9 Best Prime Video Romance TV Shows, Ranked

Cruel Intentions is junk food, but we have to admit that we enjoy indulging in it every once and awhile. While the strange dynamic between scheming step siblings Caroline (Sarah Catherine Hook in top form) and Lucien (Zac Burgess) isn’t an appealing romance in the slightest, Lucien does form a sweet bond with Annie (Savannah Lee Smith). Annie is nothing more than a pawn in Caroline and Lucien’s game at first. They want to use her status as the daughter of the vice president to keep Greek life on their college campus. But over time, we truly started rooting for Annie and Lucien, who became the best part of the series. Sadly, we won’t see how their journey ends since it was cancelled after one season.

Motorheads may be about car racing, family secrets, and high school drama, but let’s be real: the romances are the main attraction. It’s been too long since we’ve had an ensemble teen show grace our screens in all of its melodramatic glory and romantic entanglements. Naturally, it’s not revelatory stuff, but the show pulls all of the best features from its predecessors and makes for reliable entertainment. Motorheads also falls a bit lower on the list simply because while it has plenty of ships going for it, there aren’t many established couples making us swoon yet (aside from Melissa Collazo’s Caitlyn and Uriah Shelton’s Curtis). Season 1 did get the wheels turning, though, so we eagerly await news about the show’s fate.

A League of Their Own, a remake of the 1992 movie of the same name, didn’t really get a chance to stretch its legs, but its first and only season hit it out of the park. Charting the rise of a women’s World War II-era baseball team, the funny-yet-sincere show is also unabashedly sapphic. The relationship between players Carson (Abbi Jacobson), who’s coming to terms with her sexuality, and the more experienced Greta Gill (D’Arcy Carden) is the heart of the show. Unfortunately, they (and most of the other pairings) didn’t get enough time to flourish before it was cancelled after one season. Still, you shouldn’t miss out on this.

Another remake of a movie, Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a whirlwind of a romance that unfolds in high-stakes circumstances. Watching John (Donald Glover) and Jane (Maya Erskine) Smith be forced into a marriage for their cover is an absolute joy. Their characters are a match made in incompetent heaven. (The actors, however, are extremely competent and have natural-feeling chemistry.) John and Jane’s relationship does feel a bit rushed, but hey, if we were going on life-threatening missions with someone, we bet we’d fall fast for them, too. Mr. & Mrs. Smith didn’t fail to get our hearts pumping, so we’re looking forward to seeing how Sophie Thatcher and Mark Eydelshteyn fare as the next spy couple in Season 2.

Possibly Prime Video’s most famous and straightforward romance — there’s little else driving the plot — The Summer I Turned Pretty provides three seasons worth of love triangle drama. (Or, almost three seasons. The final installment is airing right now.) The Fisher family includes two brothers: the tortured, complicated Conrad (Christopher Briney), and the lighthearted, flirty Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno). Torn between them is their longtime family friend, Lola Tung’s Belly, who guides viewers through the events of the series. While its divisive characters and occasional clichés won’t appeal to everyone, the show offers a delicious amount of angst and coming-of-age nostalgia.

Don’t let the fact that it was cancelled after one season stop you from indulging in this delightful romantasy. My Lady Jane is brimming with tried-and-true tropes, like enemies-to-lovers and forced proximity. It’s a playful reimagining of historical events: In 16th-century England, Lady Jane Grey (Emily Bader) is in line to the throne, and she marries Lord Guildford Dudley (Edward Bluemel) at the behest of her mother. Not only do they get off on the wrong foot, but Guildford also has a secret: He spends his days in the form of a horse and only turns human at night. Jane and Guildford’s fiery banter is top-tier, and their journey together in this fantastical world of shapeshifters is worth the watch.

Enemies-to-lovers at its finest, Maxton Hall is Amazon’s most-watched international series for a reason. Set at an elite private high school, it follows by-the-book scholarship student Ruby (Harriet Herbig-Matten) as she’s drawn into the world of James (Damian Hardung), an entitled heir to a fashion empire. It’s nothing we haven’t seen before, but emotional, captivating performances from Herbig-Matten and Hardung elevate the material. They make it impossible not to get sucked into their characters’ turbulent, Romeo and Juliet-esque relationship. Get ready for Season 2 in November 2025!

Daisy Jones & The Six is a book-to-screen adaptation done right. The ’70s music scene makes for an alluring backdrop for Daisy (Riley Keough) and her bandmates’ wild relationships. On one hand, there’s Daisy herself and the brooding Billy (Sam Claflin), who are a match made in rock heaven. They’re electric on and off stage during their rise to fame, which doesn’t sit well with Billy’s wife (Camila Morrone). It’s not quite as gritty and surprising as we’d hoped, but the characters are messy and compelling and everything you could want in a romantic drama.

Right away in Season 2, Fleabag breaks the fourth wall and tells the audience that “this is a love story,” and in six episodes, it became one of the best (and most heart-wrenching) romances we’ve seen on the small screen. It’s been a minute since we’ve rewatched the show, but we can confirm that we think about Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) and the Hot Priest (Andrew Scott) on the regular. Off-the-charts chemistry, witty dialogue, the forbidden romance trope — what more could you ask for? Their story isn’t over-the-top dramatic, but the characters have a deep, intimate understanding of each other that left us satisfied. Still, as with all of our favorite love stories, we were left wanting more.