October is here! Which means new TV-viewing pleasures, as Prime Video is dropping some absolute bangers for you to enjoy!
From thrilling spy stories to highly-anticipated remakes, here are new shows from Prime Video you have to binge on this month!
House of Spoils (3rd October, 2024)
From Blumhouse, House of Spoils follows an ambitious chef (Ariana DeBose) as she opens a restaurant on a remote estate where she battles kitchen chaos, crushing self doubts… and a haunting presence who threatens to sabotage her at every turn.
Spice Up Our Love (3rd October, 2024)
Spice Up Our Love is a 2-episode spin-off of No Gain No Love. In No Gain No Love, Nam Ja-yeon encounters Bok Gyu-hyun (Lee Sang-yi) when she presses charges against him for writing malicious comments on her web novel. However, in Spice Up Our Love, Nam Ja-yeon ends up turning herself as her web novel’s main character, Seo Yeon-seo, who is a nutritionist at a company called GB Electric while Bok Gyu-hyun transforms into her male lead character, Kang Ha-jun, the CEO of GB Electric. The story line follows Ha-jun who is notoriously picky about the menu which Yeon-seo works tirelessly on. As the two characters interact and fall in love, a spicy but sweet love story ensues.
The Legend of Vox Machina Season 3 (3rd October, 2024)
Everything is at stake in the long-awaited Season Three of The Legend of Vox Machina. The Chroma Conclave’s path of destruction spreads like wildfire while the Cinder King hunts down Vox Machina. Our lovable band of misfits must rise above inner (and outer) demons to try and save their loved ones, Tal’Dorei, and all of Exandria.
Citadel: Diana (10th October, 2024)
Milan, 2030: Eight years ago, the independent global spy agency Citadel was destroyed by the powerful enemy syndicate, Manticore. Since then, Diana Cavalieri (Matilda De Angelis), an undercover Citadel agent, is alone, trapped behind enemy lines as a mole in Manticore. When she finally sees a way out and the chance to disappear forever, the only way to do so is trusting the most unexpected ally, Edo Zani (Lorenzo Cervasio), the heir of Manticore Italy and son of the head of the Italian organisation, Ettore Zani (Maurizio Lombardi), who’s vying for leadership against the other European families.
The Office (AU) (18th October, 2024)
The highly-anticipated Australian version of The Office is the thirteenth adaptation of the global hit franchise and follows the employees at a packaging company, Flinley Craddick in Sydney. When Hannah gets news from the Head Office that they will be shutting down her branch and making everyone work from home, she goes into survival mode, making promises she can’t keep in order to keep her “work family” together. The staff of Flinley Craddick indulge her and must endure Hannah’s outlandish plots as they work toward the impossible targets that have been set for them.
Kayangan (24th October, 2024)
Kayangan is the story of a celebrity shaman who is accused of murder, he then is forced to hunt down supernatural monsters to save himself, and must confront his past in order to save humanity. This horror supernatural series looks into the shaman’s tragic past and of a powerful enemy that seeks to control all realities, including our world.
Like a Dragon: Yakuza (25th October, 2024)
Released in 2005 by SEGA, the ‘Yakuza’ game series was positioned as an entertaining game for adults, which found massive fanfare amongst its target audience. The series depicts the lives of fierce yet passionate gangsters and people living in a huge entertainment district, Kamurochō, a fictional district modelled after the violent Shinjuku ward’s Kabukichō, that acts as the backdrop of the gameplay. Like a Dragon: Yakuza showcases modern Japan and the dramatic stories of these intense characters, such as the legendary Kazuma Kiryu, that games in the past have not been able to explore.
