12 Great TV Shows on Amazon Prime Video Right Now (April 2025)

Not every love affair is everlasting in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, but Dorrigo Evans (Jacob Elordi) would be lost without it. This adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s novel chronicles Dorrigo’s torrid romance with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young), a young woman who is his aunt by marriage.

Throughout World War II, the memory of what Dorrigo shared with Amy sustains him even while he’s a prisoner of war. As Dorrigo’s men die of disease and starvation around him, he holds on to the warmth and hope that Amy gave him. But his story doesn’t stop after the war, and Dorrigo’s life doesn’t play out like a romantic fairy tale with a happy ending for everyone.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North is streaming on Prime Video.

Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) wasn’t the most popular character on Cheers three decades ago, but he was the right choice to be featured in the spinoff Frasier. This sitcom equalled the 11-season run of its predecessor and became a classic in its own right.

The series expanded Frasier’s character development by introducing his brother Niles (David Hyde Pierce), their blue-collar father Martin (John Mahoney), and Martin’s physical therapist Daphne Moon (Jane Leeves). Frasier also reinvented himself as a radio show host alongside his producer, Roz Doyle (Peri Gilpin). This group of performers had outstanding chemistry and they collectively ensured that Frasier is still one of the best comedy series two decades after its conclusion.  

Frasier is streaming on Prime Video.

Although The Wheel of Time recently returned for its third season on Prime Video, you should probably start at the beginning before diving into this show. This adaptation of Robert Jordan’s novels has a dense mythology that rivals Game of Thrones in scope, and it easily outshines Prime Video’s other big-budget fantasy show, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Rosamund Pike leads the cast as Moiraine Damodred, a powerful channeler of magic who is seeking the Dragon Reborn, the reincarnation of one of the few men who can use magic in this world. Moiraine believes she’s found the one she’s looking for among four young men and women, including Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski) and Egwene al’Vere (Madeleine Madden). All four have hidden abilities and a destiny that will slowly unfold, but not all of them will ultimately be aligned against the coming darkness.

The irony of Fallout’s breakthrough as one of Amazon’s top series is that the video game franchise hasn’t had a new game since 2018. But the retro-futuristic post-apocalypse of the games gives the TV series a rich backdrop and an intriguing mythology to explore.

Yellowjackets’ Ella Purnell stars as Lucy MacLean, a young woman who has lived inside a colony deep within a vault her entire life. Lucy didn’t really have any concept of what life was like outside until her colony was attacked by raiders who kidnapped her father, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan). When Lucy sets out on a rescue mission in the wasteland, one of the first people she meets is The Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a mutated man who was once an actor named Cooper Howard. The Ghoul has lived hundreds of years and he’s no friend to Lucy, but he does have some very hard lessons to teach her.

Invincible may seem like an overnight success for Amazon, but the comic it’s based on is 22 years old and still resonates with this adaptation. Co-creator Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) has a knack for creating likable characters and then putting them through horrible things. This show may be animated, but it hits harder than many R-rated films with its brutal action. And it doesn’t shy away from the toll that violence takes on the heroes and the world around them.

Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) grew up in the shadow of the world’s strongest hero, his father, Omni-Man (J. K. Simmons). Once Mark comes into his powers as Invincible, he discovers his father’s true agenda for Earth. If Mark wants to save the only world he’s ever known from his own flesh and blood, then he’ll have to live up to his superhero name.

Alan Ritchson has played superheroes before, but he’s never played a larger-than-life character like Jack Reacher until now. Reacher makes Ritchson seem like an uncommon man among men as he drifts from town to town and takes on the rich and powerful while combating injustice.

The recently premiered third season puts Reacher in his toughest case to date as he goes undercover in a criminal organization to locate a missing DEA agent and to bring down a crime lord. And for the first time since the show began, Reacher has finally met an enemy who physically towers over him: Paul “Paulie” van Hove (Olivier Richters).

Moonlighting is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2025, and it made Bruce Willis famous while giving Cybill Shepherd a Hollywood comeback. This quirky comedy/drama featured Shepherd as a former model, Madelyn “Maddie” Hayes, who reinvents herself as a private detective alongside David Addison (Willis).

The dialogue in this series and the fantastic chemistry between Shepherd and Willis entertained a lot of fans in the ‘80s. Moonlighting took dramatic chances and big swings like few series do, and not all of them connected with its audience. But this series is more than just a footnote in history, it’s also one of the all-time greats.

If you know anything about English history, then you’re probably well aware that King Henry VIII didn’t look anything like actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers. And you’re probably not going to care about that level of historical fidelity when watching The Tudors.This series was a Showtime original, and it liberally blended historical fact and fiction as it chronicled Henry’s tumultuous reign.

Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer had one of her first big roles in this series as Anne Boleyn, one of Henry’s many wives. Unfortunately for the ladies, Henry rarely let his wives off easily when he wanted out of their union. And their heads aren’t the only ones that will roll in this entertaining series.

There’s something so inherently charming about Hugh Laurie that it’s a pleasure watching him perform as Dr. Gregory House even when he’s being a huge jerk to his patients, his colleagues and even to himself. House was a medical procedural like no other, and the title character was modeled after Sherlock Holmes. If you watch the show’s entire eight-season run, you’ll see a lot of parallels between House and the great detective.

The secret to House’s success is that Laurie was surrounded by a very talented supporting cast, including Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Olivia Wilde, Kal Penn, and more. Their characters added more dimension to the show and helped flesh out House himself.

The Expanse has been described as Game of Thrones in space, and that’s not entirely inaccurate. Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck – who collectively write as James S. A. Corey – crafted a very believable future for humanity that’s not some idealized Star Trek fantasy. Who needs aliens when humans are still itching for a war against each other? The people of Earth and Mars are at each other’s throats, while the humans in the asteroid belt are considered second-class citizens by both sides.

James Holden (Steven Strait), Naomi Nagata (Dominique Tipper), Amos Burton (Wes Chatham) and Alex Kamal (Cas Anvar) are the only survivors of a mining ship that stumbles across a deadly conspiracy to reshape worlds. In another part of the galaxy, Detective Joe Miller (Thomas Jane) is unknowingly tied to their fate as his missing person case takes on a significance that goes far beyond his wildest dreams.

If you feel like the creative team behind The Boys hates superheroes, then you’re probably right. This is perhaps the most cynical comic book adaptation ever, and it features “heroes” like Homelander (Antony Starr) who openly have contempt for the people they’re supposed to be protecting. Hugh Campbell (Novacaine’s Jack Quaid) discovers this unfortunate truth when his girlfriend is accidentally killed by one of the world’s fastest heroes, A-Train (Jessie T. Usher).

That’s where Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) comes in. No one despises “supes” more than Butcher, and he’s got a vendetta against Homelander for deeply personal reasons. Billy recruits Hugh to join his team, The Boys, to bring down all of the heroes. But the odds are always stacked against them.

Comedy and mystery collide in Monk, an unforgettable series that was once one of the most popular shows on cable during its eight seasons on the USA Network. Tony Shalhoub brings a lot to his character, Adrian Monk, especially when Monk is so hilariously neurotic and ruled by his phobias.

Despite his overpowering OCD, Monk is a world-class detective, but he needs someone to keep him on track. In the first few seasons, that person was his assistant, Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram), while Traylor Howard’s Natalie Teeger took on that function from season 3 onward. Almost every episode is neatly tied up, but the mystery of who killed Monk’s wife is saved until the very end of the series.