Sam Claflin as Billy Dunne in 'Daisy Jones & The Six' Image via Lacey Terrell / ©Amazon / Courtesy Everett Collection By Safwan Azeem Published Jul 3, 2026, 12:07 AM EDT Feel free to connect with him or check out his work. He's everywhere — Upwork , YouTube , Spotify , SoundCloud , Collider , LinkedIn , Instagram .
Prime Video might be the most underrated streaming service on the market and rarely gets the same attention as Netflix or HBO in mainstream conversations. However, it has quietly built a catalog filled with some of the most unique and rewarding shows of the last decade. In fact, many of the streamer's best originals are the kinds of shows people only discover years later , only to realize how much they have been missing out on.
That's because Prime Video has been taking chances on stories that other platforms probably wouldn't touch because they feel too niche or experimental. If you've spent years scrolling past Prime Video originals without giving them a chance, here are the great shows on the streamer that you'll wish you watched sooner .
Daisy Jones & The Six looks like a straightforward music drama about the rise and fall of a fictional rock band in the 1970s . However, the series is so much more than that. The story, based on Taylor Jenkins Reid 's novel, unfolds in the style of a retrospective documentary, and that storytelling technique gives it a realism that the plot really needs. The series follows aspiring singer Daisy Jones ( Riley Keough ) and The Six, a struggling rock band led by Billy Dunne ( Sam Claflin ). The group is on the verge of superstardom thanks to Billy and Daisy's creative partnership. However, their growing feelings for each other seriously complicate the situation. Daisy Jones & The Six is an interesting look at the music industry, but it also focuses on the people behind the music . Billy tries to stay committed to his wife Camila ( Camila Morrone ) while navigating his chemistry with Daisy.
At the same time, the rest of the band is forced to live in the shadow of that dynamic, which slowly creates fractures that become impossible to ignore. The brilliance of the series is that there isn't one defining moment that destroys the group. Instead, the breakup feels like the inevitable result of years of unresolved emotions . The show also does an incredible job of capturing the music scene of the 1970s . Even the soundtrack feels authentic to the time and is woven directly into the plot, to the point where it's easy to forget that these aren't actually rock records from back in the day. Daisy Jones & The Six 's greatest strength is that it doesn't feel like a series about a fictional band. It genuinely feels like a real piece of music history.
Michael Dorman in Patriot Season 2 Image via Prime Video Patriot is one of the most unique spy shows ever made, which is probably why so many people completely missed it when it first aired. The series follows intelligence officer John Tavner ( Michael Dorman ), who is tasked with preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. To do so, he takes on the identity of a mid-level employee at an industrial piping company and travels across Europe to carry out a covert operation. However, no part of that plan is simple. One mistake leads to another, and John finds himself in increasingly absurd situations that threaten the entire operation. Patriot approaches espionage from a different, completely unglamorous angle.