3 Elite Series to Binge on Prime Video This Weekend (Oct 10-11)

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Published Oct 9, 2026, 7:43 PM EDT

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In the past week, all eyes have been on Netflix's East of Eden, a new adaptation of John Steinbeck's celebrated 1952 family saga. The upcoming star of both Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three, Florence Pugh, stars as Cathy Ames in the series, alongside the likes of Mike Faist, Christopher Abbott, and Hoon Lee. Having already earned 6.5 million views in its first four days of streaming, East of Eden is one of the biggest shows right now, but it's far from the only series that should be on your radar. With that in mind, 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 'Carrie' (2026)

Rotten Tomatoes: 85% | IMDb: 7.8/10

One of the newest shows on streaming is also perfect for spooky season. Mike Flanagan is applying his genius horror stylings to the works of Stephen King once again, with a new adaptation of Carrie. Starring Summer C. Howell in the titular role, the series follows a sheltered, grieving teenager whose arrival at a public high school triggers a bullying scandal and the unlikely development of mysterious telekinetic powers.

A creepy, detailed adaptation of one of King's most famous tales, Carrie is perfect for both those who are new to the story and those who are lovers of the source material, with Collider's Nate Richard writing in his review that "it's definitely worth a watch for those who hold the novel near and dear to their hearts." Samantha Sloyan, Amber Midthunder, and modern horror legend Matthew Lillard also feature in this must-watch series.

Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz What Action Series Would You Thrive In? Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard

Four franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the assassin with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to die. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.

🐕Wick

🏁Fast

🧨Mission

🎄Die Hard

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How does a room know you've walked into it? Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.

ASomeone recognises me, and the temperature in the room drops without a single word being said. BLoudly and warmly. I arrive with my people, and we're already laughing about something. CI'm the one who told everybody where to stand. I walked this room twice before anyone else arrived. DBy accident. I wasn't supposed to be here, and now I'm the only one who can do anything about it.

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It turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like? Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.

AEconomical and devastating. Trained technique, no wasted motion, finished before most people notice it started. BLoud, heavy and weirdly joyful. I'm not elegant, I hit like a truck, and I always have backup. CTo plan, until the plan breaks. Then I improvise at full sprint and refuse to stop moving. DBadly, honestly, and with a lot of swearing. I take more damage than I deal and I still don't go down.

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Who is standing beside you when it starts? Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.

ANobody. I have contacts, favours and people who owe me, but when it begins I work alone. BEveryone. My people are the entire point, and I'd trade the whole mission for any one of them. CA small hand-picked team I trust completely, and I'd still take the worst part of the job myself. DA voice on the other end of a radio and a building full of people who don't know I exist.

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It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright? Act two exists to find out what you're actually made of.

AFocus, commitment and sheer will. Grief is fuel if you point it in the right direction. BThe people counting on me. I don't appear to have a limit when it's family on the line. CRefusing to accept the odds. Somebody has to do the impossible part, and it's going to be me. DSpite, mostly. And a growing sense that these people picked the wrong building.

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There's a vehicle. What are you driving, and how? No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.

AA black muscle car I am unreasonably attached to, and I will dismantle an entire empire over it. BSomething impossibly modified, at impossible speed, off an impossible ramp. Physics is a suggestion. CA motorbike at full throttle through a city I memorised last night. And then off a cliff. DA borrowed car, badly, while somebody in the passenger seat politely asks me to slow down.

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How do you feel about the people giving the orders? There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.

AThere are rules and I respect them absolutely, right up until somebody breaks one against me. BI don't take orders. I take care of people, and everything else tends to sort itself out. CI serve the mission, not the memo. If my people are in danger, the orders come second. DThey're in a van outside telling me what I'm doing wrong while I'm the one bleeding on broken glass.

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Underneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for? The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.

ASomething was taken from me that can't be replaced, and I've been settling that account ever since. BBelonging. I built a family out of people who had nowhere else, and I'll defend it with everything. CThe conviction that if I stop, people die. I don't know how to hand that to anyone else. DI just wanted to get through the holidays with my family. Everything after that was self-defence.

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When the credits roll, what do people say about you? Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.

AThat I was a myth people warned each other about in whispers, and that they were right to. BThat I never left anyone behind, the door was always open, and there was always a place at the table. CThat I did the impossible part myself, every single time, and never asked anyone to risk it for me. DThat I was just a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time, who turned out to be very hard to kill.

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Casting Has Been Completed Your Franchise Is…

Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive the trilogy, and probably headline it.

John Wick

You are precision with a grudge. You don't posture, you don't escalate, and you don't warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are so careful never to be the reason you start.

The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one against him.
You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and then completely immovable past it.
Focus, commitment and sheer will. You'd be the one carrying grief through three sequels and turning it into technique rather than noise.
People wouldn't call you dangerous. They'd say your name quietly and let that do the work.

Fast & Furious

You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about: the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and you'd drive through a building for any one of them.

This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject, because loyalty scales and plot doesn't have to.
You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you defend it past the point of reason.
You'd thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve, an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.

Mission: Impossible

You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself anyway. It looks like control, but it's really responsibility. You have never worked out how to ask somebody else to carry the risk.

This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that's left.
You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an administrative error.
You'd thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure. The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.

Die Hard

You are not the most trained person in the building, the best equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.

Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned, bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn't make you noble, it makes you sarcastic, and then it makes you unstoppable.
You'd thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation, and you've never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
You didn't want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.

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2 'Neagley' (2026)

Rotten Tomatoes: 94% | IMDb: 7.7/10

Don't let the arrival of Carrie distract you from another highly watched title on Prime Video in the U.S. Following an explosive Reacher Season 4 finale, fans were rewarded with the spin-off they'd long been waiting for, as Maria Sten headlined as Neagley, moving into a life of danger and chaos as a Private Investigator in Chicago.

Called "a show that delivers exactly what it promises," featuring "an incredibly intriguing lead and greatly elevated by a likable cast," by Collider's David Caballero in his review, this Reacher spin-off is as action-packed and intense as its predecessor. All eight episodes in Neagley's first season are available to binge right now, and the series has already been renewed for a second outing.

3 'Upload' (2020–2025)

Rotten Tomatoes: 88% | IMDb: 7.8/10

If you're looking for something with more than one season to really sink your teeth into this weekend, then why not one of the more underrated series of the decade so far? The sci-fi comedy Upload, created by the prolific genius behind The Office U.S., Greg Daniels, follows a man facing premature death who uploads himself into a virtual afterlife, only for his place of choice to prove far from perfect.

Robbie Amell stars as Nathan Brown in his best performance yet, supported by the likes of Andy Allo, Allegra Edwards, Owen Daniels, and more. Over four seasons and 29 episodes, the series consistently produced quality episodes of gripping, hilarious television, earning a widespread fanbase in the process that was shocked and frustrated by the choice to cancel with a limited four-episode final season. Now that the dust has settled on the cancellation, it's time to revisit this gem and simply enjoy what it has to offer.