The Next James Bond Is Hiding in Plain Sight on Prime Video

October is coming to an end, and Prime Video certainly hasn’t held back on new and returning shows this past month. The adaptation of the 2018 Jack Carr novel, The Terminal List, finally returned for a second season more than four years after the first. The first part of Helluva Boss‘ third season premiered mid-month. The master of Stephen King adaptations, Mike Flanagan, took on a new adaptation of Carrie. And much more. So, as October turns to November, what should you be watching? 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.

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‘Deadloch’ (2023–Present)

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Rotten Tomatoes: 100% | IMDb: 7.5/10

As we inch closer to the end of the year, it’s time to reflect on the time gone by and catch up with those gems you might’ve missed. Back in March, the genius Australian comedy series Deadloch, created by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan (together known as The Kates), returned for a second season packed with witty comedy, superb performances, and a genuinely enticing mystery at its heart.

Kate Box and Madeleine Sami’s police officers Dulcie Collins and Eddie Redcliffe quickly found their way into the hearts of viewers back in 2023. But could they reach the same critically acclaimed heights again with Season 2? Well, a perfect 100% score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes would suggest so, as the winner of the 2024 AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in Television returned for more must-see dark comedy.

Six actors. One role. Your answers point to the Bond who shares your presence, your method, and your particular way of carrying the weight of being the most dangerous person in the room.

You are the original — and you carry that fact without needing to announce it. There is an authority in the way you occupy a room that others spend careers trying to replicate.

• You don’t explain yourself, justify yourself, or soften yourself for anyone’s comfort. The confidence is structural, not performed.
• Connery’s Bond established everything — the tone, the danger, the cool — because Connery himself had the innate presence to make something that had never existed feel inevitable.
• You share that quality: the sense that you were always going to end up exactly here, doing exactly this.
• The name is Bond. In your case, it always was.

You understand something that more serious people miss: that wit is its own form of intelligence, and that making people laugh is not a retreat from danger but a way of mastering it.

• Moore’s Bond is underrated precisely because the effortlessness looks easy — and effortlessness is the hardest thing to manufacture.
• You have the same quality: a lightness that disarms people before they realise how sharp you actually are.
• The raised eyebrow, the perfectly timed quip, the refusal to be rattled — these are not affectations. They are a philosophy about how to move through a world that would like to take itself too seriously.
• You have never let it.

You took the role seriously when everyone wanted you to coast — and that refusal to take the easy version of anything is the most defining thing about you.

• Dalton’s Bond has genuine moral weight: he feels the cost of what he does, he has lines he won’t cross, and he is not interested in the version of himself that pretends otherwise.
• You share that intensity. You push harder than the situation technically requires, because you have a standard and you hold yourself to it.
• He was ahead of his time — the Bond the franchise wasn’t quite ready for yet, arriving exactly when he was meant to.
• You know what that feels like.

You are the complete package — and you know it, which is part of what makes you so effective and occasionally so infuriating to the people around you.

• Brosnan arrived at the role looking exactly like Bond was supposed to look, and he delivered on that expectation with a professionalism that made it seem effortless.
• You have the same quality: a smooth competence, a charm that operates like a precision instrument, and the ability to make even difficult things look like they weren’t.
• His era was the most commercially successful in the franchise’s history. There is a reason for that.
• The reason is that some people simply fit their moment perfectly. You are one of those people.

You stepped into something enormous with less preparation than anyone around you thought was sufficient — and you delivered something genuine anyway, which is the more impressive achievement.

• Lazenby’s single outing is, by many measures, one of the finest Bond films ever made — and he is not a small part of why.
• You share his quality of raw authenticity: less polished than the alternatives, more honest for it, capable of something real that technique alone can’t produce.
• He was underestimated, and then he wasn’t, and then history caught up with him.
• You are the kind of person history catches up with. Give it time.

You stripped everything back and found what was underneath — and what was underneath was harder, more honest, and more human than anyone expected.

• Craig’s Bond is the franchise’s most psychologically complete: a man doing a brutal job, carrying its costs imperfectly, capable of love and loss in ways that can’t be dismissed.
• You share that depth. You don’t hide behind the role or the charm or the suit — you let the work show what it actually costs.
• He was controversial from the moment he was announced and definitive by the time he was finished. The sceptics became the believers.
• That arc — of being underestimated and then undeniable — is one you know intimately.

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‘Bait’ (2026)

Rotten Tomatoes: 94% | IMDb: 6.7/10

Another of the Prime Video gems of 2026 that you shouldn’t let pass you by is Bait, an industry satire both created by and starring the brilliant Riz Ahmed. The series follows struggling actor Shah Latif (Ahmed) as auditioning for the role of a lifetime as James Bond leaves him spiraling into an existential crisis and fighting public backlash.

“Bait moves compellingly between waves of comedy, anxiety, and cultural observation for something darker and equally believable,” wrote Tania Hussain in Collider’s review of the series, which was one of several glowing responses. In fact, so impressive was the response to Bait that it even scored Ahmed a Primetime Emmy nod for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, with some even considering him worthy of the prize (and the role as the search for the next Bond continues).

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‘The Rainmaker’ (2025–Present)

Rotten Tomatoes: 55% | IMDb: 7.1/10

Not to be confused with Francis Ford Coppola and Matt Damon‘s adaptation of the same name, 2025’s The Rainmaker is a fresh new retelling of John Grisham‘s bestseller, which broke the initial print run record in 1995 with 2.8 million copies. The series follows young attorney Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) as a wrongful death case causes a whirlwind legal battle between him and the firm he was previously fired from.

Also starring the likes of John Slattery, Lana Parrilla, Madison Iseman, and Dan Fogler, this indulgent legal drama won over fans in its first season before finally returning earlier this month. Currently, we are three episodes into Season 2, with the most recent episode, “Chokepoint,” packed with drama. Just four episodes remain, so don’t miss out on jumping on the bandwagon of this hidden Prime Video gem.

The Rainmaker