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Shows Like The Terminal List for Military Fans
By Jordan A. · · 4 min read
Chris Pratt is back as James Reece, and The Terminal List returns to Prime Video for its second season on October 21. The first season turned a grim revenge story into one of the streamer's biggest action hits, which is exactly why the wait between seasons has felt so long. If you have already watched the Season 2 trailer more times than you want to admit, these are the shows to carry you through until the new episodes drop.
What makes The Terminal List click is not really the body count. It is the slow tightening of the screws. A soldier loses everything, works out who is responsible, and decides they will answer for it one name at a time. Season 1 followed Reece home from a mission gone catastrophically wrong, then watched him pull the thread on a conspiracy that cost him his family. The series below share that blend of cold competence and raw grief, and most of them are a click away tonight.
The Terminal List: Dark Wolf is the obvious first stop
If you skipped the prequel, start there before Season 2 lands. The Terminal List: Dark Wolf arrived on Prime Video in 2025 and follows Ben Edwards, Reece's CIA friend, played by Taylor Kitsch. It traces how Edwards moved from the SEAL teams into the Agency, and it quietly sets up the loyalties that detonate in the main show. Its eight-episode first season rolled out weekly on Prime, and watching it before the main show makes Season 2 hit harder, because you already understand exactly what these men owe each other and how far they will go to settle it.
Reacher has the same one-man-army pull
Alan Ritchson's Reacher is the closest cousin on Prime Video. Jack Reacher is steadier than Reece and tends to work alone rather than with a team, but the pleasure is identical. A trained wrecking ball walks into a corrupt little town and takes it apart with unsettling patience. The fight work is some of the most satisfying on TV, all weight and consequence instead of quick cuts. If you want a roadmap, our guide on how to get into the Reacher universe lays out where to begin and what the Neagley spinoff adds.
Special Ops: Lioness trades revenge for the long game
Taylor Sheridan's Special Ops: Lioness on Paramount+ swaps the single-minded vendetta for a slow undercover operation, but it scratches the same itch. Zoe Saldana runs a CIA program that embeds an operative inside a target's inner circle, and Nicole Kidman hovers above it all as the handler who treats people like chess pieces. It is tense in a quieter register than The Terminal List, more about the dread of being found out than the thrill of the kill. The moral rot at the top feels like the same world Reece is fighting.
Jack Ryan is the polished version of the same fantasy
John Krasinski spent four seasons as Jack Ryan on Prime Video, and the show is a cleaner, more globe-trotting take on the competent-man thriller. Built from Tom Clancy's novels, it puts a CIA analyst in the field, so Ryan solves as much as he shoots, which gives every mission a problem-to-crack shape. Wendell Pierce grounds the whole thing as his mentor, James Greer, the voice of experience telling Ryan when he is about to get himself killed. If The Terminal List is a revenge ballad, Jack Ryan is the procedural blockbuster, and the two pair together almost too well on the same service.
The Night Agent keeps the paranoia at a boil
Netflix's The Night Agent starts with Gabriel Basso's low-level FBI agent manning a phone that almost never rings, then throws him into a conspiracy that reaches the top of the government. It is less about military precision and more about trust, who is lying, and how fast an ordinary professional has to get very good at staying alive. By its second season the show had grown into a full-blown field operation, pulling Basso's Peter Sutherland into a new assignment and widening the conspiracy without losing the ticking-clock energy. The pacing is relentless, the kind of thing you start on a weeknight and finish by accident at 2 a.m.
A few more to keep in the chamber
If you tear through those, there is still plenty in the same lane. Here is a quick shortlist worth queuing up:
- SEAL Team on Paramount+, which follows a Tier One unit through deployment after deployment and does not flinch from the cost at home.
- Jack Carr's source novels, if you want to know where James Reece came from before Pratt ever put on the vest.
- Slow Horses, for a colder, funnier spin on broken operatives, which we break down further in our roundup of shows like Slow Horses.
The thread running through all of these is a person pushed past the point of no return, then given the training to do something about it. That is the engine The Terminal List revs harder than almost anyone, and it is why the genre keeps finding new fans. For more on the spy and conspiracy side of the same world, our list of shows like Homeland is a good next stop.
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Topics covered: the terminal list, military thrillers, chris pratt, prime video, action shows
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Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and is responsible for every guide published on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu. Dates, season counts and where-to-watch details in these guides are checked against official sources before publishing, and corrections are welcome at Jordan@Bingenext.com.