25 Binge-Worthy TV Dramas on Prime Video

Prime Video might not be your first stop when looking for a new show to check out, but make no mistake, it has an impressive library filled with some amazing shows that you can’t binge anywhere else.

We wanted to share our picks of quality dramas that you can find on Prime Video to help make your next search for your latest TV obsession a bit easier. We’ve picked some long-running series as well as some you’ll be able to finish in a weekend.

A couple of these shows are available thanks to the IMDB TV channel on Prime. It is worth noting that they will have commercials, but those are the perfect time to stretch or refill your glass or grab some more snacks.

In no particular order, here are 25 binge-worthy TV dramas that you can find on Prime Video:

1. Nikita

Number of Episodes: 73

Nikita is spy thriller that called The CW home for 4 seasons, which might explain why you’ve never heard of this badass, female-led, action-packed series. Inspired by La Femme Nikita, Nikita stars Maggie Q as Nikita, a woman who escapes a secret, black-ops government agency called Division and is committed to bringing it down.

While Nikita starts off battling Division on her own, she recruits more and more people to her cause as the series progresses. The first person Nikita recruits is Alex, a woman who had a brush with Division as a child; Alex goes undercover inside Division to feed intel to Nikita.

Through Alex, we get to see Division through the eyes of new recruits, the ones who believe that they are truly there to serve their country. As Alex goes through training and sees a different side of Division and its employees, Nikita offers the harsher truth of Division.

Nikita has characters to fall in love with, ships to root for, and, of course, heartbreak. It’s an unpredictable series that will keep you on your toes. In addition to giving you fantastic heroes, Nikita also delivers some of the best villains that have graced our TV screens.

If you missed this series the first time around, trust me, you’re going to want to check it out

2. The Americans

Number of Episodes: 75

The Americans is a tense thriller about Russian spies who are undercover as a married couple in the American suburbs. The series captures the acute anxiety of being both and neither: American and Russian, a true believer and nervous skeptic, in love but constantly aware that the marriage itself is a ruse.

For six tense, subtle seasons, The Americans spins those anxieties into a story about family, loyalty, and trust, and how one decides which of those things are worth sacrificing your own identity for.

3. Everwood

Number of Episodes: 89

Dr. Andy Brown moves his family from New York City to the small town of Everwood, Colorado after his wife passes. His son, Ephram, and daughter, Delia, aren’t too thrilled by this decision.

Everwood checks off a lot of boxes. You want a small town to fall in love with? Check. A heartwarming ship? Check. An angsty teenage ship? Check.

Also, it’s worth pointing out that Everwood will definitely bring you to tears often, most often due to the Brown family drama, but it’s one of the reasons why we love it so.

Everwood boasts quite the cast as well (both series regulars and guest stars). Emily Van Camp and Chris Pratt are brother and sister. Paul Wesley stops by for a bit in Season 2, and the closer you look, the more people you’ll recognize.

4. Grimm

Number of Episodes: 123

Slip into a world where fairytales exist — the Grimm Brother’s version of them, anyways. These monsters, referred to as wesen, exist in our world, except for most people, they look just like everyone else. No one sees their true faces. Well, no one except a grimm.

Detective Nick Burkhardt inherits a gift that’s been in his family for generations — being a grimm. As a grimm, it is up to him to keep the peace between humans and wesen.

It would have been nice if Nick received even an ounce of training or preparation before getting this new assignment though. Instead, Nick is unexpectedly thrown into this world and has to figure things out as he goes about his normal job as a detective, solving cases that end up involving wesen or supernatural forces.

Don’t worry, Nick slowly befriends various wesen who help him out as he finds himself being pulled more and more into the supernatural world. I guess I should say that Nick discovers that his formerly “normal” world is filled with a lot more wesen than he realized.

5. Homecoming

Number of Episodes: 17

Homecoming is a psychological thriller based on the podcast of the same name. Both seasons deliver compelling mysteries that will completely captivate you.

During Season 1, Julia Roberts stars as Heidi Bergman, a former caseworker at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center. Now, years later, Bergman is questioned by the Department of Defense about the nature of her departure from the job.

Impending doom is the feeling that hovers over the events of the first season of Homecoming. The show masterfully takes the conspiracy thriller genre and turns it into an emotional story of pain.

Homecoming shakes things up for Season 2, introducing a new cast (led by Janelle Monae) and a new mystery. The second season has that same sense of doom hovering over it but manages to spin into something just as riveting while still keeping it all on an intimate scale.

6. Warehouse 13

Number of Episodes: 64

On Warehouse 13, Secret Service agents Pete Latimer and Myka Bering are reassigned from Washington DC to a warehouse in South Dakota. It’s not the assignment either of them wanted or expected, but they soon learn that the job isn’t quite as dull as it seems. 

They are tasked with finding and protecting supernatural artifacts. These artifacts can be anything from Sylvia Plath’s typewriter to Pavlov’s bell and Marilyn Monroe’s hairbrush.

You’ll fall in love with the characters tasked with protecting the warehouse and enjoy all the wacky missions they go on. The missions usually involve taking a closer look at historical figures and seeing what influence they still hold over artifacts that have been left behind in the present day.

7. Teen Wolf

Number of Episodes: 100

Teen Wolf follows best friends Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski as they try to survive high school and stay alive in their surprisingly supernatural-filled town of Beacon Hills. Scott being bitten and turned into a werewolf in the pilot makes that task a bit harder.

Join Scott and Stiles as they navigate this new supernatural world, making friends and enemies along the way. Scott’s pack changes as the series progresses, but one thing is for sure, you’ll definitely find some new characters to fall in love with and new supernatural creatures to be wary of (the kanima, for instance).

While the show doesn’t shy away from exploring darker themes, you can expect a good deal of levity from this series as well.

Stiles is always ready with a sarcastic comeback. Scott is a lovable dork who sometimes needs the encouragement of being told he is the hot girl or misses the point of a conversation — his mom buys all the juice, Jackson, chill. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the amount of great comedic moments throughout the series.

8. House

Number of Episodes: 177

“Everybody lies” is probably the most famous quote by Dr. Gregory House, and it tells you a lot about the doctor and the show, House.

If you are one of House’s patients at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, it means a couple of things. One, you will mainly deal with his team as House isn’t really a people person and finds that patients are a distraction. The second, and more serious thing, is that you have a strange and hard to diagnose illness.

You don’t go see House for a cold, which means that his cases are fascinating and that House and his team will spend the majority of the hour trying to correctly diagnose and cure their patients.

While House isn’t the most lovable of characters, you’ll definitely be entertained by his antics. His team, best friend Wilson, and the dean of medicine, Lisa Cuddy, are a lot more likable, as are the doctors that comprise House’s team throughout the years.

9. Eureka

Number of Episodes: 77

A lot of the time, if you are in the mood for a good sci-fi show, it means you’ll be watching a darker show. That’s not the case with Eureka.

Eureka is set in a small town that some of the world’s smartest minds call home.

There are constant experiments happening in both a laboratory setting and in someone’s house or garage. And no one makes a scientific breakthrough, safely, the first time around. This means that the Sheriff has his work cut out for him and that there’s never a normal day in Eureka.

Eureka gives you a new small town to fall in love with, hijinks galore, a ton of lovable characters (and ships!), and so much fun. Trust me, you’ll want to pull off the beaten path and fall in love with this show.

10. Bones

Number of Episodes: 246

Unlike a lot of procedurals, Bones focuses whole-heartedly on its characters and their relationships, all while pushing the boundaries and continuing to place faith and science up against one another.

At the core of the series is the partnership between FBI Special Agent Seely Booth and Dr. Temperance Brennan, nicknamed Bones due to the fact that she’s a forensic anthropologist. Basically, when you have a body at a crime scene, you call a medical examiner. When all that is left are the remains — the bones — you call Dr. Brennan.

Booth and Bones share a chemistry that will keep you engaged, and the ensemble of characters brings something different to the table.

11. The Expanse

Number of Episodes: 46

The Expanse is the perfect binge! It is a political thriller wrapped in science fiction drama and tied together with complex characters in equally complex relationships.

The fan-favorite show has a gravitational pull that rivals any of the series’ planets.

The core team aboard the Rocinante anchor the show and give us a deep connection to the material. Each season brings new characters who we fall in love with and come to appreciate as much as the original crew.

The Expanse is a show that is brilliantly inclusive, without ever making it obvious.

For example, every single female main character is a BIPOC. That is incredible representation. We can’t help but notice that the cast is also achingly good looking.

This series really has it all. Seasons 1-4 are ready to binge on Amazon Prime Video, and a fifth season has already been ordered.

12. Fringe

Number of Episodes: 100

Fringe starts out as a procedural that focuses on wacky cases that deal with fringe science. FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham enlists the help of Dr. Walter Bishop and his son Peter after an international flight lands and leaves behind a disturbing and unexplainable scene.

That is just the first of many unusual cases that Olivia, Peter, Walter, and Astrid tackle. Each case is weirder than the next, and slowly, Fringe starts to take a more serialized turn.

Olivia learns she is more attuned to these strange phenomena and more connected to Walter than she initially realized, and then, alternate universes (filled with alternate versions of some of our favorite characters) enter the picture.

Fringe is a wild ride that will investigate some very strange cases, introduce you to some amazing characters and ships, and keep you guessing each step of the way. Truly, we cannot recommend it enough.

13. Orphan Black

Number of Episodes: 50

Sarah Manning learns that her life isn’t exactly what she thought when she witnesses someone who looks exactly like her commit suicide by jumping in front of a train. In order to get some answers (and some money), Sarah assumes the identity of that woman, Beth, and quickly finds herself in way over her head.

Sarah discovers that Beth’s life isn’t anything like she expected, and that there are more people that look exactly like her — they’re clones, each with their own very different and very complicated lives.

More importantly, someone has been killing all of them off, so Sarah must work together with her fellow sestras to figure out who created them and what their purpose is.

Orphan Black is a must-watch simply for the amazing performance by Tatiana Maslany. She excels at playing so many different characters. It’s hard to fully explain Maslany’s extraordinary talent, so you’re just going to have to check it out and see for yourself.

14. White Collar

Number of Episodes: 81

White Collar follows FBI Special Agent Peter Burke who works in the, you guessed it, white-collar crime unit in New York City. Neal Caffrey is a con man that Peter put away years ago, but due to unexpected circumstances, the two of them start working together.

It’s a classic blue sky USA Network series. In addition to cases of the week, White Collar has some longer running mysteries and conspiracies that tie into Neal’s past.

There’s a fun dynamic between Peter’s FBI team and Neal’s criminal associates (a.k.a. Mozzie with a couple of other people who pop in and out throughout the series).

The distrust is part of what makes White Collar fun.

Mozzie has to slowly warm up to “the suits,” as he calls them, and Peter and company have to learn to trust that Neal isn’t pulling a long con on them. Over the course of the series, they truly become a team.

15. Chuck

Number of Episodes: 91

Chuck is a funny spy show. Sometimes you just aren’t in the mood for a doom and gloom kind of a show; you want the intensity of a serious show, but you also want to laugh. That’s when you turn to Chuck.

It all begins when Chuck Bartowski, a Nerd Herd employee at a local Buy More, opens an email from his old college roommate/nemesis, Bryce Larkin. That one email changes Chuck’s life.

Now, all of the CIA and NSA’s secrets are in Chuck’s head thanks to this nifty little program called the intersect, and he’s got two handlers that serve as his team and his protectors.

Chuck has all the action and intensity that comes from chasing bad guys and defusing bombs but with a twist. For example, Chuck defuses a bomb by giving it a porn star virus that has recently been troubling a surprising amount of computers at the Buy More.

What other show could you get a shootout set to the sound of Mr. Roboto played on the keytar?

16. Leverage

Number of Episodes: 77

Sometimes, in order to get a job done, you need to break the law once or twice…or a bunch of times.

Leverage begins with former insurance investigator Nathan Ford being asked to lead a group of expert criminals in order to steal some important documents for a client. The team Nathan assembles is comprised of a thief, a hacker, a grifter, and a former black-ops soldier turned retrieval specialist.

It’s supposed to be a one time deal, but it ends up being the first of many jobs for this team. They’re basically Robin Hood. They right wrongs, sometimes by stealing from the rich to give to the poor.

While Leverage is a procedural, it’s a character-driven show, and it features a lot more cons and heists than your run of the mill procedural show. Trust us, you’ll fall in love with this ragtag group in no time.

And once you’ve finished the series, don’t fret! I have even more amazing news. IMDB TV, a channel free on Amazon Prime Video, is reviving the series! Your favorites will be back along with some new faces.

17. Revenge

Number of Episodes: 89

If you’re looking for a soapy revenge drama filled with shocking twists and intriguing characters, then look no further than Revenge.

Led by Emily VanCamp, Revenge follows Amanda Clarke as she seeks revenge for what was done to her father years ago.

Amanda changes her identity (to one Miss Emily Thorne) and returns to the Hamptons in order to seek revenge on every person responsible for destroying her father. The members of the powerful Grayson family are the top names on her hit list.

Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do would have definitely made the Revenge soundtrack if the series was on today. Amanda/Emily might not underline people’s names in red, but she does cross out people’s faces with a red sharpie after she takes them down.

Amanda’s quest for revenge will instantly captivate you, and you’ll fall in love with some friends (and foes) along the way.

18. Friday Night Lights

Number of Episodes: 76

Friday Night Lights takes you into the high pressured world of Texas high school football.

It’s a classic for very good reasons. There’s a cadence and stature that elevates its storytelling from entertaining to personal. The characters of this film turned television series will become a part of your own family in the best way.

Friday Night Lights covers timely and controversial topics such as abortion, the stigma of poverty, military service, caring for aging grandparents, and more. The way they are covered always feels intimate. You’ll see the pain, the joy, the loss, and the victory without ever explicitly hearing a moral message.

Truly, the resounding statement that echoes from Friday Night Lights has little to do with football and everything to do with community: it says, be good to each other by showing up for each other

19. Psych

Number of Episodes: 120

Another lighthearted drama option is Psych.

When questioned by the Santa Barbara Police Department, Shawn Spencer lies and tells Detective Carlton Lassiter that he’s a psychic, and that’s how he was able to solve a robbery case just by watching TV.

The truth is, Shawn is just very observant. 

In order to sell this con, Shawn enlists the help of his best friend, Burton Guster, who by no means approves of Shawn’s latest shenanigan. Shawn and Gus open their own private detective agency and learn that they are pretty good at helping solve crimes.

Shawn and Gus bring their own wacky twist to a procedural, and you can expect some absolutely hilarious episodes as the series progresses.

There’s a musical episode, pineapples, digs at the then-running The Mentalist, amazing guest stars, and multiple episodes that pay homage to an important pop culture moment (ie The Hangover, Harry Potter, True Blood, and more).

20. The Boys

Number of Episodes: 8

Let’s face it, superheroes exist outside the bounds of normal, ordinary restrictions of life. It is a wild existence, and that heightened, indeed super, aspect of superhero life is what The Boys focuses on while twisting and piercing the “hero” aspect.

The Boys does not hold back, but under the gloss is also a keen dissection of violence and self-preservation.

There is room for romance and laughter amidst the ruthless storylines, and that just enhances the series’ ability to showcase the absurd experience of normal life.

And don’t worry, Amazon Prime Video picked up The Boys for a second season before the first season aired, so we can look forward to more hours of wild characters portrayed by incredibly adept actors, especially Jack Quaid, Kal Urban, and Chace Crawford.

21. Poldark

Number of Episodes: 43

If you’re looking for a period piece filled with romance and gorgeous scenery, Poldark is for you. It’s an adaptation of a series of novels by Winston Graham, and, at its core, it is a show of romance while also hitting on many social issues of the time.

Set in 1783, Ross Poldark returns to Cornwall, England after fighting in the American Revolutionary War. Unfortunately, Ross doesn’t get the welcome home he was imagining.

Instead, he learns that his father has passed away, his former sweetheart Elizabeth is engaged to his cousin, and his family’s estate is in ruin. It’s up to Ross to rebuild. He tries to get the coal mine working at his estate, and he manages to find love again with the lovely Demelza.

Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson deliver swoon-worthy and passion-filled performances, ensuring that Ross and Demelza find their way to the top of your favorite ships list.

22. Upload

Number of Episodes: 10

Upload is set in the future where there’s a digital afterlife. Mainly used by the rich (due to its price tag), people have the option to upload their consciousness so that they can live on, virtually.

We’re introduced to this world through Nathan Brown, who dies in a self-driving car accident, and instead of taking a chance on the operating table, his girlfriend convinces him to upload himself instead.

Upload makes us believe that we’re going to get fluffy, feel-good content, with just a bit of light real-world sincerity thrown in at the end. What we actually get from Upload is a fiercely woven tale of grotesque corporate greed’s impact on human existence.

Don’t get me wrong, the series is also really funny and deeply romantic too. But, the ten-episode series has far more The Boys and Devs in its DNA than it has The Good Place.

It’s definitely worth a watch, and it’s already been picked up for a Season 2!

23.  Good Omens

Number of Episodes: 12

Good Omens, an adaptation of the cult-favorite novel from authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, is a buddy comedy about saving the universe.

If you’re okay with a little thoughtful blasphemy, Good Omens is a hilarious adventure of an angel and demon working to save Earth from a war between Heaven and Hell, mostly so they can continue to live out an existence they enjoy.

Michael Sheen and David Tennant steal the show as the angel and the demon, respectively. Their unlikely friendship is one of the highlights of the show.

Good Omens shows that there’s more that unites us than divides us, and the idea that the things worth fighting for are the people we care about. At the end of the day, it’s the ways in which we care for one another that will ultimately save the world.

If you are looking for an all-around good time, then Good Omens is the show for you.

24. Bosch

Number of Episodes: 60

Bosch, over the course of its six seasons (with a final season incoming), follows the titular Harry Bosch and his partner Jay Edgar as they face down smart, complex cases in an ever-changing landscape of politics and crime.

Bosch gets down to the nitty-gritty, the process, and the obsession of needing to bring closure to those who have wronged and to scratch that undeniable itch that comes with solving the big case. It’s a celebration of hard work and dedication.

There are wonderful flashes of The Wire at times with its scope as it tells a story of not only these detectives, but of their city. Filled with fascinating characters, biting dialogue, and tense drama, Bosch is one of the very best on Amazon Prime Video.

25. Alias

Number of Episodes: 105

Alias is a little bit of action, a little bit of mystery, and a whole lot of spycraft with a dynamic woman at the center of it all. Alias follows Sydney Bristow, who gets recruited into a secret branch of the CIA after learning about her familial history of undercover work.

The branch she joins, called SD-6, leads her to go on undercover missions and recover artifacts all in the name of the clandestine service. Meanwhile, the secrecy surrounding her work complicates her friendships and love lives

Alias has a lot of action, but it’s also about people. The way that Sydney’s secret life exerts itself on her friendships is the compelling part of the story. Also, Sydney’s boss at SD-6 is obsessed with an inventor called Rimaldi, so there’s a fair amount of mythology to the show as well.

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