Nowadays there are many different movies and even more series. Each time when you decide to start watch some of them the question arises “which one is the best?” How many times you started watching one or another series and get bored after two or three episodes? Yes, it happens regularly… The main reason for making this list of best tv shows on amazon prime was to acquaint the readers with 24 best series that you will not only watch till the last episode, but like very much. We collected series of different genres and with different number of seasons and episodes. So, you are able to choose the one or several of them that are the most interesting for you and fit you by their number of episodes. Each of the recommended options below worth your watching, so you will not regret about your choice regardless of which one series you chose. Don’t waste your time on surfing the internet searching for the good series, the majority of them are collected here. Let’s start!
Justified
This movie is available on: Watch on Amazon
Creator of the show: Graham Yost
Stars starring: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins
The protagonist of this series is the federal marshal Raylan Givens. Raylan is not exactly an ordinary police officer. He is a modern law-giver, but wears a cowboy hat, boots and a spare gun, and he has concepts of justice at the level of the XIX century. Because of his old-fashioned views and moral code, he was deported from a large city to his hometown Lexington Kentucky. This deportation became a real punishment for him. Here Raylan Givens quickly makes enemies, both among criminals and colleagues. Will he become happy in this small town or something bigger is waiting for him? Watch the “Justified” which is on the first place of best tv shows on amazon prime and you will know.
Girls
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Creator of the show: Lena Dunham
Stars starring: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver, Alex Karpovsky
Hanna Horvath, who recently graduated from college and plans to become a famous writer moves to New York. She came here from Michigan and believes that this beautiful metropolis will be for her a successful start in a career.
But the reality was not so beautiful as she could imagine. She also has three friends who have nothing special in life either, only a heap of problems and troubles, which mostly concern the lack of money.
Shoshana is quite a nice girlfriend who always dreams of sincere and pure love. Marnie is a fairly motivated and purposeful girl. Unlike other heroines she has a permanent job, bringing her money. Jesse is quite a beautiful and intelligent person, but her insanity is the main reason for the amusing situations that constantly happen to her.
24
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Creators of the show: Howard Gordon and Evan Katz
Stars starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Carlos Bernard, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Dennis Haysbert, Elisha Cuthbert, James Morrison, Kim Raver
The series was awarded many prestigious awards, and also led to the release of a lot of spin-offs and various kinds of promotional products.
In the center of the plot of the series is the fictional special service of CTO, whose headquarters are located in Los Angeles. Here the protagonist of the series Jack Bauer works. Every day he has to face complex situations, and make important decisions on which the lives of many people depend. And this is not surprising, because there are many terrorist organizations and special foreign services, whose actions, for one reason or another, are aimed at causing damage to the United States. The list of threats is so diverse, however, Bauer and his colleagues are always on the lookout, and will do everything possible to help ordinary Americans sleep peacefully …
Treme
This movie is available on: Watch on Amazon
Creators of the show: David Simon, Eric Overmyer
Stars starring: Khandi Alexander, Kim Dickens, India Ennenga, John Goodman, Melissa Leo, Wendell Pierce, Jon Seda, Steve Zahn
The incident in New Orleans was taken for the plot. Three months passed after Hurricane Katrina. Residents are trying to recover from the tragedy, and return to their old life. New Orleans has a special atmosphere and unique culture that needed to be restored after the terrible events of 2005. It is difficult to imagine what people had to endure because of this catastrophe. Now they will have to learn to live anew, say goodbye forever to those who were taken away by the elements and stop being afraid that such things might happen again. The heroes of the series are musicians and local residents who are the pride of this city. The drama shows how things really were with local residents after a natural disaster. People faced bureaucracy, indifference of authorities and corruption, as if they were not enough that the hurricane destroyed their lives…
Eastbound & Down
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Creators of the show: Ben T. Best, Jody Hill, Danny R. McBride
Stars starring: Danny McBride, Katy Mixon
Kenny Powers used to be an ordinary star with all the consequences: a lot of fans, popularity and…of course bad habits. Because of drugs and bad character, all the glory, obtained honestly, evaporated, and the hero became absolutely useless. Life has lost all sense.
Kenny has only one fan who has not forgotten him – this is Steve, who assures that the main character simply needs to get a school teacher of physical education. But Kenny only agrees when Steve finds him again. So the second formation of the hero begins with a star. In addition to this his ex-girlfriend appears in the Kenny’s life. But the trouble is that she is married and the hero does not know what to do now. But one thing he knows for sure – a long and difficult path lies ahead. Will he manage to overcome all problems and start a new life?
Oz
This movie is available on: Watch on Amazon
Creator of the show: Tom Fontana
Stars starring: Kirk Acevedo, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Christopher Meloni, George Morfogen, Rita Moreno, Harold Perrineau, J. K. Simmons, Lee Tergesen, Eamonn Walker, Dean Winters
At this place all dangerous maniacs and perverts serve their punishment. Everyone who comes here will be “rewarded” for everything they have done in their life. Among the prisoners there are a lot of psychopaths, such as Grouse, who killed his parents, and then ate them, HIV-infected, and also homosexuals and drug addicts. Among all these people there is Dino Artalani, who received the highest penalty for premeditated murder. But in spite of everything, if in the afternoon the prison glitters with cleanliness and all the requirements and regulations are fulfilled here, when the night comes, everything becomes completely different: terrible and “cool” law comes to replace the established order, a law that does not know mercy … The most important goal is to stay alive till the morning by all means …
Sons of Anarchy
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Creator of the show: Kurt Sutter
Stars starring: Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Mark Boone Junior, Dayton Callie, Kim Coates, Tommy Flanagan, Ryan Hurst, Johnny Lewis, William Lucking, Theo Rossi, Maggie Siff, Ron Perlman
The series tells about an illegal club of bikers who want to protect their small town from drug traffickers. The club is a serious but criminal organization; their main income is the sale of weapons. However, the residents of this city trust bikers, as they prevent the sale of drugs in the city and simultaneously keep the order. One of the main characters of the series is the young vice-president of the club, the son of the founder of this club. His father died under unknown circumstances.
A young man differs from the majority of club members in his ability to think sensibly and reasonably. From the earliest period of his life, mother told Jacks that the club is his life, and his father died because he was weak-willed. The young man believed her, until some bad events began, which led to a very tense and dangerous relationship between local groups and street war…
Patriot
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Creator of the show: Steve Conrad
Stars starring: Michael Dorman, Terry O’Quinn, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Chernus, Kathleen Munroe, Aliette Opheim
On the eve of the next presidential election in Iran, the threat of coming of militant radicals, ready to use nuclear weapons, to power in the country repeatedly increases. To prevent such a dangerous scenario, the US government secretly sends a special agent with a great experience. There is only one “but” – the candidate most suitable for performing a difficult task at the moment is going through a difficult period, being far from being in the best shape. The difficult period of life changed his psyche, and now he lives in Amsterdam, smoking marijuana and singing songs in the style of “country” in the streets. It would seem that there is no more improper performer for such a delicate mission. But in the end, on his incredibly cynical and sometimes shocking actions very much in this complex political history will depend.
Mozart In the Jungle
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Creators of the show: Paul Weitz, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman
Stars starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Lola Kirke, Bernadette Peters, Malcolm McDowell
Classical music leaves its imprint on many people. Calmness and a storm of emotions, unpredictability and a familiar melodic rhythm can be combined in it.
The protagonist of the series, named Gustavo, is a gifted musician who loves classical music and aspires to it with all his heart. His creations are perfect and he is obsessed with the love of the classics. But there is another side of the hero. He is an uncontrolled sex lover who takes drugs. How does Gustavo manage to combine such contradictory qualities? And will not debauchery interfere with his talent? The main character has to fight with himself and not lose his real self in this crazy world. Very unusual series in our list of the best tv shows on amazon prime which will impress you.
Orphan Black
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Creators of the show: Graeme Manson, John Fawcett
Stars starring: Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Kevin Hanchard, Michael Mando, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Since childhood Sara hhas been deprived of a lot – she lost her parents, their love and care. Since then, she feels like no one needs her in this vast world. She is very lonely and it seems to her that there is not a single person in this world who would show her even the slightest drop of care and mercy. One day Sarah becomes a witness of the young girl suicide, who looked like her like two drops of water. Then she decides to impersonate herself with this girl, in order to somehow change her terrible life. However, Sarah now has even more problems than before. And the most terrible thing is that soon she finds out that with this girl she is similar not only externally …
Frasier
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Creator of the show: David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee
Stars starring: Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, Jane Leeves, John Mahoney, Peri Gilpin, Moose
Psychiatrist Fraser Crane recently lived in Boston, could not understand his relationship with his wife, lost patients and spent more time in the bar. He realized that it was time for change, so the hero divorced, collected things and moved to his native Seattle, where he began to conduct a show with advice on the radio.
Here live his arrogant brother Niles, also working as a psychiatrist, and Father Martin – a vigorous old man who is not always able to take care of himself. For this reason, the father moves to Fratser’s apartment, unceremoniously violating his order and solitude.
At work, things are not going too smoothly either: he does not stand the format of the program, skips the commercials, and often puts it aside while answering questions.
What he will do to increase his popularity and change life for better?
Glee
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Creators of the show: Ryan Murphy
Stars starring: Chris Colfer, Jane Lynch, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Kevin McHale, Amber Riley, Cory Monteith
Will Schuster, a young teacher of Spanish, create an unbeatable school choir. The aspiration is praiseworthy, only Will’s musical league consists of a bunch of real outcasts, losers and outsiders.
The school teacher helps the children to discover their musical talents and tries to bring the losers’ chorus to the national level. In his team, Will has only five members. A full-fledged choral team must consist of 12 people, so Schuster invites Finn Hudson, the trio from the cheerleader team, Mike Cheng, Noah Packerman and Sam Evans to the chorus.
The main highlight of the series “Glee” is the performance of modern and classic hits. Popular songs by Bon Jovi, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne and other stars are sung by the actors themselves.
Sneaky Pete
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Creators of the show: Bryan Cranston
Stars starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Marin Ireland, Shane McRae, Peter Gerety, Margo Martindale
Pete, after serving his long term for fraud, decided once and for all to end his criminal past. To hide from the mafia that is looking for him, he takes the new name of his cellmate Marius and is arranged to work in the family business of the friend of his former criminal.
The business of a friend and his family is changing Pete and letting us feel what is family comfort and warmth. Pete is no longer able to give up the disguise of Marius. Later, he falls in love and realizes that his happiness is in a strong and friendly family, where mutual understanding and love reign. Now he clearly knows what he wants, but the dark past finds and haunts him every day. It threatens not only the life of the guy, but also the one that he fell in love with. Past mistakes can destroy Pete’s plans for a bright future…
Red Oaks
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Creators of the show: Joe Gangemi, Gregory Jacobs
Stars starring: Craig Roberts, Ennis Esmer, Jennifer Grey, Gage Golightly, Paul Reiser, Richard Kind
This is a very interesting and ambitious project from Amazon. Stephen Soderbergh became one of the producers of “Red Oaks”, and David Gordon Green became the director of the series. He won a prize at the Berlin Film Festival this year. The activities of this project carry us to New Jersey in 1985. We will go to a country club called “Red Oaks”. The main character’s name is David Myers. He’s just a college student. In the club the guy earns as an assistant, and over time tries to start a new adult life. The protagonist of the series was played by Craig Roberts. His character will survive growing up, falling in love, and will also try to solve the problems of his own family along the way. It’s a very exciting series in our list of the best tv shows on amazon prime.
Boardwalk Empire
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Creator of the show: Terence Winter
Stars starring: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon
The series takes place in Atlantic City in 1920, a few hours before the era of the “Dry Law” in the United States. The city treasurer and, at the same time, the boss of the local criminals, Enoch “Naki” Thompson decides, using the new rules, to make huge profits on illegal trade in alcohol. But not only one Thompson wants to be enriched. Clandestine alcohol trade is also an object of interest among the Mafia and Chicago, the machinists from New York, and even Jimmy Darmody, who is the “Naki’s” assistant. With the illegal trade, special agent Nelson Van Alden, who headed the department of the anti-trafficking department in Atlantic City, is trying to fight. Who will become a winner in this rivalry and who will lose everything?
Mr. Show with Bob and David
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Creators of the show: Bob Odenkirk, David Cross
Stars starring: Bob Odenkirk, David Cross
It is an unusual comedy show with television stars, who are well known to viewers by their roles in popular films. The unusual thing is that this series consists of the reviewing small comic books, or jokes in the American style, ridiculing politics, culture, science, medicine, study, in general, different spheres of a person’s life.
The creators of this project American humorist Bob Odencer and comedian David Cross, who are familiar to everyone on the films “Better call Sol” and “Breaking Bad”. Funny series, based on a delicate and sensitive American humor, have already pleased many viewers, along with its humorous program.
In order to understand whether American humor can be so ridiculous and understandable as ours, we need to look, listen and compare.
The Expanse
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Creator of the show: Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby
Stars starring: Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Paulo Costanzo
The action of the series takes the viewer for about two hundred years into the future. During this time, mankind managed to make such a big step in the field of technological progress that it allowed people to colonize the entire solar system. One day, the Canterbury spacecraft, delivering ice from Saturn’s rings, receives a distress signal from a ship called Scopule. The crew members go to the rescue, but when they arrive, they discover that there is no one aboard the spaceship.
After some time, an experienced detective Miller begins to investigate the case involving the mysterious disappearance of a young girl. The evidence leads him aboard the Skopule ship, where Miller meets the captain, who decides to help in his investigation. At that time, they could not even imagine that they were going to face a massive conspiracy …
Mr. Robot
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Creator of the show: Sam Esmail
Stars starring: Rami Malek, Christian Slater, Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin
The plot of the series tells us a story of a young guy named Elliot, who since childhood has suffered from dissocial personality disorder, and this has never given him the opportunity to live a normal life. Lack of communication with others led to the fact that all his free time the hero spent at the computer, and thanks to this became a very talented programmer, or rather a hacker.
Elliott’s outstanding ability is in demand among government-level organizations specializing in cybersecurity. But one day, a certain Mr. Robot, who is the leader of a large underground movement, which is hiding behind loud slogans, wants to use the guy’s hacking skills for bringing down the largest American corporations …
The Night Manager
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Creator of the show: Stephen Garrett
Stars starring: Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Debicki, Olivia Coleman, Alistair Petrie
The novel, written by John le Carr, formed the basis of the plot of the mini-series “The Night Manager”. The protagonist is Jonathan Pine. In the past he was a soldier, and now is acting under the guise as a night administrator of one of the hotels. Jonathan was recruited by the reconnaissance Burr. His main purpose is to get into the confidence in the arms dealers. Agents should get as close to the international criminal group as possible in order to track their activities on the illegal sale of weapons, to stop these supplies. Jonathan Pine should act cautiously to avoid raising suspicion. He needs to get the location of the criminal Richard Roper, his lover Jed and assistant Kokoran. If you are a Hugh Laurie fan- this series is for you. This series in the list of best tv shows on amazon prime definitely worth your watching.
One Mississippi
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Creator of the show: Tig Notaro
Stars starring: Tig Notaro, Noah Harpster, John Rothman, Rya Kihlstedt
The main character of the series is in a very unenviable position. A woman learns that she has cancer. She manages to postpone chemotherapy sessions, after which the condition of the main character can hardly be called normal. In addition, she got the news that her mother was hospitalized. The main heroine after all the most complicated procedures goes to her mother to be with her at this difficult period. The family is in turmoil, because the father, son and many other relatives are not ready for the possible consequences of the disease. All relatives are in a decadent mood, and relations between relatives are becoming more and more tense. The main character understands that she was left completely alone in this harsh and cruel world. What will save her from this depression and give a sense to her life?
This movie is available on: Watch on Amazon
Creator of the show: Garry Trudeau
Stars starring: John Goodman, Clark Johnson, Matt Malloy, Mark Consuelos
Once in a house four ambitious men were settled. They were also Republican senators, and each of them claimed a senatorial post.
At this moment, a tough but very interesting struggle unfolds in the political arena. All these men are very friendly, and besides political affairs, they have no less interesting personal life. They love events of various kinds, which are accompanied by intrigues, and curious moments. Not infrequently they get accusations about their actions, then the heroes have to come up with excuses that help to dismiss these accusations.
These men are not ready to stop, and until the last are ready to lead this hilarious struggle. Luxury and interesting show that occupies the twenty-first position in our list of best tv shows on amazon prime.
Avatar: The Last Airbender
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Creators of the show: Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko
Stars starring: Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack DeSena, Jessie Flower, Dee Bradley Baker, Mako, Grey DeLisle, Mark Hamill
The world is inhabited by four nations. Each of them worships one of the four elements. For this, one representative of each nationality, called the Magician, can control fire, water, land or air. If the Magician can control one of the elements, then Avatar, who is the master of the world, has the power of all four.
The honor of being an Avatar fell to a twelve-year old mischief named Aang. The boy is fully aware of his purpose – to stand guard over the tranquility of mankind.
But an evil people, worshiping Fire, want to break the balance in the world and become the main nation among the other races. Only Avatar who is endowed with incredible powers can hinder them. With his assistants – representatives of the Water nation, Aang will have to go into a dangerous adventure.
I Love Dick
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Creators of the show: Jill Soloway and Sarah Gubbins
Stars starring: Kathryn Hahn, Kevin Bacon, Griffin Dunne, Roberta Colindrez, India Salvor Menuez, Lily Mojekwu
A comedy series about the life of a married couple that has been together for many years. However, every year it becomes increasingly difficult for them to live together. Feelings for a long time have cooled down, couple is fed up with home life, which kills all romance and it seems that there is no hope for any changes. They understand that they are together because of a simple habit, but they don’t want to change anything.
By chance, the couple met a certain professor who was able to change their situation. The professor began to understand the life of the family, revealed their visible problems, gave several tips on preserving the marriage. And from that moment the relationship of the couple began to change. They managed to pass difficult tests that helped to preserve family relations. Will this story have the happy end? Watch till the last episode!
Good Girls Revolt
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Creator of the show: Dana Calvo
Stars starring: Genevieve Angelson, Anna Camp, Erin Darke, Chris Diamantopoulos, Hunter Parrish, Jim Belushi, Joy Bryant, Grace Gumme
The cultural revolution that occurred in the 1960s changed a lot in the life of American society. At that time the irreconcilable struggle of women for equal rights with men began.
The main characters of this drama series are young journalists from the news publication, who actively oppose sexual discrimination. They are talented and educated, their articles are of great interest to readers, but they are deprived of career opportunities, and their work is paid lower than male journalists. Most of all heroines are outraged by the fact that their publications are published under the names of men. Girls are openly challenging the traditional foundations of society, and their struggle for equal rights and opportunities has become one of the brightest pages in the US history.
It was the last option is our list of best tv shows on amazon prime and we hope that you found a lot of interesting series to watch!
