Here’s the best of Apple TV Plus in 2022

After a somewhat slow start, Apple TV Plus has become an integral part of the streaming landscape. Here’s the best of Apple TV Plus 2022.

The best of Apple TV Plus 2022

With Apple TV Plus, Apple is focusing on quality over quantity, but that doesn’t mean every series is worth your time. Especially in the first period, the offer was disappointing. Fortunately, the company showed in 2022 that the streaming service should now be taken seriously.

Below we list the series from 2022 that are the very best from our point of view. If you missed one of these, it’s well worth the effort and your time to catch up. Also useful if you start a trial period and you do not yet know what you want to watch.

9. Black Bird

Criminal Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton) ends up in prison, where he doesn’t have it bad. Yet he is put in doubt when an FBI agent visits him with an interesting deal. If he goes to another prison and manages to gain the trust of a serial killer there, he can go free. The big disadvantage is that this other prison is terribly dangerous. When Keene’s father suddenly has a stroke, he accepts the deal anyway. This results in a retentive series

8. Prehistoric Planet

Of course you know David Attenborough as the voice of many nature documentaries about the wonderful world in which we live. In the Prehistoric Planet series, Attenborough takes you to the world that once was. To that of the dinosaurs. These beasts are brought to life through storytelling, with stunning visuals from the company behind The Jungle Book and The Lion King, among others, backed by the music of Hans Zimmer. As if you were there yourself.

7. Home season 2

In every episode of Home you take a look at a special house somewhere in the world. That doesn’t just happen. You first get to know the people who live there and the ideas they have about houses and sharing their home. Little by little, the house comes into view with beautiful shots. In this second season, among other things, a house in Amsterdam where several generations live together. Super inspiring!

6. Bad Sisters

In the comedy series Bad Sisters you know a few things: disgusting guy Jean-Paul died and all his sisters-in-law had a very good reason to kill him. In this series you follow the journey until his death and the question is always: how does it happen? The sisters, all played by excellent actresses, are clearly not murderers and are bumbling their way through this act of desperation. That’s ten episodes of enjoyment.

5. Pachinko

It was quite a task to make a film of Pachinko’s book. The book follows several generations of a Korean family in Japan. After the Second World War, many Koreans left for the country to start a new life, but these immigrants met with a lot of resistance. Through the game pachinko, this family managed to climb out of poverty.

Pachinko tells a beautiful, but also grand story. It’s not easy to film, but it worked. You just have to sit down and keep your attention, because the characters mainly speak Korean and Japanese.

4. Five Days at Memorial

You probably know the stories about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but this series makes it very concrete. You follow the hospital Memorial Hospital. The employees first think they have survived the devastating storm, but then an unprecedented amount of water follows.

The hospital ends up without power, so without life-saving equipment and without air conditioning. As a result, the employees and patients are completely left to fend for themselves. Five Days at Memorial is a drama series that sometimes feels like a spectacular disaster movie. Except that what you see here actually happened. You are regularly reminded of this because real news images are used every now and then to outline the situation outside.

3. Slow Horses

The first episodes of the first season of Slow Horses start… a little slow. The series is about a group of MI5 agents who are no longer allowed to work at headquarters, but have to solve boring tasks somewhere in an old building. Led by the smelly, farting Jackson Lamb, played by none other than Gary Oldman. But give the series a chance to get going and you won’t be able to stop watching.

You can see Slow Horses as a drama or thriller, but also as a comedy. The storylines are serious and the events are sometimes very exciting, but it is above all the fun characters that make the series irresistible. Unlucky people who are each in a desperate rotten situation.

Extra nice is that the second season was recorded immediately after the first season, so you can now watch two seasons immediately.

2. For All Mankind season 3

What if Russia were the first to land on the moon? That question started the first season of the amazing series For All Mankind. This small change in history makes a big difference and it’s more evident than ever in the third season.

Every season there is a time jump of ten years. In those ten years, space travel has developed considerably, so that there are now space stations where people can hold parties and it is even possible to go to Mars.

Initially, the third season takes some getting used to, because the well-known characters have been made ten years older through make-up and wigs, but luckily you can quickly look past that. This is the best season of the series to date. Pure enjoyment.

1. Severance

What if you could completely separate your work and private life? You feel like you walk into the office and immediately leave. You don’t have to worry about what boring things happen in between. Yet in this way you create a version of yourself that can never leave the office. The whole life of that version consists of one long continuous office day. Can you do that to someone so that you can rest yourself?

The series Severance follows that line of thought in a delightful series, at the strangest office on earth. This is a The Office from hell, without windows, without color and with elusive work. The series asks a lot of fun questions and doesn’t answer all of them (yet). This mystery is fun, but it also keeps you hooked by how the series looks and how it’s played.

Severance is a series of unprecedented quality. This is not only Apple TV Plus’s best series of 2022, but one of the best series of all streaming services.

Apple TV Plus in 2023

2023 also seems to be another top year for Apple TV Plus. Among other things, what you can despise is a comedy series starring Jason Segal and Harrison Ford, about a therapist who decides to tell everyone the truth. This series is called Shrinking and can be seen from January 27.

Killers of the Flower Moon is a new film by Martin Scorsese starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, among others, about the murder of some wealthy Native Americans around 1920. You can watch this film sometime in 2023.

There are also some productions in the works of which it is not yet clear when they will be released, but which we are eagerly awaiting. Like the new series from Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) starring Rhea Seehorn. Dennis Lehane and Taron Egerton are also teaming up again after Blackbird for the new series Firebug.

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