Amazon Prime Video series: the top 10 best series to watch in April 2023

Prepare your popcorn (because yes, it’s not just for the cinema) and make yourself comfortable on your sofa, or your bed! As it is sometimes difficult to navigate with streaming platforms, which are full of programs of all kinds, Télé-Loisirs has decided to search the Amazon Prime Video catalog to help you see more clearly. Among the multitude of films and series offered on the streaming platform, here are the ten best fictions that should not be missed. The Boys, Fleabag with Phoebe Waller-BridgeGood Omens by Neil Gaiman with David Tennant and Michael SheenJack Ryan with John Krasinki or the animated series Invincible, Upload, Ungerdround Railroad, The Expanse, The Man in the High Castle, Harry Bosch…

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Whether new or slightly older fiction, humor, drama, espionage, fantasy, romance or science fiction, there is something for everyone. In this month of February 2023, the streaming platform is still full of new features. So here is our Top 10 of the best original or exclusive series available on Amazon Prime Video.

The Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power, season 1 which kept all its promises

Announced several years before its release, The Rings of Power was one of the two most anticipated series of the year 2022. And, if adapting Tolkien’s work in series was not helped, the showrunners took up the challenge with flying colors. The cinematography is exquisite and literally offers a feast for the eyes! Both the plots and the characters of Middle-earth swept us away, with in particular a huge crush on the duo Durin IV and Elrond, as well as the wife of the first. Each new episode was an opportunity for fans, as for us, not only to be held in suspense but also to develop many theories. Let the adventure continue, we are impatiently awaiting season 2 of the Rings of Power!

The Last of Usthe most anticipated series of 2023 which is a hit

Cult video game for all controller fans, The Last of Us was entitled to its adaptation in series, and and this first season is already a huge success. Already by its audiences which continue to increase from week to week and by its many similarities with the game. If it is HBO which broadcasts it in the United States, the series is available here in France every week on Prime Video. Pedro Pascal plays Joel Miller in this post-apocalyptic world where civilization has been destroyed after the appearance of a mutated fungus that has infected many humans. He receives the mission to protect the young Ellie (Bella Ramsey, seen in the series Game of Thrones) which could well play a determining role in this pandemic. In just a few episodes, The Last of Us has established itself as the best new series of 2023. In the United States, it even manages the feat of getting better audiences every week. And good news: a season 2 is already planned!

The Fabulous Mrs. Maisela colorful trip to the 1950s where humor and feminism are not lacking in glamor

In the 1950s, in New York, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, a Jewish stay-at-home mother 100% supports her husband Joel (Michael Zegen) who tries his passion: stand-up. But after a failed performance, he confesses to her that he cheated on her and leaves her. Devastated and after having abused alcohol, Midge takes the stage of the Gaslight Café and offers an improvised performance, thus creating a sensation with the public. Proving to be much more gifted than her husband, she tries her luck in stand-up, while managing her new life as a liberated woman. A refreshing and colorful universe that we owe to Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls. We find his touch here through the extremely fast flow of the dialogues, in particular with the sketches, but also through the cultural and political references evoked in the series. Always full of humor, accuracy and with its absolutely perfect cast, The Fabulous Mrs. Maisel makes us feel a whole range of emotions. A nugget in the rough. And the platform puts its fifth and final season online on April 14. For those who were waiting to be able to watch everything to begin with, no more excuses!

The Advisorthe disturbing and captivating series

It’s one of the new releases at the end of February 2023, and it’s worth a look. After having made us freak out many times in the cinema in dark roles, Christoph Waltz is still just as destabilizing in The Advisor, to discover without waiting. The pitch? The actor plays Regus Patoff, a mysterious consultant who joins CompWare, a company specializing in mobile game applications. He is recruited following a dark affair, and will hurt the employees. Hailed by Internet users, this series in 8 30-minute episodes will blow you away, and it has already been established as one of the successes of March 2023.

black heartsthe French series of the moment

Before its broadcast on television, the French series black hearts is available in preview and in full on Prime Video. The six episodes of a bluffing realism did not fail to convince the Net surfers. Some have even called it the best French series ever created. Worn by Nicolas Duvauchelle, Marie Dominer and Tewfik Jallab in particular, black hearts immerses us in the French Special Forces deployed in Iraq in 2016. This commando’s mission is to exfiltrate the grandson and daughter of a French Emir of Daesh whom they captured and who promised to cooperate if they achieved this feat. A series, partly inspired by a true story, which has us stuck in the first minutes.

The Boysthe trashy series that reveals the most irreverent facets of superheroes

In The Boys, It all starts with Hughie (Jack Quaid), an electronics store clerk whose life is turned upside down when his girlfriend is literally pulverized by A-Train (Jessie Usher), a superhero from the Seven. FBI, Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) makes contact with him in order to hunt down the League of Seven, men and women with superpowers who turn out to be more interested in money and fame than saving Lives. Among them is the creepy and fearsome Homelander or Queen Maeve. Over the seasons, The Boys always wants to be more offbeat, trashy, brutal and irreverent. Combining impeccable writing and strong themes, it draws its strength above all from its cast, whose performances are remarkable. A huge slap! And good news for the fans, in 2023 The Boys will propose its spin-off Gen Vannounced as even more irreverent, in addition to offering the new season of the adventures of its characters

Sex Lives of College Girlsa refreshing and hilarious series that creates the crush

Four sexually uninhibited freshman college roommates deal with the struggles and difficulties of adulthood and campus life. Having different personalities, their escapades provide enriching and funny entertainment. A hymn to friendship and self-discovery that is more about emotions and pleasure than sex. A well-written, intelligent and sassy series! Note that one of the title roles is held by Pauline Chalamet, who is none other than Timothée’s sister. Among the nuggets of Amazon Prime Video.

The power, a fantastic series with Toni Colette that will electrify you

This adaptation of the eponymous bestseller by Naomi Alderman immerses us in a world where women discover that they have the power to produce electric shocks with their hands. With Margot at its head, embodied by the talented Toni Collette, the female sex seizes the opportunity to try to overthrow the pillars of a patriarchal society. Served by a cast of convincing young actresses, the series offers a complex and enjoyable plot littered with numerous adventures.

Totemsfor fans of spy series

For its first spy series, Prime Video strikes a blow with this striking and paranoid dive into the middle of the Cold War, at a time when East and West are using all stratagems to try to be the first to conquer. space. Alongside José Garcia, we find an exceptional cast, from Niels Schneider to Lambert Wilson, via Ana Girardot. The realization is licked, in the service of a breathtaking story, and pays particular attention to the faithful reconstruction of the time, as well with the decorations, the clothes as with the omnipresent feeling of being observed.

An extraordinary teamthe true story of these women who replaced men on the baseball field

Inspired by real events, this production full of pep tells the story, already adapted to the cinema, of the formation of a professional women’s baseball team in 1943. In a changing America and a masculine universe, these women have everything to prove. . The series takes the side of humor rather than realism to tell this story of sorority in a vintage decor with pop colors and jazzy music, for a rather pleasant result. With its irreducible heroines, its colorful universe and its Punchy rhythm, An extraordinary team is in line with series like Of those who dare (The Bold Type) or The Fabulous Mrs Maisel. Fictions that follow the trajectory of women in history, with a current perspective, highlighting the journey of these pioneers who had to prove their worth to impose themselves in a predominantly male universe.

The other series to watch on Prime Video

Obviously, this list is not exhaustive and you can also discover many other series on Prime Video such as Daisy Jones and the Six, Fleabag, The wheel of time or Underground Railroad et This is US.