14 Best Series to Watch on Amazon Prime

Amy Sherman Palladino’s post-Gilmore Girls and Bunheads creation tell the story of a Joan Rivers-Esque comedian in the late 1950s. Played by Rachel Brosnahan and perfectly foiled by Alex Borstein’s rough manager personality, Midge Maisel has a lot of ground to break. And she’s not afraid to do it with a dirty mouth.

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John Krasinski plays a CIA analyst who is suddenly thrown into a dangerous game of government cat and mouse. Say goodbye to that boring desk job at the paper company.

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Julia Roberts stars as Heidi, who used to work at a facility called Homecoming, which helped veterans transition back to normal life. But there’s more to her past at that job than she remembers. Once the Department of Defense gets involved, Heidi finds herself over her head.

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This series, based on Philip K. Dick’s novel, depicts what would have happened if Allied Powers had lost WWII and Japan and Germany had won. This means America is under Japanese and German rule—which might make for crazier headlines than we have right now.

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Glenn Close and Rose Byrne star in a different kind of legal thriller. Patty Hewes (Close) and her protege (Byrne) take on the courtroom, where they are both reviled and feared by their opponents.

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Dr. Gregory House is dependent on pain medication and has no bedside manner to speak of, but he is a medical genius and the leader of a team of diagnosticians at a teaching hospital in New Jersey.

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This is probably the one everyone’s told you to watch. Keri Russell and Mathew Rhys star as the Jennings, a seemingly normal American couple who are, in reality, Russian spies sent to D.C. In the height of the 1980s cold war, the Jennings go about their business without anyone—even their children—being aware of their real identities. While we’re talking Emmys, this how has had 18 nominations.

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Neil Gaiman fans definitely know about this one. The writer’s 1990 novel has now been turned into a six-episode series about the battles of Good and Evil, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen.

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Adapted from the award-winning play of the same title, Angels in America follows the lives of six New Yorkers at the height of the AIDS epidemic. The highly-anticipated adaptation includes a cast of notable stars like Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Al Pacino, and Jeffrey Wright. Unlike the two-part play, which has a seven-hour running time, the miniseries can be digested in six hour-long “chapters.” But nothing’s stopping you from bingeing it in one or two sittings for the full Broadway effect.

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The Fisher family owns a funeral home run by Nate Fisher (Parenthood’s Peter Krause), who was bequeathed the business after his father died. Naturally, working in death also means Nate starts to have conversations with the dead. Each episode also starts with a death, so if you like morbid-yet-comedic plotlines, this one’s for you.

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Billy Bob Thorton plays a washed-up lawyer who lands himself in the middle of what becomes a trial that puts life and death on the line.

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Fifteen months after bringing his mother’s killer to justice, Bosch finds himself seeking the truth on two fronts. New evidence in an old case leaves everyone wondering whether Bosch planted evidence to convict the wrong guy. And a murder at a Hollywood pharmacy exposes a sophisticated opioid pill mill, sending Bosch down a dark and perilous path in pursuit of the killers.

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In equal parts high-concept thriller and coming-of-age drama, HANNA follows the journey of an extraordinary young girl raised in the forest, as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is.

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Fleabag is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London. Award-winning playwright Phoebe Waller-Bridge writes and stars as Fleabag, an unfiltered woman trying to heal while rejecting anyone who tries to help her and keeping up her bravado all along.

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