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Prime Video's Top 10 chart has been crowded this summer. Legally Blonde prequel Elle and hit romance series Off Campus have been trading positions near the top for weeks, and the streamer's big-swing science fiction projects have kept a firm grip on the audience as well. That kind of congestion usually means a newcomer needs a while to climb, but a new series that dropped its entire first season just days ago has already pushed past the competition to claim the No. 1 spot, while also boasting a solid 96% Rotten Tomatoes score.
According to FlixPatrol, the series in question is Ride or Die, and the complete first season was released at once rather than following a weekly release schedule. It turned out to be the right call for a show built to be binged. Amazon has also been looking for a comedy with a star-led appeal for a while. There is some irony in the fact that it may have found one by building Ride or Die around Apple TV's Hannah Waddingham, whose post-Ted Lasso profile made her one of television’s more bankable recent breakout stars. Created by Tessa Coates and starring Waddingham, Octavia Spencer, and Bill Nighy, the action-comedy premiered on Prime Video on July 15, 2026.
It centers on best friends Debbie Claybourne and Judith Burton, whose relationship is thrown off balance when Debbie learns that Judith has been living a second life as an international assassin. A failed hit and the arrival of someone from Judith's past then send both women on the run across Europe. The pair, who also serve as executive producers alongside creator Coates, have given a finale-focused interview with Bill Nighy addressing the season's cliffhanger ending and Judith's still-secret real name, with Spencer saying:
"I hope that that gets to be a secret between the two of them because… if people know her real name, then she's vulnerable, she's extremely vulnerable, so I hope not." (via TV Insider)
What seems to be helping Ride or Die early is that the conversation around it has not settled only on the assassin hook. In an interview with UPI, creator Tessa Coates said, "What I love to watch and to write is ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events," and that idea appears to sit at the center of the show's pitch.
