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The FX series is a crackling espionage drama, but at its core it's an exploration of family duty. The Americans, Joe Weisberg's exquisite Cold War spy series, stars Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell as a pair of Russian intelligence officers posing as an American couple, complete with a white picket fence and two kids who are none the wiser.
Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, The Americans Jeffrey Neira/FX
Watch on Amazon Prime Video The Americansįor fans of: Secrets, liars, spies, Keri Russell The Americans is also great and also on Amazon watch them both for the perfect spy double feature. It's no surprise that Alias began with Abrams daydreaming about how fun it would be if Felicity from Felicity turned out to be a secret spy, a prophecy that would later be fulfilled by Keri Russell's turn in The Americans. The early seasons, in particular, are thrilling, twisty, and powerfully emotional in a way that grounds the show's campier side. Abrams' high-octane early-2000s spy drama follows Jennifer Garner's Sydney Bristow, a grad student who moonlights as a globe-trotting double agent for the CIA, as she hacks into servers while wearing colorful wigs and tries to make it home in time for midterms. There's nothing like the sheer go-for-broke joy of watching Alias when it's firing on all cylinders, which is why it's always so exciting when the ABC series returns to streaming (even if most of its original music had to be changed due to licensing issues). The best part of it all is that this show is an incrediby short watch, clocking in at only three episodes long. When the scandal blows up in the British press, a vicious battle breaks out between Thorpe and Josiffe. Grant plays Jeremy Thorpe, a member of Parliament, who has an affair with Norman Josiffe ( Ben Whishaw), a younger stable hand, which is complicated by the fact that Thorpe is both a public figure and married with a child. But a few years before he played the bad husband on The Undoing, he was playing the bad husband on A Very English Scandal, a show about a very real sex scandal that went down in the '70s. Hugh Grant loves playing jerks who don't respect their wives, this is an indisputable fact.
Hugh Grant, A Very English Scandal Sophie Mutevelian/BBC/Blueprint Television Ltd As usual with McQueen's work, all are excellent. If you like that, you can check out the other two films that premiered alongside Uprising: Subnormal, about the educational scandal of the 1960s and '70s that sent Black children to schools for "subnormal education," and Black Power: A British Story of Resistance, which looks at the Black Power movement in England. Speaking with survivors of the fire, McQueen paints an intimate picture of a country divided by racism and a community that was devastated by a heinous act. Most noteworthy is the three-part docuseries Uprising, detailing the 1981 New Cross Fire, an act of arson on a birthday party that left thirteen young Black people dead. We'll be updating the list regularly.įollowing Small Axe, his impressive five-film suite of movies about West Indian immigrants in 1960s and 1980s England, director Steve McQueen turns his prolific lens to a trio of documentaries. But we're also putting our own personal spin on the list, with underrated gems we're recommending to our friends, classic favorites, and important selections that highlight diverse voices. There's enough here to keep you busy for a while.Īn important note about how this list was made: In order to keep the list as relevant as possible, we're emphasizing recent releases, Amazon Prime Video originals, and critics' favorites. As for other new arrivals, last month we recommended Uprising, Steve McQueen's beautiful trio of documentaries the final season of Billy Bob Thornton's legal drama Goliath and the docuseries about scammers who sell leggings, LuLaRich. The most recent addition to our list is the teen slasher series I Know What You Did Last Summer, which premiered just in time for spooky season. We're happy to take it from here with our list of the best shows to watch on Amazon right now. If you're looking for a new show to watch (who isn't?), and you happen to have an Amazon Prime Video subscription, the good news is that you're already halfway there.
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