The BEST Apple TV+ shows of all time

Every Apple TV+ show, ranked

We've compiled the average episode rating for every Apple TV+ show to compile this list of best shows!

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8.63
18928 votes

#1 - Severance

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

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8.60
17514 votes

#2 - Ted Lasso

Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?

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8.26
5978 votes

#3 - Slow Horses

This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents – and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb – as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

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8.22
49 votes

#4 - Earthsounds

This landmark series uses cutting-edge audio technology and filming techniques to reveal our planet in a stunning new way through breathtaking, never-before-heard sounds from the natural world.

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8.18
12717 votes

#5 - Silo

In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

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8.15
2202 votes

#6 - Lessons in Chemistry

In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott’s dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives way more than recipes.

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8.13
450 votes

#7 - Tiny World

Taking a unique perspective on the natural world, the series explores the ingenuity and resilience of the smallest animals on the planet. Brand new camera technology allows us, for the very first time, to see the world through the eyes of the tiniest creatures and witness the extraordinary things they do to survive.

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8.13
2344 votes

#8 - Dickinson

Emily Dickinson. Poet. Daughter. Total rebel. In this coming-of-age story, Emily’s determined to become the world’s greatest poet.

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8.12
1440 votes

#9 - Prehistoric Planet (2022)

Experience the wonders of our world like never before in this epic docuseries from Jon Favreau and the producers of Planet Earth. Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas, and skies.

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8.11
6367 votes

#10 - For All Mankind

The depiction of an 'alternate history' of the global space race after the USSR succeeds in achieving the first manned Moon landing.

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8.04
4921 votes

#11 - Black Bird

Inspired by actual events. As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.

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8.03
1096 votes

#12 - Pachinko

Based on the New York Times bestseller, this sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.

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7.97
4503 votes

#13 - Shrinking

Jimmy is struggling to grieve the loss of his wife while being a dad, friend, and therapist. He decides to try a new approach with everyone in his path: unfiltered, brutal honesty. Can he help himself by helping others? Will it bring him back into the light?

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7.91
1896 votes

#14 - Bad Sisters

The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for each other. 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.

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7.88
217 votes

#15 - Earth at Night in Color

Narrated by Tom Hiddleston and filmed across six continents, this docuseries uses cutting-edge camera technology to capture animals' nocturnal lives, revealing new behaviors filmed in full color like never before.

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7.87
4506 votes

#16 - Defending Jacob

The series follows Massachusetts lawyer Andy Barber in the aftermath of his 14-year-old son, Jacob, being accused of murder. The allegations have a major impact on Andy’s family, and he must reevaluate what he thinks he knows about his child.

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7.85
173 votes

#17 - Real Madrid: Until The End

Step onto the field and go behind the scenes with the iconic football team for a look at their astonishing 2021-2022 season. Fueled by their fervent fans, they defy the odds and silence the skeptics.

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7.81
3230 votes

#18 - Masters of the Air

During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.

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7.81
866 votes

#19 - Trying

All Nikki and Jason want is a baby — the one thing they can’t have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they’re ready to be parents?

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7.80
426 votes

#20 - Long Way Up

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman journey to glorious landscapes across South and Central America on the backs of prototype electric Harley-Davidsons in the third series of the epic motorcycle adventure saga.

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7.79
8226 votes

#21 - See

A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.

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7.76
123 votes

#22 - Visible: Out on Television

Explore the history of the American LGBTQ movement through the lens of TV in this five-part docuseries. Combining archival footage with new interviews, the series looks at homophobia, the evolution of LGBTQ characters, and coming out in the TV world.

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7.76
3723 votes

#23 - Presumed Innocent

A horrific murder upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime — leaving the accused fighting to keep his family together.

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7.76
8008 votes

#24 - Foundation (2021)

Based on the award-winning novels by Isaac Asimov, “Foundation” chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.

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7.74
5538 votes

#25 - The Morning Show

Pull back the curtain on early morning TV. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, and Steve Carell, this unapologetically candid drama looks at the modern workplace through the lens of the people who help America wake up.

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7.71
810 votes

#26 - Drops of God (2023)

Camille, the daughter of the recently deceased Alexandre Léger, creator of the famous Léger Wine Guide and emblematic figure in enology, who passed away in his Tokyo home. When she travels to Tokyo in the wake of her father's death, she learns that he left her the greatest collection of wine in the world. In order to claim this inheritance, however, she must compete against a brilliant young oenologist, Issei Tomine, who her father took under his wing and is referred to in Léger’s will as his “spiritual son.”

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7.70
67 votes

#27 - The Secret Lives of Animals

Discover the clever and creative ways animals navigate life’s most extraordinary challenges, from leaving home to finding a partner.

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7.68
97 votes

#28 - Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson

Award–winning producer and artist Mark Ronson explores the intersection of technology and musical innovation with his heroes and fellow hitmakers.

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7.66
1625 votes

#29 - The Studio (2025)

Desperate for celebrity approval, the newly appointed head of a studio and his executive team must juggle corporate demands with creative ambitions as they try to keep movies alive and relevant.

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7.64
4021 votes

#30 - Dark Matter (2024)

Jason Dessen is abducted into an alternate version of his life. To get back to his true family, he embarks on a harrowing journey to save them from the most terrifying foe imaginable: himself.

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7.62
141 votes

#31 - The Dynasty: New England Patriots

Go inside the franchise’s 20-year journey, from the unique chemistry that fueled six Super Bowl wins to the internal strife that sparked a turf war. Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft and key players reveal the road to — and cost of — greatness.

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7.62
511 votes

#32 - The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Suddenly left without his trusted caretaker, Ptolemy Grey is assigned to the care of orphaned teenager Robyn. When they learn about a treatment that will restore Ptolemy's dementia-addled memories, it begins a journey toward shocking truths.

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7.62
101 votes

#33 - Long Way Home

Ewan and Charley as they ride lovingly refurbished vintage motorbikes from Ewan’s home in Scotland to Charley’s in England — but rather than take the shortest route, they go the long way! They head across the North Sea to Scandinavia, all the way up to the Arctic Circle and then down to the Baltics and through continental Europe, before eventually hopping back over the English Channel two months later.

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7.59
1660 votes

#34 - Your Friends & Neighbors

When a financial titan suddenly finds himself divorced and jobless, he starts robbing his wealthy neighbors to stay afloat. Stealing from his own social circle strangely exhilarates him—but he gradually gets tangled in a deadly web.

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7.58
1042 votes

#35 - Five Days at Memorial

Based on actual events from Hurricane Katrina. When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital were forced to make profound, heart-wrenching decisions.

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7.54
3508 votes

#36 - Mythic Quest

Meet the team behind the biggest multiplayer video game of all time. But in a workplace focused on building worlds, molding heroes, and creating legends, the most hard-fought battles don’t occur in the game—they happen in the office.

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7.53
915 votes

#37 - Acapulco (2021)

A young Mexican man's dream comes true when he gets the job of a lifetime at the hottest resort in Acapulco. But he soon realizes the job is far more complicated than he ever imagined as all of his beliefs and morals start to be questioned.

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7.52
4351 votes

#38 - Hijack

When Flight KA29 is hijacked during its seven-hour journey from Dubai to London, Sam Nelson—an accomplished corporate negotiator—tries using his professional skills to save everyone on board. Will this high-risk strategy be his undoing?

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7.49
68 votes

#39 - Vietnam: The War That Changed America

The reunion of old friends, first-person accounts, and rarely seen footage paint an extraordinary and deeply profound picture of what it was like to live through one of history's longest wars.

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7.47
1804 votes

#40 - Murderbot

In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot secretly gains free will. To stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet… even though it just wants to binge soap operas.

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7.47
1574 votes

#41 - The Crowded Room

A psychological thriller set in Manhattan in the summer of 1979, when a young man is arrested for a shocking crime, and an unlikely investigator must solve the mystery behind it.

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7.47
268 votes

#42 - The Snoopy Show

The world’s most iconic dog is ready for his close-up. Dive into new adventures with the happy-dancing, high-flying, big-dreaming beagle, who's joined by best friend Woodstock and rest of the Peanuts gang.

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7.47
1292 votes

#43 - Home Before Dark

When a young girl and her family move back to the small town her father left behind, her pursuit of the truth leads to the unearthing of a long-buried cold case.

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7.45
495 votes

#44 - Swagger

Explore the world of AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) basketball in the nation's capital, and the players, their families and coaches who walk the fine line between dreams and ambition, and opportunism and corruption.

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7.45
780 votes

#45 - Calls (US)

Told through a series of interconnected phone conversations, this groundbreaking series chronicles the mysterious story of a group of strangers whose lives are thrown into disarray in the lead-up to an apocalyptic event.

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7.45
3605 votes

#46 - Servant

The series follows a Philadelphia couple in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door for a mysterious force to enter their home.

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7.44
44 votes

#47 - Wolfboy and the Everything Factory

William Wolfe is no ordinary human boy. Down in the magical spryte realm of the Everything Factory, he’s Wolfboy. And with his new spryte friends, he learns his vivid imagination and limitless creativity have the power to change the world.

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7.42
1262 votes

#48 - Shining Girls

Years after a brutal attack left her in a constantly shifting reality, Kirby Mazrachi learns that a recent murder is linked to her assault. She teams with veteran reporter Dan Velazquez to understand her ever-changing present-and confront her past.

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7.36
134 votes

#49 - They Call Me Magic

Earvin "Magic" Johnson is an icon for the ages-from humble beginnings to the Dream Team to business titan. Featuring candid interviews with teammates, rivals, family, friends, and more, this docuseries charts the life and career of a legend.

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7.36
127 votes

#50 - 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything

An immersive, deep-dive docuseries rich with archival footage and interviews that explores the musicians and soundtracks that shaped the culture and politics of 1971.

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