The streaming market is very large with several popular services. Hard not to mention netflixthe leader for several years, or even Disney+ with his dazzling breakthrough. But Prime Video is no exception! Amazon’s platform has a nice catalog with, like its competitors, great exclusives.
As a reminder, Prime Video is included in your Prime subscription. Enjoy a 30 day free trial with no obligation before paying 6.99 euros/month. Students are entitled to an extended free of charge for 90 days then 3.49 euros/month or 34.95 euros/year only!
Among all the proposals in terms of Prime Video series, it is not always easy to find the rare pearl. To find the next story that will thrill you more quickly, the editorial staff offers you a selection of the 10 essentials of the platform.
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The best Prime Video series of 2023
1/ The Boys
The Boys is Prime Video’s finest showcase. A critically acclaimed series adapted from an eponymous comic. The plot takes place in the present day when superheroes are very popular among the population. Homelander, the best known of them all, is the leader of the Seven. The Avengers of a multinational company called Vought International. But in the shadows, these apparently courteous and benevolent vigilantes behave like real garbage.
Butcher and his Boys set out to neutralize the Seven by showing up more cunning against superhero powers. A violent, funny, impertinent series but above all a real criticism of the American system. Three seasons are available, the fourth is coming and the spin-off Gen V unveiled its trailer!
Read > The Boys season 4: cast, release date, latest news… everything you need to know about the next season
2/ The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
It’s the costliest of Prime Video’s series and a real piece of ambition. Rings of Power takes place thousands of years before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The series depicts a period of relative peace as a new threat arises. You suspect it, it is about Sauron who is then in full rise. Rings of Power covers major events in Middle-earth during the Second Age such as the creation of the Rings of Power, the fall of Númenor and the Last Alliance between Elves and Men.
A blockbuster in the form of a series that already has a first season while 5 others are on the program!
Read > The Rings of Power season 2: release date, plot, all the info
3/ Fleabag
flea bag, is the story of a woman in her thirties who lives in London and runs a café alone following the accidental death of her friend Boo. The young lady break the fourth wall to share the background of his thoughts on his daily life between self-mockery and lucidity.
Fleabag hides nothing of what she thinks of her sister Claire or her father who got together with his godmother shortly after the death of his wife. A acclaimed series for his humor and her portrait of a modern woman in her thirties.
4/ The Devil’s Hour
A series by the one to whom we owe sherlock and Doctor Whodoes that tell you? The Devil’s House tells the story of a woman who wakes up every night at 3:33 a.m., the devil’s hour. Lucy Chambers’ son withdraws into himself as his mother talks to empty chairs. Violent murders then take place in the area and seem linked to the woman.
The Devil’s Hour captivates with its disturbing atmosphere and already 3 seasons to discover!
5/ Mr Robot
Elliot is a programmer with a behavioral disorder. Antisocial, he is convinced that the only way to meet other people is to hack them. The young man, specialized in cybersecurity, is approached by a certain Mr. Robot to sink a mighty company.
Except that as part of his job, Elliot is supposed to protect this targeted company!
6/ Harry Bosch and Bosch: Legacy
Harry Bosch is a Los Angeles detective investigating murders. But the man is involved in a trial, although cleared of all suspicion by the authorities, of the assassination of a possible killer. Despite this bad press, the man does not abandon his profession, on the contrary. He begins to investigate the bones found.
Bosch: Legacy is a new chapter of the character’s career. The policeman must cooperate with Honey ” Money Chandler, her old enemy and great lawyer.
7/ Jack Ryan
Jack Ryan is the television adaptation of Tom Clancy’s novels starring John Krasinski from The Office. The Adventures of Jack Ryan, a promising CIA analyst tasked with going into the field for a perilous mission.
A tense thriller series with a big hint of spy and action!
8/ Good Omens
This series will be entitled to a new season this summer 2023! The adaptation of the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman called good omens follows the unlikely duo between an Angel and a Demon who have taken a liking to life on Earth.
But they will have to team up to stop the end of the world as the 11-year-old Antichrist escaped them. The Angel and the Demon must embark on a grand adventure to find him and prevent Armageddon before it’s too late!
9/ The Scarlet Maid
In a world close to ours, when various elements lead to a drop in fertility, a Protestant and fundamentalist politico-religious sect seized power in a coup. The White House, the Supreme Court and Congress have fallen.
Women are divided into three categories. The Wives who dominate the house, the Marthas who maintain it and the Servants who serve for reproduction.
10/ Reacher
Alan Ritchson succeeds Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher in this new series. A former member of the military police, Jack Reacher left the army to travel to the USA while living off odd jobs. While in Margrave Georgia, the police arrest him for a crime he did not commit. The victim is none other than his brother who was investigating a sensitive case.
This series is based on the novel From the bottom of the abyss published in 1997. A breathtaking thriller with a good dose of action.
