Netflix and Hulu don\u2019t have a monopoly on great television. Here are the 30 best shows on Amazon Prime Video, ranked.<\/b>
\nLast Updated: July 16th
While Netflix features more and better original programming, Amazon Prime Video holds their own in that department, and they continue to beef up their offerings. As far as licensed content goes, however, Amazon Prime may hold a slight edge, thanks to owning exclusive rights to HBO\u2019s back catalog.
If you\u2019re trying to figure out what to watch next, a great place to start are the 30 best shows on Amazon Prime Video right now, and none of these titles are currently available on Netflix.
Related: The 30 Best Shows On Hulu Right Now, Ranked
2 seasons, 20 episodes| IMDb: 8.1\/10
Loosely based on Phillip K. Dick\u2019s 1962 novel of the same name (it also bears some resemblance to Philip Roth\u2019s The Plot Against America), The Man in the High Castle is set in an alternative, dystopian world where Germany won World War II. Basically, the East Coast is occupied by the Germans, and the West Coast is occupied by the Japanese, and there\u2019s a no-man\u2019s land in between. Exec-produced by Ridley Scott and Frank Spotnitz ( The X-Files), the series sees various characters working to form a resistance against their occupation by collecting \u201cforbidden newsreels\u201d that show the alternate history in which the Allies won the war in an effort to reveal a larger truth about how the world should be. A dark exploration of what it means to be American, The Man in the High Castle is a well-acted, tense, and often violent dystopian thriller with plenty of twists and turns to keep viewers guessing.
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4 seasons, 40 episodes| IMDb: 8.2\/10
Created by Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Paul Weitz, Mozart in the Jungle stars Gael Garc\u00eda Bernal as an orchestra conductor and Lola Kirke as an oboist\/prot\u00e9g\u00e9. The cast is rounded out with beloved actors like Malcolm McDowell and Bernadette Peters, and familiar faces like Safron Burrows. Mozart is sweet and low-key. Viewers who like Canada\u2019s exceptional Slings and Arrows will like Mozart in the Jungle because it\u2019s essentially Slings and Arrows with classical music instead of Shakespeare. It is frothy and fun, and an absolute pleasure to watch, even if it is not exactly essential television.
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3 seasons, 26 episodes| IMDb: 7.9\/10
Created by Joe Gangemi and longtime Soderbergh collaborator Gregory Jacobs, Red Oaks is set in the 1980s and stars Craig Roberts ( Submarine) as a college-aged tennis instructor working at a country club. He has a girlfriend who also works at the country club with him. He\u2019s an aimless kid, and he has no idea what to do with his life, although his father (Richard Kind) wants him to become an accountant. His mother (Jennifer Grey), meanwhile, may have a thing for women. The smartly written sitcom has an early David Gordon Green ( All the Real Girls) sensibility (he exec produces, and directs three episodes), and may be best described as a cross between Summer School and The Wonder Years. The best reason to watch, however, is Kind, who brings an immense amount of humor and poignancy to the first season.
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7 seasons, 108 episodes| IMDb: 8.6\/10
A legal drama that almost never steps inside a courtroom, Suits stars Gabriel Macht and Patrick Adams as a brash, big-league attorney and his whiz-kid prot\u00e9g\u00e9, who is practicing illegally without a law degree. Suits, which has a tenuous understanding of the law, deals week-to-week mostly with settling disputes with cocky threats and yellow manilla folders. It\u2019s rounded out by a fun, USA Network-perfect cast (Sarah Rafferty, Gina Torres, Meghan Markle, and Rick Hoffman) and later seasons of the series are more serialized in nature, dealing primarily with interoffice politics and relationship drama. Nothing about Suits is altering the television landscape (in fact, every episode is the same), and the show is certainly not any threat to television\u2019s heavier dramas. However, over the course of the series, it\u2019s become a rock-solid show, one that was willing to break out of the typical USA Network procedural format years before Mr. Robot came along.
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4 seasons, 29 episodes| IMDb: 8.3\/10 Eastbound and Down tracks the brash, blowhard Kenny Powers, a once-superstar major-league baseball relief pitcher, whose catchphrase was \u201cYou\u2019re f*cking out.\u201d He was the \u201cman who could throw his ball fast as f*ck,\u201d but after his rocket arm began to fail him and he resorted to steroids, he quickly flamed out and was driven out of the sport. Trying to make his way back through the minor league system, Danny McBride\u2019s character is broke and forced to live with his brother ( Deadwood \u2019s John Hawkes) and take employ as the small-town\u2019s substitute coach. \u201cYeah. Your new teacher cusses. Let\u2019s get used to it, okay.\u201d Kenny also runs into a fellow teacher, April \u201cBig Cannons\u201d Buchanan, his old high-school sweetheart, and tries to reignite the flame with her, but is repeatedly shut down. Eastbound and Down is not for everyone, and the over-the-top antics of McBride\u2019s character may wear thin for some, but few shows are as rowdy and in-your-face funny as the HBO series.
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