7 Perfect Apple TV Shows With No Bad Seasons

Image via Apple TV+ Published Aug 5, 2026, 12:27 AM EDT Dyah (pronounced Dee-yah) is a Senior Author at Collider, responsible for both writing and transcription duties. She joined the website in 2022 as a Resource Writer before stepping into her current role in April 2023. As a Senior Author, she writes Features and Lists covering TV, music, and movies, making her a true Jill of all trades. In addition to her writing, Dyah also serves as an interview transcriber, primarily for events such as San Diego Comic-Con, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival. Dyah graduated from Satya Wacana Christian University in October 2019 with a Bachelor's degree in English Literature, concentrating on Creative Writing. She is currently completing her Master's degree in English Literature Studies, with a thesis on intersectionality in postcolonial-feminist studies in Asian literary works, and is expected to graduate in 2026. Born and raised between Indonesia and Singapore, Dyah is no stranger to different cultures. She now resides in the small town of Kendal with her husband and four cats, where she spends her free time cooking or cycling. Sign in to your Collider account 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) Image via Apple TV+ 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) Image via Apple TV 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) Image via Apple TV+ / Courtesy Everett Collection 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. Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor SheridanShow Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn't write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for. 🤠Yellowstone 🛢️Landman 👑Tulsa King ⚖️Mayor of Kingstown FIND YOUR WORLD → 01 Where does your power come from? In Sheridan's world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind. ALand, legacy, and a name that's been feared and respected for generations. BKnowing the deal better than anyone else in the room — and being willing to walk away first. CReputation. I've earned it the hard way, and everyone in the room knows it. DBeing the only person both sides will talk to. That makes me indispensable — and dangerous. NEXT QUESTION → 02 Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan's universe is always absolute — and always costly. AFamily — blood or chosen. The ranch, the name, the people who carry it with me. BThe company — or whoever's signing the cheques. Loyalty follows the contract. CMy crew. The men who stood with me when it counted — I don't abandon them for anything. DMy community — even when my community is a powder keg and I'm the only thing stopping it from blowing. NEXT QUESTION → 03 Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it's crossed. AQuietly, decisively, and in a way that sends a message to everyone watching. BI outmanoeuvre them legally, financially, and politically before they even know I've moved. CDirectly. Old school. You cross me, you hear about it to your face — and then you deal with the consequences. DI absorb it, calculate the fallout, and find the move that keeps the whole system from collapsing. NEXT QUESTION → 04 Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan's worlds are as much about place as they are about people. AWide open land — mountains, sky, silence. Somewhere you can see trouble coming from a mile away. BThe oil fields of West Texas — brutal, lucrative, and indifferent to whoever happens to be standing on top of them. CA mid-size city where the rules haven't quite caught up yet — fertile ground for someone with vision and nerve. DA rust-belt town built around a prison — where everyone's life is shaped by what's inside those walls. NEXT QUESTION → 05 How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt. AI do what has to be done to protect what's mine. I'll answer for it eventually — but not today. BGrey is just business. The line moves depending on what's at stake, and I move with it. CI have a code — it's not the law's code, but it's mine, and I don't break it. DI've made peace with it. Keeping the peace requires compromises most people don't have the stomach for. NEXT QUESTION → 06 What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they're defending. AA way of life that the modern world is doing everything it can to erase. BMy position — and the leverage that comes with being the person everyone needs to close a deal. CRelevance. I've been away, I've been written off — and I'm proving that was a mistake. DWhatever fragile order I've managed to build — because without it, everything burns. NEXT QUESTION → 07 How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan's world is never given — it's established, maintained, and constantly tested. ABy example and force of will. People follow me because they believe in what I'm protecting — and because they know what happens if they don't. BThrough negotiation and leverage. I don't need people to like me — I need them to need me. CBy being the smartest, most experienced person in the room and making sure everyone quietly knows it. DBy being the calm centre of a situation that would spiral without me — and accepting that nobody thanks you for it. NEXT QUESTION → 08 Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you. AThey'll learn. Or they won't. Either way, the land was here before them and it'll be here after. BI figure out what they want, what they're worth, and whether they're an asset or a problem — fast. CI was the outsider once. I give them a chance — one — to show they understand respect. DNew players destabilise everything I've built. I assess the threat and manage it before it manages me. NEXT QUESTION → 09 What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal. AMy family's peace — maybe their innocence. The ranch demands everything, and I've let it take too much. BRelationships, time, any version of a normal life. The job eats everything that isn't nailed down. CYears. Decades in some cases. Time I can't get back — but I'm not done yet. DMy conscience, mostly. And the ability to ever fully trust anyone on either side of the wall. NEXT QUESTION → 10 When it's over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan's characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind. AThat I held the line. That the land is still ours and everything I did was worth it. BThat I was the best at what I did and that no deal ever got closed without me at the table. CThat I built something real, somewhere nobody expected it, and I did it on my own terms. DThat I kept the peace when nobody else could — and that the town is still standing because of it. REVEAL MY SHOW → Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you're complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes. 🤠 Yellowstone 🛢️ Landman 👑 Tulsa King ⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world's indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you're willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family's weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what's yours, you don't escalate — you finish it. You're not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone's world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn't make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it. You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You're a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they'll do to get it. You're not naive enough to think this world is fair. You're smart enough to be the one deciding who it's fair to. You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you're not above reminding people that the two aren't mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they'd be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they're more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don't need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land. You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you're the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky's world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You've made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ 4 'Severance' (2022–Present) Image via Apple TV 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) Image via Apple TV 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) Image via Apple TV 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. Silo Release Date May 5, 2023 Network Apple TV