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The 11 Best Things Coming to Prime Video in April

From ‘House’ to Oscar winner ‘The Holdovers,’ there’s something for everyone on Amazon’s powerhouse streamer


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Robert Downey Jr. in "Chaplin."
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Like many streamers, Amazon’s Prime Video has learned to cater to just about every taste imaginable. This month, the service rolls out a pricey adaptation of the video game Fallout set in a super-violent postapocalyptic California, but also a musical love story, Música, about a guy who can turn everyday sounds into a pulsing personal soundtrack. Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, featuring remarkable performances by Paul Giamatti, 56, and newly minted Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph, lands on Prime — along with classics such as Chaplin and the eight-season medical drama House. Mark your watch list with the 11 best new offerings on Prime and its ad-supported sister streamer, Freevee, coming in April.

Coming April 1

Chaplin (1992, PG-13)

Robert Downey Jr., 58, who just won his first Oscar for his supporting role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, first captured the academy’s attention for his nominated turn as Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin. Richard Attenborough’s biopic can be formulaic, but Downey nails Chaplin’s all-over-London accent (sometimes Cockney, sometimes posh) and his gift for sidesplitting slapstick.

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House (2004-12)

For eight seasons, Hugh Laurie, 64, created an indelible portrait of a curmudgeonly, pill-popping physician with a unique ability to sniff out unusual diagnoses. The show continues to hold appeal for fans of hospital dramas, mysteries and WebMD.

Coming April 4

Música (2024, PG-13)

Former YouTuber Rudy Mancuso directed, cowrote and stars in this semi-autobiographical love story about a young man with a condition called synesthesia. His brain turns the ordinary sounds around him into rhythms, as if he’s creating his own personal movie soundtrack while moving around in the world. Here, his alter ego (also named Rudy) sparks a romance with a young woman played by Camila Mendes (Riverdale).

Coming April 5

Alex Rider, Season 3

More than two years have passed since the second season of this spy thriller, starring Otto Farrant as a teenage James Bond type originally recruited by MI6 to infiltrate an academy for the children of one-percenters. A bit older, he seeks to take on an evil criminal organization known as Scorpia and learn the mysterious backstory about his former MI6 agent father. (This show streams on Amazon’s ad-supported Freevee service.)

How to Date Billy Walsh (2024)

In a Briticized throwback to classic ’80s teen movies (including the use of the Ferris Bueller-like mantra, “Kiss my ass, universe”), a teenage boy (Sebastian Croft) who’s nurtured a crush on his female bestie (Charithra Chandran) is thrown into upheaval by the arrival of a hunky exchange student (Tanner Buchanan) who seems interested in her.

​​Coming April 11

Fallout, Season 1

The producers of Westworld have a hand in this new postapocalyptic series, set in Los Angeles 200 years after an epic nuclear catastrophe. Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) emerges from a luxury fallout shelter to discover an ultraviolent outside world full of fractious humans, wildly evolved new critters and malevolent robots. The first eight episodes of this video game–inspired show look dark, twisted and promising.

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Coming April 18

Dinner With the Parents, Season 1

Henry Hall (son of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 63) stars in this Freevee comedy series based on a British hit about a close-knit family with grownup children who gather every Friday for a communal meal — which regularly devolves into chaos, thanks to pranks, misunderstandings and surprise visitors (including nosy neighbors and old childhood crushes). The secret weapon might be Carol Kane, 71, as the daffy, heavily accented grandma.

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(Left to right) Tyler Cameron, Robb Ritch and Jessica Quintero in "Going Home With Tyler Cameron."
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Going Home With Tyler Cameron, Season 1

Bachelor Nation meets HGTV in this new home-renovation series, starring former Bachelorette hunk Tyler Cameron as he launches a construction and home remodeling business in his hometown of Jupiter, Florida. Time for some demo!​​

Coming April 22

Spectre (2015, PG-13)

The highlight of the fourth outing of Daniel Craig, 56, as 007 is Christoph Waltz, 67, donning the familiar Nehru jacket to portray the classic villain Ernst Blofeld. Well, that and the blowing up of Blofeld’s desert lair — which required 68 tons of TNT and broke a record for the biggest movie explosion.

Coming April 25

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Them: The Scare, Season 2

In the first season of Little Marvin’s anthology horror series, Deborah Ayorinde and Ashley Thomas played a Black couple who moved their family from North Carolina to an all-white L.A. neighborhood where they were threatened by racist neighbors as well as otherworldly forces. The new season jumps to 1991, the year of the infamous Rodney King beating. Ayorinde stars as an LAPD homicide detective investigating the brutal slaying of a foster home mother.

Coming April 29

The Holdovers (2023, R)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph just picked up a well-deserved Oscar for her supporting role in a touching throwback of a drama by Alexander Payne, 63, set at a snooty New England boarding school in 1970. A lone student, abandoned by his family over the Christmas holiday, remains on campus with his cranky bachelor history teacher (Paul Giamatti, 56) and the school cook (Randolph), who is quietly grieving the loss of her son in Vietnam.

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