While all eyes are on Fallout season 2, which will arrive on Amazon Prime Video in just two weeks, while you wait, there are two shows that the service has running now that have a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score from critics. Not something you see every day when we’re talking about series released within the past month on a single service.
The first show is The Mighty Nein, which I’ve talked about before. It’s the second campaign from Critical Role, who previously did The Legend of Vox Machina, which also had a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, but from three seasons. The Mighty Nein, after debuting on November 16, has started off the same way.
Now, Netflix has gotten a new season of The Family Man for the first time in over four years. The show is an Indian spy thriller originally created for Amazon Prime Video, and season 1 aired back in 2019. Thanks to COVID or what have you, production was delayed but now, The Family Man has returned with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, matching season 2. It doesn’t have all that many reviews in yet, but the series as a whole is widely well-received by both critics and fans. Here’s the synopsis:
“Srikant Tiwari is a middle-class man who also serves as a world-class spy; he tries to balance his familial responsibilities with those at the highly secretive special cell of the National Intelligence Agency.”
The Family Man season 3 was just released on November 20, meaning it was just a few days after The Mighty Nein, two 100% scored seasons within a week. Completely different productions, obviously, but great in their own ways. Interestingly, The Family Man is made by the duo of Raj and DK, who I recall made Amazon’s Citadel: Honey Bunny, the Indian spin-off of their “Citadel Universe” that did not go terribly well at launch, but Honey Bunny was actually better than the other attempts were. And now they have three seasons of a successful spy show under their belt. Plus, a Hindi crime comedy, Guns and Gulaabs on Netflix.
If you think it sounds worth checking out, well, there’s good news there. Not only are the first two seasons bingeable on Amazon Prime Video, but season 3 was also released as a binge drop, meaning no week-to-week wait once you catch up. I had not heard of it until it came up for this post, but if it’s this well-liked, I certainly am going to give it a try as soon as I can.
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