What are the best miniseries on Prime Video right now?

In the United States, as of November 12, 2026: Over the Garden Wall (2014), rated 8.6 out of 10 on TMDB, then Death's Game and The Girlfriend.

How is this list made?

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The best miniseries on Prime Video

Right now the best miniseries on Prime Video in the United States are Over the Garden Wall (2014), Death's Game (2023) and The Girlfriend (2025). This is the top 30 streaming there today, ranked by how well rated each one is, how many people have rated it, and what people are watching now.

Limited series with a beginning, a middle and an end: one season and done, a weekend or a week of evenings.

Updated November 12, 2026 · streaming in the United States

Pick three for me

1. Over the Garden Wall2014
Series · 1 seasonMystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation★ 8.6
Two brothers, Wirt and Greg, find themselves lost in the Unknown; a strange forest adrift in time. With the help of a wise old Woodsman and a foul-tempered bluebird named Beatrice, Wirt and Greg must travel across this strange land, in…
Stream onPrime VideoHulu
2. Death's Game2023
Series · 1 seasonDrama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy★ 8.4
At the brink of going to hell, Yee-jae must cycle through twelve separate lives and twelve separate deaths in this reincarnation drama.
Stream onPrime Video
3. The Girlfriend2025
Series · 1 seasonDrama, Mystery★ 7.2
Laura has it all: a glittering career, a loving husband, and her precious son, Daniel. But her perfect life unravels when Daniel brings home Cherry, a girlfriend who changes everything.
Stream onPrime VideoAmazon MX Player (free)
4. 56 Days2026
Series · 1 seasonDrama, Crime, Mystery★ 7.4
When an unidentified body is found in a luxury apartment linked to Oliver Kennedy and his girlfriend Ciara Wyse, Detectives Lee Reardon and Karl Connolly reconstruct the couple's deadly romance across the past 56 days.
Stream onPrime VideoAmazon MX Player (free)
5. Steal2026
Series · 1 seasonDrama, Crime, Mystery★ 7.5
A typical day at Lochmill Capital is upended when armed thieves burst in and force Zara and her best friend Luke to execute their demands.
Stream onPrime VideoAmazon MX Player (free)
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6. Generation War2013
Series · 1 seasonWar & Politics, Drama, Action & Adventure★ 8.1
Career-soldier Wilhelm, his pacifist younger brother Friedhelm, and their friends Charlotte, Viktor and Greta say farewell in the summer of 1941 in Berlin, with the promise to meet again after the war.
Stream onPrime VideoHoopla (free)Fawesome (free)Plex (free)+1
7. Daisy Jones & the Six2023
Series · 1 seasonDrama★ 8.0
In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six were on top of the world. Fronted by two charismatic lead singers — Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne — the band had risen from obscurity to fame.
Stream onPrime Video
8. The Odyssey1997
Series · 1 seasonAction & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama★ 7.3
Warrior Odysseus leaves his idyllic life in the kingdom of Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. Following victory, he now must endure a lengthy, decade-long return journey, and with all his wits, overcome deadly monsters, powerful forces of…
Stream onPrime VideofuboTVUP Faith & FamilyShout! Factory+4
9. Lonesome Dove1989
Series · 1 seasonDrama, Western★ 7.9
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive…
Stream onPrime VideofuboTVPeacockPhilo+10
10. Murder Drones2021
Series · 1 seasonAnimation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy★ 8.6
Uzi, a sardonic teen worker robot gone rogue befriends N, an excitable optimistic disassembly drone sent to destroy her, creating what we can assume is a very bad relationship for mankind.
Stream onPrime Video
11. Because This Is My First Life2017
Series · 1 seasonComedy, Drama★ 8.2
Two housemates get married for financial convenience, but discover nothing is simple when it comes to demanding in-laws — or facing their growing bond.
Stream onNetflixPrime VideoTencent VideoRoku Channel (free)+2
12. House of Cards1990
Series · 1 seasonWar & Politics, Comedy, Drama★ 8.1
Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.
Stream onPrime VideoPeacockBritBoxHoopla (free)+1
13. War and Peace2016
Series · 1 seasonDrama★ 7.5
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Stream onPrime VideoPeacockBritBoxCriterion Channel+2
14. The Boys Presents: Diabolical2022
Series · 1 seasonAnimation, Action & Adventure★ 7.1
From some of the most unhinged and maniacal minds in Hollywood today comes this animated anthology series, a collection of irreverent and emotionally shocking animated short films.
Stream onPrime VideoAmazon MX Player (free)
15. A Small Light2023
Series · 1 seasonDrama, War & Politics★ 7.9
Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II.
Stream onPrime Video
16. Spring Fever2026
Series · 1 seasonComedy, Drama★ 8.1
After moving to a quiet rural town to heal from past heartbreak, a withdrawn teacher slowly rediscovers warmth and joy through her unexpected connection with a rough-around-the-edges but kindhearted local man.
Stream onPrime Video
17. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart2023
Series · 1 seasonDrama, Mystery★ 7.6
After losing her parents in a mysterious fire, nine-year-old Alice Hart is raised by her grandmother June on a flower farm where she learns there are secrets within secrets.
Stream onPrime Video
18. The Long Season2023
Series · 1 seasonCrime, Drama, Mystery★ 8.9
The 12-episode series follows Wang Xiang, an ex-train driver who had worked his whole life at the steel plant in a fictional small town in North China, as he attempts to solve the mystery behind a brutal murder during the autumn of 1998.
Stream onPrime VideoTencent VideoTubi (free)
19. Too Old to Die Young2019
Series · 1 seasonCrime, Drama★ 7.4
In one tragic night, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Martin Jones's life is blown apart, and he is forced into a deadly underground of Cartel soldiers, Yakuza assassins, and mysterious vigilantes.
Stream onPrime Video
20. The Better Sister2025
Series · 1 seasonDrama, Crime, Mystery★ 6.9
Chloe moves in New York's most elite circles with her lawyer husband Adam and teenage son Ethan by her side while her estranged sister Nicky tries to make ends meet and stay clean.
Stream onPrime Video
21. The English2022
Series · 1 seasonDrama, Western★ 7.3
An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the American West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
Stream onPrime Video
22. This Is England '862010
Series · 1 seasonDrama★ 7.8
It's 1986 - the year Maradona ends England's World Cup dreams in Mexico; the year Top Gun is the highest grossing film; the year over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed and the year Shaun is leaving school.
Stream onPrime VideoShout! FactoryFawesome (free)Roku Channel (free)+4
23. The Storyteller: Greek Myths1991
Series · 1 seasonDrama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy★ 8.2
A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.
Stream onPrime VideoPeacockShout! FactoryRoku Channel (free)+4
24. Tales from the Loop2020
Series · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama★ 7.0
The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.
Stream onPrime VideoAmazon MX Player (free)
25. Jane Eyre2006
Series · 1 seasonDrama★ 7.6
Charlotte Bronte's classic about an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess in a gloomy manor in Yorkshire, where she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Rochester.
Stream onPrime VideoHuluPeacockBritBox+2
26. Little Dorrit2008
Series · 1 seasonDrama★ 7.9
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London.
Stream onPrime VideoPeacockBritBoxRoku Channel (free)+1
27. River2015
Series · 1 seasonCrime, Drama, Mystery★ 7.4
Respected police officer John River, a gifted cop with a troubled mind, struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of a colleague, and chases a suspect across London - with tragic consequences.
Stream onPrime VideoPeacockBritBoxRoku Channel (free)+3
28. My Roommate Is a Gumiho2021
Series · 1 seasonDrama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy★ 8.1
To become a human, a 999-year-old Gumiho, Shin Woo-yeo needs to fill his fox bead with human energy before he turns 1,000 years old. One day, a college girl, Lee Dam accidentally swallows Woo-yeo's fox bead.
Stream onPrime VideoRakuten VikiiQIYI (free)
29. Sense and Sensibility2008
Series · 1 seasonDrama★ 7.5
Sense and Sensibility is a 2008 British television drama, based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies, who said that the aim of the series was to make viewers forget Ang Lee's 1995 film…
Stream onHulufuboTVPeacockBritBox+4
30. Maradona, Blessed Dream2021
Series · 1 seasonDrama★ 7.4
The controversial life and history of Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona. From his beginnings in Villa Fiorito, one of the poorest barrios of Buenos Aires, to achieving glory on the international football league.
Stream onPrime Video

Questions

What are the best miniseries on Prime Video right now?: In the United States, as of November 12, 2026: Over the Garden Wall (2014), rated 8.6 out of 10 on TMDB, then Death's Game and The Girlfriend.
How is this list made?: Watchwalla asks TMDB for everything of this kind that streams in your country today, ranks it by rating (pulled toward the middle until enough people have rated a title), with a nudge for what's new and what people are watching now, and refreshes the list every day. Streaming availability comes from JustWatch, through TMDB.
Can it pick something for me?: Yes. The picker at watchwalla.com/tonight asks who's watching, how much time you have and what you're in the mood for, and gives three picks streaming where you are. Sign in and every title also gets a match score for your own taste.

The best miniseries on Prime Video

1. Over the Garden Wall2014

2. Death's Game2023

3. The Girlfriend2025

4. 56 Days2026

5. Steal2026

6. Generation War2013

7. Daisy Jones & the Six2023

8. The Odyssey1997

9. Lonesome Dove1989

10. Murder Drones2021

11. Because This Is My First Life2017

12. House of Cards1990

13. War and Peace2016

14. The Boys Presents: Diabolical2022

15. A Small Light2023

16. Spring Fever2026

17. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart2023

18. The Long Season2023

19. Too Old to Die Young2019

20. The Better Sister2025

21. The English2022

22. This Is England '862010

23. The Storyteller: Greek Myths1991

24. Tales from the Loop2020

25. Jane Eyre2006

26. Little Dorrit2008

27. River2015

28. My Roommate Is a Gumiho2021

29. Sense and Sensibility2008

30. Maradona, Blessed Dream2021

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