The Best New Shows to Stream on Amazon Prime This Week
The original Mr. and Mrs. Smith is the standout series premiere on Prime this week, but if that’s not your thing, there are many, many other worthwhile shows if you’re looking for something vital. I’m changing or I’m losing time on something.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
This Prime original series shares the same title as the 2005 film starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, but it’s a far cry from the source material. In this version of the story, the Smiths ( Pen15 ‘s Maya Erskine and Atlanta ‘s Donald Glover) are a pair of intelligence agents who get married for real to make their secret identity bulletproof. But feelings develop between two opposites; complex feelings. Each episode details the dangerous case the couple is working on, as well as their equally dangerous marriage.
Good Omens (2019)
Amazon has teamed up with the BBC to produce a TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s 1990 novel, in which a demon and an angel are forced to work together to prevent the end of the world. The six-episode first season was so charming that some of Gaiman and Pratchett’s ideas were adapted for a second season, in which the odd couple searches for the angel Gabriel. The second season lags a bit, but the chemistry between leads Michael Sheen and David Tennant still matters.
Death Rings (2023)
In The Sound of Death , Rachel Weisz plays identical twin gynecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle. (Isn’t it enough for you to watch it?) This TV version of David Cronenberg’s 1988 cult classic body horror updates the source material, changing the genders of the main characters and focusing the story on birth rather than cosmetic surgery, but Cronenberg’s story is a studied, classy presentation of sickening material that permeates it a show like no other.
Jury Duty (2023)
“Jury Duty” is such a fun show and managed to attract attention and gain an audience on the FreeVee Siberia TV channel. Sister streaming service Prime has taken a chance on a reality show with an unusual premise: An unsuspecting guy thinks he’s on a jury, but everything around him is a sham. The judge, the other jurors, the case, etc. are all fake. This could have disastrous consequences; it’s full of hilarious moments that make you ask, “How could he not know this was a joke?” but it holds together thanks to the actors’ otherworldly talent for improvisation. Among the many highlights is actor James Marsden, playing an asshole version of himself who becomes increasingly insufferable and ridiculous as the trial continues.
Flack (2019)
In the movie Flack, Anna Paquin plays Robin, a public relations specialist. She’s the go-to guy the rich and famous call when they’re caught doing something unspeakable. Her job is to minimize, mislead and mislead and hopefully save the careers and good names of her clients. Each episode of Flack features a different trashy scandal, so if you like glamorous people acting like scoundrels, you’ll love Flack .
Last week’s pick
Emigrants
Nicole Kidman is the driving force behind this drama about a group of wealthy American expats in Hong Kong. The Expats is a gritty, adults-only drama about loss, grief, class and alienation. Margaret, an architect turned housewife (played by Kidman), tries to cope with the disappearance of her son, while her expat friend deals with his own failures. wedding. In the background is the unfortunate fact that the servants of troubled rich people are immigrants of a different type.
Hazbin Hotel
Series creator Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano funded the Hazbin Hotel pilot primarily through her Patreon subscribers, earning enough buzz for the series to appear on Prime. Not intended for young children, the animated series tells the story of Hell’s princess Charlie Morningstar, who builds the Hazbin Hotel to rehabilitate demons so they can go to heaven. Bright, colorful and filled with unforgettable songs, Hazbin Hotel is full of youthful energy and will appeal to every theater kid, goth, weirdo and creative person – my people!
Zorro
Zorro (the character) has been around since 1919, and the masked swordsman’s audacity still inspires film adaptations. In this photo, Zorro is in Los Angeles in the 1800s, dispensing justice to scoundrels of all types at the tip of his brilliant rapier. If classic cinematic heroics and a tale of good versus evil interest you, check out Zorro .
The Tick (2016)
Three television adaptations of the cult comic book parody of superheroes The Tick have been released. There was a cartoon called The Tick from the mid-1990s; The Tick is a Fox sitcom that aired nine episodes in 2001; and The Tick , a 2016 Amazon original series. Created by and starring underrated British comic genius Peter Serafinowicz, Amazon’s The Tick manages to do what other TV versions haven’t: it goes beyond weird superhero satire and creates a believable story. a world in which a big, blue, incredibly stupid superhero could live. It’s an outlandish comedy, but it takes the genre and characters seriously enough to tell a compelling story.
I’m a Virgo (2023)
Boots Riley has been creating lively, confrontational art since his criminally underrated hip-hop outfit The Coup released their first EP in 1991. Riley earned widespread critical acclaim for his poignant social commentary and surrealism in his 2018 feature film debut , Sorry to Bother You. You, followed in 2023 by I’m a Virgo, a strange, thoughtful and politically uncompromising coming-of-age story. Cootie is a 13-foot tall black teenager. Hidden away by his well-meaning parents since birth, Kootie grew too big to stay safe and protected, and his adventurers in the world captured the beauty and heartbreak of first friendship, first love, and the first realization that the world was very different from what they told you it was. so it will be.