Currently watching on Amazon Prime

We've finished our week trial of Prime (aka Prime Video) and decided to carry on with a sub of $4.99/mo because it seems to be higher quality that Netflix in many ways.

Anyway, I've been watching Jack Ryan which is based on the Tom Clancy books, of which I've read quite a few. This time it's a young Ryan, but brought into the 21st century and it's impressive, especially in 4K.

Very taut, wonderful vistas, pretty good acting and believable terrorist plots. They've taken a few liberties with Clancy's characters, but that's what based upon usually means.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first season and am looking forward to the next. I also have some Bluetooth headphones, so I can watch without disturbing the missus if she's asleep.

The Man In The High Castle is intriguing, if you can imagine the USA after a Nazi WW2 win.

...as is Goliath with Billy Bob Thornton.

Not forgetting The Grand Tour with the lads who got sacked from Top Gear.

I also like the Prime interface, that doesn't have those annoying in 'ya face trailers. It's all a bit more subtle, shall we say.

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Besides Jack Ryan, what else did you like on Prime that led you to decide the content is better than Netflix’s? It’s certainly inexpensive; will you drop Netflix or keep both?

We don’t want to be glued to a screen all the time, so we’ve resisted the temptation to add any other subscriptions. Though Britbox is very tempting.

Unfortunately, BritBox is exclusively available in the United States and Canada, according to their website.

We're now on The Good Fight, a spin off of The Good Wife and it sails fairly close to the wind by its Trump related storylines, which paradoxically eclipse some of the fiction in the series.

But it's not all about that, with lots of lawyer related stuff, as you would expect, with many familiar faces from The Good Wife, including some of the rather eccentric judges and characters.

There are plenty of cameos too, with Michael Sheen and Mathew Perry popping up. Cush Jumbo and Rose Leslie are British actresses, although you wouldn't notice since their American accents are so flawless.

We're ploughing on through The Good Fight (Good Wife spin-off) which has some pretty serious faults right now. For starters they keep segueing to some quite nauseating cartoon style shorts with a bloke singing an explanation to us like we're kids. Like this:

It's also rather sterile and not gritty enough for my tastes.

On the other hand, Damages with Glenn 'Bunny Boiler' Close is another lawyer show, but much, much grittier and without the gloss.

I haven't given up on The Good Fight yet, but it is a little sugar coated so I might return to it if i run out of stuff.

We're on season four of Damages and Patty Hewes and Ellen are now getting on my tits, but I expect we'll hold out till the end.

As a substitute and when Adri is chained to her spreadsheets, I'm watching Bosch, an LAPD detective series which is gritty and gripping at times.

Our detective hero, Harry Bosch, is kind of a trope for persistent and determined detectives, with a past that haunts him, but he's believable.

It's exclusive to Prime in 4k ultra HD, which looks great on out TV

This looked promising at first, with a pretty good cast and an interesting idea. However, it becomes a little uncomfortable when the writers take liberties with what actually happened at Auschwitz and other concentration camps by adding Nazi cruelty games that never actually happened.

Designed more to titillate with a team of Nazi hunters painted as Marvel-style super heroes that end up trivialising the 6 million Jews who perished.

I'm still in two minds as to whether to carry on with it, to be honest.

I read most of his books many years ago, including My Family and Other Animals. Simply couldn't put that one down.