Apple TV+ Shows, Reviewed & Ranked
Apple TV+ kept its catalog small and bet on prestige, and the strategy mostly worked: fewer shows than its rivals, but a higher hit rate. The result is a service people subscribe to for one or two specific titles and then stay for the rest. This is our index to the Apple originals we have reviewed in full — comedy, alt-history science fiction, a four-generation family epic, monster lore played as drama — ordered by where we would tell a new subscriber to start, with our rating and episode coverage for each. If you are sampling the service on a free trial, the top of this list is where the month is best spent.
How this list is ordered: Ordered by where we’d send a new subscriber first, with our rating and episode coverage for each.
Ted Lasso
The kindness-as-strategy comedy that put Apple TV+ on the map — warm without going soft, and quotable to a fault. Start here.
For All Mankind
An alt-history where the space race never ended, growing bolder each season — the platform’s most ambitious long game.
Pachinko
A four-generation Korean family saga told across three languages and two timelines — patient, beautiful, and quietly wrenching.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
The MonsterVerse reworked as prestige drama, wrapping Godzilla lore around a family mystery split between two eras.
Pluribus
Vince Gilligan’s strange new swing, with Rhea Seehorn at the center of a world that has turned unnervingly, uniformly content.
Stick
Owen Wilson’s washed-up golf pro mentors a young phenom — a gentle, big-hearted sports comedy in the Ted Lasso lane.
Star City
The For All Mankind spinoff that crosses to the Soviet side of the space race — newest of the set.
That’s every Apple TV+ Shows title we’ve reviewed so far. Tap any show for the full episode-by-episode coverage, the ranked episodes, or its best lines.