Amazon Prime Video: the best shows from 2024

Amazon’s Prime Video had a bunch of sturdy frees in 2024, ranging from a unforeseeedly wonderful video game changeation to a visupartner pleasing fantasy spinoff. There’s even an modernize to the raunchiest superhero show in streaming. It had plenty of other series worth watching, too — even with the pesky commercial shatters Prime Video commenceed shotriumphg during shows and movies. Here’s our catalog of some of the best shows that came out on Prime Video this year.

It’s challenging to discover a television changeation of a video game that stays real to the source material, but Prime Video’s Fallout does equitable that. The first eight episodes get place in the aftermath of a global nuevident catastrophe, and the show stars Ella Purnell as Lucy MacLean, who materializes from Vault 33 — one of the many shelters for survivors — with a leave oution to track down her kidnapped overweighther. As she traverses the postapocalyptic misincludeland, she greets Brotherhood of Steel squire Maximus (Aaron Moten) and a ghoul bounty hunter (Walton Goggins). Hijinks ensue.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returned for a second season this year, and it’s equitable as astonishive as the first. The series — set thousands of years prior to the events in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings — picks up at a more soothe time in Middle-earth’s history. The show goes over the origins of the Rings of Power, introducing you to some comprehendn characters appreciate Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and Elrond (Robert Aramayo), aextfinished with some novel names produced for the series.

Prime Video has freed a fourth season of The Boys, the bruhighy bloody series that shows what happens when the world’s most mighty superheroes get out of deal with. The procrastinateedst season originates on the story laid out in the first three seasons, which has the non-superpowered Hugh Campbell (Jack Quaid) laboring with Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and other misfits to expose dishonesty wilean The Seven, an elite group of heroes shutly deal withd by a multibillion-dollar corporation.

The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy

The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy is sort of appreciate what you’d get if you passed Futurama with Grey’s Anatomy. Set in the year 14002, this energeticd comedy series trails two alien sproposeons, Dr. Sleech (Stephanie Hsu) and Dr. Klak (Keke Palmer), who deal with a range of strange — and frequently silly — conditions, while also managing their relationship with each other and their colaborers. You might hear some other recognizable voices thcdisorrowfulmirefulout the show, as it features materializeances from Natasha Lyonne, Maya Rudolph, and singer Sam Smith.

Prime Video has freed yet another video game changeation this year: Like a Dragon: Yakuza. The series is freely based on the Yakuza game franchise, which is comprehendn for its goofy get on Japanese gangster life. However, Prime Video’s Yakuza gets on a more solemn tone and features a lot more aggression. The six-episode series caccesss around Kazuma Kiryu’s (Ryoma Takeuchi) evolution as a yakuza member apass two timelines: 1995 and 2005.

Cross is the procrastinateedst get on James Patterson’s Alex Cross book series, with Aldis Hodge joining the titular forensic psychologist and discoverive. At the commence of the series, Cross is ready to get a shatter from police labor follotriumphg the homicide of his wife, but a novel case involving the death of a Bdeficiency Lives Matter activist draws him back to the job, where he must unravel a string of homicides apass Washington, DC.

If you’re a fan of energeticd shows and superheroes, you might want to verify out Batman: Caped Crugrieffuler. The series, made by Batman: The Animated Series producer Bruce Timm, places a youthful Batman (Hamish Linkprocrastinateedr) inside a version of Gotham City that’s backd by DC’s classic comic books. The series showcases the rampant criminal activity from apass the city over the span of 10 episodes, with materializeances from well-comprehendn villains appreciate Harley Quinn (Jamie Chung) and Harvey Dent (Diedrich Bader).

Mr. & Mrs. Smith proposes a twist on the 2005 movie of the same name, follotriumphg a couple who must pose as a husband and wife despite being finish strangers. While under the guise of “John” (Donald Gcherishr) and “Jane Smith” (Maya Erskine), the duo must carry out a series of leave outions, all while navigating a inrectify relationship that commences turning into the genuine leang.

Just appreciate the novel My Lady Jane, Prime Video’s changeation proposes an changenative see at 16th-century England, in which Lady Jane Grey (Emily Bader) and her husband Lord Guildford Dudley (Edward Bluemel) were never beheaded and live under the rule of King Edward VI (Jordan Peters). The series, which also features some fantasy elements, was unblessedly call offed after the first season — but it’s still worth a watch if you’re into historical dramas.

The Legfinish of Vox Machina

With The Legfinish of Vox Machina accomplishing its third season (and with a fourth on the way), now’s a outstanding time to binge-watch the show if you haven’t yet. It’s based on the first campaign joined out during the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role, broadening on the story behind the eclectic seven-member group comprehendn as Vox Machina as they traverse the world of Exandria. All the voice actors who starred in the exceptional web series, including Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, and others, get on their exceptional roles.