Like many of the streaming platforms, Apple TV+ has a whole array of original content to feast our eyes upon. There are gripping thrillers in Severance and Disclaimer, comedies in The Morning Show and Ted Lasso, and historical dramas in The Masters Of The Air. There is truly something to suit whatever mood you’re in. I would highly recommend giving Severance a watch, it is one of the best TV shows I have seen in recent years (I cannot stop talking about it) and Apple TV+ claims it’s now the platform’s most-watched show.

And so, if you’re looking for your new TV obsession, these are the best Apple TV+ shows to fill your boots with.

Severance

Apple TV+ has brought us a Black Mirror-Succession hybrid in the form of Severance.

The drama revolves around Lumon Industries, a sprawling business that’s set up in a small town with many of its inhabitants working for the cult-like company. Mark (Adam Scott) is the new office leader who seems devoted to his job but when his best friend, Petey (Yul Vazquez), mysteriously vanishes from the company, he’s left to fill in the blanks of what happened.

That’s a lot harder than you’d think because anybody who works in Mark’s division at Lumon undergoes the “severance procedure”, meaning that their working self is completely separate from their personal self.

Dope Thief

Executive produced by Ridley Scott and based on Dennis Tafoya’s book of the same name, the new series follows long-time Philly friends and delinquents who pose as DEA agents to rob an unknown house in the countryside. But their small-time grift become a life-and-death enterprise, as they unwittingly reveal and unravel the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern seaboard.

The cast includes Brian Tyree Henry, Wagner Moura, Marin Ireland, Kate Mulgrew, Nesta Cooper, Amir Arison, Dustin Nguyen, and Ving Rhames.

Presumed Innocent

Based on Scott Turow’s best-selling novel of the same name, the eight-part series follows chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich (Jake Gyllenhaal), a married man and respected officer, who starts an affair with a woman named Carolyn. However, his domestic and professional life are thrown into disarray when Carolyn is murdered, and Rusty becomes one of the lead suspects.

Bad Sisters

“The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for each other,” reads the official synopsis. “When their brother-in-law winds up dead, his life insurers launch an investigation to prove malicious intent – and set their sights on the sisters, all of whom had ample reason to kill him.”

Even though it was originally intended as a limited show, Bad Sisters is now on its second season and we’re pretty glad because the series is dark, witty and brilliant. Well worth a watch.

Slow Horses

Based on Mick Herron’s Slough House series of books and on its fourth season, Slow Horses is about a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 as a result of their career-ending mistakes. A sort of Only Fools And Horses meets James Bond-type situation, if you will.

The Morning Show

One of the jewels in Apple’s crown is The Morning Show, a drama about the lives of the news presenters that wake America up every day. Inspired by Brian Stelter’s book Top Of The Morning: Inside The Cutthroat World Of Morning TV, the drama explores how the world of morning news deals with the complicated power dynamics between men and women.

The series is led by Jennifer Aniston as veteran news anchor Alex Levy, while Steve Carell plays Mitch Kessler, her co-anchor of 15 years who is fired for sexual misconduct allegations.

Reese Witherspoon, meanwhile, plays ambitious West Virginia local news reporter Bradley Jackson, whose plans to climb the ranks of morning news by taking Alex’s place sparks a fierce rivalry between the pair.

Disclaimer

Cate Blanchett takes the lead in the brilliant Disclaimer. She plays Catherine Ravenscroft, a journalist who has made her name uncovering the misdeeds of others, but the tables are turned when she receives an anonymous novel with her own transgressions front and centre. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón and also starring Kevin Kline and Kodi Smit-McPhee, this psychological thriller is unmissable.

Masters Of The Air

Based on the book Masters Of The Air by Donald L Miller, this limited series follows the true and deeply personal story of an American bomber squad in World War II who brought the war to Hitler’s doorstep. The series features a huge cast including Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Barry Keoghan, Ncuti Gatwa and many more.

Shrinking

Shrinking follows Jason Segel’s James, a grieving therapist with “resting dead wife face”, who really isn’t doing OK behind closed doors.

At work, though, he puts on a brave face and listens intently to his clients as they talk about their own problems. Until, one day, he’s unable to wait for one woman to reach her own breakthrough and informs her, in no uncertain terms, that her partner is emotionally abusive and she needs to leave him. “OK,” she replies simply.

From that moment on, James decides he needs to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. And so, ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives… including his own.

Pachinko

Based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name by Korean American author Min Jin Lee, Pachinko follows the trials and tribulations of four generations of a Korean immigrant family, from pre-World War II Japanese occupation through the 1980s financial boom in the US and Japan.

“Epic in scope and intimate in tone, the story begins with a forbidden love and crescendos into a sweeping saga that journeys between Korea, Japan and America to tell an unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph and reckoning,” reads the synopsis.

Ted Lasso

Everyone experiences that feeling of starting a new job and wondering if you’ve actually got what it takes to fulfil the role. However, for Ted Lasso, it’s less of a fear and more of a fact as he goes from coaching a small-time American college football team to coaching a Premier League club. We’re sure it’ll all be fine… right?

Silo

Based on Hugh Howey’s New York Times bestselling trilogy of dystopian novels, Silo tells the story of the last 10,000 people on earth.

Their world, however, looks incredibly different to ours, as they live in the show’s eponymous silo buried deep, deep underground. There, men and women live in a society full of rules and regulations they believe are meant to protect them from the toxic wasteland above… but is all as it seems?

“No one knows when or why the silo was built and any who try to find out face fatal consequences,” promises the synopsis. When a young engineer begins searching for answers about a loved one’s murder, however, she finds herself unravelling an almighty conspiracy, and it’s not long before she finds herself tumbling into a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined.

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