20 best Amazon Prime Series: Great Amazon Prime TV shows to stream in March
The best shows on Amazon Prime right now
An Amazon Prime subscription is really worth the expense. It gets you a lot more than a fast delivery service, but arguably the best benefit of your Prime subscription is access to Prime Video. We would get one just to access the great library of movies and TV shows.
The best Amazon Prime TV show list is a snapshot of what is available on Prime right now. Choosing favourites has been tough but the following shows are gilded in our eyes - gold standard television that needs to be binge-watched without delay...
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20. Red Oaks
The 80s is a TV gold mine. Stranger Things used the era of Walkmans and shell suits as a backdrop for some crazy stuff. Red Oaks tempers the craziness but ramps up the warmth and fun, creating a wonderful coming-of-age story that needs to be seen. It is a show that doesn’t shirk big issues, but they are wrapped in a lot of affection for the era and its characters.
19. Too Old To Die Young
Known more for his ultraviolent movies, such as Drive and Only God Forgives, his foray into television is superb as it is brutal. Although Refn prefers to think of Too Old To Die Young as an extended movie, it's been broken down into 12 manageable 'episodes', following a cop played by Miles Teller who goes on something of a revenge spree, ridding the world of some very unsavoury characters. This is uncompromising, unflinching entertainment - and all the better for it.
18. The Tick
Amazon announced it has cancelled The Tick, and that can only be because Amazon doesn’t know how to have fun. It is a superhero parody with heart, and a brilliant cast. Peter Serafinowicz is superb as the titular Tick, the superhero without superpowers, playing it without any knowing wink that he is in on the joke. And that’s the brilliance of the show, which really stepped up in the second season. Unfortunately, Season 2 will now be its last, unless it can find another home - which fans are trying to make happen with the #SaveTheTick hashtag.
17. Gomorrah
Being in the Italian mafia is not fun. It is nothing like the cool Godfather-style portrayals movies have peddled for years. It turns out, if you want to be in the Camorra crime syndicate on whch the show is based, you lead a pretty crappy life. This series is adapted from the true crime book Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano. His account of the Camorra was so close to the bone, he has lived under police protection ever since. This show is as real and compelling as the book.
16. Star Trek: Picard
Many Star Trek fans approached Picard with caution, after Discovery failed to satisfy many long-term Trekkers. But Patrick Stewart's return to the universe seems, so far, to be a real success. The series takes a slower approach to storytelling, with numerous story threads set to unravel slowly over the first season's 10-episode arc.