Amazon will release its newest crop of pilots on Thursday (three comedies and two dramas) just in time for the long Labor Day weekend.
And in continuing the streaming service’s tradition, Amazon customers can watch these pilots and provide feedback to determine which ones will be given the series green light — a process that spawned Amazon’s first original series, 2013’s “Alpha House,” starring John Goodman.
Here’s a look at Thursday’s next batch of pilots vying for a series order:
“The Cosmopolitans”
From film director Whit Stillman (“Metropolitan”), this romantic comedy follows a group of young American expats searching for love and friendship in Paris (where the pilot was filmed on location). Adam Brody (“The OC”) and Chloe Sevigny (“Big Love”) star.
“Hand of God”
A drama centering on the powerful Judge Pernell Harris (Ron Perlman), a hard-living, law bending man with a protective wife (Dana Delany) and call-girl mistress who suffers a mental breakdown and goes on a vigilante quest to find the rapist who tore his family apart. But without any evidence to go on, Harris relies on visions and messages he believes are sent by God through his ventilator-bound son.
“Hysteria”
Members of a girls’ competitive dance team in Austin, Texas are stricken with a strange psycho-physiological illness that begins spreading in the community through technology. Mena Suvari (“American Beauty”) stars as a neurologist who returns to her hometown to investigate the cause while fighting the growing manipulation of her brother (TR Knight) on death row.
“Really”
A comedy about four suburban Chicago couples trying to hold on to their dwindling youth that explores the complexities of marriage and dynamics of a tight-knit group of friends. Starring Sarah Chalke (“Scrubs”) and Selma Blair (“Anger Management”).
“Red Oaks”
From executive producer Steven Soderbergh, this coming-of-age comedy follows a young assistant tennis pro at Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey in 1985 and the misfit co-workers and wealthy club members he meets — including an alluring art student and her corporate-raider father (Paul Reiser).
Amazon, meanwhile, greenlit another six pilots earlier this year; of those, the dark comedy “Transparent,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, will be the first to premiere Sept. 26 on Amazon Prime Instant Video. All 10 episodes of “Transparent” will be released simultaneously a la Netflix.