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If you're stuck in a cycle of thumbing through streaming sites, looking up trailers, and ultimately rewatching "The Office" for the millionth time, you may want to set your sights on a smaller, choicer pool of options - like all the nominated or award-winning original series on Prime Video.
Streaming wars have amped up the volume of production, financial investment, and in the best of cases, the quality of the content itself. As companies duke it out for a bigger portion of your finite attention, they're bringing bigger and better options to the market in order to seduce you. But, if you don't know where to find the shows most worth your time, then you can get burned by investing time into the fluff and filler also housed on the platform.
Like Netflix and HBO, Amazon is no stranger to Emmys. Below, you'll find 39 solid original series that have either been nominated or already won awards to consider next time you want something new.
Here are 39 critically acclaimed Amazon original series:
Series descriptions are provided by Amazon and lightly edited for length.
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