Published Aug 21, 2026, 7:43 PM EDT
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After the likes of the action-comedy Ride or Die, the huge hit Off Campus, the ***Legally Blonde ***prequel Elle, and the new eight-episode YA drama Sterling Point all proved popular on Prime Video, the return of the streamer’s biggest ass-kicker left them all in the dust. After a brutal third season, Alan Ritchson’s ***Reacher ***was back and bulkier than ever for a fourth season that adapts Gone Tomorrow, the 13th novel in Child’s long-running series. The series instantly returned to the streaming summit, with nothing proving a match. But episodes are released weekly, so what should you watch whilst waiting for more Reacher? With that in mind, here’s a look at three Prime Video shows you need to binge this weekend.
For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Prime Video.
Who doesn’t love a gripping psychological thriller to keep them entertained on a weekend? One of the more underrated entries in the genre from the past year is The Better Sister, created by Olivia Milch and adapted from Alafair Burke’s 2019 novel of the same name. The limited series follows Jessica Biel and **Elizabeth Banks **as estranged sisters Chloe and Nicky, who are forced together after Chloe’s husband and Nicky’s ex is murdered.
Biel and Banks are a brilliant combination in this indulgent thriller, which certainly does its source material justice. Also featuring Kim Dickens, Maxwell Acee Donovan, Bobby Naderi, Gabriel Sloyer, Matthew Modine, Lorraine Toussaint, and Gloria Reuben in supporting roles, the show received plenty of acclaim from critics upon arrival and shot to the top of the streaming charts before sadly being forgotten. This weekend, rediscover this gem.
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
Prime Video has released some of the biggest new and returning shows of the year so far, and if you haven’t yet caught them all, why not catch up on one of the biggest this weekend? Between April and May 2026, **Karl Urban’**s Billy Butcher, **Jack Quaid’**s Hughie Campbell, Antony Starr’s Homelander, Erin Moriarty’s Annie January (formerly Starlight), Jessie T. Usher’s A-Train, and more returned for the fifth and final season of Eric Kripke’s acclaimed superhero satire The Boys.
*The Boys *bounced back from a disappointing fourth season to end on a high, with the fifth installment hitting form at the perfect time, leading to an explosive, jaw-dropping, and emotional finale. In Nate Richard’s review of Season 5 for Collider, he heralded the fifth season for boasting “all the gore, dark comedy, action, and vulgarity that you would expect” from a series that has defined the post-***Avengers: Endgame ***superhero genre in media.
As Taylor Sheridan’s ever-expanding ***Yellowstone ***universe has proven, the Western genre on the small screen is currently at its most popular. With that in mind, don’t miss out on this two-season Western gem from 2022 this weekend. Created by Brian Watkins, Outer Range stars Josh Brolin as Royal Abbott, a rancher and family man whose life starts to unravel after he uncovers a dark and disturbing mystery.
Also starring Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor, Tom Pelphrey, Tamara Podemski, Lewis Pullman, and more, this Western series might’ve been canceled before its time, but there are still 15 episodes ready and waiting to be discovered, making for a perfect, indulgent weekend binge. Also blending sci-fi elements into its story, *Outer Range *will keep you gripped to the edge of your seat as its shocking central mystery slowly pieces together.
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