Prime Video started the year hot with a few new releases, particularly the highly anticipated second season of Fallout, which arrived back at the end of 2025 but continued well into 2026. Following closely behind the critically acclaimed sci-fi show was a pair of superhero series, Invincible and The Boys, and while the latter will be back for another batch of episodes next year, the former has gone off the air for good. Prime Video is also the home of some of the biggest straight-to-streaming movies this year, and the streamer has been testing the waters this year in various genres. Prime Video’s swashbuckling epic, The Bluff, was a massive hit despite lukewarm reviews, and the same can be said for The Wrecking Crew, the original crime thriller starring Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa that smashed to the top of streaming charts.

Prime Video is in line for one of the biggest years in the streamer’s history in 2026 after releasing new seasons of some of its biggest properties. The first show that comes to mind is The Boys, which just wrapped up with a divisive finale that still has fans watching and debating close to a month later. Prime Video also aired a new season of its critically lauded adult animated show, Invincible, and confirmed on the day of the Season 4 finale that more episodes are coming next year. However, the biggest Prime Video show returning before the end of this year is Reacher, the hit action series starring the gargantuan Alan Ritchson. There is such little doubt that Reacher Season 4 is going to be a massive hit that the show has already been picked up for Season 5 before Season 4 even has a release date.

There are tons of underrated movies and shows out there that deserve way more attention than they've gotten since their debuts, and thanks to streaming, several have been given a second life to finally find the audience they truly deserve. Among these hidden gems is Prime Video's 97% Rotten Tomatoes sci-fi animation, which became the streamer's first adult-animated original series as well as its first to use rotoscoping.

Prime Video's ongoing fantasy series has become a streaming hit. The Amazon-owned streaming platform has been making headlines lately, with shows like Spider-Noirand Off Campus catching audiences' attention. But, this week, the streaming platform released the latest installment of its adult fantasy adventure.

Prime Video's most recent high-profile cancellation keeps making headlines, with many fans reacting strongly, and it's easy to see why. Just days ago, reports emerged that the reboot of one of the most respected sci-fi franchises of all time had been scrapped only a few months after receiving a series order, bringing the project to an abrupt end before production could fully get underway. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time Amazon has pulled the plug on a major project early in its development, and it likely won't be the last.

1990 was an unusually big year for crime movies. There are crime films that come out every year, sure, but there was one of the best of all time in 1990: Goodfellas, plus a bunch of other notable ones. Sure, The Godfather Part III wasn’t as good as either of the first two, but it’s still not as bad as some people make it out to be. Then, there was Miller’s Crossing, which has always been an underrated Coen Brothers film, Dick Tracy (which is more of a comedic crime movie), and John Woo’s Bullet in the Head, which gets unfairly buried between The Killer (1989) and Hard Boiled (1992), despite being almost just as good.

After the cross-section of hockey and romance in Heated Rivalry took over the world, a new entry joined the chat and became everyone's new obsession: Off Campus. Based on the Elle Kennedy book series, the Louisa Levy-created series lifts the primary plot from The Deal to serve as the central focus of its triumphant season. The story follows the dynamic between music major Hannah Wells (Ella Bright) and ice hockey captain Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli) as their fake-romance pact evolves into an actual relationship.

As Johnny Depp mounts a return to the mainstream following a decade spent on the sidelines because of personal legal issues, one of his last real hits is coming to Prime Video. The movie can ease the audience back into Depp's corner, provided that they're interested in being there. The crime drama was released at a time when Depp was experiencing something of a purple patch at the box office. In a few years, his commercial pull would take a major hit. This was one of the many reasons why studios severed ties with him when his legal troubles overshadowed every other aspect of his career.