7 Best Amazon Prime Video Original Series That Released in 2023

Griff Griffin
·2 min read

2023 was another great year on Amazon Prime Video, but it was especially stellar in terms of original series. So join us as we look back on the best of the best. Whether you're into dark, brooding dramas about medical malpractice, or student superhero hijinks with buckets of gore, this list is for you.

<p>Amazon Prime Video</p><p>A spinoff to Amazon’s most successful show in <em>The Boys, Gen V</em> centers on the younger (but no less violent) students of Godolkin university, a prestigious institution for up-and-coming superheroes. One character can harness the icky forces of her own blood, while another makes himself straight up explode. That’s the kind of power you only use once.</p>
<p>Amazon Prime Video</p><p>Brian Cox leads nine pairs of contestants on an epic, round-the-world treasure hunt inspired by the Bond films. The missions are obviously less life-threatening (our contestants must guess how far away mountains are and weigh tarantulas on scales) but it’s just nice to see real people getting a free holiday.</p>

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Brian Cox leads nine pairs of contestants on an epic, round-the-world treasure hunt inspired by the Bond films. The missions are obviously less life-threatening (our contestants must guess how far away mountains are and weigh tarantulas on scales) but it’s just nice to see real people getting a free holiday.

<p>Amazon Prime Video</p><p>A British psychological thriller based on the novel by B. E. Jones, <em>Wilderness</em> stars Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Liv and Will Taylor, a young couple whose relationship sails into choppy waters when one of them discovers the other is having an affair. The premise is believable and the performances revelatory.</p>
<p>Amazon Prime Video</p><p>If you’ll watch anything Christoph Waltz is in, don’t miss him in the role he was made for: the boss from hell. <em>The Consultant </em>is a thriller tinged with comedy that follows Waltz’s Regus Patoff, a man hired to take over app-based gaming company CompWare when its former CEO dies. However, is Patoff really who he says he is?</p>
<p>Amazon Prime Video</p><p>This grounded sci-fi series based on a novel by Naomi Alderman explores what happens when teenage girls suddenly develop the power to electrocute people. What happens is a complete reversal of power across the world as they’re able to right wrongs at will. Toni Collette steals the show as Mayor Margot Cleary-Lopez.</p>

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This grounded sci-fi series based on a novel by Naomi Alderman explores what happens when teenage girls suddenly develop the power to electrocute people. What happens is a complete reversal of power across the world as they’re able to right wrongs at will. Toni Collette steals the show as Mayor Margot Cleary-Lopez.

<p>Amazon Prime Video</p><p>Richard Madden is back on brooding<em> Bodyguard</em> form in this must-watch spy series. After the fall of independent spy agency Citadel, two elite operatives Mason Kane (Madden) and Nadia Sinh (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) must stop the Manticore from taking over the globe, despite their minds having been wiped.</p>

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Richard Madden is back on brooding Bodyguard form in this must-watch spy series. After the fall of independent spy agency Citadel, two elite operatives Mason Kane (Madden) and Nadia Sinh (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) must stop the Manticore from taking over the globe, despite their minds having been wiped.

<p>Amazon Prime Video</p><p>You might have missed David Cronenberg’s 1988 original, but you should rectify that with this modernized take that sees Rachel Weisz in a dual role as her own twin. She plays Elliot and Beverly Mantle, gynaecologist sisters whose relationship gets ever darker as they start to push the boundaries of medical ethics.</p>

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You might have missed David Cronenberg’s 1988 original, but you should rectify that with this modernized take that sees Rachel Weisz in a dual role as her own twin. She plays Elliot and Beverly Mantle, gynaecologist sisters whose relationship gets ever darker as they start to push the boundaries of medical ethics.