Fleabag at number one AS IT SHOULD BE. That second season is my favorite love story. I cry every time. (And so does my husband. We have watched it at least thrice.)
Whoever buys shows for Amazon isn't as good as the person doing the job at Netflix. I have both and Amazon is not doing well in my books. Yes, it has a gem every once in a while. Mr & Mrs Smith is fun, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart was so not an Amazon choice I kept going to Netflix to continue watching it. Saltburn was another excellent one. I watched Mrs Maisel a while ago but found it went on too long. Thank you for your run-down.
Yes, Amazon Prime Video is annoying for the reasons you list, plus how so much of what they have there now we have to pay extra for, the huge number of ad-supported shows, etc. Yet what I still like about it is the presence of oddball shows and movies, although I suspect some are there only because they were cheap to acquire.
A 20-year-old show currently on Prime that I recommend is Dead Like Me. This is a dark comedy about Georgia, an 18-year-old girl killed by a chunk of falling space debris; she then becomes a reaper, a harvester of souls, alongside other reapers led by Rube (the great Mandy Patinkin).
This is also a mixed genre show. For some reason reapers still have to support themselves, so George gets a crappy job as an office temp, making this an office comedy too. Several years after this show was (prematurely) cancelled, they made a film to tie up loose ends, etc. That’s on Prime too.
Fleabag at number one AS IT SHOULD BE. That second season is my favorite love story. I cry every time. (And so does my husband. We have watched it at least thrice.)
Great list! Going to check some of these out, even if I now have to watch with commercials. Enshittification abounds.
Whoever buys shows for Amazon isn't as good as the person doing the job at Netflix. I have both and Amazon is not doing well in my books. Yes, it has a gem every once in a while. Mr & Mrs Smith is fun, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart was so not an Amazon choice I kept going to Netflix to continue watching it. Saltburn was another excellent one. I watched Mrs Maisel a while ago but found it went on too long. Thank you for your run-down.
Yes, Amazon Prime Video is annoying for the reasons you list, plus how so much of what they have there now we have to pay extra for, the huge number of ad-supported shows, etc. Yet what I still like about it is the presence of oddball shows and movies, although I suspect some are there only because they were cheap to acquire.
A 20-year-old show currently on Prime that I recommend is Dead Like Me. This is a dark comedy about Georgia, an 18-year-old girl killed by a chunk of falling space debris; she then becomes a reaper, a harvester of souls, alongside other reapers led by Rube (the great Mandy Patinkin).
This is also a mixed genre show. For some reason reapers still have to support themselves, so George gets a crappy job as an office temp, making this an office comedy too. Several years after this show was (prematurely) cancelled, they made a film to tie up loose ends, etc. That’s on Prime too.
I also liked The Peripheral and Upload, but unfortunately the former has only one season.
I would add Deadloch as well if you haven’t seen it!