These are the 8 worst original series on Amazon Prime

Amazon Prime series like “The Boys”, “The Man in the High Castle” or “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisle” not only delighted millions of subscribers to the streaming service, but also received excellent reviews. But not every production commissioned or bought by the streaming platform meets the taste of the critics. In the following we present the 8 biggest flops among the Amazon originals.

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Amazon Prime series: These are the 8 worst

In addition to the opinion of the editors, the critics platform Rotten serves as the starting point for this ranking Tomatoes, which bundles all film and series reviews into an overall rating. The specified percentage is always the share of positive reviews in all reviews of the series. For our selection, we limited ourselves to in-house productions from Amazon Prime Video, which received mediocre to bad reviews (less than 60 percent positive reviews).

It should be noted, however, that English-language productions are more strongly represented on the platform; German Amazon series such as “Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo”, “Babylon Berlin” or “4 Blocks” are therefore not even listed in the database, or they have no rating. (Also read: Amazon Prime series: These are the 30 best according to the critics )

8th place: Crisis in Six Scenes (2016)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 18 percent

Woody Allen is known to have divided spirits – both in terms of his work and his person. In this series, which the award-winning director developed for Jeff Bezos’ streaming service, one of the questions asked is how great a political commitment must be in order to be allowed to call oneself an activist; however, Allen’s old-fashioned humor may put off some young viewers. A surprising highlight of the series, on the other hand, is the remarkable portrayal of pop star Miley Cyrus, who plays a runaway.

7th place: Hand of God (2014)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 30 percent

The premise of this crime drama is a bit absurd: Ron Perlman plays a controversial judge whose son recently committed suicide took; Since then, the judge has been hearing the voice of God and communicating with the spirit of his son, who tells him to protect a secret computer program that he developed before his death from a dark tech entrepreneur from Silicon Valley. The gap between the bizarre plot and the seriousness with which it is staged and presented unfortunately breaks the back of the series. (Also interesting: Netflix series: These are the 15 worst originals according to the critics )

6th place: The Last Tycoon (2016)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 45 percent

“The Great Gatsby”, “The Beautiful and Damned”, “Tender is the Night”: The American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald had an extraordinary gift for the hypocrisy and human misery behind the Capture the glamor of the Roaring Twenties. In his last, unpublished novel “The Last Tycoon” he treats the beginnings of the Hollywood film industry from the perspective of studio manager Monroe Stahr (Matt Bomer). The series adaptation is splendidly equipped, but the story is pretty tough.

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5th place: Solos (2021)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 45 percent

The top-class anthology series “Solos” sheds light on the strange, beautiful and painful aspects of being human, and draws an arc from the present to the future. Anthony Mackie, Anne Hathaway, Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman are part of the great cast of the seven-part project, which, due to its monologue-heavy structure, is reminiscent of a theater play – but the latter in particular can sometimes seem strange to the viewer. (Also read: Disney Plus series: These are the top 25 according to the critics )

4th place: Die Romanoffs (2018)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 48 percent

With “Mad Men” landed Matthew Weiner a cult hit; his follow-up project plays with the idea of ​​how the descendants of the notorious Russian tsarist family Romanov would probably live today and how they deal with their family history. However, to enjoy this anthology series, one has to be open to really hideous characters. In addition, some urgent issues such as allegations of harassment are not treated with the sensitivity that one would want in these times.

3rd place: Utopia (2020)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50 percent

Sometimes series simply appear at the wrong time: This American adaptation of a British sci-fi thriller revolves around a group of doomsday theorists (including John Cusack) who accuse their government of lying and manipulating the people in the midst of an epidemic. What’s more, in the series, the government takes the mysterious virus as an opportunity to sell fake vaccines and thus realize its very own, dark plans – the viewer is not offered anything in terms of content that cannot be seen within two minutes Twitter would find.

2nd place: Tell me your Secrets (2021)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50 percent

Three complex characters are the focus of this thriller series by Harriet Warner (“Call the Midwife”, “Die Einkreisung”): Emma (Lily Rabe) was once the partner of a serial killer and is now in the witness protection program; Mary (Amy Brenneman) hopes to find her missing daughter after all, and John (Hamish Linklater) wants to repent for his past atrocities. In the course of the Amazon Prime original, the viewer realizes that these three stories are linked and that none of the protagonists is who they claim to be.

1st place: Carnival Row (2019)

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 57 percent

Jack the Ripper meets Romeo and Juliet: In this visual Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne as ominous lovers from different worlds – she is a fairy from the mythological land of Tir Na Nog, he is a policeman in Victorian-influenced London – have to solve a brutal series of murders. And even if the political allegory sometimes lags a bit and the computer effects around the flying fairies seem a bit silly: The steampunk aesthetic is a big plus point of the series, as is Orlando Bloom, who plays the dutiful investigator in the midst of a great emotional chaos everything is there. The second season is currently being shot.

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