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This 8-Part Crime Thriller Is Scratching the ‘Dexter’ Itch While Dominating Streaming

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If you’re a Prime Video subscriber, it’s hard to look past one show as the must-watch title on the streamer at the moment. After a shaky fourth season that received mixed reviews from most critics and audiences, The Boys returned to form with an explosive Season 5 opener early last month. Since then, weekly releases have seen Karl Urbans Billy Butcher, Jack Quaids Hughie Campbell, and more face a world dominated by Antony Starr‘s Homelander as twists and turns keep many millions of viewers gripped.

Called “one of the show’s best” seasons in Nate Richard‘s review for Collider, the final outing in Eric Kripke‘s superhero series is certainly a must-watch right now. However, it isn’t the only show proving popular on Prime Video, with an 8-part Dexter replacement quietly continuing its streaming run almost two months after its debut. The show in question is Scarpetta, based on a book series by Patricia Cornwell, which debuted on March 11 and became an instant hit on streaming, topping Amazon’s most-watched series list in its first week.

The show boasts an impressive collection of talent both in front of and behind the screen, with veteran director David Gordon Green working on a trio of Season 1 episodes. The show’s ensemble includes Nicole Kidman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bobby Cannavale, Ariana DeBose, and Simon Baker, among many other notable faces. After its continued streaming success, Scarpetta has now hit an impressive new milestone. At the time of writing, the series has passed 50 days on the Prime Video streaming charts, as per FlixPatrol.

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Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.

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Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center

The Pitt

You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.

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County General Hospital, Chicago

ER

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Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle

Grey’s Anatomy

You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.

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Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ

House

You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.

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Sacred Heart Hospital, California

Scrubs

You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.

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Nicole Kidman Is Also Dominating Another Streamer

Trust one of Hollywood’s best to simultaneously dominate two of the world’s biggest streaming platforms. As Scarpetta hits this latest milestone, Kidman’s other new project, the Apple TV hit Margo’s Got Money Troubles, continues its run near the top of the charts. Also starring the likes of Elle Fanning, Nick Offerman, and Michelle Pfeiffer, the series has gained impressive reviews from critics, scoring a near-perfect rating of 97% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Later this year, Kidman will return to a cult favorite as Practical Magic 2 hits theaters, with Kidman and Sandra Bullock reprising their roles as Gillian and Sally Owens.

Scarpetta is available to binge in full on Prime Video. Stay tuned to Collider for more of the latest streaming stories.


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Release Date

March 11, 2026

Network

Prime Video

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Showrunner

Elizabeth Sarnoff

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Directors

David Gordon Green, Charlotte Brändström

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