Top Prime Video series and hidden gems to watch

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Top Prime Video series

The English 

Blunt plays Lady Cornelia Locke, an aristocratic Englishwoman hungry for vengeance after her child is killed in The English. Underneath her noble exterior is a woman consumed with fury and intent on murder. “Someone killed my child,” she says afterwards, her tear-stained visage the only sign of emotion as she threatens. “And now I’m gonna kill them.”  

The Englishwoman and the scout meet in the 1890s in Middle America, embarking on a long chase across a violent country founded on dreams and lawlessness. 

Jinny’s Kitchen 

Park Seo-joon, a massively popular South Korean actor, and his BTS friend Kim Tae-hyung (aka V) are both enormously affluent global celebrities, with millions of adoring followers — as well as photographers and a universe of websites that stalk and strive to record their every move. However, there is no sign of any of that on their reality series Jinny’s Kitchen. This Prime Video hidden gem is a tranquil, wanderlust-inducing series set in Bacalar, a serene, picturesque location in Mexico on the Mexico-Belize border. 

ZeroZeroZero 

If you like HBO’s mafia thriller Gomorrah, ZeroZeroZero is a must-see — especially because, like Gomorrah, it is based on a book by investigative journalist and writer Roberto Saviano. The sweeping criminal drama from Prime Video takes place across six nations and three continents, following the trajectory of a cocaine shipment from the moment an Italian cartel agrees to buy it until it is paid for and delivered. 

Class of 07 

The premise of Class of ’07 is that a group of young ladies gather for their high school reunion, reminiscing about a time in their life that felt so dramatic that it felt like the end of the world. While they’re inside celebrating their reunion, the outside is experiencing the literal end of the world as a result of climate change. The storytelling combination of a high school reunion and a “Earth is dying” sermon works out fairly well. 

Paper Girls 

Based on Brian K. Vaughan’s best-selling graphic books, this one feels like Prime Video’s take on Stranger Things. According to the official synopsis: 

“In the early morning hours following Halloween 1988, four paper girls — Erin, Mac, Tiffany, and KJ — are out on their delivery route when they become caught in the crossfire of warring time-travelers, forever changing the course of their lives.” 

Outer Range 

“At the start of the series, the Abbotts are dealing with the disappearance of daughter-in-law Rebecca,” according to the official description. When the Tillersons (the ostentatious owners of the adjoining profit-driven ranch) make a bid for their land, they are pushed even farther over the edge. 

“An untimely death in the community sets off a chain of tension-filled events, and what appear to be small-town, soil-bound problems come to a head with the arrival of a mysterious black void in the Abbotts’ west pasture.” Wild disclosures surface as Royal battles to preserve his family; through his eyes, we begin to learn how time holds secrets from the past and foreshadows terrifying truths.” 

Night Sky 

Night Sky is an eight-episode Prime Video gem starring Sissy Spacek and JK Simmons as Irene and Franklin York, a retired couple with an intriguing secret.

A portal to another world lies buried in their garden. Obviously, the show is about more than that, but I could have watched an entire series based solely on how this couple, in their golden years, slowly shuffles out to their backyard and steals away to that other planet through the portal, as if they were nothing more than an old couple settling into a rocking chair on their porch. 

Samaritan 

Critics panned Prime Video’s Samaritan, but consumers adored it – and I’m absolutely in the latter camp. This feel-good action drama, starring Sylvester Stallone as the reclusive “Mr. Smith,” follows a 13-year-old boy named Sam, who suspects that his mysterious neighbor Mr. Smith is actually a legendary superhero — the same one, in fact, who 25 years ago was a vigilante known as Samaritan and who supposedly died after a fiery battle with his arch-rival named Nemesis. 

Today’s city is on the verge of collapse, crime is on the rise, and Sam decides to persuade his neighbor to come out of hiding and save the city before it’s too late.  

The Devil’s Hour 

Jessica Raine plays Lucy, a lady who is woken every night at 3:33 a.m. by terrible visions at what is known as “the devil’s hour.” She also has an emotionless eight-year-old kid, and her mother speaks to empty seats. 

“When Lucy’s name is inexplicably linked to a string of brutal murders in the area,” Prime Video’s series blurb says, “the answers that have eluded her all these years will finally come into focus.” Peter Capaldi plays a solitary wanderer obsessed with murder. He becomes the principal focus of a police manhunt led by Nikesh Patel’s empathetic detective Ravi Dhillon.” 

The Way of the Gun 

If you’re looking for an earlier drama, this next one from 2000 stars Ryan Phillipe and Benicio del Toro as gun-toting criminal drifters who get more than they bargained for when they kidnap a pregnant woman (Juliette Lewis) connected to a nefarious money launderer.