3 Elite Series to Binge on Prime Video This Weekend (Oct 24-25)

After two weeks on the streamer, no other series has yet dislodged the new adaptation of Carrie from the Prime Video top 10. The master of Stephen King adaptations, Mike Flanagan, has made an indulgent modern interpretation that is “definitely worth a watch for those who hold the novel near and dear to their hearts,” according to Collider’s Nate Richard in his review. But all success must someday come to an end, and the return of a big Prime Video hit this weekend might finally topple Carrie. So, with that in mind, here’s a look at three must-watch shows on Prime Video this weekend.

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

1

‘The Terminal List’ (2022–Present)

Rotten Tomatoes: 49% | IMDb: 7.9/10

The heir apparent to the Prime Video streaming throne is The Terminal List, which is finally back for a second season more than four years after the first. Created by David DiGilio and adapted from the 2018 novel by Jack Carr, the series stars Hollywood megastar Chris Pratt as Navy SEAL James Reece, who will stop at nothing to get revenge for the horrifying murders of his wife and child.

Although last year’s prequel, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, kept fans entertained, the long-awaited return of the main series is sure to shoot to the top of most watchlists. “Season 2 leans into everything that makes the franchise work and refuses to walk back everything else,” wrote Collider’s Michael John Petty in an 8/10 review, with the excitement for more Terminal List palpable. Don’t miss out this weekend, with all eight episodes released at once.

Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.

You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.

• The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
  honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
  against him.
• You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
  then completely immovable past it.
• Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
  and turning it into technique rather than noise.
• People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
  work.

You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.

• This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
  because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
• You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
  defend it past the point of reason.
• You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
  an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
• The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.

You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.

• This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
  rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
• You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
  administrative error.
• You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
  The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
• Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.

You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.

• Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
  bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
• You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
  and then it makes you unstoppable.
• You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
  and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
• You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.

2

‘Gilmore Girls’ (2000–2007)

Rotten Tomatoes: 87% | IMDb: 8.2/10

The fall season is in full swing, and that means one thing: it’s time for your latest binge-watch of everyone’s favorite fast-talking mother/daughter duo. This weekend, head back to Stars Hollow for a reunion with the Gilmore Girls, as single mother Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) and her teenage daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel) navigate fraught familial relationships, whirlwind romance, and the quirky characters in their neighborhood.

There’s arguably no show more synonymous with the sepia-toned season than Gilmore Girls. Over seven years — the less said about the Netflix return, the better — Bledel and Graham delighted the lives of many millions, warming hearts and providing the blueprint for the ultimate comfort watch. Many years later, the show is more popular than it ever was during its initial run, with a new generation of fans spending every October with Lorelai, Rory, Sookie St. James (Melissa McCarthy), Luke Danes (Scott Patterson), and co.

3

‘Them’ (2021–2024)

Rotten Tomatoes: 79% | IMDb: 7.5/10

If you want to celebrate October the more traditional way, by scaring yourself and inducing nightmares, then look no further than this horror anthology series that’s been lurking in the Prime Video catalog for five years. Them, created by Little Marvin, features two seasons with separate stories taking place in the same universe, as the breadth of horror styles and tropes is explored.

Fans of the recently renewed American Horror Story shouldn’t miss out on this skin-crawling streaming gem. The first season of Them might’ve proved a mixed bag as the team found their feet, but three years later, the second season blew critics and fans away, even earning the coveted perfect 100% score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. To get in the Halloween mood, watch Them this weekend.