Please read the post before making recommendations!
We've had Amazon Prime for years but we never bothered trying to look for Amazon Prime videos on our Smart TV. Several years ago, we tried Netflix for two months and didn't watch anything on it because we never came across anything that looked as if it might appeal to us, so we never bothered with Amazon Prime videos.
But a couple of weeks ago, Amazon was the exclusive broadcaster of an NFL game, and so we had to figure out how to view Amazon Prime videos. And we did.
So here's a request. What do you think we might like to watch on Amazon Prime?
Before you start typing recommendations, here are our tastes, roughly:
- We like convoluted spy stories that we can watch over and over again, e.g. Three Days of the Condor, Tinker Tailor and Smiley's People (the Alec Guiness versions), and the Page Eight trilogy, including Page Eight, Turks and Caicos, and Salting the Battlefield. We highly recommend all of these and we watch them frequently. We have them on Blu-ray and don't need Amazon Prime for these.
- We like British classic mysteries, with little gore, little suspense, and lots of puzzles: Agatha Christie (we have tonnes of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot on Blu-ray), Sherlock Holmes (we have everything ever put out on DVD or blu-ray).
- We never cared much for Morse, but love the Lewis series (again, we have them), and we like most of the Endeavour series (though some are dodgier and/or weaker than we like)
- The Bletchley Circle series was good at the beginning.. but weakened as it went on.
- Vera is okay, but isn't the sort of thing we like to watch over and over again.
- The two different series of Peter Wimsey are both fabulous.
Others:
- We watch tonnes of baseball, some football, lots of curling, no basketball, and very little hockey.
- We watch tonnes of science/space on BBC Earth, NASA Smithsonian, and the Nature Channel (also some on TVO and other channels that sometimes have shows like these).
It looks as if we can get all these things on Amazon Prime. But are there other things like these that we're missing or might enjoy?
Our first attempt was Alex Rider, a teen-spy series. It had potential, but had way too much filler and too much gag-me/meh stuff in the first four episodes. We may watch the last one or two episodes to see what happened but it was exactly the type of thing we don't want to spend much time on.