
Especially when you factor in the other Prime perks, such as free two-day shipping and access to Amazon Music and Amazon's e-book lending library. For instance, Man in the High Castle and Mozart in the Jungle may be enough to make the $99 worthwhile. If you blow through every episode of Downton Abbey in a month or two, you'll have to find something else to watch to make your subscription worthwhile, which may not be that hard considering Amazon's plethora of original programming. The other potential snag is that Amazon Prime requires a yearly, not monthly, subscription. An Amazon Prime subscription ($99 per year) will grant you unlimited access to the first five seasons on computers, set-top boxes, game consoles, smart TVs and anything else that can run the Amazon Video app.Īmazon Prime has only two real drawbacks: The first is that Season 6 is not (yet) available through a Prime subscription, so you'll have to dish out extra money for it (see below).


If you're starting Downton Abbey from the beginning and want to watch it on almost any platform, Amazon Prime Video is your best bet.
