The 24 Best Shows on Amazon Prime, WIRED’s Picks (December 2025)
While Netflix is busy pumping out more series than any one person could watch (probably), some of the best shows are on Amazon Prime Video. Meanwhile, navigating the service’s labyrinthine menus can make finding the right series a pain. We’re here to help.
Top Picks
Below are our favorite Amazon series—all included with your Prime subscription. In addition to these, check out our guide to the best movies on Amazon Prime, the best movies on HBO’s Max, and the best movies on Netflix.
The Mighty Nein
Twenty years later and a continent to the east, the world of The Legend of Vox Machina expands with this new animated epic from fan-favorite creators Critical Role. Consequently, a new adventuring party of social outcasts and criminal misfits becomes the world’s last hope after a powerful item threatens to rewrite reality.
Bat-Fam
Batman: a grim defender of the night waging a one-man war on crime. However, it’s a contrast comic book fans have come to love over the decades, and now it’s bleeding into wider media with Bat-Fam. Picking up after 2023’s holiday movie Merry Little Batman, Bruce Wayne helps guide his son Damien into the family business as “Little Batman,” while taking in adoptive daughter Claire—formerly the supervillain Volcana, de-aged to 12.
The Girlfriend
When working-class Cherry Laine meets wealthy Danny Sanderson, sparks fly—until she meets his mother, Laura. However, Laura is set on destroying anyone who comes between them. Or maybe … Laura is a caring mother, alert to Cherry’s suspicious behavior, and desperate to save her son from a con artist—or worse.
Butterfly
Years ago, David Jung and Juno Lund formed the private intelligence organization Caddis, reshaping global security from the shadows. However, Lund ripped the operation out from under Jung—and took his daughter Rebecca with it, raising her to become an unstoppable assassin.
Ballard
A spin-off from Bosch, one of Prime’s biggest hits, Ballard is another creation of crime author Michael Connelly, seeing detective Renée Ballard stepping up as head of a newly formed cold-case unit. Meanwhile, Ballard hastily assembles a team of volunteers that includes her retired former partner Thomas Laffont and disillusioned former cop Zamira Parker.
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy
If about 300 seasons of Grey’s Anatomy hasn’t scratched your medical drama itch, then a visit to The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy might be just the treatment you need. However, this show follows alien medics Dr. Sleech and Dr. Klak as they tackle the wildest diseases and injuries the universe can throw at them.
Overcompensating
Benny is so deep in the closet, he’s found Narnia. However, rather than using his freshman year of college as a chance to find himself, he’s maintaining the illusion of heterosexuality by throwing himself into a campus life of partying, drinking, and chasing girls.
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX
Prime Video doesn’t tend to pick up as much anime as rival Netflix does, but when it does, it’s often something big. Meanwhile, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX takes things back to the very beginning of the iconic mecha franchise and asks a simple question: What if the bad guys, the “space Nazis” of the Principality of Zeon, won a war?
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