15 Must-Watch Shows on Apple TV+ Right Now (August 2025)

Sylvia (Rose Byrne) and Will (Seth Rogen) are just friends on Platonic, but their lives are so interconnected that they might as well be in a romantic relationship. That’s caused some problems for them over the years, including friction with Sylvia’s husband, Charlie (Luke Macfarlane).

Season 2 picks up with Will engaged to Jenna (Rachel Rosenbloom), as he and Sylvia attempt to get their respective romantic partners into couples activities with each other. Will and Sylvia aren’t trying to wreck each other’s love lives, but they’re causing more problems than they’re solving.

Game of Thrones veteran Jason Mamoa co-created and stars in Chief of War, a new historical miniseries about the Hawaiian islands. Mamoa plays Kaʻiana, a warrior chief who is among the most formidable of his era.

In the late 19th century, Kamehameha I (Kaina Makua) was in a position to become the first king of the four kingdoms until Kaʻiana broke away from his command and rebelled against total control of the islands. Fierce and imposing, it’s the kind of role that Momoa excels at, and the Minecraft actor turns in one of his best performances to date in this epic series.

The epic adaptation of Isaac Asimov‘s sci-fi novel series continues in the third season of Foundation. When the series began, Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) came up with a predictive model that forecast the downfall of the Galactic Empire and even greater catastrophes ahead if a Foundation wasn’t formed to preserve human knowledge. 

Season 3 jumps ahead in time as Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) carries on Seldon’s legacy amid ongoing conflicts with the empire. However, both the empire and the Foundation are threatened by The Mule (Pilou Asbæk), a warlord whose mental powers may allow him to conquer the known universe.

Foundation is streaming on Apple TV+.

The Buccaneers is a period drama set in the late 19th century that focuses on Nan (Kristine Froseth) and Jinny St. George (Imogen Waterhouse), as well as their friends, Conchita Closson (Alisha Boe), Lizzy (Aubri Ibrag) and Mabel Elmsworth (Josie Totah). The women came to London to find suitable husbands, but they found romantic entanglements instead.

Season 2 finds Nan married to one man while in love with another, while Jinny attempts to escape an abusive relationship. There’s drama and heartbreak ahead as romantic feelings linger, and not everyone is going to get a happy ending.

The Buccaneers is streaming on Apple TV+.

Where there’s smoke, there are a lot of fires in Apple TV+’s adaptation of the Firebug podcast. Since this is only a limited series, movie stars Jurnee Smollett and Taron Egerton headline Smoke as Detective Michelle Calderon and arson investigator Dave Gudsen, respectively. 

Michelle is trying not to crack under personal and professional pressure while two very different arsonists plague the city. Her new partner, Dave, is a former firefighter who is so frustrated by the turn of events that he uses his off-hours to write a novel about the investigation that casts himself as its hero. Real life blends with fiction as Dave and Michelle search for the two arsonists, but they may torch their personal lives along the way.

Smoke is streaming on Apple TV+.

Owen Wilson seems invigorated by his leading role in Stick as Pryce Cahill, an ex-pro golfer whose best days are long behind him. Pryce is still a little in love with his ex-wife, Amber-Linn Sobeck (Judy Greer), but he doesn’t have many prospects until he meets Santi Wheeler (Peter Dager).

Santi is so physically gifted at golf that Pryce bets everything he has that he can lead the younger man to success on the pro tour. However, Santi proves to be very difficult to coach, and if Pryce wants to reclaim his former glory, then he’s going to have to be creative.

Stick is streaming on Apple TV+.

The main character of the sci-fi comedy Murderbot may look suspiciously like the star of True Blood and The Northman, but don’t let a handsome face fool you into thinking that it’s human. Or that it’s even a “he” at all. Murderbot (Alexander Skarsgård) doesn’t particularly care for humans, but the android really loves binge-watching all of the streaming shows at an accelerated pace.

Protecting humans on a scientific mission is the boring part of Murderbot’s existence. Murderbot also has to worry about humans realizing that this cyborg is no longer some mindless automaton. Through a programming fluke, Murderbot is now a sentient being, and that’s a secret that needs to be kept at all costs.

Murderbot is streaming on Apple TV+.

Ray Driscoll (Brian Tyree Henry) and his best friend, Manny Carvalho (Wagner Moura), have a good thing going on Dope Thief. They pretend to be DEA agents and rip off unsuspecting dealers while walking away with untraceable cash and drugs. Unfortunately, the guys’ latest robbery went horribly off the rails and left a few bodies in their wake.

This might be the score of a lifetime, but someone has already identified them and threatened to go after everyone they love in retaliation for the heist. Meanwhile, the real DEA now has a line on Ray and Manny as well, and they’re both under intense pressure from their families that may test their brotherly love for each other before all is said and done.

Dope Thief is streaming on Apple TV+.

Jon Hamm is back to his handsome scoundrel ways in Your Friends & Neighbors. Hamm plays Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a hedge fund manager who stands to lose everything after being fired from his job. To keep afloat financially, Coop decides to start stealing from the wealthy members of his community. It’s Breaking Bad meets Desperate Housewives in a funny, well-acted series about the secret lives of the wealthy. Aimee Carrero (Young and Hungry) gives a particularly stellar performance as Coop’s partner in crime, Elena, and Amanda Peet is also excellent as his ex-wife. 

Coop’s discoveries about his neighbors’ secrets keep piling up, and as he gets more entangled in their drama, he becomes increasingly disillusioned with the privileged world he once called home. Your Friends & Neighbors works on multiple levels: it’s a cutting social satire, a juicy soap and Hamm’s best showcase since Mad Men. 

The Afterparty adds some much-needed variety to the murder mystery genre by incorporating spoofs of every other genre imaginable. Each episode of this comedy series is told from a different character’s perspective, and therefore resembles a different style of filmmaking. Whether it’s a film noir, a Wes Anderson indie to action flick, each episode tells the same story, but from a different point of view.

In the first season, a pop star (Dave Franco) is found dead at his high school reunion’s afterparty. Detective Danner (the very funny yet vulnerable Tiffany Haddish) interviews all suspects to put the pieces together and identify the killer. Aniq (Veep‘s Sam Richardson) finds himself a prime suspect and seeks to prove his innocence and win the heart of his high school crush Zoe (Zoe Chao).

Season 2 manages to pull off placing several of the same characters in the middle of a new mystery surprisingly well. The casts of both seasons are stacked with comedy greats, and the murder reveals are always unexpected. The Afterparty will be a party you won’t want to leave.

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the writers behind Superbad, Pineapple Express and many more hysterical Hollywood blockbusters, are now taking on Hollywood itself. In this new series, Rogen plays Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of Continental Studios. Matt tries to balance his passion for making fantastic art with the need to make billions of dollars for the company. 

Rogen and Goldberg’s irreverent, no-holds-barred comedic style meets the glamour and excess of the entertainment industry in a show that’s as full of celebrity cameos as it is with F-bombs. Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek) plays Matt’s predecessor and mentor, while Kathryn Hahn (Agatha All Along) plays the studio’s blunt head of marketing.

If you miss the gone-too-soon sitcom Reboot, were a fan of Entourage, or are an obsessive re-watcher of BoJack Horseman, you don’t want to miss The Studio.

Funnily enough, the show that everyone seems to be talking about at the water cooler this year takes place in … an office. But it’s no ordinary office. In this darkly funny show, Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) plays an employee at biotechnology corporation Lumon Industries. Scott’s character, and everyone else who works at Lumon, has undergone a medical procedure called “severance,” which separates one’s memories of life in the office from those of the outside world. 

As a result, most of the characters have two distinct personalities: the “innie,” who exists only in the office, and the “outie” who interacts with the rest of the world. This system is soon revealed to be darker and more complex than any Lumon employee could have expected.

Fans love Severance for its smart critique of corporate culture, the thrilling mysteries that drive the story, and the thought-provoking questions it raises about the nature of identity. 

The five Garvey sisters, who lost their parents at a young age and were raised by eldest daughter Eva (Sharon Horgan), are as tight-knit a group as can be. But as they watch their sister Grace (Anne-Marie Duff) become more and more withdrawn under the controlling influence of her abusive husband John Paul (Claes Bang), they fear they may lose her completely. Desperate to save Grace, and each with their own reasons for despising John Paul, the Garvey sisters team up to murder their brother-in-law. 

Told in flashbacks, the dark comedy begins with John Paul’s funeral and slowly unravels the mystery of what actually killed him. At the same time, two insurance salesman brothers (Brian Gleeson and Daryl McCormack) hunt for signs of foul play in the hope that they won’t have to pay out John Paul’s life insurance policy. 

Bad Sisters is a witty and moving portrayal of what we’ll do to protect family. And the shocking twist at the end of the first season invites the viewer to take a second look at who around them might need protecting.

Written by Bill Lawrence, the creator of Scrubs and Ted Lasso, and Brett Goldstein, who plays Roy Kent on the latter, comes another warm-hearted comedy guaranteed to bring a tear to your eye. Jason Segel plays Jimmy, a therapist who grieved the death of his beloved wife by drinking, doing drugs, and generally ignoring his teenage daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell). As Jimmy tries to put his life back together, he begins taking a radically different approach to his own therapy practice by getting deeply involved in his patients’ lives. He even invites one, a veteran with PTSD named Sean (Luke Tennie), to move into his pool house.

Jimmy’s mentor Paul (a gruff-but-charming Harrison Ford), coworker Gaby (Jessica Williams), best friend Brian (Michael Urie) and nosy neighbor Liz (Christa Miller) all come together to form a community around Jimmy and Alice, and they’re all changed by the experience. The colorful cast has excellent chemistry and comedic timing, plus the dramatic chops to handle the sometimes heavy subject matter.  

This one’s for the theater nerds. Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele) and Cecily Strong (Saturday Night Live) play two doctors, Josh and Melissa, who go on a couple’s camping trip to try to save their relationship. In a parody of the 1947 musical Brigadoon, they stumble upon a magical town called Schmigadoon, where life is a musical. 

The first season of the musical comedy is full of references to classic Broadway standards of the ‘40s and ‘50s like Carousel and Oklahoma!. Season 2 relocates the cast to the city of “Schmicago” and sends up ‘60s and ‘70s musicals like Sweeney Todd and Cabaret. (If one era of show tunes is more to your taste than the other, each season would work just fine as a stand-alone.)

Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked), Alan Cumming (Cabaret), Aaron Tveit (Les Miserables), and Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) are just a few of the stars that show off their impressive pipes in this hilarious show. In addition to being funny, the songs will absolutely get stuck in your head. “Corn Puddin’,” anyone?

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