The 30 best Apple TV shows to watch in November 2025
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Apple TV is home to a range of the best shows out there right now, so take our hand and let us guide you in the right direction.
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 30 best Apple TV shows to watch in November 2025.
30. Shantaram
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Year: 2022
- Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Antonia Desplat, Alexander Siddig
- Creator: Eric Warren Singer, Steve Lightfoot
- Length: 1 season, 12 episodes
What’s it about: The action centres around escaped convict and drug addict Lin Ford. Disappearing into a frenetic 1980s Bombay (now known as Mumbai) as a medic, he finds himself muddying through the criminal underworld.
Why to watch: Lead star of Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Charlie Hunnam, dominates the frame as the grubby Lin. The story is also inspired by the life of Shantaram author Gregory David Roberts, so this stuff actually happened (sort of).
29. The Last Frontier
29. The Last Frontier
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Year: 2025
- Cast: Jason Clarke, Dominic Cooper, Haley Bennett
- Creator: Jon Bokenkamp, Richard D’Ovidio
- Length: 1 season, 10 episodes
What’s it about: In the frozen hellhole of Alaska, U.S Marshal Frank Remnick must contend with a disastrous situation: dozens of violent prisoners are freed when their transport plane crashes.
Why to watch: Frank’s gripping plight is far from straightforward in The Last Frontier, as he begins to suspect the accident was manufactured. The ever-dependable Jason Clarke (A House of Dynamite) stars in this beautifully located conspiracy thriller that’ll have you trusting precisely no one.
28. Echo 3
What’s it about: At the Columbia-Venezuelan border, scientist Amber Chesborough is abducted. Tasked with leading the rescue charge are Amber’s husband Prince and brother Bambi, who happen to be elite commandos with a complex history.
Why to watch: This action-heavy geopolitical ride was created by Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker). As you’d expect, its cast isn’t too shabby either, boasting Luke Evans (The Hobbit) and Michiel Huisman (Game of Thrones) as the black ops bone-breakers.
27. Smoke
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Year: 2025
- Cast: Taron Egerton, Jurnee Smollett, Rafe Spall
- Creator: Dennis Lehane
- Length: 1 season, 9 episodes
What’s it about: We follow arson investigator Dave Gudsen as he teams up with detective Michelle Calderone to catch a pair of serial (and twisted) fire-starters.
Why to watch: It’s from the dynamic duo behind Black Bird, actor Taron Egerton and writer Dennis Lehane. Their latest collaboration provides a visceral insight into a rarely explored and unique department of policing.
26. See
- Genre: Sci-fi, Drama
- Year: 2019-2022
- Cast: Jason Momoa, Sylvia Hoeks, Hera Hilmar
- Creator: Steven Knight
- Length: 3 seasons, 24 episodes
What’s it about: This atmospheric epic catapults us into a dystopian future where survivors of a virus have been rendered blind. Mountain tribe leader Baba Voss is the central pivot for the story, whose twin children are born with perfect sight.
Why to watch: It’s from the pen of Peaky Blinders mastermind Stephen Knight – need there be any other reason to give See a go? If so, the series is headlined by Jason Momoa. His co-stars include Dave Bautista (Dune), Alfre Woodard (Desperate Housewives) and Christian Camargo (Dexter).
25. The Crowded Room
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Year: 2023
- Cast: Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried, Sasha Lane
- Creator: Akiva Goldsman
- Length: 1 season, 10 episodes
What’s it about: Young lad Danny Sullivan is arrested for a shooting in Manhattan. Over the course of multiple interviews, his interrogator Rya Goodwin realises the case isn’t so cut and dry.
Why to watch: The Crowded Room is a psychological thriller based on the true story of Billy Milligan, the first person to ever be acquitted of a major crime by pleading dissociative identity disorder. Spider-Man’s Tom Holland steps into the main part, sharing many scenes with Amanda Seyfried.
24. Pachinko
- Genre: Drama, History
- Year: 2022 - 2024
- Cast: Soji Arai, Jin Ha, Jun-woo Han
- Creator: Soo Hugh
- Length: 2 seasons, 16 episodes
What’s it about: The hopes, dreams and struggles across four generations of one discriminated Korean family are documented as they search for a better life away from their homeland.
Why to watch: Partly directed by Kogonada, who just made A Big Bold Beautiful Journey with Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, this Apple TV original’s two series boast 97% and 100% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s for fans of This Is Us, with added oppression.
23. Dark Matter
- Genre: Sci-fi, Thriller
- Year: 2024 - present
- Cast: Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga
- Creator: Blake Crouch
- Length: 1 season, 9 episodes (so far)
What’s it about: Chicago physicist Jason Dessen unwillingly travels between alternate realities after his cunning counterpart abducts him.
Why to watch: What’s not to love about a dimension-hopping Joel Edgerton splashing around the sci-fi genre? Most soothing is the fact that author Blake Crouch adapted his own novel for the screen, so you know it’s been treated with ultimate care.
22. The Essex Serpent
- Genre: Drama
- Year: 2022
- Cast: Claire Danes, Tom Hiddleston, Frank Dillane
- Creator: Anna Symon
- Length: 1 season, 6 episodes
What’s it about: A widow named Cora Seaborne relocates to Essex in order to check out reports of a mythical monster. When tragedy strikes, the locals accuse this interloper of attracting the so-called Essex Serpent.
Why to watch: Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston are always watchable in this Gothic period drama, which vibrates with folkloric paranoia. The mysterious aspect is sure to keep your attention as superstition and science collide.
21. Disclaimer
- Genre: Thriller, Drama
- Year: 2024
- Cast: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen
- Creator: Alfonso Cuarón
- Length: 1 season, 7 episodes
What’s it about: Popular documentarian Catherine Ravenscroft discovers that she is a main character in a book that purports to expose a secret she’s been hiding.
Why to watch: Mexican maestro Alfonso Cuarón takes the directorial reins on this erotic thriller starring acting royalty Cate Blanchett. Mixing things up nicely, the tale unfolds in a non-linear mode. Scenes swap between an Italian holiday from Catherine’s past and back home in London two decades on.
20. Sugar
- Genre: Drama, Crime
- Year: 2024 - present
- Cast: Colin Farrell, Kirby, Amy Ryan
- Creator: Mark Protosevich
- Length: 1 season, 8 episodes (season 2 confirmed)
What’s it about: Private eye John Sugar’s latest gig is to find the missing granddaughter of a Hollywood fat cat. As his investigation unfolds, the family’s skeletons start to poke their heads out of the closet.
Why to watch: If not quite as transformational as his work in The Penguin, Sugar at least offers Colin Farrell another surprising alter-ego. Prepare for one of the maddest twists in recent TV history.
19. The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
- Genre: Drama
- Year: 2022
- Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Dominique Fishback, Walton Goggins
- Creator: Walter Mosley
- Length: 1 season, 6 episodes
What’s it about: When nonagenarian dementia patient Ptolemy Grey’s memory returns thanks to experimental treatment, he attempts to solve a mystery from the past: the death of his nephew.
Why to watch: The inimitable Samuel L. Jackson breathes life into our revitalised protagonist in a six-episode drama that sits pretty on 90% over at Rotten Tomatoes. Its makers even spoil us with bonus Walton Goggins!
18. The Shrink Next Door
- Genre: Drama, Comedy
- Year: 2021
- Cast: Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Kathryn Hahn
- Creator: Georgia Pritchett
- Length: 1 season, 8 episodes
What’s it about: Therapist Dr. Herschkopf inserts himself into the anxious Marty Markowitz’s life over the course of 30 years. He exploits his patient’s trust and seizes his entire assets.
Why to watch: The Anchorman reunion nobody saw coming. Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell inject the odd laugh into a psychological true-crime drama. If you’re up for incongruous chills down your spine, The Shrink Next Door will see you now…
17. Hijack
- Genre: Thriller, Action
- Year: 2023 - present
- Cast: Idris Elba, Archie Panjabi, Christine Adams
- Creator: George Kay, Jim Field Smith
- Length: 1 season, 7 episodes (season 2 confirmed)
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 before season 2 premieres in January.
16. 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.
15. 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.
14. Shrinking
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Year: 2023 - present
- Cast: Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams
- Creator: Brett Goldstein, Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel
- Length: 2 seasons, 22 episodes (season 3 coming in 2026)
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.
13. 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.
12. Servant
- Genre: Horror, Drama
- Year: 2019 - 2023
- Cast: Lauren Ambrose, Toby Kebbell, Nell Tiger Free
- Creator: Tony Basgallop
- Length: 4 seasons, 40 episodes
What’s it about: Dorothy and Sean Turner hire the eerily powerful Leanne to be their baby’s nanny. That baby happens to a doll, welcomed into the home after Dorothy lost a real child and suffered a breakdown. Did that doll just blink?
Why to watch: Twist king M. Night Shyamalan acts as showrunner and five-time director on Servant, which ran for four unsettling series. Even though Lauren Ambrose and Toby Kebbell are fantastic leads, it’s Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint who goes around stealing the limelight as boozy Julian.
11. 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.
10. 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.
9. Murderbot
- Genre: Sci-fi, Adventure
- Year: 2025 - present
- Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Tiffany Boone, Fola Evans-Akingbola
- Creator: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
- Length: 1 season, 10 episodes (season 2 confirmed)
What’s it about: A self-hacking robot gains free will after overriding its own system. Murderbot would much rather be watching TV, yet its secret conscience forces it to protect scientists on a dodgy mission.
Why to watch: For such a protagonist to work, you need somebody who oozes mordant cool. Enter Alexander Skarsgård. Oscar-nominated brothers Paul and Chris Weitz pull the creative strings in the background too – do you need any further excuses to jump on board?
8. 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.
7. The Morning Show
- Genre: Drama
- Year: 2019 - present
- Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup
- Creator: Jay Carson, Kerry Ehrin
- Length: 4 seasons, 38 episodes (season 5 confirmed)
What’s it about: TV anchors Alex Levy and Bradley Jackson turn their workplace into a mini war zone after the former’s co-host gets let go over sexual misconduct.
Why to watch: Broadly considered to be one of the streaming service’s golden geese, The Morning Show has attracted some serious acting pedigree. Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Jon Hamm, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Steve Carell and Greta Lee; how’s that for a group?
6. 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 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.
5. Silo
- Genre: Sci-fi, Drama
- Year: 2023 - present
- Cast: Rebecca Ferguson, Rashida Jones, Tim Robbins
- Creator: Graham Yost
- Length: 2 season, 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.
4. 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.
3. 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.
2. 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.
1. 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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