General comment on Apple TV+. Is my impression incorrect that it is a distant last place among streaming services? There's nothing on. You get a free subscription if you replace your iThing and then it takes a few weeks to watch Ted Lasso and Severance, the only two shows they have, and you're ready to cancel.
Less content, but it's pretty consistently higher quality than other services, at least so far. It's more than just those two shows. It was actually kind of hilarious to see Apple win a best picture Oscar with a tiny indy film on their first try after seeing Netflix spend years and billions on huge names blowing their load on near miss after near miss.
That was the thing that got me to sign up for Apple TV+ and I was shocked by what a terrible film CODA turned out to be. Just complete schlock. I put it up there with "Crash" among films that won Best Picture purely due to lack of candidates that year.
I tried to watch some of the stuff they were heavily promoting, but couldn't get into them. Shining Girls is really bad. Tehran, a 3rd-party adaptation from Israel, is Netflix-grade trash that strains one's ability to suspend disbelief. Adding Glenn Close, an elderly American WASP, as a Mossad agent, did nothing to make this weird Israeli propaganda vehicle more believable.
Anyway these are all matters of taste but objectively I believe Apple TV+ has very few subs, which was my main point. It doesn't seem like a massive advertising opportunity.
As a quibble, "Crash" didn't win because lack of candidates- "Brokeback Mountain" lost due to lack of courage from the Academy's part.
Severance is really good, you should watch that. I've also heard good things about Ted Lasso and For All Mankind. I'm trying to finish WeCrashed, which has some great unsympathetic performances, but it's been a grind.
There's an uncanniness to Apple TV+ productions. They have gorgeously high production visual quality, in comparison to Netflix's notoriously flat and cheap affect, but most of their programming does seem mediocre story-wise.
You should watch Foundation and For All Mankind as well next time you replace an iThing. The Apple TV+ library is definitely a lot smaller than competitor's, but what is in there is on the whole incredibly high quality.
They actually have very good shows overall. Not many, but very high quality.
Other than the ones you've mentioned there are also See, The Morning Show, Mythic Quest, and For All Mankind, which are all great, as well as Foundation, which was quite good as well.
They aren’t playing the same game as the other streaming services besides Amazon. Both Amazon and Apple are using streaming to get you into their ecosystem and make the bundle more attractive.
