5 Amazon Prime Video Recommendations
- Halt and Catch fire
The period drama's first season takes place in Dallas in 1983 and follows Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace), a former IBM employee now trying to compete with his former employers. After playing an important role in launching the IBM Personal Computer, Joe is hired by Cardiff Electric as a sales executive—his goal is to recruit Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a system builder, to help him reverse engineer an IBM PC. When their boss John Bosworth (Toby Huss) finds out IBM is suing the company for copyright infringement, he's forced to enter the PC business. Joe and Gordon also recruit Cameron Howe (Mackanzie Davis), a student Joe met previously, to work with them on building a new PC from scratch. As the season progresses, Cardiff goes up against the biggest player in the PC business.
- The Terror
Inspired by a true story, The Terror centers on the Royal Navy's perilous voyage into uncharted territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction. Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, The Terror highlights all that can go wrong when a group of men, desperate to survive, struggle not only with the elements, but with each other.
- Hap & Leonard
Set in the late 1980's, Hap and Leonard is a darkly comic swamp noir of two best friends, one femme fatale, a crew of washed up revolutionaries, a pair of murderous psycho killers, some lost loot, and the fuzz.
- The Looming Tower
This drama series exposes the increasing danger of Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s, focusing on how the clash between the FBI and CIA might have accidentally cleared the path for the disaster that was 9/11 and, subsequently, the war in Iraq. John O'Neill (Jeff Daniels), part of the counter-terrorism division of the FBI, must deal with the insufficient help from their colleagues in the CIA – including their combative leader, Martin Schmidt (Peter Sarsgaard). Both groups travel the globe, clashing over the ownership of data while they are supposedly trying to achieve the same goal: keeping the country safe.
- Catastrophe
Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in this R-rated comedy about a one-week stand between a Boston ad exec and a London schoolteacher that leads to an accidental pregnancy. When Rob moves to the UK to help figure things out, cultures clash and hormones flare as these two realize they don't know the first thing about each other.