Amazon Prime Video Review: Plans, Costs, Shows and Movies

Prime Video is the best perk of being an Amazon Prime member. We see you, AmazonFresh and two-day shipping, but access to 25,000 movies and TV shows is just tastier for that $14.99 a month. We call good on Prime Video, though a little less so when considering it as a standalone, no-Prime-membership service at $8.99 a month.

Prime Video also offers live sports programming (like NFL, NBA, and WNBA coverage), and it has a growing slate of in-house original TV shows and movies (like award winners The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the mega-budget The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power).

Prime Video’s small-but-growing stable of original content can’t compete with Netflix’s sheer quantity of shows and movies. It also doesn’t have the immediacy of Hulu, which streams many TV shows the day after they’re broadcast elsewhere.

Still, there’s plenty to love about Prime Video, especially if you’re a movie buff who’s a sucker for ’80s marathons (aren’t we all?).