Best Amazon Prime Video TV Shows for writing quality

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Invincible Season 4

4.8 feature score

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Young Sherlock, Season 1

4.0 overall score

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#1 What It Feels Like For A Girl, Season 1
4.8

The writing is praised for warmth, empathy, humor, and thematic reach. It balances class, sex work, trauma, and trans identity without sanding off the characters’ rough edges.

Pros: genre satisfaction, main cast performance

Cons: family friendliness, violence level

#2 Invincible Season 4
4.8

Writing is one of the strongest consensus positives, particularly in character arcs, moral dilemmas, and adaptations of long-running comic material. Even critics of the animation often say the script and...

Pros: finale satisfaction, continuity

Cons: plot clarity, screenplay quality

#3 It's Not Like That, Chapter 1
4.6

Writing is repeatedly praised as beautiful, humane, and emotionally layered, with faith and family issues woven together naturally. A few critics call it sappy, shallow, or clichéd.

Pros: season finale quality, screenplay quality

Cons: character consistency, continuity

#4 Spider-Noir, Season 1
3.5

Writing quality is mixed-positive overall. Admirers like the sharp banter, humor, and genre control; harsher critics hear cliché, thinness, and imitation where the show wants hard-boiled snap.

Pros: plot twists, cliffhanger effectiveness

Cons: family friendliness, age appropriateness

#5 Steal, Season 1
2.3

The writing has a strong hook and ambitious ideas, but dialogue can feel implausible and the later material is often called obvious, preachy, overextended, or philosophically heavy-handed.

Pros: pilot episode quality, main cast performance

Cons: family friendliness, dialogue quality

#6 Elle, Season 1
2.0

Writing quality drags down much of the package. The scripts can feel tropey, surface-level, or overstuffed, even when individual jokes and teen-drama beats are serviceable.

Pros: cast chemistry, bingeability

Cons: episode length, episode pacing

#7 Every Year After, Season 1
2.0

Writing quality is a repeated concern in the harsher reviews. Critics complain about thin details, predictable plotting, and a story that needed more substance.

Pros: directing quality, cinematography

Cons: character consistency, writing quality

#8 Young Sherlock, Season 1
1.7

The harshest critics see weak subplots, fuzzy characterization, and poor writing as core problems, even though other aspects of the production remain entertaining.

Pros: pilot episode quality, emotional impact

Cons: continuity, modern political framing