Amazon Prime Video has classic HBO series like THE SOPRANOS and THE WIRE and more for “free”!
(UPDATE: NO LONGER VALID; HBO’s changed to HBOMax)
I found this out just last week by accident and thought I’d pass it on. If you are an Amazon Prime member, you get Prime Video. You can watch many complete “classic” HBO series which are included “free” via Amazon Prime Video!
So if you don’t have HBO, you can still watch a lot of their best content, included with your Amazon Prime services.
After reading recently about the 20th Aniversary of THE SOPRANOS and searching around on Amazon Prime Video, I was a pleasantly surprised to find Amazon actually has the entire six seasons of “THE SOPRANOS” available to watch on demand. So if you are a Prime member, missed The Sopranos and want to see it, you could watch the whole thing whenever you want…”free”.
Searching around Prime Video, I found another of the best television shows of all time that was on HBO and now available on Prime, namely THE WIRE (entire series).
You probably heard that The Wire was one of, if not, The Best television series ever made. Yes, it is; its not overhyped. David Simon is a brilliant writer and the show and everything in it are brilliant. Especially the character, Omar (Michael K Wiliams).
Also available on Amazon… DEADWOOD (the entire series)
Each of these 3 show were some of the best television series ever done, period.
I knew about BREAKING BAD being on Prime Video but didn’t know Amazon must have worked out some deal with HBO to have older series available on Prime Video. So I imagine at some point GAME OF THRONES might be available to watch on Prime?! That would be super. Ditto, WESTWORLD when its finished its run.
Again you don’t need to subscribe to HBO for these HBO shows, if you’re a Amazon Prime member. Just go to Prime Video to find them on Amazon. Oh wow, just now I found more shows there in Amazon’s “HBO Classics Collection” (Boardwalk Empire, Rome, Oz, Six Feet Under…)
This is great for people who missed these shows and want to catch up but don’t want to pay for HBO. It’s another of the perhaps lesser known Prime Benefits, other than the “free 2 day shipping”. I held out for years before signing up for Prime, but do find there are benefits like this besides the free 2 day shipping, that factor into the price and add value to the cost of it.
If you don’t have Prime but want to try it for free you can Get a Free 30 Day Trial with this link
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While you could watch right on your computer or device frankly the best and ideal way to watch these series would be to watch them on your nice big screen television with an Amazon Fire TV stick or Roku TV Stick or other device. I have the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K and though I have a few reservations in general I really like it.
