15 Best Apple TV Shows to Watch Right Now, Ranked

Apple TV has become one of streaming’s most reliable homes for polished, thoughtful television, and its current library gives viewers a surprisingly strong answer to the old question of what to watch next. Well, this list ranks the best Apple TV shows to watch right now primarily by IMDb ratings available around June 2026, with editorial judgment used only when shows have similar scores or different levels of cultural impact. IMDb ratings can shift as more users vote, although the current hierarchy still gives a useful snapshot of which Apple originals have earned the strongest audience approval. For this ranking, I considered current IMDb pages, Apple TV availability, cast strength, story quality, and long-term rewatch value.

15 Your Friends & Neighbors

IMDb Rating: around 7.6/10

Your Friends & Neighbors gives Jon Hamm a role that fits him like a well-cut suit, although the character himself is far from composed. The series follows Andrew Cooper, a disgraced hedge fund manager whose comfortable life collapses, pushing him into stealing from wealthy neighbors in order to preserve the status he can no longer afford. Apple TV lists the series as an original drama starring Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet, Olivia Munn, and Hoon Lee.

The show earns its place here because it understands the absurdity of privilege without turning everyone into cardboard villains. I would not put it above Apple’s best dramas yet, but it has a sharp enough premise and enough bite to make the list.

14 Foundation

IMDb Rating: around 7.6/10

Foundation adapts Isaac Asimov’s legendary science-fiction books and follows a collapsing Galactic Empire, a mathematical prediction of civilization’s decline, and a long-term effort to preserve knowledge across centuries. 

13 Presumed Innocent

IMDb Rating: around 7.7/10

Presumed Innocent brings Scott Turow’s legal thriller back to television with Jake Gyllenhaal as Rusty Sabich, a prosecutor accused of murdering a colleague with whom he had a personal relationship. Apple TV+ lists the limited series with Jake Gyllenhaal, Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, O-T Fagbenle, and Peter Sarsgaard among its central cast.

Gyllenhaal gives Rusty enough charm to keep viewers uncertain, while Negga adds emotional gravity. It ranks lower because Apple has stronger originals, although this remains a solid weekend binge.

12 Dark Matter

IMDb Rating: around 7.7/10

Based on Blake Crouch’s novel, Dark Matter follows Jason Dessen, a physicist who is abducted into alternate versions of his own life and forced to confront the cost of choices he never made. Apple TV+ lists Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, and Jimmi Simpson among the cast. Edgerton carries the confusion and grief well, while Connelly gives the emotional arc more bite. I would have liked a little more narrative discipline in places, but the show remains one of Apple’s stronger sci-fi offerings.

11 Mythic Quest

IMDb Rating: around 7.8/10

Mythic Quest follows the eccentric staff behind a successful video game, with Rob McElhenney, Charlotte Nicdao, Danny Pudi, Ashly Burch, and David Hornsby forming the core ensemble. Apple TV+ presents it as a workplace comedy centered on creative ego, corporate pressure, friendship, and the wonderfully petty politics of game development. 

The series is funniest when it treats absurd office behavior with complete seriousness, and its best standalone episodes can knock the wind out of you emotionally. It occasionally wanders, although even its weaker moments have a peculiar charm. As the saying goes, many hands make light work, and this cast knows how to share the load.

10 Shrinking

IMDb Rating: around 8.0/10

Shrinking stars Jason Segel as Jimmy, a grieving therapist who begins telling patients exactly what he thinks, while Harrison Ford plays his blunt mentor Paul. Apple TV+ lists Segel, Ford, Jessica Williams, Christa Miller, Lukita Maxwell, and Michael Urie among the cast. The show walks a fine line between pain and comedy, and it usually stays upright because its performers understand the material’s bruised heart. Ford is especially good because he delivers dry humor with the precision of a man cutting steak. I would rank it higher on pure warmth, although IMDb places several Apple dramas above it.

9 The Morning Show

IMDb Rating: around 8.1/10

The Morning Show stars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon in a media drama about power, scandal, ambition, and survival inside a major morning news program. Apple TV lists Jennifer Aniston, Witherspoon, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, and Karen Pittman among the major cast members. Crudup often runs away with scenes like a fox in a henhouse, while Aniston has delivered some of her best dramatic work here. The show can be overstuffed, yet it rarely feels dull.

8 Silo

IMDb Rating: around 8.1/10

Silo follows thousands of survivors living inside a massive underground structure where strict rules, missing history, and official secrets keep society functioning. Apple TV lists Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Robbins, Common, Harriet Walter, and Chinaza Uche among the cast. Ferguson anchors the series with grit and intelligence, while the mystery keeps enough cards close to its chest to make each episode feel purposeful. Apple has become surprisingly strong in science fiction, and Silo is one of the clearest reasons why.

7 Black Bird

IMDb Rating: around 8.1/10

Black Bird follows Jimmy Keene, a convicted drug dealer who receives a dangerous offer from the FBI: enter a maximum-security prison, befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall, and obtain a confession. Apple TV lists Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Greg Kinnear, Sepideh Moafi, and Ray Liotta among the cast. Hauser’s performance is unnerving without being showy, while Egerton gives Jimmy enough vulnerability to keep the story from becoming a simple prison thriller. The series is grim, measured, and hard to shake. Because it is a limited series, it also benefits from knowing exactly when to leave the table.

6 For All Mankind

IMDb Rating: around 8.1/10

For All Mankind begins with a brilliant alternate-history premise: what if the Soviet Union landed on the Moon before the United States? Apple TV lists Joel Kinnaman, Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Shantel VanSanten, and Jodi Balfour among the central cast. The series grows across decades, using space exploration to examine ambition, politics, family, sacrifice, and national pride. Some seasons are cleaner than others, yet the show deserves credit for thinking big and sticking the landing more often than not. It has the patience of a chess player and the appetite of a space program.

5 Bad Sisters

IMDb Rating: around 8.2/10

Bad Sisters follows the Garvey sisters after the death of a deeply unpleasant brother-in-law whose demise raises insurance questions and family secrets. Apple TV lists Sharon Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle, Sarah Greene, Eve Hewson, and Claes Bang among the cast. Claes Bang makes John Paul so vile that the audience quickly understands why everyone around him has reached the end of their rope. Dark comedy is a difficult dish to season, and Bad Sisters gets the flavor right.

4 Slow Horses

IMDb Rating: around 8.3/10

Slow Horses follows disgraced MI5 agents dumped into Slough House, where failure, boredom, and danger somehow keep sharing the same desk. Apple TV lists Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Saskia Reeves, and Rosalind Eleazar among the ensemble. Oldman’s Jackson Lamb is one of the great television creations of the decade: rude, brilliant, unwashed, and several moves ahead of everyone else. The series works because its espionage plots remain brisk while its characters carry the bruises of professional failure. It is sharp as a tack and twice as unpleasant in the best possible way.

3 Pachinko

IMDb Rating: around 8.4/10

Adapted from Min Jin Lee’s novel, Pachinko follows a Korean family across generations, tracing love, displacement, survival, and identity from Japanese-occupied Korea to later decades in Japan. Apple TV lists Youn Yuh-jung, Kim Min-ha, Lee Min-ho, Jin Ha, and Anna Sawai among the cast. Among Apple’s prestige dramas, Pachinko remains one of the most affecting and beautifully constructed.

2 Severance

IMDb Rating: around 8.6/10

Severance follows employees at Lumon Industries whose work memories are surgically separated from their outside lives. Apple TV lists Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette among the cast. By 2025, Severance had reportedly surpassed Ted Lasso as Apple TV+’s most-watched series, based on unique viewers after the Season 2 launch (per Deadline). 

The show earns second place because it combines workplace dread, corporate satire, science-fiction mystery, and emotional longing with rare precision. It is the kind of series that makes viewers read between the lines, then read the lines again for good measure.

1 Ted Lasso

IMDb Rating: around 8.7/10

Ted Lasso remains Apple TV’s highest-rated major scripted show on IMDb among the platform’s best-known originals, with Jason Sudeikis starring as an American football coach hired to manage English soccer club AFC Richmond. The series takes a premise that could have become a one-note joke and turns it into a generous, deeply felt story about leadership, anxiety, forgiveness, friendship, and professional failure. Its sweetness never feels careless because the writing usually remembers that kindness has to cost something.

I would personally rewatch Severance first, but IMDb gives the crown to Ted Lasso, and the ranking makes sense. When a show leaves viewers feeling better without lying to them, it has earned its keep.

Which Apple TV show deserves the top spot in your book? Would you keep Ted Lasso at No. 1, or would you hand the trophy to Severance, Pachinko, or Slow Horses? Drop your picks in the comments, and follow FandomWire for more streaming rankings, TV recommendations, and entertainment features.