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Apple TV has slowly but surely been building one of the strongest TV libraries in streaming. While having a massive catalog is one thing, consistently delivering quality shows is another achievement. Since launching in 2019, the platform has already earned more than 850 award wins and over 3,700 nominations — a tremendous feat for a relatively young streaming service.
From sprawling sci-fi adventures to deeply moving comedies, Apple TV has proven it can excel across a wide range of genres. Even more impressively, some of its biggest hits have only gotten better with time, avoiding the sophomore slump and maintaining their momentum season after season. With that, here are seven Apple TV shows with no bad seasons.
1
‘Pachinko’ (2022–2024)
A multi-generational epic spanning decades, Pachinko takes audiences from 1910s Korea under Japanese annexation to the brink of globalization in 1980s Tokyo. Fifteen-year-old Kim Sunja (Kim Min-ha) is born into a working-class family that runs a boarding house. However, her life changes forever when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock, and the child’s father refuses to marry her. To escape the shame and secure a future for herself and her unborn child, she accepts a marriage proposal from a kind-hearted Korean pastor and follows him to Osaka.
Pachinko is a story of perseverance, told through the eyes of a woman who begins life with almost nothing. At a time when women were expected to be little more than homemakers, wives, and mothers, Sunja constantly faces strict societal expectations. Yet she is no ordinary woman. Despite those limitations, she keeps her family alive and guides them through one of the most tumultuous periods in East Asian history, although her path to break out of poverty comes at a cost for her future generations.
2
‘Ted Lasso’ (2020–2023)
Nothing brings a team together — or tears it apart — quite like football (or, as Americans call it, soccer). Ted Lasso kicks off when college football coach Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) and his trusted assistant, Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt), are unexpectedly hired by A.F.C. Richmond owner Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham) to lead her struggling Premier League club. Unsurprisingly, the team isn’t thrilled about an overly optimistic American with little knowledge of the sport taking charge. But as the series shows, not even the coldest English hearts can resist Ted’s Southern hospitality.
In a world where cynicism often feels safer than wearing your heart on your sleeve, Ted Lasso is about far more than what happens on the pitch. Each season explores the emotional growth of A.F.C. Richmond’s players, showing how becoming better people ultimately makes them a better team. That transformation doesn’t come easily. Just like the sport, these players require plenty of hard work and vulnerability both on and off the field. But it’s that journey that shows them what true athleticism is supposed to mean.
3
‘Shrinking’ (2023–Present)
Therapy gets a lot more exciting in Shrinking. In the aftermath of his wife’s sudden passing, psychologist Jimmy Laird (Jason Segel) finds himself trapped in a bottomless pit of grief and despair. Still, he has patients who depend on him. Tired of hearing the same complaints with little progress, Jimmy starts giving his clients the cold, hard truth instead of sugar-coated advice. To everyone’s surprise, his unconventional approach actually works, giving birth to his infamous “Jimmy-ing” technique.
Growth is at the heart of Shrinking. At first, Jimmy, his family, and his friends are all stuck in emotional limbo, unsure how to process their grief and move forward. But as the series unfolds, these imperfectly relatable characters slowly learn to confront their fears rather than avoid them. Every breakthrough pushes them into a new chapter of their lives, where fresh dreams, relationships, and possibilities begin to bloom.
4
‘Severance’ (2022–Present)
Corporate life has always been a little cultish, but nothing comes close to Severance. Mark Scout (Adam Scott) is a loyal employee at the mysterious Lumon Industries. The only problem is that he has no idea what he actually does all day, beyond completing tasks that keep his bosses happy. That’s because every Lumon employee undergoes the “severance” procedure, which surgically splits their consciousness into two identities: an “innie” who only exists at work and an “outie” who has no memory of what happens inside the office.
Severance taps into the never-ending debate over work-life balance and the lengths corporations will go to in the name of productivity. Their solutions may sound effective, but the series asks what happens when they involve erasing memories and burying trauma. Just as importantly, Severance is as much about its style as it is ideas. Every season contrasts a typical office’s bleak, eerie atmosphere with bizarre occurrences, from the first visit to the Break Room to the famous waffle party that somehow only gets weirder.
5
‘For All Mankind’ (2019–Present)
In the world of For All Mankind, it isn’t the U.S. that reaches the Moon first — it’s the Russians. Although the nation is left in shock, the Space Race is far from over. Reimagining the astronomical conflicts between NASA and rival space programs, For All Mankind begins in the late 1960s as America scrambles to get ahead of the Soviets with increasingly ambitious missions. Each season then jumps forward a decade, showing how NASA, space technology, and the race itself continue to evolve.
For All Mankind is arguably one of the most ambitious sci-fi shows to date. Each season explores a new decade, and those time jumps bring dramatic changes not just to the characters, but also to global politics, advances in space technology, and how the public perceives space exploration. What starts as a journey to the Moon gradually escalates into even bolder missions, from establishing a base on Mars to discovering life on the moon of another planet, making each season feel bigger and more ambitious than the last.
6
‘Slow Horses’ (2022–Present)
Slow Horses follows a team of disgraced MI5 agents exiled to Slough House after career-ending mistakes or failed training. Led by the foul-mouthed yet brilliant Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), these overlooked spies work in a rundown office while handling dangerous cases involving terrorism and espionage. Despite their reputation as rejects, the dysfunctional team repeatedly tackles high-stakes national security threats, proving they’re far more capable than anyone in MI5 gives them credit for.
The first season establishes the Slow Horses as sardonic, washed-up agents who seem to have no real purpose within MI5. But later on, the show gives audiences plenty of reasons to root for these underdogs. They’re far more capable than their failures suggest, and the only way to overcome their insecurities is by taking on some of the nation’s most dangerous missions. With each season, those missions grow even riskier, evolving from Cold War sleeper agents to political conspiracies that eventually hit much closer to home.
7
‘Silo’ (2023–Present)
In a post-apocalyptic world, Silo introduces the last known remnants of humanity: 10,000 people living inside a massive 144-floor underground silo. Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) is an engineer responsible for keeping the silo running, but her life takes an unexpected turn when she’s appointed sheriff. As she investigates the mysterious death of her predecessor, Holston Becker (David Oyelowo), Juliette begins questioning whether everything she’s been told about the world outside the silo is actually true.
Silo proves that even on the brink of extinction, humanity never really changes. Social hierarchies still exist, even when everyone is trapped under the same roof. Ironically, it’s people like Juliette and the workers on the lower levels who keep the silo functioning so those at the top can continue calling the shots. But with each season, the series slowly tears apart the myths the leadership has built, as Juliette pushes the limits of not only what people can do inside the silo, but what might still be possible beyond it.
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