Check out the best Amazon Prime TV series you can stream right now in the US, including The Wheel of Time.
Are you looking for the best Amazon Prime shows to watch in the US right now? With a seemingly infinite number of TV series on your ‘to watch’ list, you may feel overwhelmed by the options available to you. That’s where our list of the best 20 shows on Amazon Prime Video comes in. We’ve put in the hard yards and researched the biggest and newest shows out there, so you don’t have to spend hours looking for your next binge watch series. The latest entry in our ‘best of’ list is The Wheel of Time, Amazon’s first major flagship fantasy show. With the streaming service also getting a Lord of the Rings prequel series next September, The Wheel of Time is perfectly placed to show if there’s an audience for big-budget fantasy shows on Amazon Prime. And, given how much we enjoyed it, it should be a big success. If you’d prefer something that’s not fantasy-based, however, there are 19 other options available to you below. From comedies to drama and everything in between, there’s something for everyone. So go ahead and see what you should be watching right now. Alternatively, our best Amazon Prime movies list will have other content for you to enjoy. Based on Robert Jordan’s beloved book series of the same name, The Wheel of Time is a fantasy show that offers an intriguing blend of Game of Thrones, The Witcher and Lord of the Rings in equal measure. Rosamund Pike (I Care A Lot, Gone Girl) plays Moiraine, a powerful sorceress whose quest to find the Dragon Reborn – a prophesised champion who can defeat the Dark One – leads her to the small village known as the Two Rivers. When Moiraine and her Warder companion Lan Mandragoran (Daniel Henney) are forced to rescue five of the village’s young adults from the Dark One’s forces, they realize that one of this quintet is the so-called Dragon Reborn. Cue an epic quest to work out who this ancient warrior is, and whether they’ll be able to save the world from the Dark One. Expect plenty of drama, R-rated violence (it’s not a family friendly show), a dashing of humor, and plenty of fantastical elements that’ll wow and shock you. Seasons on Amazon Prime: 1 Another hugely powerful docuseries from Steve McQueen, Uprising tells the extraordinary story of three intertwined events that transpired in the UK in 1981. The first tells the tale of the New Cross Fire, which saw 13 young Black British people lose their lives. The second, set in the aftermath of the fire’s terrible event, follows the Black People’s Day of Action as families of the victims seek answers over the course of the fire. Finally, Uprising’s third instalment covers the events predating, and surrounding, the Brixton Riots, which flared up as a result of racial discrimination against Black communities by mainly white police officers. Each of Uprising’s entries make for harrowing viewing. Like McQueen’s Small Axe anthology series, though, Uprising seeks to document events while teaching later generations about the segregation and institutional racism that existed at the time – and, in some instances, continue to exist today. Seasons on Amazon Prime: 1 Medical dramas have been around for decades, but few were as riveting (and often times hilarious) as House was during the early 2000s. Hugh Laurie stars as Gregory House, a misanthropic, sarcastic medical genius (and slight drug addict) at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey, who was tasked with solving a new, inexplicable medical case every episode. Usually, patients would get worse as House and his team tried to diagnose them but, eventually, the titular character would solve the case seemingly out of the blue. It was an intriguing idea for a medical drama to begin with but, as the seasons went on, it started to become stale. Still, while this aspect of the show started to run out of steam in latter seasons, House made up for it with its complex characters, humorous moments and at-times emotional story beats. There are plenty of twists and turns, too, to keep viewers engaged right up to the series’ final episode. Seasons on Amazon Prime: 8 Based on the weekly column of the same name published by The New York Times, Amazon Prime’s Modern Love is an anthology series that explores the concept of, well, love in its many forms. Each of the show’s 16 episodes (eight in each season) tackles a different love-centric topic – sexual, romantic, familial and platonic to name just four –and featured an all-star cast including Anne Hathaway, Dev Patel, Ed Sheeran, Andrew Scott and Olivia Cooke. Modern Love is billed as a romcom, but it’s as much of a drama as it is romantic and humorous. It presents love and relationships in its greatest and messiest forms, and you’ll certainly be able to relate to a tale or two through your own experiences. If you’re ready to laugh and cry in equal measure across every 30-minute episode, Modern Love is the show for you. Seasons on Amazon Prime: 1 The latest Amazon Prime Video original series sees Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson try his hand at being a farmer.
