There’s a fresh number one show on Prime Video this week: Tessa Coates’s brand-new action comedy Ride or Die. Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham star as two friends who go on the run when they’re targeted by a mysterious figure. Also, one of them is an international assassin. Sounds fun, right? Well, a huge number of viewers seem to think so, but in case that’s not quite what you’re in the mood for, there’s still plenty more to explore on the streaming service. Here’s a look at three great shows that we think you should binge on Prime Video this week.
Created by Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline, The Middle is an ABC sitcom that follows a struggling lower-middle-class family in Orson, Indiana. Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn star as Frankie and Mike Heck, parents of 15-year-old Axl (Charlie McDermott), 13-year-old Sue (Eden Sher), and 8-year-old Brick (Atticus Shaffer), and the show follows the family’s day-to-day misadventures. The series also features some notable guest stars, including Brooke Shields, Norm Macdonald, Jack McBrayer, and more.
The Middle premiered in 2009 to a positive critical reception and aired 215 episodes across nine seasons until its conclusion in 2018. The later seasons of the show, in particular, earned widespread praise from critics and audiences alike for its engaging narrative and quirky characters. The series also received several accolades, including a Gracie Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and while it isn’t quite as widely known as some of the other sitcoms of its time, The Middle is a must-watch for comedy fans.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has pristine hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone fresh arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the contemporary world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are lean, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: keen, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re shrewd enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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‘Butterfly’ (2025)
Created by Steph Cha and Ken Woodruff, Butterfly is a spy thriller series inspired by Arash Amel and Marguerite Bennett’s Boom! Studios graphic novel. Set in South Korea, the show follows former U.S. intelligence operative David Jung (Daniel Dae Kim), who is forced to come out of hiding when he learns that his estranged daughter Rebecca (Reina Hardesty) is now an assassin working for the organization he co-founded. Louis Landau, Piper Perabo, Kim Tae-hee, and more appear in other notable roles.
An intriguing exploration of familial tensions in the world of global espionage, Butterfly earned mostly favorable reviews when it premiered in August 2025, though it did face some criticism for its action choreography and plot. Despite that, the show features some excellent character dynamics and performances, particularly by Daniel Dae Kim in the lead role, and it’s an engaging watch for thriller fans. Sadly, the series was canceled on a cliffhanger after just one season, but it’s still worth a binge-watch.
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‘Bates Motel’ (2013–2017)
Developed by Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin, and Anthony Cipriano, Bates Motel is a “contemporary prequel” to Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic 1960 film Psycho,starring Freddie Highmore as a teenage Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga as his mother, Norma. The show follows the two as they become the proprietors of the titular motel in the hopes of starting a fresh life, but when Norman’s mental illness takes a unsafe turn, Norma attempts to protect her son at all costs. Besides Highmore and Farmiga, the series also features Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nicola Peltz, Nestor Carbonell, and Kenny Johnson in significant roles.
Almost all the Psycho adaptations and remakes that have been made over the years have fallen far compact of the original, but Bates Motel is one of the better ones. Anchored by Highmore and Farmiga’s brilliant central performances, the show earned critical acclaim throughout its five-season run on A&E. It’s an intensely suspenseful show that successfully keeps you hooked throughout its narrative, and the series earned several accolades, including an Emmy nomination and a Saturn Award win for Vera Farmiga.
