Prime Video’s latest addition to its dadcore line-up—which also includes Reacher, Jack Ryan, Bosch, and The Terminal List—is Cross, a new series starring Aldis Hodge as Alex Cross, author James Patterson’s famous detective,

James Patterson’s tough-talking forensic psychologist, Alex Cross, has been portrayed on the big screen by Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry. Ben Watkins’s adaptation, Cross (Amazon Prime Video), downsizes him to television and walks an uneasy line between pulp escapism and social commentary.

Aldis Hodge stars as detective Alex Cross in Prime Video's new series 'Cross,' inspired by James Patterson's best-selling series of novels.

Aldis Hodge and Isaiah Mustafa star in the ambitious drama based on Patterson's Alex Cross novels. Amazon’s Prime Video has done quite well for itself with Dad Dramas — those shows based on characters from thriller novels popular with patriarchs.

A tenacious but troubled Washington, D.C. police detective investigates a serial killing spree that may or may not be connected to a case from his own past.

What to do with the character of Alex Cross has been a hard case for Hollywood to crack. Bestselling author James Patterson introduced the ace detective to the world in 1993 with "Along Came a Spider,