Prime Video has had a lot of eyes on its platform this year, perhaps more than ever before, as it officially ended one of its flagship shows that had been on the air for years. The Boys premiered in 2019, and after seven years and five full seasons, the series came to a close earlier this week with an explosive finale that gave most fans the ending they’d been waiting for. Prime Video also brought back its critically acclaimed animated superhero series, Invincible, for its fourth season, confirming along the way that the show would debut its next batch of episodes before the conclusion of 2027. Prime Video’s biggest action show, Reacher (starring Alan Ritchson), is also coming back for Season 4 this year with Season 5 in early development at Amazon.

Prime Video is responsible for some of the most expensive TV shows of all time, particularly The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which is estimated to cost more than $50 million per episode. However, another costly show to emerge in the last few years has been Citadel, which premiered its first season all the way back in 2023 before going on hiatus for a few years. Prime Video didn’t invest too much in marketing Citadel Season 2, but the show returned as a binge drop for its second season a few weeks ago, and despite there being no wait for more episodes, it’s still comfortably one of the platform’s top 10 most-watched titles at the time of writing. The fate of Citadel beyond Season 2 has yet to be decided, but considering the cost, it will likely have to shatter expectations to be picked up for Season 3.

Who Stars in ‘Citadel’?

The two biggest stars at the front and center of the Citadel cast are Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. Madden is best known for his work as Robb Stark in the first three seasons of Game of Thrones, and Jonas recently headlined one of the biggest Prime Video movies of the year with The Bluff (co-starring Karl Urban). Also featured in the Citadel ensemble is Stanley Tucci, who recently starred in the critically acclaimed drama, Conclave. Tucci can also be seen in the new blockbuster, The Devil Wears Prada 2, which is now playing in theaters everywhere.

Check out the first two seasons of Citadel on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of all the hottest projects on streaming.

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April 28, 2023

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David Weil

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Newton Thomas Sigel

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John Applebaum, Bryan Oh, David Weil

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The past month or so has been far from memorable on Netflix. According to recent data, between April 13 and April 19, no Netflix series made it into the top 10 for the first time since Nielsen started reporting streaming data. The previous worst week for Netflix? The one before, with April 2026 a month those working at the streamer would rather forget. However, in the month since, Netflix has released some enticing new options for those hungry for something to binge. With that in mind, and with the streamer in a much better place, here’s a list of three shows you should binge-watch on Netflix this weekend.

For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Netflix.

Disclaimer: These titles are available on US Netflix.

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‘The Boroughs’ (2026)

At the very end of 2025, Netflix lost one of its flagship shows as Stranger Things officially came to an explosive and controversial end. For those looking to fill the void that the lack of the Upside Down has left, the show’s creators, the Duffer Brothers, have just delivered their latest project: The Boroughs. All eight episodes are available to stream now, having debuted on Netflix this past Thursday.

Produced by the Stranger Things duo and created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, the series is set in a retirement facility and follows an unlikely group as they must go head-to-head with a dangerous threat. The show stars Alfred Molina, Bill Pullman, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Clarke Peters, and more in a stacked cast, which also boasts the directing prowess of Ben Taylor, Augustine Frizzell, and Kyle Patrick Alvarez.

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‘Mating Season’ (2026)

If you have no attraction to live-action and have more of an animation persuasion, then fear not, as another new arrival to Netflix this past week is perfect for your weekend binge. A new animated comedy from the creators of Big Mouth, Mating Season follows a group of amorous animals, including bears, raccoons, and foxes, who engage in the wilder side of life on the hunt for true love.

Certainly not an animated series for the whole family, this raunchy show leaves nothing to the imagination on the hunt for unlikely romance and plenty of laughs. A satirization of modern dating, this intelligent series boasts a strong voice cast, led by Zach Woods, Nick Kroll, June Diane Raphael, and Sabrina Jalees. It also features Jason Mantzoukas, Andrew Rannells, Sarah Silverman, Abbi Jacobson​​​​​​, and many more.

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‘Law & Order’ (1990–Present)

Rotten Tomatoes: 83% | IMDb: 7.8/10

Sometimes the weekend is the perfect time to begin a binge-watch that is sure to overtake your year. One of the most popular crime procedurals of all time, the legendary Dick Wolf‘s Law & Order has been a staple of network television for 36 years, with the latest installment, Season 25, coming to an explosive end earlier this month.

Although Netflix doesn’t play host to the entire series, there is currently enough of this iconic procedural on the platform to provide a perfect sample. A winner of six Primetime Emmys and countless other awards during its run, this indulgent, fast-paced look at the chaos inside the New York criminal justice system has kept generations of viewers entertained for decades. If you’re yet to start, there is no better time than the present.

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September 13, 1990

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Rick Eid

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Constantine Makris, Edwin Sherin, Jace Alexander, David Platt, Matthew Penn, Martha Mitchell, Don Scardino, Christopher Misiano, Jean de Segonzac, Michael Pressman, Daniel Sackheim, Alex Chapple, Fred Berner, Fred Gerber, Gloria Muzio, James Frawley, Jim McKay, Vincent Misiano, Michael W. Watkins, Vern Gillum, Alex Hall, Dann Florek, Darnell Martin, David Grossman

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René Balcer, Matt Witten, David Slack, Aaron Zelman, David Wilcox, Morgan Gendel, Pamela J. Wechsler, Lynne E. Litt, Marc Guggenheim, Stephanie Sengupta, Scott Gold, Walon Green, Gerry Conway, Sean Jablonski, Nick Santora, Chris Levinson, Christine Roum, Gordon Rayfield, Hall Powell, Keith Eisner, Julie Martin, Gia Gordon, Joe Gannon, Jonathan Collier

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Brooke Shields is looking back fondly on her brief time with the late John F. Kennedy Jr. 

Appearing on the Thursday, May 21, episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Shields, 60, was asked what she thought about FX’s Love Story.

The series was loosely based on JFK Jr.’s romance with Carolyn Bessette before their deaths in 1999. Since its February release, the show has received mixed reviews from some of the real-life people depicted in the show.

“I watched it start to finish. I loved it. I thought the acting was amazing,” Shields said on WWHL.

Related: Jack Schlossberg Reveals How Mom Caroline Reacted to ‘Love Story’ Depiction

Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg, only watched a brief scene from FX’s Love Story that was inspired by their family. “I showed her a clip of her, and we were laughing so hard,” Schlossberg, 33, said on the Wednesday, April 15, episode of Katie Couric’s “Next Question” podcast. “The [actor] was freaking out […]

The actress clarified that her connection with JFK Jr. was never a fully fledged relationship, however.

“I didn’t have a love story, I had a crazy, crazy crush,” she explained. “We dated but I never slept with him so I don’t know if that counts.”

The Blue Lagoon star added, “He was lovely to me.”

Shields also noted that her daughter Rowan Henchy, 23, worked on the series as a production assistant. (Shields shares Rowan and Grier, 20, with her husband Chris Henchy.)

Speaking to People in an interview published on May 18, Shields recalled being surprised when her daughter informed her that her 1980s fling with the politician was mentioned in the series.

“That was a little weird,” Shields told the publication. “I was away, and my daughter called me and she says, ‘Oh my God, you’re mentioned in Love Story,’ and she’s like, ‘Is it true?’”

Shields continued, “I was like, ‘OK, I’d be happy to tell you all the stories if you want, but — yes.’”

In March, Rowan joked about her mom and JFK Jr. via a TikTok video. “I wonder if JFK Jr. was a good kisser?” Rowan wrote over the clip, while lip-synching to Charli XCX’s “Boom Clap.”

The camera then panned to Shields, who also mouthed the lyrics. “One of the best,’” text overlaying the video read.

Shields previously shared details about her dating experience with JFK Jr. during an interview with The Howard Stern Show in 2023.

“We did have a real date. I wouldn’t sleep with him because I kind of loved him too much,” she recalled. “It was beyond not-disappointing. I froze though because he was so precious to me. I was like, ‘Oh, my God, you’re falling in love, and if you sleep with him he may not talk to you again — and you can’t handle that.’”

She added, “I wasn’t playing a game. I really was just so afraid of being really hurt, because if I slept with him I would’ve given him my entire universe, my heart, my everything.”

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During her Thursday appearance on WWHL,  Shields also answered whether she’d seen 2026 musical drama Micheal, which was based on her late, longtime friend Michael Jackson.

“I have not seen his movie yet but I want to. I’m told I’m not in it and I didn’t even think that I would be,” Shields said.

Shields said that people keep asking her if she’s “upset” about the movie. “I’m like, ‘No, he was my dear friend,” she said.

Zendaya is sharing a glimpse of what it’s like working with her partner, Tom Holland, ahead of the release of their two upcoming projects. The actress, who is notorious for keeping her personal life out of the public eye, revealed what it was like to see Holland at work daily, gushing about how proud she felt to see him in action.

The engaged couple is rumored to have already tied the knot, but both remain tight-lipped about whether or not the speculation is true.

Former Disney star Zendaya rarely talks about her personal life, but in a profile interview with ELLE, the actress opened up about what it was like to work with her longtime partner, Tom Holland. The couple appears in two movies scheduled for release this year, the epic fantasy “The Odyssey” and “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” the fourth installment in the series.

Zendaya didn’t have any scenes with Holland in “The Odyssey,” and she was able to observe him from the sidelines. “I could have cried, I was so proud,” she gushed. In the film, the actress plays the role of Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, while Holland portrays Telemachus, the son of Odysseus and Penelope.

When it came to “Spider-Man,” the actress said going back on set was a “dream.” “I get to go to work every day with my best friend, the person that I love… It’s like coming home,” Zendaya shared, adding that they brought their dogs with them on set.

The Actress Refuses To Confirm Wedding Rumors

Rumors that Zendaya and Holland were already married started circulating when the actress was spotted wearing a wedding band in February. In March, Zendaya’s longtime stylist, Law Roach, was asked when the couple was going to get married, to which he replied, “The wedding has already happened. You missed it.”

Months later, the couple has still neither confirmed nor denied the rumor. ELLE directly asked the actress about her gold wedding band, and she replied by saying, “No, I’m not going to do that. They’re always searching for something,” most likely referring to speculations about her relationship and private life.

Zendaya And Tom Holland’s Relationship

Zendaya and Holland first met when they were cast as MJ and Peter Parker in “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” which was released in 2017. They developed a friendship, with the actress describing Holland as one of her best friends.

They reunited on-screen for 2019’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” in which they shared their first on-screen kiss. Two years later, they starred in the third Spider-Man movie, “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and in July 2021, paparazzi shots of the two smooching made the rounds online. The two publicly confirmed their romantic relationship later that year.

In January 2025, Zendaya sparked engagement rumors when she attended the Golden Globes donning a large diamond ring on her finger. The rumor was confirmed when Holland corrected a reporter who referred to Zendaya as his girlfriend, saying she was his “fiancée.”

The Moment The Actress Knew Tom Holland Was Her ‘Person’

In an episode of the “New York Times’ Modern Love” podcast in April, Zendaya talked about her intuition, saying that in her experience, “people can get nervous around people.” When it came to Holland, however, the actress said she’s never nervous around him.

“I don’t feel nervous, I feel really peaceful, and I feel really calm. And feel like, ‘Oh, I actually feel more nervous when I’m away from you than when I’m with you,’” she explained, adding that she listened to her intuition, and her feeling of calmness around Holland was a good sign. “I knew that this is my person,” she said.

The actress also talked about her privacy, saying that she and Holland don’t hide their relationship from the public, but they would also like to “preserve things” for themselves, their families, and close friends.

Tom Holland On Work Dynamic With Zendaya

In the “Dish” podcast in 2024, Holland shared his thoughts about having to work with his partner. “It’s a saving grace. Yeah. the best thing that’s ever happened to me,” the actor said.

Holland said that he and Zendaya have mastered communicating non-verbally while on set, explaining that when the director gives them notes they don’t particularly agree with, they have a “familiar glance at each other of like, can’t wait to talk about that later.”

Zendaya and Holland’s upcoming films are set to release just two weeks apart, with “The Odyssey” scheduled to hit theaters on July 17 and “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” following on July 31.

Certain trilogies might well only get kind of heavy for one movie out of three, often the second… see the original Star Wars trilogy as well as The Dark Knight within its trilogy. It’s naturally a downer to have people get invested in three movies’ worth of story, only to have to all end up feeling quite hopeless, so that’s why the second movie being the heaviest is a little more expected, if you’re even going to have a bleak chapter in the first place.

But it’s not the only way to tackle a movie trilogy, because some feel heavy throughout, or have, at a minimum, two out of three movies being intense and/or heavy-going. The following trilogies can all count themselves among the heaviest in cinema history, with the bunch of them being depressing for different reasons, and depressing within different genres, too.

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‘Pusher’ (1996–2005)

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Nicholas Winding Refn might be more well-known for his 2010s English-language movies, with Drive especially being something of a modern cult classic, but his Pusher trilogy shouldn’t be overlooked. These films are incredibly gritty and down-and-dirty, with 1996’s Pusher feeling particularly grimy and low-budget. That goes some way to helping things feel more realistic, and then narratively, it’s also intense, since it’s about a drug dealer losing a great deal of money, and needing to find a way to get it in time, as he’s otherwise in rather hot water.

Things kept going with each subsequent movie focusing on a different protagonist, as a side character played by Mads Mikkelsen in the first movie was the central character in the second, and then the drug lord behind much of the first movie’s conflict/drama was the central character in the third film. They’re all brutal and downbeat in their own ways, but also quite engaging if you don’t mind movies that make you feel like you need a shower right after finishing them.

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‘Three Colours’ (1993–1994)

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This is a slightly tricky example, since Three Colours is a thematic trilogy, and each one does go for something a bit different tonally, and even different genre-wise. In terms of heaviness, Three Colours: Blue (the first one released) is the most full-on, as it’s an exploration of grief and accompanying feelings of depression, being about a woman navigating life after losing both her husband and daughter very suddenly, in a car accident.

Three Colours: White isn’t as despair-filled, being a bit more comedic, but it’s still something of a psychological drama alongside being a comedy, and not without a dark sense of humor, either. Three Colours: Red is moody again, and maybe a little more mysterious, but ultimately not as heavy-going as Three Colours: Blue. That first film does the heavy-lifting here, though the two movies that follow it (or don’t really follow it, given this trilogy being a thematic one) do still have some darker moments.

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‘Terrifier’ (2016–2024)

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Terrifier probably won’t be a trilogy for long, but for now, it is made up of three movies, and they’re three immensely gory movies, too. That’s kind of Terrifier’s thing, as a series so far: there’s a pretty much unstoppable villain at the center of things, and his whole thing is that he really likes to inflict maximum pain on his victims before killing them, so that’s where all the blood and gore inevitably come in.

There’s also a good deal of emotional and psychological distress he wants to cause certain victims, toying with them in that way before he actually hurts them, and so Terrifier 2 and Terrifier 3 get kind of heavy in that way, on top of all the violence. They are admittedly tongue-in-cheek at times, and not serious or heavy-going dramas in the way most of these other trilogies here are, but there’s a good bit of distress to be found throughout these three movies if you’re not really on board with what they have to offer.

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‘X’ (2022–2024)

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Okay, sorry, it was hard to find heavy-going drama-focused trilogies, so here’s one more trio of horror movies: those belonging to the X trilogy. X (2022) is the first of them, and beyond being pretty savage as far as the violence is concerned, it’s also an oddly sad movie about how miserable it is to get old… once you do get past the kills. It’s not exactly thought-provoking, but it is something.

Pearl (also a 2022 release) is a bit more of a drama and less of a horror movie, and it’s a prequel, laying out the rather somber backstory of the main villain of X, showing who she was when she was younger. Then MaXXXine… well, MaXXXine sort of goes off the deep end, and calling it heavy beyond having some distressingly violent moments would be too much of a stretch, but two out of three ain’t bad and all that.

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‘The Apu Trilogy’ (1955–1959)

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Across three movies, The Apu Trilogy does something that might sound a little similar to what Boyhood did in one movie, but that 2014 film was surprisingly light on drama and narrative, really just being a slice-of-life thing across 12 years. The films in this Indian trilogy, though, are incredibly heavy on drama, and also generally heavy-going, all the while mostly centering on a boy named Apu who grows into a young man by the third and final film, and is played by a total of four different actors across the trilogy.

The first movie, Pather Panchali (1955), has Apu as more of a passive character, since he’s so young, and much of that film is a very emotionally intense family drama. Further hardships happen in Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959), and while it’s not heavy-going or depressing 100% of the time, it is certainly downbeat stuff for a good chunk of the trilogy.

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‘The Godfather’ (1972–1990)

Essentially, The Godfather is an epic tragedy in three parts, albeit with only two of those movies being essential to get the point across. The Godfather gets the ball rolling on depicting the downfall of the Corleone crime family, while The Godfather Part II showcases the truly messy and despairing stuff, and makes it feel heavier because much of it’s contrasted with a series of flashbacks that depict the rise of the Corleone empire.

It’s a rise and fall kind of thing, but not in a linear fashion, which sets it apart from other gangster movies about a character’s rise and fall. The Godfather Part III doesn’t mine a great deal of new ground thematically or narratively, but it does have further bleak events happen to the characters who are still standing at that point in the series, so for present purposes, it is still able to count itself as a heavy-going part 3.

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‘Life of Crime’ (1989–2021)

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While Life of Crime is a documentary trilogy, it’s still worth including here because of how immensely heavy-going it gets, and the fact that it’s all genuinely real does undoubtedly add to that feeling. 1989’s One Year in a Life of Crime began the trilogy, and is what you’d expect, based on that title. It got a follow-up almost a decade later (1998’s Life of Crime 2), and then 2021 saw everything get wrapped up in a distressingly definitive manner.

That final film is called Life of Crime, 1984-2020, and can sort of be watched on its own, given that it summarizes what happened throughout that whole span of time, including the first two documentaries. It’s still worthwhile watching the entire thing, though, as something of an anti-true crime documentary, since there’s nothing flashy or intentionally entertaining here, and it’s just about downtrodden people stuck in a hopeless cycle. The Life of Crime documentaries are also a bit like a much darker spin on the Seven Up documentary series, which also checked in with a group of people over a span of several decades.

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‘The Human Condition’ (1959–1961)

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More than earning masterpiece status, The Human Condition is one huge film separated into three parts, with more coherence than a good many other trilogies, owing to how this three-part movie was made and then released (in an overall short span of time, by trilogy standards). You get a huge story told over all three movies, with the first part mostly being about the lead-up to World War II, the second part involving the main character having to fight in it, and the third part being about surviving the immediate aftermath of the conflict.

The protagonist changes a great deal throughout, since he’s put through so much and is initially a pacifist, yet can’t escape some kind of involvement in the war, at a certain point. The Human Condition might well be the best Japanese-made World War II movie, and is up there as a contender for the best World War II movie made anywhere, really. It’s also absolutely grueling, emotionally intense, and unapologetic with the violence it depicts, with all those things – plus its overall length of approximately 10 hours – making it an inevitably difficult (but worthwhile) watch.