If you’re looking for a show that’s particularly scary this spooky season, you’re in luck: We’ve put culled through Netflix’s expansive library to bring you only the finest of horror shows to stream on the platform.
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Nearly two decades since it launched, Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service has amassed a robust catalog of original and licensed programming.
We’re here to round up some of the best TV shows available to watch on Prime Video and Freevee, Prime’s Video free-with-ads streaming service previously known as IMDb TV. There’s a lot to choose from: Prime Video has moving shows from fantastic filmmakers, like Barry Jenkins, and classic episodic TV that changed how the medium operated forever. We’ll update this list regularly to bring you new recommendations as they come, but for now, here’s our list of the best television to watch on Prime Video and Freevee.
For more great TV, check out our lists of the best shows of 2022 and 2023, which include many selections on Prime and Freevee.
If you’re looking for a modern masterpiece that features heart-rending performances, stunning lighting, a transcendent orchestral score, and a deeply rewarding story, The Underground Railroad should be the first show you watch on Prime Video.
Barry Jenkins’ miniseries adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a perilous journey into the dark heart of America’s original sin, a stirring drama of the generational burden of regret, and a cathartic fable that strikes unsparingly at the inhumanity of slavery and the euphoria of freedom. The series follows Cora (Thuso Mbedu), an enslaved woman from Georgia abandoned by her mother, who agrees to flee with a fellow slave, Caesar (Aaron Pierre), through a subterranean train network designed to shepherd runaways to freedom.
Over the course of 10 episodes, the barbarism of chattel slavery assumes a multitude of forms, from the eugenic horrors of a South Carolina town to a North Carolina cult that murders any Black person, slave or not, on sight. Beautiful, harrowing, and unquestionably profound, The Underground Railroad is an accomplished feat of storytelling and a true cinematic event through and through. —Toussaint Egan
Nothing ever quite prepares you for the end of Invincible’s first episode.
The animated adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s adult superhero comic is as gore-tastic as it is compelling. It’s a riff on a coming-of-age origin story that follows Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun), the son of the world’s most powerful hero, who is forced to grapple with the consequences of his double life as the masked superpowered crime fighter Invincible, all while a terrible secret that threatens to rock his sense of identity and morality rises to the surface.
With impressive animation, a suspenseful plot that takes its time before delivering a devastating emotional uppercut, and a cast bursting at the seams with standout performances from the likes of Yeun (The Walking Dead) and
If you’re looking for a show that’s particularly scary this spooky season, you’re in luck: We’ve put culled through Netflix’s expansive library to bring you only the finest of horror shows to stream on the platform.
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Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days are a great time to pick up a tablet for gifting to someone else or yourself, as the company's affordable line of Fire tablets get even less expensive, and its other devices like Kindles get cheaper as well. But we also see a lot of other manufacturers getting into the mix to earn that “add to cart” click as well, which means right now is a great time to lock in triple-digit savings on iPads, Galaxy tablets, and more. Here are the best deals available right now for tablets during Prime Big Deal Days:
Prime Day 2.0—which Amazon is calling Prime Big Deal Days—runs through today, wrapping up at 12 a.m. PT, and our shopping experts have grabbed all the best discounts still available so you can get ahead on your holiday shopping. Wouldn't it be nice to just kick back with your leftovers on Black Friday knowing you're all set?
MSI Aegis R | Intel i7 13700F | Nvidia RTX 4070 | 16GB DDR5 RAM | 2TB PCIe SSD | $1,799.99 $1,499.99 at Newegg (save $300)This monolithic PC packs a lot of power at $1,500 thanks to its powerful current-gen Core Intel i7 CPU and RTX 4070. The one thing I really like is that it has a 2TB SSD, which is sorely lacking in many of these gaming PC deals.
Secretlab Titan Evo | Assorted finishes | Magnetic cushions | $609$509 at Amazon (save $100)The Titan Evo (see our full review) is our favorite gaming chair at the moment, and has been for the longest time. It's the benchmark by which we judge all other gaming chair—it's comfortable, supportive, and easy to assemble. The holy trinity. Secretlab is traditionally the best place to pick one up, and at the moment is offering $30 off your first purchase, but for the Fall Prime Day event you get $100 off the Amazon price, taking it below Secretlab's own direct pricing.
Alienware 34 AW3423DWF | 34-inch | 165Hz | QD-OLED | $1,099.99$849.99 at Best Buy (save $250) Alienware's fancy QD-OLED panel just got that little bit cheaper. It's still not exactly entry-level at $850, but it was $1,000 very recently. And think of it as a long term investment that will make every single gaming session pop. Once you've experienced per-pixel OLED-style lighting, you won't want to go back to LCD tech. You can read our Alienware QD-OLED review for more.
By Antonio G. Di Benedetto, a writer covering tech deals and The Verge’s Deals newsletter, buying guides, and gift guides. Previously, he spent 15 years in the photography industry.
Welcome back, shoppers, to the sequel to 2023's Amazon Prime Day—Amazon Prime Day 2. It's one of the biggest events this side of Boxing Day, to the point where it deserves a subtitle like ": Prime Harder" or possibly ": The Savening". Awful ideas aside, I've created an evolving list of excellent discounts that you should definitely bookmark and return to throughout this relatively short event. You've got until the end of October 11th to snag a bargain.
If you’re in the market for a robot vacuum, they regularly go on sale throughout the year as new features are added and vendors like iRobot and Roborock need to clear out inventory. But if you want the best selection at the lowest prices, Prime Big Deal Days on Oct. 10-11 is the time to grab one of these self-directed cleaning dynamos.
If you're looking for maximum power and performance, it's going to come in the form of a desktop computer. As we ramp up to Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days, there are already significant price drops to be found on some high-quality machines.
We all know that Prime Day brings the deals to Amazon's yard, and if your laptop is on its last legs, we have an attractive roundup of portable PCs on sale now for Prime Big Deal Days.