Apple Teases Apple TV+ Surprise on January 4 and 5

[webkit]

Perhaps part of the "surprise" will be a new ad-supported plan and a price increase on the existing ad-free (mostly) plan e.g., $6.99/month with ads or $10.99/month ad-free.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

I may be in the minority with Shrinking but, I found the writing to be overdone, trite, and an overuse of foul language, which really got on my nerves very quickly. I get people cuss but, when the script is filled with it from start to finish, such language detracts, in my opinion. I couldn't make it past the second episode.

The cursing is a bit overdone, I still enjoy it, but that part does get on my nerves.

 

[chucker23n1]

lol, no one outside of MacRumors forums is interested in any of the shows Apple has to offer.

While Apple's shows don't have wide reach, that's silly. They have some truly great shows.

 

[Dezlboy]

If I can watch Season 2 of Severance for free, I'm in.

You can. But as soon as you go to work, you'll forget you saw it.

 

[Edd70]

I may be in the minority with Shrinking but, I found the writing to be overdone, trite, and an overuse of foul language, which really got on my nerves very quickly. I get people cuss but, when the script is filled with it from start to finish, such language detracts, in my opinion. I couldn't make it past the second episode.

I agree with you about the overdone and trite and particularly the first half of season 2, I was almost going to dump the show but they added a character that made things pretty interesting. I stuck with it. It sometimes thinks it's much funnier than it is.

 

[CarAnalogy]

You may not like anything else, and that’s sad, but there are in fact many good (based on awards and popularity) shows on Apple TV+.

Besides what you mentioned, I personally also like:

• Slow Horses (best spy show in a long time).
• Shrinking (from the writer/creator of two other amazing shows, Ted Lasso and Scrubs)
• Lessons In Chemistry (just go watch it).
• Sugar (modern noir who-done-it, with an amazing philosophical twist/reframing.
• Franklin (love me some historical drama, as long as it’s heavy on the history, light on the stupid drama)
• Silo (Rebecca Ferguson, ‘nought said).
• Masters of the Air (If you love WWII history or aircraft).
• For All Man Kind (the middle season almost kept me from continuing to watch, but I’m glad I did).
• Palm Royal (comedy, great representation of a time and place).
• Foundation (Great if you don’t need your scifi space shows to have space battles)
• If, like me, you can’t get enough Si-Fi (even if it’s not award winning), Dark Matter and See make it as honorable mentions.

To say NOTHING of the half dozen great movies I’ve watched, and another half dozen that were “entertaining” or “good romps”.

I don’t know quite how to describe it, except maybe to say that all the shows on ATV seem like they were approved by the same person. They’re all clearly different shows but there’s something I can’t put my finger on. The first season of Ted Lasso and Severance are the only shows I could really get into. I tried several others and just felt…bored, or worse, bored and condescended to.

Just not worth yet another subscription. And it really annoys me that they paywalled the Snoopy holiday episodes. Yeah they throw a token free day for each one, once per year, not on the actual holiday and not well advertised.

 

[macfacts]

Apple tv is a hobby so people like eddy cue can hang out with celebrities, do a google image search for eddy cue Hollywood celebrities

 

[9081094]

Anyone know who the blonde actor is in the picture, bottom left?

Isn’t that Cicciolina from Italy?

 

[Earendil]

What movies or shows people like is personal opinion and I'd never suggest you (or anyone) who finds value in AppleTV+ shouldn't. If it brings you joy to watch, more power to you! But appealing to "awards and popularity" as a defining reason to like ATV+ is laugh-out-loud funny.

All Apple needs is a JD Power "Initial Product TV Show Quality" award on their mantle to really drive their shameless pay-to-play award whoring to its natural conclusion.

Yeah. Maybe go touch grass? My list was clearly stated as what I enjoy. I only stated the popularity and awards because I was replying to someone not stating an opinion, but a fact. To wit:

“Is the "surprise" that they're actually going to have good shows besides Ted Lasso (and maybe Severance)? Because that would be a huge shock for sure.”

I’m serious curious what metric you would use to declare art objectively “good”, if not by popularity OR experts?
Doesn’t mean you need to like a thing, because personal opinion is subjective. But a declarative statement of good? Please enlighten us.

 

[jonas.boetsch]

US only?

 

[fumi2014]

So, what was the big reveal/surprise?