If this weekend you are planning on sitting on your couch with no worries in the world and watching something nice, in this article, find out about the 18 best TV Shows you can watch on Apple TV+. Now, you might wonder how will you be able to finish a series in just a weekend. This list contains both long and mini-series from all genres. So, go through this list to find out what to binge!
1. The Afterparty
The Afterparty revolves around a high school reunion that goes horribly wrong when one of the attendees is found murdered. Detective Danner going against the advice of her seniors, takes up the case and everyone present at the party is a suspect. The show takes a rather comical tone with each member of the party being interrogated. The Afterparty is a perfect show for you if you enjoy mystery and Comedy shows and will not take up much of your time.
2. Black Bird
Black Bird brings to our screens the true story of Jimmy Keene who has been sent to a minimum security prison in a drugs case for 10 Years without parole. However, he feels the sentence to be unjust. To get out, he makes a deal with the FBI to be transferred to a maximum security prison and befriend the serial killer Larry Hall to get a confession out of him regarding the whereabouts of the dead bodies of more than 18 women. This series is a perfect blend of thriller and suspense that you should not miss out on.
3. Manhunt
Manhunt is a historical drama series that brings us the tale of the nationwide manhunt organized to hunt down John Wilkes Booth, the man responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This miniseries is a live-action adaptation of a book written by James L. Swanson named “Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer.” This series will give you an in-depth look at how Booth planned and executed his plan to kill President Lincoln.
4. See
See brings us an interesting new concept of Dystopian worldbuilding. This series takes place in a dystopian future where humans have lost the ability to see. This was because of a virus that hit humanity and those who survived it, lost their vision permanently. However, centuries later, when the ability to see was just a myth, Baba Voss (Jason Momoa) had twins born with the ability to see.
The word of these twins being born spread like wildfire and now, a queen who believes the children’s ability to see to be witchcraft, wants them dead. It’s upon Baba and his tribe to save these kids for humanity to usher into a new age.
5. For All Mankind
For All Mankind revolves around an alternative version of 1969 where the Soviet Union became the first nation to land a man on the Moon. The story follows the United States trying to conclude its space program by successfully launching a space mission to the Moon. However, as the show progresses, it becomes way more than just a space race with a full-on war for supremacy over space breaking out. This series is an awesome sci-fi show that will get you hooked with the very first episode.
6. Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso is one of the best shows that are currently running on Apple TV+. This show revolves around Ted, an American college football coach who is hired by an English Premier League Soccer team called AFC Richmond. Now that Ted is an American football coach, he has no experience coaching Soccer.
Rebecca Welton, the owner of the team hired Ted thinking that his inexperience would ruin the team and it would hurt her ex-husband. However, as it turns out, his optimism, charm, and humor quickly win over the players and start giving out positive results. This series is something you would want to watch after a long day or if you are in a bad mood. The lightheartedness and the wholesomeness this show offers are truly amazing and the story will keep you hooked.
7. Presumed Innocent
Presumed Innocent brings us the phenomenal talents of Jake Gyllenhaal in a suspense/mystery format. This show revolves around a successful lawyer, played by Jake, who was engaged in an affair with one of his co-workers. In a turn of events, the co-worker gets murdered and the lawyer becomes a prime suspect in the case. However, he pleads that he is innocent and the series revolves around him trying to prove his innocence.
8. The Outsider
A live-action adaptation of Stephen King’s book of the same name, this series revolves around the murder of a young 11-year-old boy. An experienced cop and an unorthodox investigator take up this case which in the beginning seemed like a simple murder case but as things began to unravel, supernatural elements begin to seep into the investigation leading the detectives to look beyond the things they rest their beliefs in.
9. From
Form is one of the most acclaimed horror/mystery shows on Apple TV+ and brings in the tale of a small town in Central America that entraps anyone who enters the town. The town is haunted by creatures that come out when the sun goes down and hunt anyone who is outside of their houses. The series revolves around how the citizens of this town try to maintain a sense of normality while trying to find a way out of this town.
10. Pachinko
Based on Min Jin Lee’s 2017 novel of the same name, Pachinko brings us a Korean family whose story is traced from 1915 to 1989 after they immigrated from Korea to Japan. Most of the storytelling in the show is done from the point of view of Sunja Kim. The story brings us to how this family faced discrimination and extreme racism after moving to Japan. The selling point of this series is how it takes us through the stories of four generations of people each of them having entirely different experiences and their different struggles.
11. The Old Man
Dan Chase is a former CIA operative who served in Afghanistan and lives completely off the grid in Vermont. However, one day everything takes a massive turn when someone breaks into his house and he kills them. He finds out that the people he worked for are now out to hunt him down for reasons explained later on in the show. While on the run he rents a room from Zoe McDonald however, the people hunting him track him down, and now Zoe and Dan have to form an unwanted alliance to save her life.
12. Animal Kingdom
After “J” AKA Joshua’s mother passes away as a result of a Heroin overdose, he has no other option but to move in with his grandmother Janine “Smurf” Cody who his mother had completely cut off from his life. Soon, he finds out the reason for this no contact. His grandmother runs a crime syndicate with her three sons a mentally disturbed ex-cop Pope, hyperactive drug user Craig, and suspicious Deran. Now, to survive J has to adapt to this life and find a way out while he does so.
13. Severance
Severance is a show that once you put on the screen, won’t be able to take your eyes off of it. This show takes us to a dystopian setting where a company gives their employees a procedure named “Severance”. Once the employee goes through this surgery, their memories are segregated between work and personal life, meaning that they will not remember their work memories when they log off and won’t remember their personal memories when they log in at work.
The story revolves around Marc Scout, an employee whose best friend was recently fired at work, and of course, once he leaves office, he does not remember anything about it. One day, while being off the clock, his friend runs into him and tells him that something very sinister is happening at their workplace and now, it’s up to Mark to find out everything he can. Now is the best time to watch this TV show as Severence Season 2 is right around the corner.
14. Dark Matter
Based on Black Crouch’s best-selling book, Dark Matter revolves around Jason Dessen, a family man whose whole world comes crashing down when he is abducted and replaced by a version of himself from an alternative timeline. Now, he has to embark on a mission to get back to his timeline and save his life and family from this alternative and rather dangerous version of himself.
15. Land of Women
Land of Women is a miniseries revolving around three generations of women, Gala Scott, her mother Julia, and her 17-year-old daughter Kate. Gala’s life is turned upside down when she and their family are abandoned by her husband who runs away to avoid paying the massive debt he had. With limited resources, she rounds up her mother and her daughter and flees to La Muga, Julia, her mother’s hometown in Spain. They assume that they can rebuild a life for themselves but it’s not that easy to get away from one’s past.
16. Sugar
If you are someone who has been a massive fan of the James Bond franchise, Sugar is a show that is quite literally handcrafted for you. This mini-series revolves around a private investigator named John Sugar who has been given the case of finding the missing granddaughter of a legendary Hollywood producer. However, what Sugar thinks to be just another lost person case turns out to have much more sinister notes to unraveling secrets many people don’t want to be revealed.
17. Slow Horses
Slow Horses revolves around a group of MI6 agents who are considered to be the worst in the organization. Among this group of disgraced operatives is River Cartwright. Whose job is transcribing mobile phone conversations but when he comes across the abduction of a young man who is being threatened to be beheaded live on the internet, he sees it as an opportunity to gain his place back in the ranks of MI6. However, as he starts investigating the case, it turns out that this case is way more than just an abduction with multiple layers he could have never imagined.
18. The Big Door Prize
The Big Door Prize takes place in the quiet and peaceful town of Deerfield. Out of nowhere, a machine shows up in the local general store that can predict a person’s life’s potential. This was initially considered to be a fake but gradually, people started believing the predictions, and the peace of the town was forever disturbed by people changing jobs, divorcing their partners, and breaking all chaos loose in Deerfield.
Aparna Ukil
