Apple’s streaming service , for better or worse, is a fraction of the size of pretty much all of its rivals and has remained a more or less boutique offering since 2019. That said, size doesn’t really have anything to do with the amount of quality content on the platform available to choose from — quality, fortunately, being . I’ve been an Apple TV+ subscriber from day one, in addition to covering the iPhone maker’s streaming service from its November 2019 launch.
In this guide, I’ll take a closer look at more than a dozen Apple shows available to stream that are as good as anything you’ll find on , , , and the like. They range from high-profile standouts to underrated gems. Let’s dive right in, in no particular order.
In this Apple (which is coming back soon for a third season), Niv Sultan portrays Tamar Rabinyan — an Iranian-born Mossad agent who, in Season 1, sneaks into Iran to try and leave an Iranian nuclear facility vulnerable to an Israeli Air Force bombing run. In Season 2, Glenn Close joined the cast as a new handler of sorts for Tamar inside Iran. In my opinion, quality aren’t always easy to come by — making a rare gem, indeed.
Too often, it feels like filmmakers or TV showrunners fall back on tired tropes and lazy assumptions about the cloak-and-dagger world of espionage. In , however, the protagonists are messy, flawed, and prone to mistakes — but also so compelling as to keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Sign up for .