2019 it only had 9 titles on the whole platform, with a strategy that seemed to be focused on keeping the platform small and high-quality. The Mandalorian, WandaVision, Avengers Endgame, Toy Story, The SimpsonsĪll-original content, nothing familiar to bingeĪpple's current slate of nearly 60 original shows and movies includes comedies, dramas, documentaries and talk shows. Handmaid's Tale, Catch-22, Lost, Bob's Burgers Maisel, Hunters, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, The Big Sick Stranger Things, The Queen's Gambit, Breaking Bad, Tiger King Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, Dickinson, For All Mankind $9 (or included with $120/year Prime membership)īasic $6 with ads, ad-free Premium for $12, Live TV for $65 But until it adds a catalog of familiar shows or a buzzy original ( Foundation in 2021, perhaps?) it will remain a secondary streaming choice at best for most people. Read more: Apple TV Plus: Best movies to watch right nowĪpple TV Plus has made strides in the last year or so and will continue to improve in the future, with more star-studded originals on the way. Shows like The Morning Show, Mythic Quest, Dickinson and Little America have also garnered some critical praise, but few have made cultural waves the way that, say, The Mandalorian did for Disney Plus. Its biggest (and perhaps most unexpected) breakout hit so far has been Ted Lasso, the Jason Sudeikis dramedy about an American football coach who gets hired to coach a British Premier League soccer team, which recently won several awards.

Whether the service is worth $5 a month for you - or less, depending on whether you get it for free after buying an Apple device or a discount as part of Apple's new Apple One bundle - depends on how excited you are to watch those originals.

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