8 Shows Like Countdown to Watch Next
Prime Video’s newest series is the crime drama, Countdown, starring Jensen Ackles (The Boys, Supernatural), Eric Dane (Euphoria, Grey’s Anatomy), and Jessica Camacho (The Flash, Watchmen).
Countdown premiered on the platform on June 25 with the first 3 episodes with weekly episodes leading up to the season finale on Wednesday, September 3. Created by Derek Haas, executive producer of One Chicago and FBI franchises, the series centers on an officer with the Department of Homeland Security is who murdered in broad daylight. LAPD detective Mark Meachum (Ackles) is then recruited to a secret task force, alongside undercover agents from all branches of law enforcement, to investigate. But the hunt for the killer soon uncovers a plot far more sinister than anyone could have imagined, kicking off a race against time to save a city of millions.
While you wait for new episodes to drop, here are 8 shows like Countdown you can check out.
Bosch (2014-2021)
Cast: Titus Welliver, Jamie Hector, Amy Aquino, Lance Reddick, Madison Lintz, Troy Evans, DaJuan Johnson, Gregory Scott Cummins, Scott Klace, Mimi Rogers
Synopsis: “Detective Harry Bosch finally comes to television. He is relentless. Even in the face of threats to himself and those he loves, he will stop at nothing to bring justice to victims. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to remain loyal to his personal code: “Everybody counts or nobody counts”.”
Where to watch: Prime Video
Bosch: Legacy (2022-2025)
Cast: Titus Welliver, Mimi Rogers, Madison Lintz, Denise G. Sanchez, Alex Loynaz
Synopsis: “Harry Bosch embarks on the next chapter of his career and finds himself working with onetime enemy, Honey Chandler.”
Where to watch: Prime Video
City on a Hill (2019-2022)
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, Lauren E. Banks, Jill Hennessy, Matthew Del Negro, Amanda Clayton, Mark O’Brien
Synopsis: “In early 1990s Boston, ADA, Decourcy Ward, forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt venerated FBI veteran, Jackie Rohr. Together, they take on a case that changes the city’s entire criminal justice system.”
Where to watch: Apple TV (Canada, UK), Prime Video (US), Stan (Australia)
Condor (2018-2020)
Cast: Max Irons, Kristen Hager, Bob Balaban, Sam McCarthy, Gage Arbuthnot, William Hurt, Leem Lubany, Mira Sorvino, Angel Bonanni
Synopsis: “After a low-level CIA analyst returns from lunch to discover everyone in his office has been killed, he goes on the run trying to elude hit men and uncover the truth about who is behind the murders.”
Where to watch: MGM+ (US, UK), MGM Amazon Channel (Canada, Australia)
Cross (2024 – )
Cast: Aldis Hodge, Jennifer Wigmore, Isaiah Mustafa, Juanita Jennings, Alona Tal, Samantha Walkes, Caleb Elijah, Eloise Mumford, Ryan Eggold, Melody Hurd
Synopsis: “Alex Cross, a decorated D.C. homicide detective and forensic psychologist faces a sadistic serial killer; he and his partner, John Sampson track this killer and a threat from Cross’ past appears with ill intent.”
Where to watch: Prime Video
The Night Agent (2023 – )
Cast: Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Hong Chau, Sarah Desjardins, Eve Harlow
Synopsis: “While monitoring an emergency line, a vigilant FBI agent answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole at the White House.”
Where to watch: Netflix
Quantico (2015-2018)
Cast: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jake McLaughlin, Johanna Braddy, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Yasmine Al Massri, Blair Underwood, Russell Tovey, Grahan Rogers
Synopsis: “Explores the lives of young FBI recruits who have come to the Quantico base in Virginia for 21 weeks of training to become special agents. The recruits have been thoroughly vetted and are considered the best and the brightest – but each one possesses secrets, including hidden reasons for enlisting. One recruit is harbouring the biggest secret of all, and he ends up being suspected of masterminding the most deadly attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.”
Where to watch: Disney+ (Australia, Canada, US, UK), Hulu (US), 5 App (UK), 7plus (Australia)
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (2018-2023)
Cast: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kelly, Abbie Cornish, Betty Gabriel, John Hoogenakker, Adam Bernett, Kevin Kent, Nina Hoss
Synopsis: “Now the former U.S. Marine is featured in an episodic series for the first time, with John Krasinski portraying Ryan in this Amazon original thriller that centers on Ryan as an up-and-coming CIA analyst. He is thrust into a dangerous field assignment for the first time and uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication. That launches him into the middle of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale.”
Where to watch: Prime Video
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