The 10 Biggest Shows on Prime Video in 2026

The adult-animated superhero series became Prime Video’s number-one show worldwide when its fourth season arrived in March, the platform’s biggest returning animation run yet. Mark Grayson is the teenage son of the most powerful superhero on the planet, slowly learning that the family legacy is far darker than it looked. Season 4 picks up after a global catastrophe, with a guilt-ridden Mark facing a powerful new threat while the people around him pay the cost. It is fast, brutal, and far heavier emotionally than the genre usually allows. Based on the Image Comics series by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker.

• Invincible: Compendium One: Comic | Kindle

The superhero satire returned for its fifth and final season, closing out the long war between Butcher’s crew of vigilantes and the corporate empire that manufactures and markets its superheroes. The premise has always cut the same way: the most powerful “heroes” are the worst people, and the company behind them treats heroism as a product line. The final run drove the standoff between Homelander and the Boys to its breaking point, with the body count and the satire both turned up. Based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, which is harsher and stranger than the show and goes places it never could.

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Two hundred years after the bombs fell, a sheltered vault dweller is forced out onto the irradiated surface and into the ruins of the old world, a retrofuturistic wasteland of mutants, raiders, and opportunists. The first season followed her search across the rubble of Los Angeles, crossing paths with a bounty hunter and a man from one of the vaults. The second season moved the story toward New Vegas and the figures who run the Strip. The show keeps the games’ dark, deadpan sense of humor and their sudden, comic violence intact. Based on the Bethesda video game series rather than a book.

Ben Reilly is an aging, hard-bitten private investigator in a shadowy, Depression-era 1930s New York, and the city’s one and only superhero. A deeply personal tragedy forces him to confront the life he tried to leave behind and pick the mantle back up. The series trades the bright, modern superhero look for black-and-white noir and the rhythms of a period detective story, leaning on mood and menace over spectacle. Based on Marvel’s Spider-Man Noir comics.

A band of foul-mouthed, hard-drinking misfit adventurers take on the dark forces threatening the realm of Exandria. The series began as Critical Role’s live-streamed Dungeons & Dragons campaign and became one of Prime Video’s most acclaimed originals, with a near-perfect critics’ score across its run. Season 4 arrived in June and went straight onto the global top-10 charts, picking up a year after the Chroma Conclave with the group scattered and a long-slumbering evil starting to wake. Based on the Critical Role campaign rather than a book.

The college romance that broke out this spring. Hannah Wells is a focused music major who keeps her distance from her school’s hockey culture; Garrett Graham is the team’s star center, used to getting what he wants. The two strike a plain arrangement to help each other with separate problems, hers a guy she’s trying to attract, his a grade he needs to keep playing, and the deal slowly turns into something neither of them planned. It is set in the Briar University world that runs across a whole shelf of Elle Kennedy books. Based on The Deal, the first of her five Off-Campus novels.

Full series in order: Every Off-Campus Book in Order.

Nicole Kidman plays Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a chief medical examiner who reads the dead for a living and is drawn into a case that cuts close to her own family, with Jamie Lee Curtis as her sister. The series was one of Prime Video’s most-watched titles of the spring, sitting at the top of the charts before Invincible’s return. A glossy, star-led forensic thriller with a long shelf of source material behind it. Based on Patricia Cornwell’s long-running Kay Scarpetta novels.

• Postmortem (Book 1): Audiobook | Kindle

Alex Cross is a Washington, DC homicide detective and forensic psychologist who gets inside the heads of the worst killers the city produces, working cases alongside his partner and best friend John Sampson. The show balances those investigations against the toll the work takes on his family, who keep getting pulled into the danger he brings home. The second season continued the run, deepening both the casework and the threat circling the Cross household. Based on James Patterson’s long-running Alex Cross novels, which have sold in the tens of millions.

• Along Came a Spider (Book 1): Audiobook | Kindle

At an elite English private school, scholarship student Ruby keeps her head down and her ambitions quiet until she witnesses a secret she was never meant to see. Wealthy heir James Beaufort is sent to make sure she stays silent, and the sharp hostility between them slowly turns into something harder to control, against the wishes of just about everyone around them. The German-made series became a word-of-mouth hit on the platform and returned for a second season that raises the stakes of the class divide between them. Based on Mona Kasten’s Save Me books.

• Save Me (Book 1): Audiobook | Kindle

Belly Conklin has spent every summer of her life at Cousins Beach with her mother’s best friend and the two Fisher brothers, Conrad and Jeremiah. The series follows her across several summers as she grows up and the easy childhood friendships turn complicated and romantic, with the families’ deeper history and losses surfacing alongside the love triangle. It became one of Prime Video’s signature summer releases, the kind people time their watching to. Based on Jenny Han’s trilogy.

• The Summer I Turned Pretty (Book 1): Audiobook | Kindle