July is finally here, and Amazon Prime Video is delivering the goods just as summer is reaching its peak. Among the most popular movies and TV shows on Prime Video right now are a pair of 2024 blockbusters — Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with Jim Carrey and Nosferatu with Nicholas Hoult — that couldn’t be any more different from each other. Meanwhile, all the dads out there are binge-watching the action shows Countdown and Blue Ridge: The Series now that they’ve finished all of Reacher season 3.
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Editor's note: Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships, so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services. Amazon is the home for buzzworthy YA book-to-show adaptations, and its latest hit is We Were Liars, an eight-episode drama series based on E. Lockhart’s popular novel. The series follows Cadence (Emily Alyn Lind), a teenager who suffered a traumatic brain injury the previous year.
She’s trying to figure out what happened to cause her memory to shatter, and the only people she can rely on are “the Liars,” three friends who grew up with Cadence and want her to find the answers she’s looking for. Advertisement Advertisement But Cadence encounters resistance within her own family, particularly her grandfather Harris (David Morse), and she soon realizes that someone doesn’t want her to uncover the truth. With gorgeous leads, summery locations that will make you book a ticket to a nearby beach and a twist ending that has everyone talking, We Were Liars is already Prime Video’s big hit of the summer.
The Chosen is a faith-based series detailing key events of the Bible, and while that’s been done before, this current adaptation has struck a chord with viewers. Each season is released in theaters first before debuting on streaming a few months later. The fifth and latest season chronicles the week of the Last Supper, when Jesus attended one last meal with his apostles before his crucifixion.
Amazon’s latest summertime hit is Countdown, an action series that should appeal to Reacher fans as well as dads all over the world. Advertisement Advertisement Supernatural’s Jensen Ackles stars as Detective Mark Meachum, a rebellious LAPD cop who is investigating the mysterious death of a Department of Homeland Security officer. Of course, he uncovers a vast, shadowy conspiracy, and it’s up to him to stop it.
For most of her life, Chloe (Jessica Biel) has been the "better sister" over Nicky (Elizabeth Banks). Chloe has a high-paying job, an adoring husband, Adam (Corey Stoll) and a well-behaved teenage son. But when Adam is murdered, Chloe's picture-perfect life shatters, and the only one who can help her is Nicky.
Can the estranged siblings find Adam's killer? The Accountant 2 was a spring hit at the movie theaters, and now it’s Prime Video’s most popular movie since its streaming debut at the beginning of June. Advertisement Advertisement Assassin/accountant Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is back, and he has to team up with his estranged brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal) to find a missing Salvadoran family.
Can they overcome their past trauma and a severe case of sibling rivalry to solve the case? It may be summer, but Prime Video subscribers are in a dark, gothic mood right now. How else can you explain the 2024 vampire horror movie Nosferatu doing so well on the streamer?
The movie retells the Dracula story with a vampire, Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), drawn to a woman, Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp), who is simultaneously repelled and intrigued by him. Directed by Robert Eggers, Nosferatu is beautiful to look at and experience, and it’s unlike anything else on this list — or on Prime Video, for that matter. Very few people remember the 2020 movie Blue Ridge, so it's a bit of a surprise to see its TV show sequel on Amazon’s most popular list.
Like the movie, the show centers around former Green Beret Justin Wise (Johnathon Schaech), who now works as a sheriff in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Advertisement Advertisement The show just returned for season 2, which you can stream on something called Western Bound. If you’re already missing Yellowstone and have nothing better to do, you should check out Blue Ridge: The Series.
The '90s video game character Sonic is more popular than ever, with three feature movies each grossing more money than the previous one. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is the latest entry in the successful franchise, with Team Sonic — Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz), Tails (Colleen O’Shaughnessey) and Knuckles (Idris Elba) — battling the mysterious Shadow (Keanu Reeves). It’s the rare sequel that’s better than its predecessors, which could explain why it’s so popular right now.
Deep Cover, Amazon’s latest original movie, is a low-key comedy featuring one of the most unexpected casts of the year so far. Three out-of-work actors are asked by the London police force to apply their improv skills to go undercover. Advertisement Advertisement They’re good at it, but the work is more dangerous than any bad critic’s review they’ve ever received.
Can Kat (Bryce Dallas Howard), Marlon (Orlando Bloom) and Hugh (Nick Mohammed) pull off these roles of a lifetime without getting killed first? All summers must end, even for teenage girls caught in hopelessly convoluted love triangles. Amazon’s popular YA series The Summer I Turned Pretty recently announced its forthcoming third season will be its last, so fans are catching up with the first two in time to give the series a proper goodbye.
Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung) is a typical teenage girl who spends her summers by the beach, contemplating life. Complications ensue when she falls for two childhood friends, Jeremiah and Conrad (Gavin Casalegno and Christopher Briney), who also happen to be brothers. Can the three teens remain friends while navigating the complicated affairs of the heart?
