3 Elite Series to Binge on Prime Video This Week (Oct 26-30)

Just as we get closer to Halloween, Prime Video‘s big October release of the year, Carrie, has been ousted from the top of the streamer’s TV rankings. The new number one show on the service this week is The Terminal List, which returned with a second season last Wednesday. Created by David DiGilio and starring Chris Pratt, the action thriller series is adapted from the novel by Jack Carr, with the latest season adapting Carr’s 2019 follow-up novel, True Believer. Despite a general lack of enthusiasm from critics, the show has proven to be a consistent audience favorite, but it’s hardly the only thing worth checking out on the platform. Here’s a look at three great shows that we think you should binge this week on Prime Video.

For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Prime Video.

1

‘Helluva Boss’ (2019–Present)

Created by Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano, Helluva Boss is an adult animated black comedy musical series that’s set in the same universe as her other hit animated series, Hazbin Hotel. The show revolves around an assassination company in Hell, following the employees, called Immediate Murder Professionals (IMPs), as they embark on various misadventures while trying to do their job. The series’ voice cast stars Brandon Rogers, Richard Horvitz, Vivian Nixon, Erica Lindbeck, Bryce Pinkham, Alex Brightman, and more.

Like Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss started on Medrano’s YouTube channel, where it built a cult fan following over two seasons and was eventually picked up by Prime Video. Praised by critics and fans alike for its animation, music, edgy humor, and LGBTQ+ representation, the show takes a unique approach to the familiar workplace comedy premise, with a cast of well-crafted characters and some hilarious writing. The show just released the final episode of its third season last week, so this is a great time to binge it all.

Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath
your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what
it would leave behind.

Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you
to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever
won that particular argument.

• Freddy is horror’s cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot
  guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever.
• You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your
  own head is where this does its damage.
• These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose
  because they are weak. They lose because they are tired.
• You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.

Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the
person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.

• Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you
  describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you.
• You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You
  know that feeling from real life too.
• The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you
  have met those adults.
• By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.

Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost
certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.

• Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be
  somebody who was at the party.
• You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the
  same way you watch films.
• The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are
  the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention.
• Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.

Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people
asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.

• The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary
  room that quietly stops feeling ordinary.
• Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than
  personal, which is rarer than it sounds.
• This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are
  the ones who are not alone and refuse to be.
• Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one
  standing in the hallway.

2

‘Scream Queens’ (2015–2016)

Created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan, Scream Queens is a satirical dark comedy slasher show that pokes fun at the tropes and clichés of the genre. The show’s first season is set in a fictional university and follows the members of the sorority Kappa Kappa Tau, who are mysteriously targeted by a serial killer wearing a Red Devil costume. The second season retains some of the same characters, but moves the action to a hospital. The star-studded ensemble cast includes Emma Roberts, Ariana Grande, Lea Michele, Glen Powell, Abigail Breslin, Keke Palmer, Oliver Hudson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Niecy Nash, Nick Jonas, Taylor Lautner, and many more.

It’s hard to believe a decade has passed since Scream Queens was canceled and nobody’s revived it yet, though Ryan Murphy has indicated in the past that he’s open to a new season. The perfect watch for slasher fans, especially around Halloween, the series takes inspiration from all your favorite slasher classics, adds a cast full of recognizable faces (especially the OG scream queen, Jamie Lee Curtis), and pushes the violence and comedy to their absolute limits. It may only have aired for two seasons on Fox, but Scream Queens is one hell of a ride and easily one of the best horror-comedy shows of the 2010s.

3

‘Friday Night Lights’ (2006–2011)

Developed by Peter Berg and a spiritual successor to his 2004 film of the same name, Friday Night Lights is an iconic sports drama series inspired by H. G. Bissinger‘s 1990 book. Set in the rural West Texas town of Dillon, the show revolves around the high school football team and explores the many issues that plague life in everyday small towns. Kyle Chandler stars as coach Eric Taylor and Connie Britton as his wife, Tami, leading a cast that includes Gaius Charles, Zach Gilford, Minka Kelly, Adrianne Palicki, Taylor Kitsch, Jesse Plemons, Aimee Teegarden, Michael B. Jordan, and Jurnee Smollett, among others.

An engaging and underrated character drama that deals with important topics like school funding, racism, substance use, abortion, and more, Friday Night Lights is widely remembered as one of the best TV shows of the 2000s. Though it wasn’t necessarily a big ratings hit, the show earned very positive reviews and launched the careers of several major stars. Friday Night Lights also received several accolades during its original five-season run, including three Emmys, a Peabody Award, and an NAACP Image Award.

Friday Night Lights