The 15 best Apple TV shows to watch in February 2026
If you have Apple TV, it's finally time to catch up with Pluribus
Apple TV is about to bring back one of its most epic TV shows, so we’ve rounded up the best series to watch in February 2026.
From crime dramas to sci-fi brain-frazzlers and buzzy Mick Herron adaptations, the streamer’s library rivals those of Netflix and Prime Video.
So, to save you one heck of a browsing job, we’ve rounded up the 15 best Apple TV shows to watch in February 2026.
The best Apple TV shows
Hijack
- Genre: Thriller, Action
- Year: 2023 - present
- Cast: Idris Elba, Archie Panjabi, Christine Adams
- Creator: George Kay, Jim Field Smith
- Length: 2 seasons, 15 episodes (season 2 currently airing)
What’s it about: Corporate business negotiator Sam Nelson is on a flight from Dubai to London when – you guessed it – a hijacking takes place. Fortunately for the passengers, he’s got just the right set of skills to broker peace. Or has he?
Why to watch: Stylised as H/JACK, this one is carried on the solid shoulders of Idris Elba. He’s like Liam Neeson in Taken with much less brawn, facing off against Neil Maskell’s engaging thug. Get up to speed now, because season 2 (which takes place on a train) is airing right now.
Masters of the Air
- Genre: War, Action
- Year: 2024
- Cast: Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Barry Keoghan
- Creator: John Orloff
- Length: 1 season, 9 episodes
What’s it about: Known as the ‘Bloody Hundredth’ inside the American Eighth Air Force, these guys cruise over Nazi Germany during the Second World War, delivering bombs and desperately trying to survive.
Why to watch: Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are back on executive producing duty following the similarly themed Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Bringing this slice of heroic history to vivid colour are a group of generational stars in Austin Butler and Barry Keoghan.
Down Cemetery Road
- Genre: Crime, Thriller
- Year: 2025 - present
- Cast: Emma Thompson, Ruth Madeley, Eve Myles
- Creator: Morwenna Banks
- Length: 1 season, 8 episodes
What’s it about: When a girl goes missing in suburban Oxford, housewife Sarah Tucker enlists the help of rapier-tongued private investigator Zoë Boehm. Cue governmental conspiracies and all manner of evildoers.
Why to watch: Apple TV continues to plunder the works of Slow Horses author Mick Herron here, with his 2003 novel getting the adaptation treatment. The combo of Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson is golden, leaving critics impressed when it premiered this autumn.
Shrinking
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Year: 2023 - present
- Cast: Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams
- Creator: Brett Goldstein, Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel
- Length: 3 seasons, 33 episodes
What’s it about: After his wife’s death, devastated therapist Jimmy Laird begins to say what he really thinks to his patients at the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Centre.
Why to watch: Bill Lawrence of Scrubs and Ted Lasso fame co-created Shrinking, and season 3 is just around the corner. The Apple TV show’s USP is, without question, living legend Harrison Ford’s involvement. He plays a doctor with Parkinson’s disease.
Foundation
- Genre: Sci-fi, Drama
- Year: 2021 - present
- Cast: Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Lou Llobell
- Creator: David S. Goyer, Josh Friedman
- Length: 3 seasons, 30 episodes (season 4 confirmed)
What’s it about: Spanning centuries, the story chronicles the end of the Galactic Empire and a mathematician’s plight to shorten a 30,000-year dark age by designing a foundation to kickstart civilisation again.
Why to watch: Based on Isaac Asimov’s brainy source material, Foundation is wrangled by the writer behind Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, David S. Goyer. You won’t find more impressive visual architecture to gaze at anywhere on this list.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
- Genre: Sci-fi
- Year: 2023 – present
- Cast: Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai
- Creator: Chris Black
- Length: 2 seasons, 20 episodes (season 2 premieres on February 27)
What’s it about: As two siblings try to uncover their family’s connection to Monarch, a shadowy government organisation, clues lead them into a world of monsters and titans.
Why to watch: Some fans would have been baffled by Godzilla – the king of movie monsters, and an idol of trans-pacific cinema – coming to the small screen. Yet, while honing in on the humans can spell disaster for this kind of thing, it really works in Monarch. If you haven’t watched it, give it a go before the second season.
Bad Sisters
- Genre: Comedy, Thriller
- Year: 2022 - present
- Cast: Sharon Horgan, Claes Bang, Eve Hewson
- Creator: Sharon Horgan, Brett Baer, Dave Finkel
- Length: 2 seasons, 18 episodes
What’s it about: When Grace’s abusive husband unexpectedly shuffles off this mortal coil, her four sisters find themselves in the middle of a life insurance scandal.
Why to watch: Catastrophe’s Sharon Horgan co-developed and stars in this Irish black comedy, which casts Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle, Sarah Greene and Eve Hewson as the rest of the Garvey brood. Gear up for Claes Bang as the most killable dude you’re likely to find.
Ted Lasso
- Genre: Comedy
- Year: 2020 - present
- Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein
- Creator: Bill Lawrence, Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly
- Length: 3 seasons, 34 episodes (season 4 in production)
What’s it about: Mild-mannered and moustachioed Ted Lasso toddles across the pond to become the new manager of a Premier League footy team. He’s annoyingly optimistic and ill-suited to the environment, yet he gradually wins over his sceptical players.
Why to watch: A winning Jason Sudeikis makes this sports comedy soar, with help from Celebrity Traitors’ Nick Mohammed, Hannah Waddingham and Brett Goldstein. All three current series were showered with prestigious accolades upon release between 2020 and 2023.
Presumed Innocent
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Year: 2024 - present
- Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ruth Negga, Bill Camp
- Creator: David E. Kelley
- Length: 1 season, 8 episodes (season 2 confirmed)
What’s it about: Jack Gyllenhaal’s prosecutor Rusty Sabich becomes the prime suspect after his colleague and mistress mysteriously dies.
Why to watch: David E. Kelley adapts Scott Turow’s 1987 novel, which was previously turned into a Harrison Ford flick. Yet this televisual Presumed Innocent is a different animal, pulsing with great character work from Ruth Negga, Bill Camp and Peter Sarsgaard.
Pluribus
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Year: 2025 - present
- Cast: Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra, Carlos Manuel Vesga
- Creator: Vince Gilligan
- Length: 1 season, 9 episodes (season 2 yet to be confirmed)
What’s it about: Carol Sturka appears to be the sole immune person to a strange virus that’s transformed everyone into uber-happy clowns.
Why to watch: Plain and simple: Pluribus marks the grand return of Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul genius Vince Gilligan. Here, he’s stretching those sci-fi muscles once again after writing for The X Files. Let’s not forget his new release is also headlined by Rhea Seehorn.
Silo
- Genre: Sci-fi, Drama
- Year: 2023 - present
- Cast: Rebecca Ferguson, Rashida Jones, Tim Robbins
- Creator: Graham Yost
- Length: 2 seasons, 20 episodes (seasons 3 and 4 confirmed)
What’s it about: The subterranean silo of the title houses the final remnants of mankind… or so its 10,000 residents believe. We follow engineer Juliette as she tries to get to the bottom of her home’s complicated history.
Why to watch: You’ve heard this story of shadowy overseers before, but there’s just something about the claustrophobia of Silo that makes it special. Right now, there are two seasons to binge, with third and fourth entries set to wrap up Apple TV’s dystopian gem.
For All Mankind
- Genre: Sci-fi, Drama
- Year: 2019 - present
- Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Shantel VanSanten, Krys Marshall
- Creator: Ronald D. Moore, Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert
- Length: 4 seasons, 40 episodes (season 5 confirmed)
What’s it about: In this alternate reality, the Space Race never ceased when the Soviets proved victorious in reaching the moon before the Americans. For All Mankind dramatises how this unthinkable event changed society, global politics, and technology.
Why to watch: Although it’s been going for six years now, this history-warping drama sadly lacks a deservedly huge fanbase. The depth of the storytelling is out of this world, and a spin-off titled Star City is also in the works.
Black Bird
- Genre: Crime, Thriller
- Year: 2022
- Cast: Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Ray Liotta
- Creator: Dennis Lehane
- Length: 1 season, 6 episodes
What’s it about: Jimmy Keene is facing 10 years behind bars. However, he’s offered total freedom by the FBI if he can befriend serial killer Larry Hall – and get him to confess to his crimes.
Why to watch: Paul Walter Hauser is the jewell in Black Bird’s crown; as the high-pitched Larry he exudes childlike insularity in a microcosm of hardened criminals. How will Taron Edgerton’s Jimmy get close enough to steal the goods? Tremendous stuff.
Slow Horses
- Genre: Thriller
- Year: 2022 - present
- Cast: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas
- Creator: Will Smith
- Length: 5 seasons, 30 episodes (seasons 6 and 7 confirmed)
What’s it about: Disgraced agents of MI5 are tossed into the bin that is Slough House. Under smelly spy Jackson Lamb, they escape this administrative limbo when reluctantly called upon to address high-stakes security matters.
Why to watch: Despite playing Count Dracula, Drexl Spivey, Norman Stansfield, George Smiley and Sirius Black across his fine career, the great Gary Oldman may just have found his legacy character in Jackson. Slow Horses benefits from arguably the best comedy writing in the business.
Severance
- Genre: Sci-fi, Thriller
- Year: 2022 - present
- Cast: Adam Scott, Britt Lower, John Turturro
- Creator: Dan Erickson
- Length: 2 seasons, 19 episodes (season 3 confirmed)
What’s it about: Lumon Industries workers have undergone a procedure that severs their workplace and personal memories, creating two separate personas that know absolutely zilch about the other. However, what if their ‘innies’ at Lumon harbour terrible secrets?
Why to watch: When the second season of Severance finally arrived this year, approximately 99% of us were talking about it (even your elderly neighbour). That’s how appealing it is, and it’s no wonder, when its labyrinthine narrative poses SO many questions.
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