3 Prime Video Shows to Watch This Weekend Where Every Episode Is a 10/10 Masterpiece

Image via Prime Video Published Oct 2, 2026, 7:43 PM EDT In over three years at Collider, senior author Jake has now penned over 3000 articles covering a wide range of TV and film for the resources, lists, utilities, news, and interview teams. Alongside interviewing stars such as Selin Hizli, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Harlan Coben, and Chelsea Peretti, Jake was lucky enough to visit the set of Aardman and Netflix's Wallace and Gromit: A Vengeance Most Fowl in 2024, getting the chance to chat with four-time Academy Award winner Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham. Jake has also worked for other publications, including Agents of Fandom. You can also hear Jake every week as the resident film and TV journalist on Track Radio. Sign in to your Collider account Two weeks might have passed since the Reacher Season 4 finale, but the world of Prime Video's most ass-kicking series continues to dominate the streaming charts. This is not through the Alan Ritchson-led original, which currently sits in second place, having spent 50 consecutive days on the chart. Instead, it is the brand-new spin-off Neagley, starring fan-favorite Maria Sten (Swamp Thing), that holds the #1 spot on the Prime Video charts, proving so popular that it has already earned a second season. But beyond Neagley, what else should you be watching this weekend? Here's a look at three must-watch shows on Prime Video this weekend. For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Prime Video. 1 'Bates Motel' (2013–2017) Rotten Tomatoes: 93% | IMDb: 8.1/10 October means the start of spooky season, and there's no better way to get in the mood than a binge-watch of a prequel series to one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Adding context to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic Psycho, Bates Motel follows Freddie Highmore ​​​​​​as a young Norman Bates as the strange dynamic between him and his mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga), unfolds. Highmore and Farmiga are note-perfect in this truly indulgent prequel series, with Farmiga even earning a Lead Actress nod from the Primetime Emmys, one of three total nominations for the series across its run. An unusual and enticing character study, there are 50 episodes in five seasons of Bates Motel ready and waiting to be consumed, so pull back that shower curtain and take a stab at this perfect start to October. Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Is Your Biggest Horror Nightmare? Elm Street · Chucky · Scream · The Conjuring Four horror franchises. Four completely different ways of scaring you. One waits until you fall asleep. One makes sure nobody believes you. One is already in your group of friends. And one is in the house with your family. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually watch horror, and find out which nightmare was built for you. 😴Elm Street(Freddy Krueger) 🧸Chucky(Child's Play) 📞Scream(Ghostface) 🕯️The Conjuring(The Warren Files) FIND YOUR NIGHTMARE → 01 Which horror scene makes you cover your eyes? Four classic images. One of them is worse than the others for you. ASomebody falling asleep when they really should not. BA toy that has moved, and nobody touched it. CA phone ringing in an empty house. DA child talking to somebody who is not there. NEXT QUESTION → 02 You are home alone and you hear a noise. First thought? Everybody has one. It arrives before you have decided anything. AI am exhausted and my mind is playing tricks on me. BSomething in this room is not where I left it. CSomebody is in here with me. DThis house has never felt entirely right. NEXT QUESTION → 03 Which horror movie rule would you break first? Everybody thinks they would survive. Almost nobody actually does. ANever fall asleep. BNever leave it out of your sight. CNever answer the phone. DNever go down to the basement. NEXT QUESTION → 04 Something genuinely frightening happens. What do you do? Not in a film. In your actual living room, tonight. AConvince myself I imagined the whole thing. BTell someone, and brace for them not believing me. CWork out which person I know could be behind it. DGet everybody in the house into one room. NEXT QUESTION → 05 How do you actually watch a horror film? Be honest about this one. Nobody is checking. AFine during. Wide awake at two in the morning. BShouting at the screen that nobody is listening. CCalling the twist out loud before it lands. DThrough my fingers, holding on to something. NEXT QUESTION → 06 Somebody offers you serious money. Which do you still refuse? The amount does not matter. There is one on this list you are not doing. AFall asleep in a room I have never been in before. BKeep an old doll on the shelf facing my bed. CAnswer every unknown number that calls after midnight. DSpend one night alone in a house with a history. NEXT QUESTION → 07 Which feeling stays with you a week after the film? Good horror does not stop when the credits do. ANot wanting to turn the bedroom light off. BNot trusting one particular object in my house. CLooking twice at people I have known for years. DFeeling like something came home with me. NEXT QUESTION → 08 Something wakes you at 3am. What is the worst possibility? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your nightmare. AThat I am still asleep, and it knows it. BThat the thing nobody believed me about is here. CThat somebody with a key is downstairs. DThat something is in the doorway, watching us sleep. REVEAL MY NIGHTMARE → The Lights Just Went Out Your Nightmare Is…Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what it would leave behind. Elm StreetYour nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever won that particular argument. Freddy is horror's cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever. You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your own head is where this does its damage. These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose because they are weak. They lose because they are tired. You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep. ChuckyYour nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it. Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you. You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You know that feeling from real life too. The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you have met those adults. By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own. ScreamYour nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them. Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be somebody who was at the party. You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the same way you watch films. The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention. Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home. The ConjuringYour nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving. The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary room that quietly stops feeling ordinary. Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than personal, which is rarer than it sounds. This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are the ones who are not alone and refuse to be. Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one standing in the hallway. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ 2 'Fleabag' (2016–2019) Rotten Tomatoes: 100% | IMDb: 8.7/10 If you're looking for the perfect way to start October but aren't a fan of the horror genre, then keep it simple with one of the best shows of the 21st century. Created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and based on her award-winning play, Fleabag follows the unnamed protagonist as she navigates romance, grief, family drama, and the will to be a better feminist in modern-day London. Six Primetime Emmys in two seasons, a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and a fifth-place finish in the New York Times' list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century, little more can be said about just how genius this series is. Waller-Bridge's magnum opus has been hugely influential over the past decade, but any spiritual recreation can never live up to the original. 3 'Supernatural' (2005–2020) Rotten Tomatoes: 93% | IMDb: 8.4/10 Image via The CW Fourteen years before he changed the state of modern superhero series, Eric Kripke created and showran (for five seasons) Supernatural, the longest-running live-action fantasy series in U.S. television history​​​​. The series stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles as the Winchester brothers, Sam and Dean, as they fight evil beings, from monsters to demons. Who doesn't love a 'monster-of-the-week' format? For 15 seasons and 327 episodes, Supernatural delivered some of the most exciting fantasy television available. Twenty-one years later, the series still holds up, especially with its ageless soundtrack and perfect performances. This includes supporting turns from Misha Collins, Mark A. Sheppard, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alona Tal, and Jim Beaver. Release Date 2005 - 2020-00-00 Network The WB, The CW Showrunner Eric Kripke Cast Jensen Ackles Dean Winchester Directors Philip Sgriccia, John F. Showalter, Kim Manners, Thomas J. Wright, Charles Beeson, Guy Norman Bee, Richard Speight Jr., Mike Rohl, John Badham, Steve Boyum, Amyn Kaderali, Jensen Ackles, Tim Andrew, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeannot Szwarc, P.J. Pesce, Nina Lopez-Corrado, James L. Conway, amanda tapping, J. Miller Tobin, Stefan Pleszczynski, John MacCarthy, Jerry Wanek, Ben Edlund Writers Meredith Glynn, Davy Perez, Raelle Tucker, Cathryn Humphris, Brett Matthews, Nancy Won, John Bring, Ben Acker, Daniel Knauf, David Ehrman, James Krieg, Trey Callaway Franchise(s) Supernatural Creator(s) Eric Kripke