The 23 Best Shows on Amazon Prime, WIRED’s Picks (November 2025)

While Netflix is engaged pumping retired much bid than immoderate 1 idiosyncratic could ticker (probably), immoderate of the champion shows are connected Amazon Prime Video. Trouble is, navigating the service’s labyrinthine menus tin marque uncovering the close bid a pain. We’re present to help. Below are our favourite Amazon series—all included with your Prime subscription.

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Bat-Fam

Batman: a grim defender of the nighttime waging a one-man warfare connected crime. Also Batman: a chill dada who keeps taking successful strays. It's a opposition comic publication fans person travel to emotion implicit the decades, and present it's bleeding into wider media with Bat-Fam. Picking up aft 2023's vacation movie Merry Little Batman, Bruce Wayne (voiced by Luke Wilson) helps usher his lad Damien (Yonas Kibreab) into the household concern arsenic “Little Batman,” portion taking successful adoptive girl Claire—formerly the supervillain Volcana, de-aged to 12. Plus, with loyal butler Alfred, his niece Alicia, the meddling shade of Damien's gramps Ra's al Ghul, and erstwhile idiosyncratic Man-Bat each passing through, Wayne Manor is starting to get crowded! Charming, funny, and heartfelt, this animated drama juggles each the champion bits of bat-lore for a brighter look astatine the Dark Knight.

The Girlfriend

When working-class Cherry Laine (Olivia Cooke) meets affluent Danny Sanderson (Laurie Davidson), sparks fly—until she meets his mother, Laura (Robin Wright). Overbearing and with an unhealthy level of power implicit her son’s life, Laura is acceptable connected destroying anyone who comes betwixt them. Or possibly ... Laura is simply a caring mother, alert to Cherry’s suspicious behavior, and hopeless to prevention her lad from a con artist—or worse. In this twisty intelligence thriller, based connected a caller by Michelle Frances, you tin ne'er rather archer who to trust, which is almost the champion part, 2nd lone to the sensational chemistry betwixt Wright and Cooke arsenic they alternately effort to charm, outwit, oregon destruct each other. Exploring themes of class, power, and control, The Girlfriend is six episodes of brilliantly tense drama.

Butterfly

Years ago, David Jung (Daniel Dae Kim) and Juno Lund (Piper Perabo) formed the backstage quality enactment Caddis, reshaping planetary information from the shadows. Then, Lund ripped the cognition retired from nether Jung—and took his girl Rebecca (Reina Hardesty) with it, raising her to go an unstoppable assassin. Reunited successful the aftermath of a deed connected a Russian ambassador successful Seoul, David and Rebecca find themselves connected the tally crossed South Korea, unsure if they tin adjacent spot each other, and with Caddis blistery connected their heels. A blend of next-level enactment choreography and household play exploring themes of abandonment, Butterfly is an explosive twist connected bring-your-kid-to-work day.

Ballard

A spin-off from Bosch, 1 of Prime’s biggest hits, Ballard is different instauration of transgression writer Michael Connelly, seeing detective Renée Ballard (Maggie Q, Designated Survivor) stepping up arsenic caput of a recently formed cold-case unit. Left with nary fund and nary authoritative support, Ballard hastily assembles a squad of volunteers that includes her retired erstwhile spouse Thomas Laffont (John Carroll Lynch) and disillusioned erstwhile bull Zamira Parker (Courtney Taylor). They soon find that diving into forgotten cases tin mean unearthing secrets almighty radical privation to support buried. A blend of crime-of-the-week cases and season-long mysteries marque Ballard some a cozy procedural and a riveting longer-form drama, buoyed by a fantastic cast—including Titus Welliver reprising his relation arsenic Connellyverse staple Harry Bosch.

The Second Best Hospital successful the Galaxy

If astir 300 seasons of Grey's Anatomy hasn't scratched your aesculapian play itch, past a sojourn to The Second Best Hospital successful the Galaxy mightiness beryllium conscionable the attraction you need. Riffing connected the infirmary procedural genre and giving it a sci-fi twist, the amusement follows alien medics Dr. Sleech (Stephanie Hsu) and Dr. Klak (Keke Palmer) arsenic they tackle the wildest diseases and injuries the beingness tin propulsion astatine them—from an anxiety-eating encephalon worm to a shape-shifting STI—all portion navigating messy relationships and idiosyncratic drama. See, conscionable similar Grey’s. Created by Russian Doll writer Cirocco Dunlap—bringing that show’s Natasha Lyonne on arsenic the dependable of occasionally invisible Nurse Tup—this Saharan-dry big animated drama volition cure what ails you.

Overcompensating

Benny is truthful heavy successful the closet, he's recovered Narnia. And alternatively than utilizing his freshman twelvemonth of assemblage arsenic a accidental to find himself, he's maintaining the illusion of heterosexuality by throwing himself into a field beingness of partying, drinking, and chasing girls. The consequences, for Benny and his caller champion person Carmen (Wally Beram), volition beryllium terrible … but hilarious. Created by comedian Benito Skinner, who besides stars arsenic Benny, Overcompensating is simply a foul-mouthed and ferociously comic assemblage drama that's astir painfully authentic successful its depiction of the good enactment betwixt self-exploration and weapons-grade cringe.

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX

Prime Video doesn't thin to prime up arsenic overmuch anime arsenic rival Netflix does, but erstwhile it does, it's often thing big. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (it's pronounced “gee-kwux,” earlier you ask), takes things backmost to the precise opening of the iconic mecha franchise and asks a elemental question: What if the atrocious guys, the “space Nazis” of the Principality of Zeon, won a important war? Don't interest if you can't archer a beam saber from a halfway combatant though—this alternate world focuses connected marque caller quality Amate Yuzuriha, a precocious schoolhouse pupil thrust into a satellite of mounting subject tensions aft an experimental Gundam crashes into the abstraction colony wherever she lives. GQuuuuuux besides marks a originative precocious for Gundam, with Evangelion workplace Khara bringing its dynamic benignant of animation to the series, but beyond the phenomenally flashy visuals, this has immoderate existent affectional depth, utilizing a subject fabrication lens to research however radical tin find anticipation and combat for freedom, adjacent successful the darkest of timelines. Weekly episodes driblet connected Tuesdays.

Reacher

Amazon has a mode with enactment thrillers focused connected subject pugnacious guys who reply to “Jack R.” First determination was Jack Ryan, who besides makes an quality successful this guide. Then determination was Reacher, the crisp adaptation of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels, present successful its 3rd season. Alan Ritchson (Titans, Fast X) stars arsenic the physically imposing Reacher, a erstwhile subject policeman present drifting from municipality to town, trying to unrecorded a quiescent beingness but incapable to debar conflict. Season 1 recovered him accused of a execution helium didn't commit, earlier play 2 drew him into a immense conspiracy. The recently arrived third—based connected the seventh novel, Persuader—sees him up against his biggest menace yet: Paulie, an adjacent bigger hulk of musculus (played by 7′2″ Olivier Richters). Sure, Reacher is besides moving undercover for the DEA and tracking down an aged enemy, but 3 seasons in, the amusement is assured capable to play to its pulpy strengths, with top-tier combat choreography and amazingly crisp dialog helping it punch supra its weight.

Invincible

Mark Grayson inherited the unthinkable powers and abilities of his father, Omni-Man—only to larn beloved aged dada wasn't a paragon of justness but the vanguard for an alien invasion. The recently dropped 3rd play of Invincible finds Mark not lone inactive struggling to flight his father's shadow, guiding his younger member to usage his ain burgeoning powers responsibly, but besides drowning successful a satellite of murky politics, pushed toward darker, tougher choices to support Earth safe. A brilliantly animated adaptation of the deed Image comic publication by writer Robert Kirkman and artists Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, Invincible’s much mature instrumentality connected superheroes allows it to bash thing Marvel and DC characters seldom do: turn up.

The Man successful the High Castle

This adaptation of sci-fi maestro Philip K. Dick’s caller astir a satellite successful which the Nazis won the Second World War was 1 of Amazon’s archetypal forays into archetypal content. The world-building is stunningly done—a divided, alternate-reality 1960s America ne'er seemed truthful plausible—but beryllium warned: There mightiness beryllium conscionable a interaction excessively overmuch present-day resonance for immoderate viewers.

The Rig

Back for its 2nd season, sci-fi thriller The Rig finds the surviving unit of isolated North Sea lipid rig Kinloch Bravo forcibly relocated to The Stac, an adjacent much distant installation successful the Arctic. While astir are hopeless for answers and a mode home, the team’s loyalties are tested arsenic the sinister Pictor corp seeks to usage them to unearth thing past and almighty from the oversea floor. While The Rig doesn’t adjacent aspire to subtlety erstwhile it comes to its ecological metaphors (one quality adjacent says, “If you support punching holes successful the Earth, yet the Earth’s going to punch back”), it’s each brilliantly changeable to marque usage of some the claustrophobic settings and the terrifying expanses and underwater pressures of the ocean. With the worldly elevated by a phenomenal formed of Game of Thrones and Line of Duty veterans, including Iain Glen and Rochenda Sandall—and bolstered further by the summation of the always-watchable Alice Krige successful play 2—The Rig is acold much than the blameworthy pleasance it mightiness different be.

Cross

Aldis Hodge steps into the shoes of Washington, DC homicide detective Alex Cross successful Prime's caller bid based connected James Patterson's long-running bid of transgression novels. However, dissimilar the streamer's different thrillers Bosch and Reacher, Cross doesn't straight accommodate immoderate of Patterson's books—a risky move, but 1 that mostly pays off, allowing this eight-episode archetypal play to illustration an unpredictable travel arsenic Cross faces disconnected against a twisted murderer who models each of his kills connected different serial killer. Already renewed for a 2nd season, Cross is simply a beardown summation to Prime's roster of transgression dramas.

The Legend of Vox Machina

Bawdy, gory, and perfectly not for kids, The Legend of Vox Machina follows the eponymous adventurers' guild—consisting of gunslingers, druids, and the requisite horny bard—as they turn from a motley unit of usually-drunk mercenaries into unexpected heroes for the realm of Exandria. The recently arrived 3rd play continues the team's conflict against the Chroma Conclave, a horrifyingly almighty corporate of dragons. It's a quest that sends them connected a tiny diversion to Hell itself. Adapting the deed Critical Role—the livestreamed Dungeons & Dragons sessions of immoderate of the biggest dependable actors successful animation and gaming—this exquisitely animated phantasy takes things successful unexpected directions that support things caller for caller oregon returning viewers alike. A emotion missive to D&D that's besides unafraid to poke amusive astatine the classical RPG, it's 1 of the astir archetypal big animated shows connected Prime.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Tapping into The Lord of the Rings creator J. R. R. Tolkien’s sprawling past of Middle-earth, The Rings of Power is acceptable millennia earlier the events of the halfway books (or films, which is truly wherever the ocular connection of this adaptation comes from), detailing the large events of Tolkien’s Second Age. While the archetypal play was a dilatory burn, dwelling connected the fractious authorities of the era, the 2nd ratchets up the gait considerably. From Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) trying to forestall the ascension of Dark Lord Sauron (Charlie Vickers) to the long-awaited instauration of fan-favorite quality Tom Bombadil (Rory Kinnear), the caller play feels acold richer and deeper than before. It remains a feast for the eyes too, with the stratospheric fund evident successful each frame, from quiescent moments successful luxuriant shires to cinematic battles betwixt armies of Orcs and Elves. For sheer precocious phantasy spectacle, there’s small other to rival this streaming close now.

Batman: Caped Crusader

The archetypal caller solo Batman animated bid successful a decade, Caped Crusader harkens backmost to Batman: The Animated Series from the 1990s, with showrunner Bruce Timm returning to the Dark Knight and Hamish Linklater voicing Bruce Wayne/Batman successful an ode to the late, large Kevin Conroy. Unlike rival ‘90s revival X-Men ’97, though, this isn't a continuation but alternatively a wholly chiseled instrumentality allowing for caller interpretations of the iconic hero’s rogues’ assemblage and allies—look retired for drastically antithetic takes connected the Penguin and Harley Quinn successful particular. Leaning heavy into a 1930s aesthetic that evokes Batman’s earliest comic publication origins, this manages to beryllium nostalgic and provocative astatine once—a fantastic outing that takes DC's archetypal municipality vigilante backmost to his gritty pulp noir roots.

The Boys

Superheroes are meant to correspond anticipation and optimism—the champion of us, fixed outsize form. In The Boys, adapted from the darkly satirical comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, they’re a reflection of humanity’s worst—greed and unrestrained power, marketed to a gullible nationalist by vested firm interests, operating without restraint and leaving a way of bodies successful their wake. Enter Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and his associates The Boys, gleefully dispatching “Supes” who’ve gone excessively far, often successful extraordinarily convulsive ways. Unfortunately, the recently dropped 4th play finds the squad successful disarray, fractured by Butcher’s ain lies, close arsenic the satellite needs them most. Arch-manipulator Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) is adjacent to the Oval Office, portion the sadistic, psychotic Homelander (Antony Starr) is readying a superhuman uprising. Probably Amazon’s goriest show, The Boys stands arsenic a pertinent introspection of the abuses of power, each wrapped successful superhero drag.

Fallout

Maybe the extremity of the satellite is the concealed condiment to making a large video crippled adaptation—between The Last of Us and present this spectacular mentation of Bethesda's postapocalyptic RPG series, we're surviving successful an unexpected aureate epoch for the form. Yet dissimilar HBO's bleak but beauteous world, Fallout taps into the root worldly to trade an apocalypse with a precise antithetic feel, 1 dripping successful cracked Americana, achromatic comedy, razor-sharp societal satire, and conscionable a small spot of camp. Its top strength, though, lies successful however it doesn’t straight accommodate immoderate 1 of the halfway Fallout games. Instead, it perfectly channels their code and feel, focusing connected a halfway trio—naive Lucy (Ella Purnell), calved and raised successful a subterranean vault; driven Maximus (Aaron Moten), a enlistee successful an service seeking exertion from the aged world; and the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a centuries-old bounty huntsman mutated into a nigh-immortal zombie erstwhile the bombs fell—to showcase conscionable however brilliantly twisted this atomic wasteland truly is.

Three-Body

No, you're not connected the Netflix list—Prime Video has its ain chiseled adaptation of Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem. This take, primitively released for Chinese audiences backmost successful 2023, faithfully adapts Liu's award-winning caller of humanity's archetypal interaction with an astir unknowable alien taxon and the interaction that their impending accomplishment connected Earth has connected humanity. Hopping betwixt clip periods, a galactic enigma unfurls aft nanotech specializer Wang Miao (Luyi Zhang) is called successful by detective Shi Qiang (Hewei Yu) to analyse a planetary spate of suicides among scientists, with the ominous operation "Physics doesn't exist" being the lone nexus betwixt the deaths. Although Three-Body is simply a spot softer than Netflix's 3 Body Problem erstwhile dealing with immoderate aspects of the story—notably thing related to China's Cultural Revolution—a hearty 30-episode tally allows for acold much abstraction to research Liu's analyzable themes and immense roster of characters. The pacing whitethorn instrumentality immoderate getting utilized to for viewers much accustomed to occidental TV, and it's subtitled-only, but this C-drama is retired of this world.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

You apt cognize the conception from the sanction alone—a joined mates run arsenic undercover agents, blurring the lines betwixt their idiosyncratic and nonrecreational relationship. Unlike the 2005 Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie movie, though, 2024's Mr. and Mrs. Smith does acold much with the concept. Donald Glover (who cocreated this reboot) and Maya Erskine connection overmuch much developed takes connected the mysterious characters of “John” and “Jane” Smith implicit the people of this eight-episode series, exploring their existent identities, wherefore they signed up for their unsafe careers, and whether their increasing feelings for each different are conscionable portion of the roles they're playing. It's each backed up with plentifulness of Mission: Impossible–style action, of course, but it’s the sparkling chemistry betwixt the show's leads that volition permission you thinking, “Brangelina who?”

Jack Ryan

There's nary shortage of surface adaptations of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan books, but John Krasinski's crook arsenic the CIA table jockey turned tract cause gets acold much country to respire than its predecessors. The prestige governmental thriller charts Ryan's emergence from expert to operative—and beyond—over 4 perfectly crafted seasons. The last play caps Ryan's vocation with his biggest situation yet, investigating the convergence of a cause cartel and a violent enactment acceptable to make an unstoppable transgression enterprise, each portion juggling the CIA's imaginable engagement successful a governmental assassination successful Nigeria. While the amusement hasn't been without controversies—season 2 attracted condemnation from Venezuela's authorities for supposedly condoning a US penetration of the country; large yikes there—its crisp writing, unthinkable performances, and cinematic enactment marque it compelling viewing.

I'm a Virgo

A surrealist drama with the crisp governmental and societal borderline viewers person travel to expect from creator and manager Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You), I’m a Virgo follows Cootie (Jharrel Jerome), a regular 19-year-old who conscionable happens to beryllium 13 feet tall. Raised successful secrecy by Aunt Lafrancine (Carmen Ejogo) and Uncle Martisse (Mike Epps), Cootie is thrust into the limelight erstwhile his larger-than-life beingness is inevitably discovered. Experiencing friendships and the extracurricular satellite for the archetypal time, gentle elephantine Cootie has to navigate everything from romance to the public’s absorption to a elephantine Black antheral wandering astir Oakland. Oh, and did we notation Cootie’s idol, The Hero, a real-life superhero with an authoritarian streak that would enactment immoderate of the worst offenders connected The Boys to shame? Told you this was surreal. Do yourself a favour and ticker the behind-the-scenes episodes too, tucked nether Prime Video’s “Explore” tab, for Riley’s penetration into each episode.

The Underground Railroad

Based connected the Pulitzer Prize–winning caller by Colson Whitehead, this constricted bid from Moonlight manager Barry Jenkins sticks beauteous intimately to the premise of the book. It’s a enactment of humanities fabrication that takes the thought of the Underground Railroad—the web of smugglers who helped escaped slaves fly the South—and reimagines it arsenic an existent subway strategy with trains and secretive presumption agents.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

What is simply a New York woman to bash erstwhile she finds retired her hubby is having an matter with his dim-witted secretary? If Mrs. Maisel is thing to spell by, the reply is to caput to a dingy watering spread successful your nightgown, bash a small standup comedy, and get hauled distant by the constabulary aft flashing the full audience. Set successful the 1950s, this fast-talking fashionista hides her caller beingness arsenic a comedian from her household and ex portion battling sexism, atrocious crowds, and large competition. Rachel Brosnahan stars arsenic Midge Maisel successful this subtle motion to Joan Rivers’ career. With 4 seasons and a big of awards and nominations to its name, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is 1 of Amazon’s sharpest comedies.