It’s only a matter of time before Apple gets into the content game, however, when the first Apple TV series debuted in 2019, it wasn’t sure if they would be successful.
Unlike other streaming services, Apple TV doesn’t have a massive backlog or beloved homes to fall back on, like Max with Warner Bros. and HBO, Peacock with NBC and Universal, Hulu with Disney and ABC, or even deals with classic studios like Prime. and Netflix does it.
Instead, Apple has had to rely on generating original content and spend too much to do so. However, the quality of the content speaks for itself.
We’ve selected the 24 most productive screens on the streaming service that turns out it might be time to ditch the app in favor of Apple TV+.
“Severance” is the most popular show on Apple TV: its long-awaited second season will premiere on January 17, almost three years after the first season ended in April 2022.
The sci-fi mystery is set in a world where Lumon Corporation painters can go through the “exit” process, which completely separates their consciousness between their work and their home (or “innies” and “outies”). » in the world). language of the spectacle).
The cast is packed from top to bottom with amazing actors, but we can’t say enough about Adam Scott’s dual performance as Mark Scout/Mark S. It’s clear that while the two share an underlying goodness, they each have distinct personalities and mannerisms.
Fans of songs like “Lost,” “Mr. Robot,” and “Westworld” immediately joined in.
“Slow Horses” is a British spy mystery about Mick Herron’s “Slough House” e-book series.
A far cry from the slick halls of James Bond’s MI6, “Slow Horses” follows a team of reject MI5 agents who, rather than get fired or quit, are sent to Slough House, a junky outpost run by the slovenly Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), a former Cold War super-spy who has become jaded with the entire service.
Of course, while those agents are supposed to be the most incompetent in the intelligence community, things still hinge on the Slow Horses that keep them in action.
There are four seasons with six episodes each, with at least two more on the way, making it the ultimate weekend binge.
“Bad Sisters” is a black comedy starring Sharon Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle, Sarah Greene, and Eve Hewson as five sisters living in Dublin. One of them, Grace (Duff), is married to a controlling, abusive man named John Paul (Claes Bang).
Each of the Garvey sisters has their own challenge with John Paul, so when he mysteriously dies, they become a suspect in a case involving John Paul’s life insurance.
The first season told a relatively complete story, so it was surprising when the show returned for season two. While it didn’t live up to the highs of season one, it’s enough to be in the company of the Garvey sisters for another eight hours.
Plus, you can always pretend it’s a perfect limited series if you really don’t want to watch season two.
“Hijack” came out of nowhere, but what a pleasant surprise. The screen stars Idris Elba as Sam, a corporate negotiator who is on a flight from Dubai to London that is hijacked mid-flight.
The series is a tense thriller set in real time. It is seven episodes long, and the flight is seven hours.
It was renewed for season two last summer and we can’t wait to see what Sam does next.
“Shrinking” is a comedy starring Jason Segel as Jimmy, a therapist grieving the loss of his wife after a car accident. Fed up with listening to other people complain about their disorders and doing nothing, Jimmy begins to cross moral lines and tell other people what he thinks they deserve to do.
It’s a comedy, I promise.
The cast is completed by Jimmy’s co-workers, Gathrough (Jessica Williams) and Paul (a locked Harrison Ford), his friend Brian (Michael Urie) and his daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell).
If you’re a fan of the sweet and heartwarming comedy of “Ted Lasso” (more on that later), any of the seasons of “Shrinking” will pass without a hitch, and we’re sure the upcoming third season will be as well.
The first crime series on this list, “Black Bird,” tells the real-life story of Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton), a low-level criminal who accepted a two-year plea deal with a parole option that turned out be Be a 10-year contract with the option of parole.
But his luck begins to change when the FBI approaches him with a proposal: befriend fellow inmate and suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser) and get him to confess to as many murders as possible, and get out of jail. with a car- erasing man. save.
“Black Bird” also stars Ray Liotta in one of his final performances as Jimmy’s father, Big Jim.
Anyone who was a fan of Netflix’s “Mindhunter” get to “Black Bird” as soon as possible.
It is the adaptation of the novel of the same name by Scott Turow, after the 1990 film starring Harrison Ford and Brian Dennehy.
In the show, Jake Gyllenhaal plays Rusty Sabich, a Chicago prosecutor who is accused of murder himself after a coworker he was having an affair with, Carolyn (Renate Reinsve), turns up dead.
This exhibition is, in a word, chaotic. But it’s incredibly watchable and we don’t get enough legal thrillers on film or TV anymore, so it’s wonderful to see one so successful. The second season was shown for July 2024.
“For All Mankind” is an alternate history show that asks what would have happened if the Soviet Union had beaten the US to the Moon in 1969. You might not think that would change a lot, but the four seasons of “For All Mankind” suggest it would’ve changed NASA and the space program in all sorts of ways.
Each season of the series is set in a different decade, allowing our characters to travel through the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. A fifth season has already been confirmed in the 2010s.
In addition to being exciting science fiction, it is also a desirable look at the private relationships between astronauts and their families. There is everything for everyone.
You may be wondering, “Is ‘The Morning Show’ any good?” And our answer would be: does a screen have to be good?
Isn’t it enough to hire some of the most productive television actors of all time (Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, Jon Hamm, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Steve Carell, Greta Lee, Karen Pittman, Billy Crudup, Julianna Margulies, Nicole Beharie , Holland Taylor), Tig Notaro. . . the list goes on) to communicate nonsense about the importance of television ratings and morning shows to American culture?
Ultimately, “The Morning Show” is incredibly visible. Season 4 is expected to end this year.
“The Buccaneers” is one of the few Apple TV screens aimed at teens, but it’s excellent. Based on the unfinished novel of the same title by Edith Wharton, “The Buccaneers” is a more progressive vision of what life is like as a teenager. young woman in society in her golden years.
Our titular Buccaneers are an organization of American friends who travel to England during the rookie season to get advantageous matches. But someone in the writers’ room was obviously watching “Bridgerton,” because it has racial diversity, a compelling queer story, love triangles, and tons of trendy music.
“The Buccaneers” ended on a tantalizing cliffhanger, so it was thankfully renewed for a second season in December 2023.
Vince Vaughn stars in detective series after “True Detective”; This time it is a more comical novel based on the novel “Bad Monkey” by Carl Hiaasen.
All of Hiaasen’s novels are based on the laid-back Florida mentality of his main characters, and “Bad Monkey” is no different. In the series, Vaughn plays Andrew Yancy, a loudmouth cop turned restaurant inspector.
When a former colleague gives Yancy a busy assignment (transporting a severed arm to the morgue), he becomes involved in a conspiracy that spans Florida, Key West and the Bahamas.
It was renewed for the second season in December 2024.
“Pachinko” is a generational epic based on Min Jin Lee’s 2017 novel of the same name. It follows a circle of Korean relatives living in Japan for 4 generations and 74 years. Part of the central tension of the series lies in the remedy of Korean immigrants in Japan in the 20th century, and it will indeed warm and break your heart.
Fans of Anna Sawai from “Shogun” should check out the two seasons of “Pachinko,” as she’s equally wonderful in both shows.
The second true-crime limited series on this list, “Five Days at Memorial,” is based on the five days immediately following Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center, a hospital in New Orleans. It’s based on the 2013 book of the same name.
If you don’t know the real story yet, we suggest you stay blind. Vera Farmiga delivers a truly moving role as Dr. Anna Pou, an overworked surgeon who makes heartbreaking decisions about how to best help her patients while waiting for help.
For a lower price, we turned to “Platonic,” a decidedly not sweet romantic comedy about two friends who reunite after one of them gets divorced.
Why did they prevent being friends? Because Sylvia (Rose Byrne) told her best friend Will (Seth Rogen) that she hated her now-ex Audrey (Alisha Wainwright).
There’s little at stake in “Platonic,” yet the chemistry between Rogen and Byrne, first established in the “Neighbors” films, remains as captivating as ever.
The second season was announced in December 2023, so it is expected to be released this year.
“Manhunt” went somewhat unnoticed when it premiered last March, we still don’t know why. This is a truly gripping portrait of the 12-day manhunt for Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle), led by Lincoln’s Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton (Tobias Menzies), and the conspiracy led by some in the South to protect Booth. Training
In the series, Lincoln is played by an unrecognizable Hamish Linklater (who never stops being stellar).
The series only has seven episodes, so it’s a wonderful weekend display to binge.
“Dickinson” is one of the most inventive shows on this list, starring Hailee Steinfeld as the 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson. The show follows her as a young woman living in Amherst with her sister Vinnie (Anna Baryshnikov), her brother Austin (Adrian Blake Enscoe), and her parents Edward (Toby Huss) and Emily (Jane Krakowski).
Complicating matters is that Austin’s fiancée Sue (Ella Hunt) is Emily’s secret lover.
While fans of Dickinson’s might know that she didn’t have the happiest adult life, the show manages to inject hilarity, biting social commentary, and a decent amount of magical realism into the show — for example, Emily is friends with a personification of Death played by Wiz Khalifa.
It ran for three seasons from 2019 to 2021 and is one of few shows today that actually has a satisfying conclusion.
“Mythic Quest” is a sitcom about a team of video game studio workers who created an incredibly popular MMORPG game of the same name.
The cast is an all-star lineup of comedians, including “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s” Rob McElhenney as Ian, the creative director and creator of “Mythic Quest”; Danny Pudi as Brad, the head of monetization; David Hornsby as David, the executive producer; Jessie Ennis as Jo, David’s assistant; and Charlotte Nicdao as Poppy, the lead engineer.
If you’re not sure about the series at first, wait for the fifth episode, “A Dark Quiet Death,” which completely revolutionizes its design and introduces two completely new characters, played by Cristin Milioti and Jake Johnson.
Season four will premiere on January 29, giving you enough time to catch up.
If you happened to catch “The First Omen,” one of 2024’s best horror films, you’re probably wondering where else you can watch Nell Tiger Free be delightfully creepy.
Look no further than “Servant,” a psychological horror show produced by one of the kings of horror, M. Night Shyamalan.
“Servant” is the story of a married couple, Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) and Sean (Toby Kebbell), who face the tragic death of their 13-week-old son Jericho in an unorthodox way: they bought a realistic film. doll, and Dorothy treats it as if it were her real, living son.
So much so that Dorothy and Sean (who really knows the doll) have hired a nanny to take care of Jericho. Come in: Free as Leanne, the scariest nanny to appear on the small screen in a long time.
“Servant” has ups and downs, as can be Shyamalan’s projects, but the 4 seasons keep the tension going all the time. Every horror fan at least check it out.
We couldn’t round up Apple TV+’s best shows without including “Ted Lasso,” arguably the show that put the streamer on the map and was nominated for a record-breaking 20 Emmys for its first season.
The show, born from a character created for an NBC Sports ad, starred Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso, a college football coach from Kansas hired to coach a Premier League soccer team in England. For reasons revealed later in the show, Ted is very game to uproot his entire life.
But the explanation for hiring him is altruistic: The team’s new owner, Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham), took possession of the team after a bitter divorce and now needs to tear it down to anger her husband. ex-husband.
Much has been said and written about the quality of the 3 seasons of “Ted Lasso”, but we know that the first season is as better as television.
It’s a beautiful story about meeting new people, what it means to be a leader, to open up to radical love, kindness, and optimism. We wanted it when it was released in 2020 and we’re sure we’ll want it again in 2025. .
“Silo” is a dystopian thriller based on a series of novels by Graham Yost. It takes place on an Earth ravaged by warfare that has left the surface poisonous. Humanity has moved underground into a giant solo that’s 144 levels deep.
Rebecca Ferguson plays Juliette, an engineer working deep in the silo. She is curious about why everyone is forbidden from knowing the outside world and the death of her lover George (Ferdinand Kingsley) and begins to investigate what is happening in the silo.
“Silo’s” second season concludes on January 17 — but fear not, it’s already been renewed for a third and fourth season to conclude the story.
We’re still bitter about the cancellation of “Schmigadoon!,” a love letter to classical musicals.
The series follows Josh and Melissa, a couple played by Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Strong, who stumble upon the magical town of Schmigadoon while out walking.
In the city, everyone acts like they’re living in a musical from the 40s and starts composing a song, of course, as the cast consists of musical theater icons like Kristen Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Ariana DeBose, Array Jane Krakowski, and Aaron Tveit. Array Tituss Burgess, Patrick Page and many others, it’s great.
The second season, subtitled “Schimago,” parodies the darker musicals of the ’60s and ’70s. Since it was canceled, we’ll never know what was planned for season three, however, it’s clear from the end that it probably would have been a tease of ’80s and ’90s megamusicals like “Cats. “” and ” The Phantom of the Opera “.
However, “Schmigadoon” is lost forever. A level adaptation will open in Washington, D. C. , this month, and we expect it to move to Broadway.
All you want to know about “Loot” is that Maya Rudolph plays Molly, a billionaire’s wife who is deceived and found out with a lot of money, a lot of time and no purpose.
To occupy his time, he decides to become involved in a base that answers his calling rather than simply being a figurehead. Hilarity ensues.
It was renewed for a third season in July 2024, meaning we’ll have more of Molly’s antics soon.
“The Afterparty,” while a TV show, is a true love letter to movie enthusiasts around the world, as each episode took turns laughing at another genre with pinpoint accuracy.
The first season of the show focused on the murder of pop star Xavier (Dave Franco) at the after-party of his high school reunion. As Detective Danner (Tiffany Haddish) asks each person to take her through the night, each person gets to tell their story in their preferred way.
For example, an episode of Xavier’s former bandmate Yasper’s attitude is an upbeat musical, while another classmate’s party is straight out of “The Fast and the Furious. “
Season two has a similar format, except it’s about a wedding after-party, during which the groom was murdered.
It was canceled after two seasons, but at least we’ll have “Yeah, right, whatever. “
We don’t want to spoil the midseason twist of “Sugar,” a seemingly straightforward LA detective story starring Colin Farrell as John Sugar, a private investigator.
But rest assured: this series is crazy. All eight episodes are worth watching, and Apple agreed, as the second season was greenlit in October 2024.
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