The Best Things Coming to Prime Video in August

Eddie Murphy is back in action, while Tom Brady tries his hand at British football

Thom Geier,

Updated July 30, 2025

AARP

Comments

Published January 29, 2025

/ Updated July 30, 2025

Dae Kim stars in the spy thriller series "Butterfly," coming to Prime Video Aug. 13.

Chiabella James/Prime

In the thick of summer, Prime Video is giving us plenty of reasons to stay in the air-conditioned indoors. Time to catch Eddie Murphy, 64, in an action comedy where he plays the older, wiser one mentoring the decades-younger Pete Davidson. Sports fans will gravitate to a new docuseries following Tom Brady’s efforts to revive a British soccer team with an epic losing streak. And rom-com fans may flutter to Butterfly, about a couple who meet cute while touring Europe and then try to figure out if they can make it work when they’re not always catching trains. Destination happily ever after? Here are our picks from the new offerings on Amazon’s streamer.

Coming August 1

Built in Birmingham: Brady & the Blues (Season 1)

When NFL legend Tom Brady became a minority owner of England’s woebegone soccer team Birmingham City, the locals were not impressed. As one fan says in this five-episode docuseries, “Tom Brady? Who’s he? Probably what he knows about football you could put on a postage stamp.” The show follows the quarterback and his partner’s efforts to rebuild the long-losing franchise and pull off a Wrexham-like turnaround.

Coming August 6

The Pickup (2025)

It’s been decades since classic Eddie Murphy action comedies like Beverly Hills Cop. But the star returns to the genre, paired with another SNL alum, Pete Davidson. The duo play armored truck drivers whose rig is ambushed by a criminal gang led by Keke Palmer. Soon, they find themselves forced into an even more elaborate heist to survive.

Coming August 7

Taurasi

This three-part docuseries chronicles the fascinating life of what some call the GOAT of women’s basketball: Diana Taurasi. Born and raised in California to two Argentine immigrants, she brought a fierce determination and fearless athleticism to the court, earning three NCAA Championships for the University of Connecticut and three WNBA titles in her two-decade pro career with the Phoenix Mercury. She was a pioneer in the fledgling league who pushed for better pay – and even joined teams in places like Russia and Turkey that offered compensation more commensurate with her talent. Oh, and did we mention her six Olympic gold medals?

Coming August 13

Sausage Party: Foodtopia (Season 2)

The sentient foodstuffs are back in this animated series, stuck in a supposedly idyllic place known as New Foodland. Seth Rogen, Will Forte, 55, Edward Norton, 55, and Michael Cera return as foul-mouthed character voices, this time joined by Marion Cotillard as a badass mustard named Dijon and Jillian Bell as a compassionate nut named Trish.

Butterfly (Season 1)

In this spy thriller based on a graphic novel series, Daniel Dae Kim (Hawaii Five-O, Lost), 56, stars as a former U.S. intelligence operative trying to live under the radar in South Korea. Naturally, an old case from his past job resurfaces with a vengeance, and he’s pursued by a deadly assassin (Reina Hardesty) who turns out to be his estranged daughter. Then the two join forces to evade a sinister organization headed by Piper Perabo. y.

Coming August 15

The Siege at Thorn High (2025)

This Indonesian thriller, a blockbuster in its home country, centers on a substitute teacher at a juvenile detention center who’s quietly looking for his long-missing nephew. No sooner do they reconnect than the school goes into lockdown due to anti-Chinese riots that place both of them in danger.

Abandoned: The Woman in the Decaying House (Season 1)

This three-part docuseries follows the disturbing case of Margida Bonetti, a disheveled woman who was discovered several years ago living in a decaying mansion in a tony section of São Paulo, Brazil, that some compared to Grey Gardens. Turns out she had been wanted by the FBI for decades after fleeing suburban Maryland just before she and her ex-husband were due to stand trial for assaulting a domestic worker they illegally kept locked up in a basement room without pay. (The ex-husband was convicted and served time.) This is one of the darker true-crime yarns of the year.

Betty la Fea: The Story Continues (Season 2)

Prime returns with more installments in the sequel series to the Colombian telenovela that became an international sensation – perhaps best known in the U.S. for the hit English-language version, Ugly Betty, that ran for four seasons on ABC in the late 2000s. Betty (Ana María Orozco, 52) is now battling for control of her fashion company, trying to save her marriage to Armando (Jorge Enrique Abello, 57), and reconnect with her prickly teenage daughter. Expect a lot of campy humor and surprise twists.

Coming August 20

The Map That Leads to You (2025)

Madelyn Cline plays a type A woman, traveling through Europe with her friends, who meets a free-spirited cutie (KJ Apa) charting a peripatetic course through the continent following his grandfather’s old journal. Director Lasse Hallström’s rom-com looks like an old-fashioned charmer, perhaps even with a mad dash to the airport to reconnect.

Coming August 25

Upload (Season 4)

It’s time to return to the near-future of Upload, full of holographic phones, 3-D food printers and a virtual-reality afterlife called Lakeview whose niceness depends on how much you can afford. In the final burst of four new episodes, computer programmer Nathan (Robbie Amell) and his pals must confront a sentient AI that threatens to take over the world, both virtually and IRL.

Coming Aug. 27

The Terminal List: Dark Wolf (Season 1)

This prequel series to The Terminal List traces the origin story of Ben Edwards (Taylor Kitsch) from the Navy SEALs to a special ops team for the CIA led by another ex-SEAL, James Reece (played again by Chris Pratt). Expect a reveal of why Edwards got to a point where he leaked top-secret intel about a mission in Syria that led to the death of much of Reece’s platoon. Also expect an authentic look at military operations and intelligence work thanks to the show’s deployment of veterans as writers and on-set advisers.

%{postComment}%

Thom Geier is an AARP contributor and the award-winning former executive editor of TheWrap, senior editor at Entertainment Weekly, film reporter at The Hollywood Reporter and associate editor at U.S. News & World Report.