The Apple TV+ catalog is one of the smallest and most select of the large selection of subscription platforms available to users. Unlike Netflix, which releases products of all types and genres almost weekly, the Cupertino-based service takes things calmly. Which also means careful selection of content. All series and films are available. Most of them have above average billing and are located in rooms polished to the smallest detail.
But in addition, the Apple TV+ collection has one more feature that makes it stand out from the rest. Some of its best products are pure science fiction. There are many more classic stories on this topic, which the platform takes to a deeper and more modern level. The result is a path that ranges from film adaptations of great works to spin off popular sagas and franchises. A mixture that gives the service the opportunity to always show a new side to seemingly banal topics.
We leave you with a list of sci-fi series you can watch right now on Apple TV+. To deepen the call MonsterVerse from a fresh perspective to exploring a world overrun by alien creatures in short anecdotes. The repertoire is a rare combination of the best of the genre and its various modern interpretations. This is the highest and most interesting point.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Godzilla and the rest of the traditional titans of the Japanese film world had several months to celebrate. Not only because of the premiere – and success – Godzilla minus one Takashi Yamazaki, but not to announce the next Hollywood part. But few projects set in the universe created by Tomoyuki Tanaka have been more intriguing than the Apple TV+ series based on his story. At least in the most westernized version.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, is a journey through the entire timeline offered by American films. Thus his argument comes from what is narrated in Kong: Skull Island down to the premise Godzilla Vs. Kong. This allows us not only to add new depth to the mythology, but also to add data to the research around colossal beasts. In addition to paving the way for future films. You can enjoy the full season right now on the platform.
Separation
Dan Erickson’s dystopia, directed by Ben Stiller, is chilling with its rare examination of depersonalization and workplace violence. Mark (Adam Scott) is grieving after the death of his wife. But despite this, he is an exemplary professional who is completely dedicated to the work of his life.
This is not an impossible dichotomy. In fact, your case is the best example of how Lumon Industries treats its employees. The corporation makes it possible to perfectly separate the working and non-working parts of the brain. What makes it possible for those who accept it, operating in both aspects of your life without remembering what is happening in the other.
The chilling premise allows the script to explore the obsession with success, the dehumanization based on efforts to achieve a technical goal, and the fear of the future. And all this from a cold and detached aesthetic, which makes the consequences of a new vision of the search for individuality even more terrifying. This dark Kafkaesque fable is an elegant and insightful excursion into modern paranoia and its darkest places. It’s through science fiction.
For all mankind
Uchronia, which represents the world if a particular race had not ceased, raises several questions about the grander collective ambitions. Especially when it comes to the possibility that exploring planets and galaxies is also a way to gain deeper insight into human nature. Even in my oldest and most urgent dreams.
The four parts of the series present various scenarios of the evolution of humanity’s need to find new frontiers. But moving away from science fiction, which is closest to Space Opera, For all mankind the approach from realism is analyzed. In this way, it shows the technical cost – civil and military – of achieving the great feats that history demands through community effort. At the same time, there is a sensitive evolution in how our era understands and deepens in time and cultural possibilities of technical progress.
Low-key, emotional and more character-focused than setting, the series is ideal for those who love the genre at its most sober. At the same time, from the adult plot of the world, wounded by the greed of the unattainable, the depth of which increases from season to season.
Silage
Apple TV+ adapts the popular books by Hugh Howey, which tell the story of the existence of a mysterious structure in which hundreds of people live. But its streaming version goes a little further. The play, whose first season premiered in 2023 and is already filming a second, reinvents the well-known cliché of the apocalypse. Survivors of a cataclysm about which little is known live in an underground bunker. which descends hundreds of kilometers to the center of the Earth.
But the real problem—and danger—is the pseudo-religious culture that has flourished for nearly a century. Precisely because everything indicates that the conspiracy is fueled by the fears and ignorance of the residents. With the emergence of a single source of energy and a new generation that begins to suspect that the beliefs that support the fragile social order are false, the pressure increases. Moreover, when everything indicates that under the solemn figure of the Founders – the builders of a unique building – a subtle horror is brewing.
With a season finale that put a whole new twist on everything said so far, Silo will be more ambitious next season. What is confirmed by the words of its producer and main character Rebecca Ferguson: who stated that the new chapters are closer to terror than one might expect.
Foundation
An Apple TV+ series that attempts to adapt Isaac Asimov’s saga of the same name, the origin story of the thousand-year-old Galactic Empire. And also a story about how psychohistory turned from a predictive science predicting a terrible future into a religion with obscurantist overtones. And all this among a ruling caste, united by a biological thread and whose power is diminishing over time.
The premise itself is a loose version of the Russian writer’s complex narrative. Despite this, it retains the inspired beauty of more than fifteen books on the Founding and all the philosophical theorems that made it a classic. With two new seasons and the destruction of the galactic order wiping out known life, The plot states that it will become deeper and more emotional. At the same time closer to the book of origin.
Invasion
The arrival of alien visitors has been told in many ways and to all possible extremes in film and on the small screen. So this Simon Kinberg premise isn’t exactly original. It’s about raising the possibility of a large-scale phenomenon from the perspective of the lives of the main characters, who have no way of knowing what’s going on. This will lead them to face the worst threat of all: terror, the survival instinct and the need to understand the future.
The first season on Apple TV+, slower, messier and more focused on character intimacy, received mixed reviews. But the second, focusing on the invasion itself and on a much richer and more advanced world, was stunning. Still without confirmation of the third story, the story wraps up neatly and makes it clear that Earth is facing destruction as much as possible. Regardless of whether it continues or not, Invasion has already achieved its goal. Show private tragedies as part of a larger event.
See
Steven Knight (creator Taboo And Peaky Blinders), had the rare honor of being the credits writer for the first series to premiere on Apple TV+. I was surprised by the story of an apocalyptic future, in which most of the population is blind, and vision is considered a dangerous trait. But much more is how star Jason Momoa created the character with dozens of different nuances. From a well-intentioned shaman to a charismatic leader and a family man with a secret.
The truth is See Apple TV+ brings new meaning to time, faith and fear. Namely, when it becomes clear that much more complicated things await the survivors than just a confrontation between factions. This is the birth of a new generation of men and women.
With a round finale that wraps up the essence of the three seasons, it is perfect for lovers of wild stories in unknown places. And this is in the middle of sci-fi premises.
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