Just when you thought you'd signed up to all the streaming services you need, along came Apple TV Plus to shake things up with its impressive catalogue of original titles, blockbuster movies and Emmy-nominated series.

The platform has come a long way since it launched back in 2019, with shows such as Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, Slow Horses and Severance all attracting the attention of TV lovers across the globe – and if you've recently subscribed to the streamer and want to know what you should be tuning in to, then you've come to the right place.

Our experts here at RadioTimes.com have selected the biggest, boldest and best titles you can find on Apple TV Plus so you can spend your time watching instead of endlessly scrolling through its sleek menu - there's something here for everyone.

If you want to find out more about the service, check out our guide to Apple TV Plus, or read on for our picks of the best TV shows available.

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  • Criminal Record

    • 2024
    • Mystery
    • Drama
    • 15

    Summary:

    Two talented police officers vie for supremacy on the streets of contemporary London in an eight-part crime thriller created by BAFTA Award nominee Paul Rutman. Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Hegarty (Peter Capaldi) has a long and distinguished career in the capital and he is determined to protect his legacy at all costs. An anonymous telephone call relating to an old case draws the attention of Hegarty and Detective Sergeant June Lenker (Cush Jumbo), who is eager to impress her superiors in the early stages of her career. Against a backdrop of institutional racism, the two detectives impose their chosen narratives on a historic murder conviction

    Why watch Criminal Record?:

    Given recent indictments of the Metropolitan Police, it would be naive for TV dramas to now portray all serving officers in the traditional manner as our saviours and protectors. So, I suspect the examination of prejudice within the force that we see in Criminal Record will be the first of many. But writer Paul Rutman (whose previous screen credits include Indian Summers and Next of Kin) has undoubtedly set the bar high with his urgent state-of-the-Met thriller, which pits a detective fresh to CID (played by Cush Jumbo) against a seasoned veteran (Peter Capaldi) who’s determined to protect his legacy.

    The catalyst for bringing the pair into each other’s orbit is a desperate anonymous phone call that is soon found to have links to an old murder case. But with this discovery come questions about institutional failings, as well as crackling tension between the two series leads.

    David Brown

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  • Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

    • 2023
    • Action
    • Fantasy

    Summary:

    Legendary Entertainment laid the foundations of its so-called Monsterverse in 2014 with the big screen action adventure Godzilla directed by Gareth Edwards. Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King Of The Monsters and Godzilla Vs Kong have expanded this fantastical world of interconnected characters and stories, which will deepen further with the release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire in April 2024. This 10-part series provides a narrative bridge to the forthcoming sequel, set in the aftermath of the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that left San Francisco in ruins. Schoolteacher Cate (Anna Sawai) joins forces with Army officer Lee Shaw (Kurt Russell) to expose the dark secrets of the shadowy organisation known as Monarch. In flashbacks to the 1950s, the young Lee (played by Russell's actor son Wyatt) works closely with scientist Keiko (Mari Yamamoto) and explorer Bill (Anders Holm) to establish Monarch and protect humanity from hulking kaiju and the omnipresent threat of nuclear war

    Why watch Monarch: Legacy of Monsters?:

    Godzilla/Kong monster movies successfully transition to episodic television in a series that strikes a good balance between creature spectacle and character drama. In Tokyo, when a woman taking care of her late father’s affairs discovers he had a secret second family, a new monster-tracking team is born. Meanwhile, a team of three monsterologists are investigating a site they think contains dormant super-beasts…and they’re dangerously correct.

    With twin timelines exploring the origins of the story and a juicy conspiracy to unravel, there’s plenty more going on here than just reptiles stomping on skyscrapers.

    Jack Seale

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  • The Buccaneers

    • 2023
    • Romance
    • Drama

    Summary:

    Young American women cause a commotion among 1870s English aristocracy in a music-driven period drama created by Katherine Jakeways and directed by Susanna White, which is inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton's unfinished final novel. Led by an all-female creative team, the series focuses on the exploits of Conchita Closson (Alisha Boe), Lizzy Elmsworth (Aubri Ibrag), Mabel Elmsworth (Josie Totah), Jinny St George (Imogen Waterhouse) and her younger sister Annabel aka Nan (Kristine Froseth). The fun-loving quintet have been instructed to secure wealthy husbands and titles by turning heads during a tightly corseted London season. Jinny and Nan's mother (Christina Hendricks) watches intently as men with power and girls with fortunes disregard centuries of tradition in pursuit of wedded bliss

    Why watch The Buccaneers?:

    This drama is based on a novel by Edith Wharton, author of The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth — but Wharton’s last book was unfinished when she died in 1937, which means liberties can be taken…

    The story of American debutantes disrupting the social scene in 1870s London emerges at first as a frothy affair, but it’s not quite as light as it seems in the opening, which plays like a cross between Bridgerton and a 1980s pop video.

    Kristine Froseth leads the wild young things as Nan, with Christina Hendricks, Fenella Woolgar and Amelia Bullmore playing tutting, scheming grown-ups.

    Jack Seale

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  • The Essex Serpent

    • 2022
    • Romance
    • Drama
    • 15

    Summary:

    Based on Sarah Perry's novel, The Essex Serpent slowly uncoils around London widow Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes), who leaves the city to investigate intriguing reports of a mythical serpent. She forms a strong emotional bond with the local pastor (Tom Hiddleston) but when tragedy strikes in the local community, superstitious residents point the finger of blame at Cora for antagonising the creature.

    Why watch?:

    Apple TV+’s The Essex Serpent is that rare, mythical beast: an adaptation that feels just as compelling as its celebrated source material.

    Based on Sarah Perry’s bestselling book, the series stars Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston and is set in Victorian England. Danes is heartbreakingly wonderful as Cora Seaborne, a recently widowed amateur naturalist who relocates to Essex to investigate rumours of a monstrous serpent. Meanwhile, the series is beautiful to look at, in particular, the evocation of the bleak - but bewitching - wintry landscape Cora finds there.

    Flora Carr

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  • John Lennon: Murder Without A Trial

    • 2023
    • History
    • Documentary and factual

    Summary:

    Docuseries chronicling John Lennon's 1980 murder

    Why watch John Lennon: Murder without a Trial?:

    A solid three-part documentary looks back at the murder in 1980 of John Lennon, assembling an impressive array of people who directly witnessed the crime and its aftermath, plus startling archive footage of the reaction on US TV news. After episode one, the focus is on the criminal investigation and the question of whether the gunman, Mark Chapman, was mentally robust enough to stand trial.

    That’s not a story that amounts to very much, but it’s comprehensively told.

    Jack Seale

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  • The Enfield Poltergeist

    • 2023
    • Documentary and factual
    • Horror

    Summary:

    In 1977, the Hodgson family living at 284 Green Street in Enfield made bold claims about a poltergeist haunting their home witnessed by two of the children, Margaret and her sister Janet. The case ignited newspaper headlines and has been repeatedly dramatised on stage and screen including The Conjuring 2. This four-part documentary delves into more than 250 hours of rare audio recordings to recreate terrifying events from 46 years ago including present-day interviews with people affected by the case. Actors perform testimony on the audio tapes inside a replica of the house in Enfield, blurring lines between fact and fiction

    Why watch The Enfield Poltergeist?:

    It’s already one of the most well-chronicled cases of the possibly supernatural, but this docuseries offers fresh chills thanks to its unsettling conceit. In a re-creation of that notorious north London house, actors lip-sync to recordings made by paranormal investigator Maurice Grosse, who captured hundreds of hours of audio footage while in the company of the Hodgsons, victims — as they claimed in the late 1970s — of poltergeist activity. The whole thing has a strange, uncanny air.

    David Brown

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  • The Changeling

    • 2023
    • Fantasy
    • Horror

    Summary:

    Set in an alternate New York City, a father and husband searches through a magical world for his abducted son and missing wife.

    Why watch The Changeling?:

    A bewitching, beguiling drama, not least because it takes a long time before we understand exactly what we’re watching.

    In New York in 2010, shy bookworm Apollo (Lakeith Stanfield) experiences love at first sight in a library, but his romantic story will not be a straightforward one. While that narrative gradually introduces disturbing, possibly supernatural elements, we go back to the 1960s and 70s, where Apollo’s mother Lillian (Adina Porter) lives through her own imperfect version of marriage and parenthood in a city where something always seems to be moving in a dark corner nearby.

    Jack Seale

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  • The Super Models

    • 2023
    • Entertainment
    • Documentary and factual

    Summary:

    Follows Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington revisiting their modeling careers and how they disrupted the '90s fashion scene.

    Why watch The Super Models?:

    From the late 1980s to mid-90s, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell ruled the roost as supermodels. They all came of age together in the fashion industry and in this four-part series are candid about their humble beginnings and big breaks. But the series doesn’t shy away from the less savoury aspects of the business, also reflecting on events in a post-#MeToo, post-Black Lives Matter landscape.

    With contributions from designers Donatella Versace and Michael Kors, photographers Arthur Elgort, Martin Brading and Peter Lindbergh, plus Vogue trailblazers Grace Coddington and Edward Enninful, it’s an illuminating must-watch for any fashion faithful.

    Laura Rutkowski

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  • Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn

    • 2023
    • Documentary and factual

    Summary:

    Chronicles the rise and fall of former Nissan and Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn, how one of the most admired businessmen became its most famous international fugitive.

    Why watch Wanted: the Escape of Carlos Ghosn?:

    In 2018, Carlos Ghosn, the then CEO of Renault and Nissan, was arrested in Japan on suspicion of financial fraud. One year later, having been granted bail, he made an audacious escape: hiding in a box and arranging to have it smuggled out of the country.

    This gripping four-part series recounts the events leading up to his flight. It paints a portrait of a mogul who managed the impossible in turning around the fortunes of two enormous car companies, before allowing himself to be consumed by greed. Of course, the man himself doesn't see it that way.

    Stephen Kelly

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  • Invasion

    • 2021
    • Drama
    • Sci-fi
    • 15

    Summary:

    People around the world contend with the deadly repercussions of first contact with an aggressive extra-terrestrial race intent on wiping out humanity

    Why watch Invasion?:

    The first series of this lavish science-fiction show chronicled the discovery - and subsequent invasion - of a mysterious alien fleet, through the eyes of ordinary people around the world. It's an intriguing concept, albeit one that proved too ponderous and slow, stretching out the inevitable invasion until breaking point.

    This action-packed premiere of season two rectifies that. The highlight is Mitsuki (Shioli Kutsuna). Fresh from fighting gnarly little spider aliens in Japan, she is brought to Brazil in the hope that she can commune with a downed alien ship. The twist is that the ship causes brain damage, meaning that she could emerge "not knowing your mother's face".

    Stephen Kelly

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  • Strange Planet

    • 2023
    • Comedy
    • Drama

    Summary:

    Based on Nathan Pyle's webcomic Strange Planet.

    Why watch Strange Planet?:

    This idiosyncratic ten-part animation is based, with admirable care and fidelity, on Nathan W Pyle’s webcomic and graphic novel. Blue-skinned aliens adhere to human behaviours and lifestyles while reflecting on the inexplicable bizarreness of much of them through rigorously technical and literal analysis of emotions. Despite these outsider insights, it is suffused with warmth and unexpected perceptiveness (the involvement of Community creator Dan Harmon feels key here), beginning with a gently thorough dissection of air travel before moving on to the impact of a band break-up.

    It’s cutely whimsical rather than hilarious, but unarguably singular.

    Gabriel Tate

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  • Hijack

    • 2023
    • Thriller
    • Drama
    • 15

    Summary:

    Emmy Award nominee Idris Elba braces for impact in a high-stakes airborne thriller created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, which unfolds in real time across seven hour-long episodes. Kingdom Airlines flight 29 leaves Dubai bound for London with captain Robin Allen (Ben Miles) at the controls. Gun-toting hijackers take control of the aircraft shortly after take-off, demanding the mobile devices of every passenger so they can maintain radio silence. Skilled corporate negotiator Sam Nelson (Elba) refuses to play by the rules, risking everything to defuse the situation and safely land in the English capital to be reunited with his family

    Why watch Hijack?:

    Don’t you hate it when this happens? You and your ruthless crew have meticulously planned your gunpoint hijack of an airplane full of British TV character actors, but it turns out there’s one guy on board with a particular set of skills… Idris Elba is that man in a thriller that has enough smarts in its scripting and direction (by the versatile George Kay and Jim Field Smith, who also did Litvinenko, Criminal and Stag) to overcome the cliches of the genre, and which heightens the enveloping tension of the story by telling it in real time. So what exactly are those skills that Sam Nelson (Elba) has, which might foil the plans of a gang of criminals led by a typically intense Neil Maskell? Finding out will make you want to crash straight on into episode two.

    Jack Seale

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  • The Crowded Room

    • 2023
    • Drama
    • Crime/detective

    Summary:

    Tom Holland executive produces and stars in a 10-part psychological thriller inspired by a real-life case that made legal history. Danny Sullivan (Holland) is arrested for his involvement in a 1979 shooting in New York City. He claims to have 'blank spots' in his recollection and skilled interrogator Rya Goodwin (Amanda Seyfried) is called in to unlock the suspect's memories and get to the shocking truth. Danny shares vignettes from his life story, including key moments that shaped him as a socially awkward loner and a potential culprit. As an unreliable narrator of his past, Danny can control what Rya learns about his unsettling past and slyly mould her feelings towards him

    Why watch The Crowded Room?:

    It's best to watch this drama without knowing anything about it - don't look up what the book it's based on is about, for example. New York, 1979: a troubled-looking man called Danny and his female friend track another man through central New York. Then the woman fires a gun at the man and disappears, leaving Danny to face the authorities. In conversation with a criminal psychologist (Amanda Seyfried), Danny recounts his life story, which we see in flashback. Suffice to say that Holland has taken on a bigger acting role here than you might initially think.

    Jack Seale

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  • Platonic

    • 2023
    • Comedy
    • Romance

    Summary:

    Getting by with a little help from your friends is harder than it looks in a 10-part comedy co-created and co-written by Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco. Sylvia (Rose Byrne) and Will (Seth Rogen) are former best friends who have drifted apart. As they approach midlife, the duo enthusiastically reconnect and reignite a platonic bond that becomes all-consuming, destablising everything they have worked hard to build during their hiatus from each other

    Why watch Platonic?:

    Reuniting the stars and director of the 2014 movie Bad Neighbours, this new romantic-ish comedy plays like the first half-hour of a romcom film extended across a series. Rose Byrne is Sylvia, a bored California mother and housewife who reconnects suddenly with her old friend Will - played by Seth Rogen, which indicates he's going to be something of a slobby wildcard. As they start to hang out, however, it's clear that Sylvia is as irresponsible and unpredictable as her old buddy is, and their new adventures are going to majorly disrupt her family life. Do Will and Sylvia actually love each other? There are a lot of cheeky, semi-improvised laughs before you need to worry about that.

    Jack Seale

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  • City On Fire

    • 2023
    • Mystery
    • Thriller

    Summary:

    The shooting of a New York University student in 2003 in Central Park exhumes the long-buried secrets of a circle of friends in a mystery thriller inspired by Garth Risk Hallberg's acclaimed novel. Samantha (Chase Sui Wonders) watches a friend's band play at her favourite downtown club before she leaves unexpectedly to meet someone. She never returns and is found on the fourth of July, the victim of a shooting without any witnesses and scant physical evidence. Close pal Charlie (Wyatt Oleff), whose father died in the September 11 attacks two years earlier, promises to unravel the chain of events leading to her attack and he links Samantha to a series of mysterious citywide fires and a wealthy uptown real estate family.

    Why watch City on Fire?:

    The much-hyped 2015 novel upon which this crime drama is based was steeped in the New York of the 1970s. But here the mystery is transplanted to 2003 and injected with post-9/11 angst. The central conceit, though, remains the same, as we chart the fallout from the shooting of an NYU student in Central Park on those in her orbit. They’re a disparate bunch of anarchists, edgy musicians and wealthy high rollers whose secrets are revealed against a backdrop of mysterious city-wide arson attacks.

    David Brown

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  • Drops of God

    • 2023
    • Drama
    • 15

    Summary:

    A woman discovers the world's greatest wine collection that's left by her father and competes against a Japanese man to claim her inheritance. Drama, starring Fleur Geffrier, Tomohisa Yamashita and Makiko Watanabe

    Why watch Drops of God?:

    This drama has the patience and stylistic flair to carry off one of the more unusual narratives you’ll see this year. Fleur Geffrier is Camille, a Parisian author whose writer’s block stems from her unusual childhood: her father, a globally renowned wine guru, intensively trained her nose and palette, but then abandoned the family and has been estranged ever since, living in Japan and leaving his daughter with an aversion to alcohol. When he dies, Camille has to relocate, and re-kindle her gift for wine appreciation, to claim her inheritance and find her path in life. It sounds absurd but it’s elegant and compelling.

    Jack Seale

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  • Prehistoric Planet

    • 2022
    • Documentary and factual
    • Nature
    • U

    Summary:

    A five-part documentary series from the producers of Planet Earth, narrated by Sir David Attenborough. Prehistoric Planet harnesses photorealistic visual effects and state-of-the-art technology to step back in time 66 million years to the Cretaceous period when hulking beasts roamed the land, seas and sky.

    Why watch Prehistoric Planet?:

    A natural history programme that has a very simple unique selling point: it's introduced and narrated by David Attenborough and it looks and sounds just like any other wildlife programme, but it's about dinosaurs. Stunning CGI footage combines with the latest palaeontological research to hazard an educated guess at how various species would have lived, before rendering it in images that are virtually indistinguishable from film of real animals.

    Jack Seale

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  • Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker

    • 2023
    • Documentary and factual
    • News and current affairs

    Summary:

    The film will explore the life of Becker, who became a tennis sensation when he won the first of his six majors at the age of just 17 and went on to have a glittering career, including 49 major career titles and an Olympic Gold.

    Why watch Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker?:

    A fascinating character during his sporting career and and even more sensational prospect since, German tennis superstar Boris Becker is a rich subject for a documentary profile like this one. Interviewees including John McEnroe, Novak Djokovic and Bjorn Borg discuss a player who enjoyed an incredible ascent as a teenager and then a rapid decline later on, and a man whose personal and financial troubles have led to notoriety and more than one serious brush with the law. The reasons for all the above are made a little clearer.

    Jack Seale

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  • Jane's Animal Adventures

    • 2023
    • Action
    • Family

    Summary:

    Nine-year-old environmentalist Jane Garcia is inspired by the work of English primatologist Dr Jane Goodall to make a positive impact on the world, accompanied by her best friend David and Greybeard the chimpanzee.

    Why watch Jane's Animal Adventures?:

    A kids’ drama “inspired by the mission of Dr Jane Goodall” joins in with the adventures of nine-year-old Jane (Ava Louise Murchison), whose ordinary days living in an ordinary apartment with her mother are enlivened by the girl’s keen imagination and passion for protecting the environment. Accompanied by Greybeard, the cuddly toy Jane imagines is a real chimp, she pictures herself meeting the animals she wants to save: in episode one there’s a polar bear on the loose! It’s a wholesome way to teach older primary-schoolers about conservation, climate change and the actions individuals can take to make the world better.

    Jack Seale

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  • The Big Door Prize

    • 2023
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • 15

    Summary:

    Dusty Hubbard is a perpetually cheerful teacher in the close-knit town of Deerfield, who has just celebrated his 40th birthday. Out of the blue, a Morpho fortune-telling machine materialises in the town's general store and Dusty's friends and neighbours radically alter the course of their lives. Comedy based on MO Walsh's book, starring Chris O'Dowd

    Why watch The Big Door Prize?:

    From one of the writers of Schitt’s Creek, this quirky take on the midlife crisis dramedy confirms Apple TV+ as a home for unusual, experimental fictional series. Chris O’Dowd is Dusty, a genial history teacher in a small town. On his 40th birthday, the local shop acquires a mysterious machine that claims to divine your “life potential”, ie the one thing you fundamentally are and should be.

    It’s a nimble but dark-hearted story about how to learn to be happy with your little lot, and whether you should.

    Jack Seale

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  • Extrapolations

    • 2023
    • Drama
    • Action
    • 15

    Summary:

    Anthology drama of eight interwoven human stories set in a near future when the devastating effects of climate change are firmly embedded in everyday lives

    Why watch Extrapolations?:

    A climate-catastrophe satire set among raging wildfires in 2037 isn’t likely to be a lot of fun, but this drama sweetens its furious message with nicely worked human drama with an incredibly starry cast, including Meryl Streep. As governments hold yet another environment summit to rubberstamp a further creep towards oblivion, Kit Harington’s conflicted billionaire and Matthew Rhys’s crazed property developer – the latter looking to cash in on new land revealed by melting glaciers – are in the centre of a network of small, interlocking stories, all on the theme of personal advancement versus collective good. The moral is strong but the storytelling is intriguing, too.

    Jack Seale

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  • My Kind of Country

    • 2023
    • Entertainment
    • Music
    • 12

    Summary:

    Music competition series showcasing different styles of country music.

    Why watch My Kind of Country?:

    Reese Witherspoon and Kacey Musgraves are among the executive producers of a relaxed, friendly talent hunt that wants to find a new country music superstar. Its big selling point is the diversity of contestants: it’s fascinating, in the first episode, to hear what amateur enthusiasts from India, South Africa and Mexico do with a genre of music that can sometimes conform to a narrow sonic template. The show spends rather a lot of time on the contestants’ back stories and perhaps not enough letting them sing, but when they do there are performances worth waiting for – or at least, worth skipping to the last 15 minutes to hear.

    Jack Seale

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  • Hello Tomorrow!

    • 2023
    • Comedy
    • Drama
    • 15

    Summary:

    In a retro-futuristic world, charismatic salesman Jack Billings (Emmy winner Billy Crudup) leads a team of fellow sales associates determined to revitalize their customers' lives by hawking timeshares on the moon.

    Why watch Hello Tomorrow!?:

    As they rapidly expand, streaming platforms feel able to take a risk now and then – with projects like this genuinely odd drama. It’s set in what seems to be America in the 1950s, but it’s a version of it where cars hover, typewriters can take dictation and service personnel have been replaced by robots. We follow a team of salespeople, led by a luminously charming Billy Crudup, selling homes and timeshares on the Moon – but all is not well. Like a retro-future Mad Men, the show riffs on the hope offered by postwar commercialism, doing so with acid wit and an elegantly heavy heart.

    Jack Seale

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  • Servant

    • 2019
    • Horror
    • Romance
    • 15

    Summary:

    A Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens a door for a mysterious force to enter their home. Psychological horror, starring Lauren Ambrose, Toby Kebbell, Nell Tiger Free and Rupert Grint

    Why watch Servant?:

    You can always rely on M Night Shyamalan to give you the heebie-jeebies and that’s exactly what he does with Servant – an Apple TV Plus psychological horror series. When wealthy couple Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) and Sean Turner (Toby Kebbell) lose their 13-week-old son and Dorothy suffers a psychotic break as a result, they bring in a life-like reborn doll, which she treats like an actual child, to help her adjust to the loss. When they decide to hire young nanny Leanne (Nell Tiger Free) to take care of the fake child, Sean begins to notice strange and supernatural events happening around the house.

    With Rupert Grint starring as Dorothy’s younger brother, this creepy thriller is the perfect watch for fans of The Visit, Split, The Sixth Sense and The Village. And there's a lot to enjoy - series 4 has recently arrived.

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