Best TV shows on Apple TV+
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Arson investigator Dave Gudsen and police detective Michelle Calderone reluctantly join forces to outwit two serial arsonists. Psychological thriller created and written by Dennis Lehane, inspired by true events, starring Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett
Read moreJon Hamm headlines and executive produces a teasing nine-part drama created by Jonathan Tropper, which has already been commissioned for a second season. Hedge fund manager Andrew Cooper (Jon Hamm) has worked hard - by his standards - to provide for his ex-wife Mel (Amanda Peet) and two children Tori (Isabel Gravitt) and Hunter (Donovan Colan) in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village. He loses his job in disgrace and a quick check of his finances reveals he has just six months to keep up big-spending pretences before his unemployment will be revealed to wealthy friends and neighbours. Andrew chooses a radical course of action: steal from the homes of his local community and fence the overpriced belongings. As he breaks into neighbouring properties and helps himself to jewellery, handbags and other lucrative merchandise, he unearths hidden affairs and shocking secrets behind polite, well-mannered facades
Read moreThe quickest way to a woman's heart is through her stomach in a lavish French period drama headlining Benjamin Voisin as the attention-grabbing chef, who became a cause celebre in Napoleon's Europe. Based on a real-life gastronomic master, who cast a spell over early 19th-century Paris, this eight-part series stirs up intrigue and passion for Antonin Careme as his talents in the kitchen propel him to the dizzy height of culinary stardom. Women adore him, men envy him and powerful politicians exploit Careme's desire for fame and wealth to engage him as a spy for France. Espionage comes at a high price - his morality and soul - and eventually Careme must decide if he is willing to serve his paymasters their just desserts.
Read moreA cosy, nuclear family prepares to go nuclear against a backdrop of rapid social change in 1969 San Fernando Valley. Hampton Chambers (David Oyelowo) is released from prison and returns to the heaving bosom of his family to learn that much has changed in his absence. His wife Astoria (Simone Missick) and sons Einstein (Evan Ellison) and Harrison (Jahi Di'Allo Winston) have forged close bonds in his absence and there isn't much room for him in their unconventional family unit. Regardless, Chambers makes his presence felt and spins his loved ones out of orbit
Read moreTwo long-time friends pose as DEA agents to rob a house and unwittingly stumble into the middle of a bigger criminal enterprise
Read moreHugh Bonneville narrates a 10-part docuseries about the creativity and invention of the animal kingdom produced BBC Studios Natural History Unit. Filmed over the course of three years in 24 countries, The Secret Lives of Animals uses cutting-edge technology to capture previously unseen rituals and behaviour of 77 unique species. Footage includes a rarely seen relationship between a frog and tarantula, the jumping spider's courtship dance, a land lizard breathing underwater and the bizarre nose-poking test of friendship of one inquisitive monkey
Read moreGarvey sisters Becka, Bibi, Eva, Grace and Ursula promise to always look out for each other, especially when Grace's bullying husband John Paul dies in suspicious circumstances.
Read moreOscar winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline star in a glossy seven-part psychological thriller adapted for the screen by writer-director Alfonso Cuaron from Renee Knight's best-selling novel. Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) has built an enviable reputation on truth and morality by exposing the transgressions of others, especially people in power. Her privileged word with husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee) comes crashing down when an anonymous author sends her a book in the post. The manuscript turns out to be a forensic dissection of her own misdeeds and darkest secrets, which will destroy her family if it is ever published. Catherine races to uncover the sender's identity before everything she has built is decimated
Read moreApple TV+'s first German-language series is a dark comedy created and written by Oliver Lansley, which unearths skullduggery in cosy suburbia. Dedo Klatt (Axel Stein) and wife Carlotta (Heike Makatsch) resort to extreme measures to locate their missing 17-year-old daughter Wanda (Lea Drinda). Months after Wanda's disappearance, they join forces with their tech-savvy son Ole (Leo Simon) to acquire surveillance devices and bug the local neighbourhood. Spying on the other residents, Dedo and Carlotta realises that the people around them are concealing shocking secrets
Read moreSaving lives is a family matter in 10-part Mexican drama inspired by Luke Lorentzen's award-winning 2019 documentary. Gifted medical student Marigaby Tamayo (Renata Vaca) is one of the top prospects in her class and at night, she puts her training to use by patrolling the streets of Mexico City in her family's privately owned ambulance. With her father Ramon (Joaquin Cosio) behind the wheel and brothers Julito (Sergio Bautista) and Marcus (Diego Calva) to assist her, Marigaby is determined to make a difference by tackling extreme medical emergencies in situ
Read moreBritish intelligence agents atone for career-ending mistakes by serving out the rest of their days in a special department of MI5 led by Gary Oldman's misanthrope.
Read moreOscar winner Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram headline a seven-part limited series created and directed by Alma Har'el set in 1966 Baltimore. A young girl vanishes without trace on Thanksgiving and the story grips concerned citizens. Jewish housewife Maddie Schwartz (Portman) embraces her dream to become an investigative journalist by seeking uncomfortable answers about the disappearance. Her enquiries lead her to fiercely determined mother Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram), who is firmly tethered to political struggles within the city
Read moreA rookie FBI agent risks his life to uncover a scandal at the heart of the American horse racing industry in a four-part documentary series directed by Dan Johnstone and Castor Fernandez. Novice agent Scott Lawson from rural Tennessee acts on a hunch about brothers Omar Trevino Morales and Miguel Trevino Morales, leaders of Los Zetas, one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico. Lawson carefully infiltrates the cartel and tracks the siblings' racehorse transactions in the United States, uncovering a multimillion-dollar money laundering operation. The series interviews the FBI agent for the first time and relives the case with other key figures including Assistant United States Attorney Doug Gardner and IRS agent Steve Pennington
Read moreAn 11-year-old history nerd travels through space and time to save his parents in a rollicking live-action comedy created by Jemaine Clement, Iain Morris and Taika Waititi, based on Terry Gilliam's 1981 film. Eleven-year-old Kevin (Kal-El Tuck) stumbles upon a time portal in his bedroom, which allows him to ricochet through periods in history. The boy is accompanied on his odyssey by a ragtag group of thieves comprising Alto (Tadhg Murphy), Bittelig (Rune Temte), Judy (Charlyne Yi), Penelope (Lisa Kudrow) and Widgit (Roger Jean Nsengiyumva). Together, the Time Bandits make mischief during the prehistoric age ruled by dinosaurs, the Ice Age, the Trojan War and the Harlem Renaissance
Read moreJake Gyllenhaal headlines an eight-part adaptation of Scott Turow's best-selling novel, which was previously immortalised on screen as a 1990 film directed by Alan J Pakula starring Harrison Ford. Chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich (Gyllenhaal) is one of the leading lights of Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's office led by district attorney Raymond Horgan (Bill Camp), who is about to stand for reelection. Rusty's colleague Carolyn Polhemus (Renate Reinsve) is found raped and murdered in her apartment and he is arrested on suspicion of the crime by detective Tommy Molto (Peter Sarsgaard), who is supporting the campaign of Horgan's rival Nico Della Guardia (O-T Fagbenle). Faced with accusations about his relationship with Carolyn, Rusty leverages what remains of his professional reputation to seek justice and repair his fractured marriage to wife Barbara (Ruth Negga)
Read moreEva Longoria serves executive producer and one of the lead stars of a six-part drama comedy inspired by Sandra Barneda's best-selling novel La Tierra De Las Mujeres. New York doyenne Gala (Longoria) is shellshocked to discover that her husband has failed to repay a debt to powerful and dangerous people. Her spouse vanishes without trace and Gala is forced to flee her home with her aging mother Julia (Carmen Maura) and teenage daughter Kate (Victoria Bazua) for her mother's hometown in northern Spain. Starting anew poses serious challenges: Julia abandoned the close-knit community 50 years ago, where family secrets have been buried for decades. As wine and conversation flow freely, Gala learns she cannot outrun the past
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