Kill Your Darlings

You don't need another "must-watch drama" list — Kill Your Darlings in the UK on Amazon Prime Video earns the spot regardless. A tight runtime that never overstays its welcome. With 1,420 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Daniel Radcliffe sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. Put it on tonight on Amazon Prime Video and see for yourself.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Kill Your Darlings earns its spot. Kill Your Darlings trusts its audience to sit with discomfort instead of resolving it too quickly. A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. The performances from Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan give it more weight than the premise alone would suggest. It was released in 2013. The writing trusts the audience to sit with ambiguity rather than wrapping everything up in a tidy conclusion — it is the approach that separates good drama from great. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Kill Your Darlings is what you recommend to people who say they do not really watch much. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single evening. Daniel Radcliffe anchors a cast that never overplays its hand. The kind of drama that stays with you well after the finale.

Kill Your Darlings was released in 2013, directed by John Krokidas. The full 103-minute film is available to watch now. Find exactly where it's streaming below, and TV Butler Pro makes it effortless to track your progress as you go. Just search the name, and Butler finds it instantly, tells you which service has it, and remembers exactly where you left off.