Not all documentaries are grisly true-crime investigations. And as we head into the holiday season, it's nice to see that Prime Video's library of docs includes a nice selection of fascinating and uplifting titles that will redeem your faith in humanity.
As we enter the first of the last weekends of 2025, I dare say it is the season to be bingeful with your time off. This weekend, for the most part, Iβm keeping it fun and sweet with my Amazon Prime Video selections, but I wouldnβt be me if I didnβt throw something sideways at you, just for gasps and laughs.
The latest Alexa+ feature lets you jump to a scene without rewinding or forwarding on Prime Video. Describe the moment like βthe train fightβ or βthe proposal in the rain,β and Alexa+ will instantly play that exact scene.
Amazon Prime Video has scaled back an experiment that created laughable anime dubs with generative AI.
In March, Amazon announced that its streaming service would start including βAI-aided dubbing on licensed movies and series that would not have been dubbed otherwise.β In late November, some AI-generated English and Spanish dubs of anime popped up, including dubs for the Banana Fish series and the movie No Game No Life: Zero. The dubs appear to be part of a beta launch, and users have been able to select βEnglish (AI beta)β or βSpanish (AI beta)β as an audio language option in supported titles.
βAbsolutely disrespectfulβ
Not everyone likes dubbed content. Some people insist on watching movies and shows in their original language to experience the media more authentically, with the passion and talent of the original actors. But you donβt need to be against dubs to see whatβs wrong with the ones Prime Video tested.
This is it, the last month of 2025, and you know what that meansβPrime Video's new Originals lineup for December is heavy on the holiday-themed stuff, with a dusting of other intriguing titles to take the chill off the colder weather.
Prime Video has begun rolling out a supposed beta test using generative AI voices to dub animeβbut they're a bad sign regardless of their dismaying quality.
They say βtis the season to be jolly, but I say βtis the season to be bingeful, and thereβs no better place to do that than on Amazon Prime Video.
The end is nigh. The end of the year, that is. And as the snow flutters to the ground and the wind gets crispy, Prime Video turns into one of the best reasons for staying in of all the major streaming services. For December, Prime is lining up a fresh new mix of blockbuster movies, buzzy new originals, holiday specials, and seasons of tried and true comfort shows, so you've always got something new to get you through the snow days.
We got our first glimpse of the much-anticipated second season of Fallout (adapted from the popular video game franchise) in August when Prime Video released an extended teaser. We now have the official trailer, with all the deadpan humor, explosions, and mutant atrocities one could hope forβincluding ghoulish Elvis impersonators in New Vegas.
(Spoilers for S1 below.)
As previously reported, in S1, we met Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), a young woman whose vault is raided by surface dwellers. The raiders kill many vault residents and kidnap her father, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan), so the sheltered Lucy sets out on a quest to find him. Life on the surface is pretty brutal, but Lucy learns fast. Along the way, she finds an ally (and love interest) in Maximus (Aaron Moten), a squire masquerading as a knight of the Brotherhood of Steel. And she runs afoul of a gunslinger and bounty hunter known as the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a former Hollywood actor named Cooper Howard who survived the original nuclear blast, but radiation exposure turned him into, well, a ghoul.