The best shows to watch on Prime

polygon.com:

Nearly two decades since it launched, Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service has amassed a robust catalog of original and licensed programming.

We’re here to round up some of the best TV shows available to watch on Prime Video and Freevee, Prime’s Video free-with-ads streaming service previously known as IMDb TV. There’s a lot to choose from: Prime Video has moving shows from fantastic filmmakers, like Barry Jenkins, and classic episodic TV that changed how the medium operated forever. We’ll update this list regularly to bring you new recommendations as they come, but for now, here’s our list of the best television to watch on Prime Video and Freevee.

For more great TV, check out our lists of the best shows of 2022 and 2023, which include many selections on Prime and Freevee.

If you’re looking for a modern masterpiece that features heart-rending performances, stunning lighting, a transcendent orchestral score, and a deeply rewarding story, The Underground Railroad should be the first show you watch on Prime Video.

Barry Jenkins’ miniseries adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a perilous journey into the dark heart of America’s original sin, a stirring drama of the generational burden of regret, and a cathartic fable that strikes unsparingly at the inhumanity of slavery and the euphoria of freedom. The series follows Cora (Thuso Mbedu), an enslaved woman from Georgia abandoned by her mother, who agrees to flee with a fellow slave, Caesar (Aaron Pierre), through a subterranean train network designed to shepherd runaways to freedom.

Over the course of 10 episodes, the barbarism of chattel slavery assumes a multitude of forms, from the eugenic horrors of a South Carolina town to a North Carolina