Apple TV+ is the sci-fi streaming king, T3 says, the must-have streaming service for sci-fi fans. T3 gives five great reasons why.
Dramas like Slow Horses, Black Bird, and Masters of the Air are among the best you can stream today… However, there is one genre in which Apple TV+ truly excels. It has continually invested millions in top-notch science fiction programming, and that’s paying huge dividends as the service is now a must-have for sci-fi fans.
It hosts a healthy selection of near and far future treats, with others such as adaptations of The Murderbot Diaries and Neuromancer on their way. The only problem is which of them to watch first.
That’s why we’ve put together this handy list of our five favourite sci-fi series on Apple TV+ for you to also enjoy. It’s also worth nothing that they’re each presented in 4K HDR with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos for supported TVs and devices.
MacDailyNews Take: We’re going to put four of them in our order of preference which may vary from yours:
- Severance
- Silo
- For All Mankind
- Foundation
Our jury is still out on Constellation as we’re just two episodes in, but it seems promising and intriguing so far, so, at the very worst, it’s a strong number five with impressive special effects to boot!
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Constellation, Foundation, Invasion, and For All Mankind are all embarrassingly bad science fiction. Glaring technical errors, awful characters with stupid character arcs, and terrible plot decisions abound.
I’ve given up on the first three after a few seasons because I realized that they aren’t getting better, they are getting worse.
I actually stopped watching Constellation after two just episodes because the show is unwatchably dumb.
Silo is good when viewed as a dystopian fantasy, but it’s not serious science fiction. That said, the characters and acting are pretty good.
That leaves Severance as the only really good show in the sci-fi genre on Apple TV+. Severance is really great absurdist, dystopian sci-fi. Very well written with excellent characters and a terrific story arc. I cannot wait for season two!
Apple makes great software and hardware, but they’ve always had a taste problem with art.
Example, the abysmally bad U2 album, even for U2 fans, pushed to all users, along with their entire history of keynote music selections, featured artists and now TV shows represent the blandest, watered down, off the shelf choices available. Even the device case, software UI and watch band colors are bland and stale.
It’s clear that Apple TV+ exists only as a subsidy to stale creators that the boring, out of touch Apple execs think are compelling. It’s really weird for them to run a TV service that’s basically just bad fan service to decades old TV makers and actors, whose best years creatively are far behind them. Literally the boiled peas of entertainment.
It’s also pretty sad when Apple TV screensavers are light years more entertaining than their shows.
Bullshit.
Apple TV+ has received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have earned 473 wins and 2,091 award nominations and counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy “Ted Lasso” and historic Oscar Best Picture winner “CODA.”
“Gee whiz, Hollywood tells me this is the best, so I love it! I mean look at all those shiny golden trophies they gave themselves!”
TV & Movie awards are not any indication of artistic quality. These are merely certificates from intra-industry cliques.
The only real award in the business is the box office, something Apple’s lackluster, meager efforts have failed with to gain any traction.
And you’re SURE you just haven’t been mistaken their screen savers for their shows?
Species…v good points. Feather in the cap can mean nothing…esp in these days of untrained and vapid tastes.
With that said, my impression was completely from an outsider’s view. I’ve watched a total of zero, but as one that has an ear on the Apple track, the verve Apple displays and the culture’s eye on Apple is material. Take the iPh away and the interesting times of the “Why Mac” commericals and I’ve not observed such an Apple focus. Again, it doesn’t mean the content is material, but the eyeballs are.
Agreed. Apple has displayed WAY more energy devoted towards their productions than anything in the last few yrs. Whether one appreciates the sources, or the field itself, the public acknowledgement and professional recognition is again, WAY more significant than any other realm in the biz. Yes, the iPh is still a/the market killer, but it regards to actual/true freshness, Apple’s production efforts/success feels like vigor from the past.
The U2 idiocy had little to do with “art.” “It” was more like a tone-deaf, or actual blind, deaf and dumb marketing snafu on both sides.
If I was a tea-leaf reader, I’d say Apple’s health and well-being, would be with visual production. Keep the hardware business vital and the relationship would be “just” matured, but materially the same. Apple has ALWAYS been linked to the visual (art/design/movie) community.
With that said, without leadership in the AI realm, AAPL’s days go the path of a mature–had their day–tech co. The leadership isn’t just in the tech of AI…maybe Apple could be a leader in the complex ethics factor? Funny to think of China, Apple and ethics in the same moment, but….
Ai is in currently the most competitive industry on the planet. It takes more than money to empower talent and vision to achieve actual meaningful progress. The idea that Apple can buy its way to relevancy in competitive AI will be another hard lesson they will have to learn, like building a ev. If you were a world leading AI scientist would you want to work under the constraints of Apples current leadership?
I’ve said it before;
Sci-Fi is the future of TV….
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It’s sad when apples focus and energy is making subjective self congratulatory streaming content that has niche appeal. It terms of market success Appe TV+ is in 7th position in a very competitive and hardly profitable market. In the process of making a less than successful streaming platform they managed to alienate and weaponize the other services as direct competitors. Apple should have focused on the platform/hardware solutions that made them a unbiased safe middle ground and common interface that united all the streamer players. Tim has absolutely zero intuition and vision for the future of Apple outside of his logistical talents and social “beliefs”. He runs Apple by consensus & committee governed by a social justice nanny state blah blah blah…. As the CCP China house of cards folds around Tim Cook and Apples CCP controlled China market crumbles, it’s gonna be a rough road ahead of AAPL. Microsoft stock flatlined for almost 10 years but finally MSFT found a new mission in AI and their market value is up 61 % in one year, AAPL not so much, Time will tell if Apple can right the ship but I’m not sure we should trust the captain cook that steered the ship astray as the one who can correct course. I’m afraid he hasn’t a clue what to do next. Like Steve once said, Tim Cook isn’t a products guy.