Spy thriller Alex Rider has trended on UK streamer Prime Video.

Adapted from the Anthony Horowitz book series, the show's first season originally premiered in 2020 on the streaming service, before moving to IMDb TV for its second and Amazon Freevee for its third and final run.

The show's first set of episodes appear to have gained a new lease of life, as they have now begun trending on Prime Video.

Alex Rider follows the titular teenager (played by Otto Farrant) as he's recruited by an MI6 subdivision to be a spy.

The debut season is based on Horowitz's second book Point Blanc, while the second took on Eagle Strike and the third Scorpia.

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The show drew acclaim, with the first season sitting at an impressive 86% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 28 reviews.

In Digital Spy's review of the show, we called it "a slick, fast-paced and enjoyably gritty adaptation" of the book which "remains true to the source material while thankfully ditching some of the more dated (and, dare we say, daft) aspects of the 2001 novel".

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The Globe and Mail labelled it a "beauty of an entertaining series", praising its "spies, lies, skullduggery, teenage kicks [and] gripping action sequences", while CBR said it was "an entertainingly told espionage tale with winning characters".

Alongside Farrant, the show stars Game of Thrones' Stephen Dillane and Brenock O'Connor, Line of Duty's Vicky McClure, Broadchurch's Andrew Buchan and Doctor Who's Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo.

Alex Rider is available to stream now on Prime Video.


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