Top 10 Western TV series to stream on Prime

Movieweb highlights 10 Western television series available to stream on Prime, spanning classic programs and contemporary revisions of the genre. Entries range from the sci-fi neo-Western Outer Range, led by Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor, and Tom Pelphrey, in which Wyoming rancher Royal Abbott confronts a mysterious black void and other strange events — a show Inverse called "one of the boldest, weirdest, and most affecting sci-fi shows of the 21st century," with season two earning a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score — to older staples such as The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors as widower Lucas McCain in a five-season, 168-episode run that was the first primetime show to depict a single parent raising a child.

Other noted mentions include AMC’s Hell on Wheels, which follows Cullen Bohannon’s quest for vengeance and ran five seasons (Prime currently has only the first season available), and the 2022 miniseries The English, which starred Emily Blunt and earned a Screen Actors Guild nomination and a British Academy Television Craft Award for costume design.

The list also includes family-centered and historical dramas such as Little House on the Prairie (nine seasons, 204 episodes), Wild West Chronicles (2020–present, four seasons), The Man from Snowy River (four seasons, 65 episodes), Elkhorn, and The Pinkertons (a single 22-episode season).

Key Topics

Culture, Outer Range, The Rifleman, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin