8 Best Prime Video Shows Released Since 2020, Ranked

Published Oct 8, 2026, 2:09 PM EDT

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Once a place to watch prerecorded favorites, Prime Video has worked hard to distinguish itself as a leading destination for original streaming entertainment. Since 2020, its catalog of inventive, captivating TV series has grown to include some of the decade's premier must-watch projects. From action-packed thrillers to heart-stopping romance, there is something for everyone to enjoy on Prime Video.

This list highlights just how diverse and varied Prime Video's portfolio is. As Prime Video continues to work its magic and find its niche, the mega-streamer continues to deliver on every genre it touches, and it is not slowing down anytime soon. Here are the best of the best when it comes to Prime original shows that have debuted since 2020.

8 'Daisy Jones & The Six' (2023)

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All the highs and lows and tumultuous trappings of fortune, fame, and desire collide in Daisy Jones & The Six. Riley Keough stars as Daisy Jones, a passionate and headstrong vocalist who is paired with a group called The Six, spearheaded by Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin). Billy is stubborn and opinionated as well, and he and Daisy clash constantly on personal and professional issues. Told from a future setting where band members give tell-all interviews, Daisy Jones & The Six uses flashbacks to its advantage and weaves a story that crests and falls into dramatic tension.

Fans of musical projects, especially those centered around the late 1970s, will appreciate the rock-n'-roll journey of Daisy Jones & The Six. The series highlights the joy of triumph and the agony of defeat as the band rockets to stardom and then breaks up unceremoniously after performing a sold-out stadium show. Daisy Jones & The Six keeps the focus on the band members, and all the cast give dedicated performances. Once the series has grabbed a hold of you, it won’t let go, and it tells a compelling story in 10 episodes.

7 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' (2022–2025)

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Prime Video is fast becoming the destination for romance TV. The show that launched it to this status is the YA romantic comedy, The Summer I Turned Pretty. Based on the book trilogy by Jenny Han, the series follows Isabel "Belly" Conklin (Lola Tung) as she tries to decide whom she loves between her lifelong friends, the Fisher brothers.

Not since Twilight have fan groups been so divided about a love triangle. Whether devotees were on Team Conrad (Christopher Briney) or Team Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno), The Summer I Turned Pretty held viewers spellbound. Even if you have watched through the series and know the ending, The Summer I Turned Pretty still makes for an intriguing watch. As Collider's Jessica Toomer notes, it is about the journey more than the destination, saying, "The pleasure was never in who Belly picks. It's about watching her refuse to decide for three seasons." Prime Video has been releasing solid home runs when it comes to romance, and The Summer I Turned Pretty started it all.

6 'The Legend of Vox Machina' (2022–Present)

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The tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons has been surging in popularity again thanks to series like Stranger Things and the creatives at Critical Role. When one of Critical Role's campaigns became an all-time fan favorite, a Kickstarter campaign was launched to create an animated series based on their fictional quests. The exuberantly fan-funded project The Legend of Vox Machina was born, and the show has earned unanimous critical and audience acclaim.

Similarly to how D&D has grown in popularity in recent years, adult animated TV shows are another trend that has been seen across all streamers, including Prime. What makes The Legend of Vox Machina feel so special is that it is by the fans, for the fans, and it shows. Using scenarios that players can relate to, characters that gamers can identify with, and all the meta humor and lingo that practically screams "one of us," the series has earned its place in the hearts of viewers around the globe and holds a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. As the fifth and final season is in development, The Legend of Vox Machina is poised to make history as the highest critically rated fantasy series of all time. If you haven't checked out this animated masterpiece yet, this is your sign. It makes a great weekend binge and is a must for D&D enthusiasts.

5 'Fallout' (2024–Present)

The massively successful series Fallout is hard to put into any one box. It is a post-apocalyptic series with elements of sci-fi, Westerns, dystopias, and dark comedy. Based on the video game franchise, Fallout tells the tale of how different factions of humans have survived a catastrophic nuclear event. While there are those who have survived in self-functioning societies that dwell entirely underground in shelters, there are also those on the surface who have mutated and evolved into something other than the humans who had lived before.

Fallout has been a fan favorite since day one and has inspired many a cosplay. The cast is full of talent and includes Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, and Aaron Moten. Although projects based on video games have had a less-than-stellar history in TV and movies, the tide seems to have turned with projects like Fallout and HBO's The Last of Us proving that prominent stories and excellent casting will draw in the right audiences. Fallout's Season 3 is tentatively set to release in 2027, and enthusiasts cannot wait to see what is in store.

Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz What Action Series Would You Thrive In? Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard

Four franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the assassin with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to die. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.

🐕Wick

🏁Fast

🧨Mission

🎄Die Hard

FIND YOUR FRANCHISE →

01

How does a room know you've walked into it? Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.

ASomeone recognises me, and the temperature in the room drops without a single word being said. BLoudly and warmly. I arrive with my people, and we're already laughing about something. CI'm the one who told everybody where to stand. I walked this room twice before anyone else arrived. DBy accident. I wasn't supposed to be here, and now I'm the only one who can do anything about it.

NEXT QUESTION →

02

It turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like? Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.

AEconomical and devastating. Trained technique, no wasted motion, finished before most people notice it started. BLoud, heavy and weirdly joyful. I'm not elegant, I hit like a truck, and I always have backup. CTo plan, until the plan breaks. Then I improvise at full sprint and refuse to stop moving. DBadly, honestly, and with a lot of swearing. I take more damage than I deal and I still don't go down.

NEXT QUESTION →

03

Who is standing beside you when it starts? Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.

ANobody. I have contacts, favours and people who owe me, but when it begins I work alone. BEveryone. My people are the entire point, and I'd trade the whole mission for any one of them. CA small hand-picked team I trust completely, and I'd still take the worst part of the job myself. DA voice on the other end of a radio and a building full of people who don't know I exist.

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04

It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright? Act two exists to find out what you're actually made of.

AFocus, commitment and sheer will. Grief is fuel if you point it in the right direction. BThe people counting on me. I don't appear to have a limit when it's family on the line. CRefusing to accept the odds. Somebody has to do the impossible part, and it's going to be me. DSpite, mostly. And a growing sense that these people picked the wrong building.

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05

There's a vehicle. What are you driving, and how? No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.

AA black muscle car I am unreasonably attached to, and I will dismantle an entire empire over it. BSomething impossibly modified, at impossible speed, off an impossible ramp. Physics is a suggestion. CA motorbike at full throttle through a city I memorised last night. And then off a cliff. DA borrowed car, badly, while somebody in the passenger seat politely asks me to slow down.

NEXT QUESTION →

06

How do you feel about the people giving the orders? There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.

AThere are rules and I respect them absolutely, right up until somebody breaks one against me. BI don't take orders. I take care of people, and everything else tends to sort itself out. CI serve the mission, not the memo. If my people are in danger, the orders come second. DThey're in a van outside telling me what I'm doing wrong while I'm the one bleeding on broken glass.

NEXT QUESTION →

07

Underneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for? The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.

ASomething was taken from me that can't be replaced, and I've been settling that account ever since. BBelonging. I built a family out of people who had nowhere else, and I'll defend it with everything. CThe conviction that if I stop, people die. I don't know how to hand that to anyone else. DI just wanted to get through the holidays with my family. Everything after that was self-defence.

NEXT QUESTION →

08

When the credits roll, what do people say about you? Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.

AThat I was a myth people warned each other about in whispers, and that they were right to. BThat I never left anyone behind, the door was always open, and there was always a place at the table. CThat I did the impossible part myself, every single time, and never asked anyone to risk it for me. DThat I was just a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time, who turned out to be very hard to kill.

REVEAL MY FRANCHISE →

Casting Has Been Completed Your Franchise Is…

Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive the trilogy, and probably headline it.

John Wick

You are precision with a grudge. You don't posture, you don't escalate, and you don't warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are so careful never to be the reason you start.

• The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one against him.
• You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and then completely immovable past it.
• Focus, commitment and sheer will. You'd be the one carrying grief through three sequels and turning it into technique rather than noise.
• People wouldn't call you dangerous. They'd say your name quietly and let that do the work.

Fast & Furious

You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about: the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and you'd drive through a building for any one of them.

• This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject, because loyalty scales and plot doesn't have to.
• You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you defend it past the point of reason.
• You'd thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve, an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
• The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.

Mission: Impossible

You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself anyway. It looks like control, but it's really responsibility. You have never worked out how to ask somebody else to carry the risk.

• This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that's left.
• You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an administrative error.
• You'd thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure. The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
• Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.

Die Hard

You are not the most trained person in the building, the best equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.

• Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned, bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
• You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn't make you noble, it makes you sarcastic, and then it makes you unstoppable.
• You'd thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation, and you've never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
• You didn't want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.

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4 'Young Sherlock' (2026–Present)

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The famous fictional detective is back, as rarely seen before in Young Sherlock. Guy Ritchie is once again at the helm of the iconic IP after directing the two feature films starring Robert Downey Jr. in the early 2000s. Reinvigorated with an exciting new plot and spirited cast members, Young Sherlock is a streaming sensation and continues to top Prime’s viewership charts in countries around the world.

Hero Fiennes Tiffin stars as a younger version of the infamous sleuth. Far from the respected and admired icon of other iterations, Young Sherlock encounters the main character when he is a nobody. As an underling working as a scout at Oxford University, Sherlock largely relies on the good graces and favors of his older brother Mycroft (Max Irons) until a string of murders takes place that he cannot ignore. There are more twists and turns in Young Sherlock than expected, and it will keep you guessing until the end. All the cast are sublime, including Natascha McElhone, Dónal Finn, Joseph Fiennes, Colin Firth, and Zine Tseng. Young Sherlock delivers on all fronts: romance, intrigue, suspense, and mystery. Fans of period pieces and delightfully clever whodunits will enjoy this breakout triumph.

3 'House of David' (2025–Present)

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House of David is in a category all its own. It has the maneuvering and manipulation for power that befits Game of Thrones. It has the dedication to biblical authenticity and historical accuracy that The Chosen is famous for, and it eclipses many other historical dramas with its creative storytelling and epic scale. Over 40 million viewers tuned in for the first season, and House of David stayed solidly in Prime Video's top 10 most-watched titles for weeks.

The series is based on the biblical record of David (Michael Iskander), a beloved and influential king of Israel. The trouble for David is that there is already another king on the throne, Saul (Ali Suliman). Watching David rise from a humble shepherd and musician to the king of Israel is fascinating, and House of David conveys the story with a sense of urgency, intriguing suspense, and dedicated performances. House of David features strong female characters and takes the time to acknowledge how the women in the palace had significant roles to play in how the kingdom was run.

Executive producers Jon Erwin and Jon Gunn have announced that the third season will be the last. Season 3 will complete the story arc in a trilogy that focuses on the part of David’s life the producers wanted to portray. While other historical dramas are busy feeling like in-house carbon copies of each other, House of David stands out for its originality and gripping narrative. It is a coming-of-age story, a political drama, and an action epic all in one, and it is undeniably one of the best original shows Prime has ever produced.

2 'Invincible' (2021–Present)

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Living up to a legacy is daunting on any level, but even more so when your father is a superhero. When Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) finally inherits his superpowers, he can work alongside his father, Nolan (J. K. Simmons), also known as Omni-Man, to keep Earth and its citizens safe. As Mark takes on the superpowered persona Invincible, he experiences all the victories and defeats that come with wearing the mantle.

Nominated for three Primetime Emmys, Invincible is a favorite of both critics and audiences alike. It is one of the most perfect superhero TV shows of the past 10 years, and with such a saturated market, it has differentiated itself as thought-provoking and candid. As superhero fatigue affects many viewers, Invincible continues to find new areas of the genre to explore and new emotional depths to plumb. Animation has always been a strong medium for the genre, and Invincible is another example of how impactful animated superhero projects can be.

1 'Reacher' (2022–Present)

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Reacher was, in large part, the first original TV show to put Prime on the map. It features Alan Ritchson as the titular hero, an ex-military cop who is known for his ability to solve problems and take care of business. Although Reacher is technically retired, he doesn't stay that way for long, and as his services are required, the series follows Reacher on some harrowing and thrilling missions.

Based on the best-selling book series by Lee Child, Reacher is an action-packed thrill ride that has layers of clever plots and sharp dialogue. Reminiscent of classic '80s action movies with stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, Reacher combines the best of the past with the cerebral melodrama modern audiences crave. Reacher consistently remains Prime Video's most popular show, and the casting, writing, and directing make it superb. It is only right to give Reacher its flowers and acknowledge not only how great a TV series it is, but all that it has done for Prime.

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