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Suspenseful series on Prime Video UK

Cliffhangers built to wreck your sleep schedule. These are the tense thrillers and mysteries included with Prime in the UK. “One more episode” is a lie, and you know it.

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  1. Reacher

    2022 · Series · 4 seasons · 56m episodes

    Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served.

    Streaming in the UK on

  2. Supernatural

    2005 · Series · 15 seasons · 45m episodes

    When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

    Streaming in the UK on

  3. Tulsa King

    2022 · Series · 4 seasons · 43m episodes

    New York mafia capo Dwight "The General" Manfredi is released from prison after 25 years and exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a crew.

    Streaming in the UK on

  4. The X-Files

    1993 · Series · 11 seasons · 44m episodes

    The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

    Streaming in the UK on

  5. Grimm

    2011 · Series · 6 seasons · 43m episodes

    After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.

    Streaming in the UK on

  6. Charmed

    1998 · Series · 8 seasons · 42m episodes

    Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.

    Streaming in the UK on

  7. Fargo

    2014 · Series · 5 seasons · 49m episodes

    A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

    Streaming in the UK on

  8. Twin Peaks

    1990 · Series · 3 seasons · 58m episodes

    The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.

    Streaming in the UK on

  9. The Originals

    2013 · Series · 5 seasons · 45m episodes

    The Vampire Diaries spin-off that follows the Mikaelsons, a family of millennia-old, power-hungry vampires who want to reclaim the city they built, New Orleans, and dominate all those who have wronged them.

    Streaming in the UK on

  10. Batman: The Animated Series

    1992 · Series · 4 seasons · 22m episodes

    Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".

    Streaming in the UK on

  11. The Expanse

    2015 · Series · 6 seasons · 63m episodes

    A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

    Streaming in the UK on

  12. The 100

    2014 · Series · 7 seasons · 42m episodes

    100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.

    Streaming in the UK on

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