I signed up for the trial period of Apple TV+ - everyone seems to praise it, but I haven't found anything that really impressed me yet. I watched a couple of episodes of Invasion
and The Date, but somehow it didn't grab me.
I want to give it another chance - maybe I just started from the wrong place. What is really worth watching?
You can watch something dramatic, or fantastic, or something family-friendly.
If you've been sitting here for a long time, please advise me something good, otherwise I'm canceling
It happens, I didn't understand Apple TV+ at first either, because I expected something like Netflix. But they have a different approach - less hype, more quality.
I strongly advise you to watch Severance (https://tv.apple.com/) - it's a masterpiece if you like something deeper.
I also recommend Silo, a noir fiction movie that keeps you hooked.
If it's something family-friendly, I like Ted Lasso, but my wife got hooked on Lessons in Chemistry.
I got involved over time. Apple TV is more about atmosphere and thoughtful storytelling than about Binge.
If you haven't changed your mind yet, give at least
"Severance" a chance, it's really top notch.
In addition to the shows listed above, we also enjoyed (to varying levels):
Bad Monkey
Acapulco
The Morning Show
Presumed Innocent
Tehran
Dear Edward
Dickenson
Home Before Dark
Lessons in Chemistry
Shining Girls
The Crowded Room
The Mosquito Coast
Severence. It might take watching a few episodes to get into it but after that it is fantastic.
Lessons in Chemistry was really good. One of my favorites.
Sugar is really good. Go back and watch Bogart in the Big Sleep first. Part of the appeal is just now nicely this was recorded. Great visuals. I love the blue corvette.
Slow Horses
Silo is good. It has a slow pace but slowly pulls you in.
For all Mankind is OK. They are way overoptimistic about how fast technology can develop and be deployed. Kind of weird that so many of the astronauts are heavy smokers.
Foundation is OK. I read the books way back when. This is good but it is a story of its time. It has the viewpoint of the 1940s.
Dark Matter is OK, not great. It is kind of intriguing to imagine various possibilities like this.
We just started watching Severance - been saving Apple TV for a rainy day (we've been slowly cancelling our TV subscriptions). And ... wow. It is ... amazing. We've got some serious catch up to do on Apple TV.
It happens, I didn't understand Apple TV+ at first either, because I expected something like Netflix. But they have a different approach - less hype, more quality.
I strongly advise you to watch Severance (https://tv.apple.com/) - it's a masterpiece if you like something deeper.
I also recommend Silo, a noir fiction movie that keeps you hooked.
If it's something family-friendly, I like Ted Lasso, but my wife got hooked on Lessons in Chemistry.
I got involved over time. Apple TV is more about atmosphere and thoughtful storytelling than about Binge.
If you haven't changed your mind yet, give at least
"Severance" a chance, it's really top notch.
Two of my favorite shows on AppleTV+ are Severance and Silo. Interestingly, for both of these shows, it took me several attempts to get into them. I think I watched the first episode of Severance 3 or 4 times before it "clicked". Silo was a similar experience.
So, to the OP, I'd suggest watching these initial episodes more than once, and don't give up. The payoff is there for both, and many other shows.
Yeah... I couldn't really get into that one either - not enough actual alien invasion, too much unpleasant people being unpleasant to each other in mundane ways in the face of what could have just as easily been a flood, hurricane, power cut, civil war... Strikes me that the authors just wanted to make a depressing human drama but made it SciFi to attract viewers...
Severance is brilliant, and unique, both visually and plot-wise - but not a light'n'easy watch and a bot "love it or hate it" (it's not quite The Prisoner - and somewhat more coherent - but it's heading there!) I'm hoping that they conclude it in S3 and don't drag it out forever.
Slow Horses is great and maybe less love/hate (but not family friendly) and almost unique in streaming in that they actually seem to be knocking out a season every year - so there's already plenty to binge.
...I'd put Severance and Slow Horses on the short list for "best things on any TV service" in the last couple of years.
I liked "For All Mankind"- again, a fairly unique concept for TV (there was a Stephen Baxter book with a very similar premise)
"Foundation" comes down to "watch the pretty lights - don't worry too much about the plot". Doesn't bear much resemblance to the books beyond some very broad strokes and character names - but then the original Foundation trilogy - 600 pages of mostly talking heads - the worst possible basis for a movie or TV show that you could pick. I think the screenwriters had enough ideas to have turned out a better, original space opera without having to pay lip service to the books.
I got bored with "Silo" a few episodes into season 2 because they were taking it too slowly - probably because I had read the books & it's a rather twist-dependent story. Still a quality show.
"Bad Sisters" S1 was great - but IMHO they should have left it there. S2 kinda loses track of the whole black comedy concept.
I thought "Dickinson" was rather clever - the idea of doing a deliberately anachronistic teen drama - and would probably have loved it if I were several decades younger, a different gender, and had gone to school in the US & knew who the heck Emily Dickinson was.
"Murderbot" - I think the ridiculously short episodes spoiled it for me, but then the he source novela is too short for 8-10 hours of screen time. If you haven't watched it I'd wait a week until the whole season is up and then binge it several episodes at a time. Certainly well-produced - but I think they're trying too hard to make it a comedy rather than a drama with comic elements.
(Alternate timelines - fine. Anachronic storytelling - can be effective. Both together: too much!)
and got cancelled.
Golden Raspberry: Time Bandits. Seriously - re-make what was is spiritually a Monty Python film (and only kid-friendly by 1980s standards...) What possible confusion of ideas made them think that would work? It's actually not that bad considering and had a couple of fun moments... but "considering" is doing a lot in that sentence.
One thing about Apple TV+ in 2025 is you finish anything and all that are decent in a day or two tops and then it's just a dodo sitting there while you keep paying for it. I used to think Apple TV+ had quality. It indeed has quality - very few, because its catalog itself is "very few".
And they have like Silo, Ted.. which they are dragging and dragging and dragging and dragging…
One thing about Apple TV+ in 2025 is you finish anything and all that are decent in a day or two tops and then it's just a dodo sitting there while you keep paying for it.
Very few streaming services are worth subscribing to year round, and Apple TV+ is no exception. I generally subscribe a couple times a year for one month. There is plenty of content to justify the 20 bucks or so. Especially comparing it to a single trip to the movies.
I somehow watched Physical as it came out and loved it although it's not something I ever thought I would like. Probably the nostalgia of the 80's. I'm not into women or aerobics. I'm not even sure how I found it but the series finale was meh; I wish it continued. I'm a Asimov nut and have all the 15 Foundation Series in hardcover books so I'm enjoying Foundation even though it strays 1000% from the books. I just finished Severance after trying to start it 10 times for years so I forced myself to watch the first two episodes a few months ago and it hooked me. I liked Ted Lasso season 1 but I haven't finished season 2 yet. I like season 1 of The Morning Show but I haven't watched season 2 yet. I take forever to watch shows because I don't binge, I watch maybe 2-3 episodes a week. I mostly watch movies.
If you love broadway musicals like me Schmigadoon is fun with all the broadway star cameos and Come From Away pro-shot is one of the best musicals ever. It's about the remote town of Gander, Newfoundland that had a huge airport that used to refuel planes traveling between Europe and North America before planes could make it nonstop that welcomes thousands of stranded passengers after the 9/11 terror attacks, offering them a place to stay and a sense of community. 12 actors play over 70 characters. Everyone with Apple TV+ should watch it once even if you hate musicals.
