career choices!
