These three Prime Video shows have one thing in common. They are all brilliant, criminally overlooked, and none of them got the audience they deserved. A broken spy who processes trauma through folk songs. A woman who survives a car crash and can’t decide if she’s gifted or unraveling. And a small Ohio town sitting on top of a machine that quietly warps everything around it.
Prime Video built something quietly remarkable with all three, and then apparently forgot to tell anyone, but they are still worth a watch.
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Patriot (2015–2018)
John Tavner is an intelligence officer assigned to stop Iran from going nuclear. His cover is a job at a Midwestern industrial piping company. That setup sounds like a straightforward spy thriller, but Patriot is one of the strangest, funniest, and most underrated Prime Video TV shows you’ve ever seen.
John processes his unraveling mental state by writing and performing folk songs, which the show uses as a kind of Greek chorus for the chaos around him. The comedy is bone dry, the plotting is absurdist, and the emotional core is genuinely devastating. It ran two seasons and despite an IMDB rating of 8.2, the series got cancelled, but the people who found it have never stopped being angry about it.
You can watch Patriot on Prime Video.
Undone (2019–2022)
Undone is the kind of Prime Video series that makes you question why more animation isn’t made this way. The show uses rotoscoping, a technique where animators trace over live-action footage frame by frame, to create something that feels like a waking dream.
Rosa Salazar plays Alma, a young Mexican American woman who survives a car crash and starts experiencing time non-linearly. Her dead father begins appearing to her, asking for her help. The show never fully commits to whether Alma is gifted or experiencing a psychotic break, and that ambiguity is exactly where it lives. It earned 8.2 rating on IMDB and still barely made a dent in mainstream conversation.
You can watch Undone on Prime Video.
Tales from the Loop (2020)
Based on the paintings of Swedish artist Simon Stalenhag, this underrated TV series on Prime Video is unlike anything else. Set in a small Ohio town built above a mysterious scientific facility called the Loop, each episode follows a different resident whose life quietly intersects with the unexplainable.
There are no villains, no chase sequences, and very little explanation. What the show offers instead is atmosphere, longing, and a quietly accumulated grief that hits you only after the credits roll. It picked up two Emmy nominations and an 7.4 on IMDB and somehow still slipped through the cracks entirely.
You can watch Tales from the Loop on Prime Video.