Apple TV Plus is among the newer streaming platforms vying to your consideration, and there is good purpose to begin watching. It is stocked with huge names and a few hit reveals, from the primary season of Severance to the heartwarmingly cute Ted Lasso to Reese Witherspoon’s Emmy-winning drama The Morning Present.
Like rivals Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV Plus is full of unique, unique content material. However in contrast to the opposite providers, Apple streams solely content material it has made itself. That meant that when the service launched in November 2019, the catalog wasn’t enormous, but it surely’s been filling out quick.
This is what’s coming to the streaming service this month, adopted by our information to a few of the finest TV reveals on Apple TV Plus.
Learn extra: Apple TV Plus: All the things to Know About Apple’s Streaming Service
What’s new this month
This is each present popping out in October.
Oct. 7
- Hi there, Jack! The Kindness Present (2022- ): 30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer stars in a youngsters present about selling compassion and creativity.
Oct. 14
- Shantaram (2022- ): Charlie Hunnam performs Lin Ford, a fugitive within the Eighties who results in Bombay, India. The present is predicated on a novel by Gregory David Roberts.
Oct. 21
- Ghostwriter, season 3 (2019): A brand new installment of the brand new tackle the 1992 thriller collection of the identical identify for teenagers.
- Acapulco, season 2 (2021): The present tells the story of a younger man who desires to work as a cabana boy at a well-liked Acapulco resort.
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On this British comedy, couple Nikki and Jason need to have a child however wrestle to conceive. They resolve to undertake — a course of that inevitably throws new challenges their method. Making an attempt affords appeal and low-stakes enjoyable, and it additionally occurs to be laugh-out-loud humorous. In case you’re in want of some lighthearted TV time, this present has you coated.
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Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet (2020- )
Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet is a should for anybody with even a passing curiosity in video video games or the business that produces them. It is distinctive, humorous and earnest in elements. It treads acquainted territory however is effectively value a watch.
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Tailored by Stephen King from his personal novel, Lisey’s Story stars Julianne Moore as a grieving widow spookily revisiting her marriage to her late husband, a well-known novelist performed by Clive Owen.
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Dickinson takes the story of real-life American poet Emily Dickinson and shoehorns it right into a interval drama of kinds. It is hardly traditionally correct — Emily and her teenage pals act extra like characters from Riverdale — however it’s entertaining.
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A comedic homicide thriller in the identical vein as Rian Johnson’s 2019 movie Knives Out, The Afterparty is a star-packed whodunnit that can maintain you guessing and laughing with every episode. Tiffany Haddish, Dave Franco, Ilana Glazer, Ben Schwartz and extra lend their skills to the present. In case you’re one to go for a mystery-comedy combination, The Afterparty ought to shoot proper to the highest of your to-stream checklist.
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Prehistoric Planet (2022)
Prehistoric Planet provides viewers a take a look at the world of dinosaurs. Utilizing life like computer-generated dinos, and structured like a nature documentary collection right down to the digital camera pictures, it is easy to neglect you are not watching actual footage. To high is off, David Attenborough narrates.
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Reality Be Instructed is a drama for true-crime followers, using the current development of crime podcasts in a fictionalized kind. Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul play a podcaster and a prisoner united by a horrific crime years earlier than, kicking off a whodunit that pulls in each their households in an entertaining mixture of a character-driven drama like Huge Little Lies with true-crime tales like Making a Assassin and The Staircase.
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The Shrink Subsequent Door (2021)
In my e book, any present that casts each Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd as its leads is already doing one thing very proper. Within the drama miniseries The Shrink Subsequent Door, Ferrell and Rudd play characters on reverse ends of the character spectrum — Ferrell is a sniffling, timid textile enterprise proprietor, and his co-star is an egotistic therapist with manipulative tendencies. When the 2 are collectively, the result’s each unsettling and tantalizing, making The Shrink Subsequent Door one thing you will need to take a look at for your self.
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After Molly Wells (Maya Rudolph) catches her tech billionaire husband (Adam Scott) of 20 years dishonest on her, she divorces him and finally ends up with not solely $87 million, however a query of what to do along with her life. The reply? Become involved with a philanthropic basis she did not even know she had. Alongside the best way, she finds grounding along with her new coworkers — however not with out loads of comedic, out-of-touch-millionaire flaps alongside the best way. The present was co-created by Alan Yang, who was additionally concerned in Parks and Rec and Grasp of None.
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Dwelling Earlier than Darkish (2020- )
Impressed by the reporting of real-life journalist Hilde Lysiak, Dwelling Earlier than Darkish follows the story of a younger lady who strikes from Brooklyn to a small lakeside city. It begins sluggish however options some robust central performances, significantly within the lead function.
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You needn’t like sports activities to like comedy collection Ted Lasso. Produced by the present’s Golden Globe-winning star Jason Sudeikis with Scrubs creator Invoice Lawrence, it follows relentlessly upbeat American coach Ted Lasso as he takes cost of an English soccer staff. Consider it as Friday Evening Lights crossed with Saturday Evening Dwell (in London). Season 2 is streaming now.
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The Morning Present (2019- )
Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston produce and star in a well timed collection tackling workplace politics within the #MeToo period, as a TV community is rocked by the indiscretions of a bunch performed by Steve Carell. Among the many compelling performances, Billy Crudup received Excellent Supporting Actor in a Drama Sequence on the 2020 Emmy Awards. The award-winning drama, robust solid and well timed themes make The Morning Present value a watch.
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Starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway, WeCrashed tells the story of the rise and fall of WeWork founder Adam Neumann and his spouse Rebekah, and the way their relationship backdropped the corporate’s peak — and important valley.
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Sixth Sense director M. Evening Shyamalan brings his model of creepy home drama to episodic TV in Servant, created and written by Tony Basgallop. After a devastating loss, two bereaved dad and mom undertake a hyperrealistic child doll to assist them deal with their grief, however hazard and deception lurks within the nursery.
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A nature present, centered on small creatures, narrated by Ant-Man himself, Paul Rudd. Absolute genius.
Like seemingly each single considered one of these fashionable nature documentaries, Tiny World is gorgeously shot and brilliantly compelling.
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For All Mankind affords an alternate timeline of what would have occurred if the Soviets had landed on the moon first. The brief reply is the endless militarization of area, however the present is a lot extra expansive than that. In case you’re searching for a sci-fi thriller with loads of interpersonal drama and political intrigue, For All Mankind is stable alternative.
This present has an interesting premise: Individuals can select to bear a process referred to as severance, which separates their work-related and private recollections. Adam Scott’s character spends eight hours of the day in a sanitized, strikingly white workplace area with no recollection of his exterior life. Quickly, a former co-worker reveals up with a warning concerning the unusual firm. A mind-bending and suspenseful sci-fi thriller — having fun with Severance is not any work in any respect.
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The Mosquito Coast (2021- )
Justin Theroux stars as Allie Fox, an oddball inventor taking his household off the grid in protest in opposition to society’s failings. Apple’s heavyweight drama is predicated on the novel by the actor’s uncle Paul Theroux (beforehand filmed with Harrison Ford in 1986). Now season 1 has wrapped up, Apple has already renewed this contemporary model of The Mosquito Coast for a second season.
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Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman get again on their bikes and head north from Argentina by means of South and Central America. On this sequel to the favored journey reveals Lengthy Means Spherical and Lengthy Means Down, the petrolhead duo goes inexperienced. They cowl 13,000 miles and 13 nations on Harley-Davidson LiveWire electrical bikes.
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Unusual individuals dream huge in Little America. A heavyweight solid tells tales of immigrants dwelling their lives in a heartwarming anthology collection filled with a mixture of humorous, candy, romantic and sometimes stunning tales.
