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 productions of all kinds and genres almost weekly, the Cupertino service takes things calmly. Which also implies a careful selection of content. Each of the series and movies available, Most of them have an above-average bill and are based on premises polished to the last detail.
But in addition, the Apple TV+ collection has another characteristic that defines it and makes it stand out above the rest. Several of their best products They are dedicated to pure science fiction. Much more, to classic stories on the subject, which the platform takes to a deeper and more contemporary level. The result is a journey that ranges from adaptations of great works, to spin-off of popular sagas and franchises. A mixture that gives the service offering the ability to always show a new side to seemingly trite topics.
We leave you a list of the science fiction series that you can watch right now on Apple TV+. To deepen the call MonsterVerse from a fresh perspective to exploring a world invaded by alien creatures in small anecdotes. The repertoire is a rare combination of the best of the genre and its different contemporary reinterpretations. Its highest and most interesting point.
Monarch: Legacy of the Monsters
godzilla and the rest of the traditional titans of the Japanese film world, have had a few months to celebrate. Not only because of the premiere — and success — of Godzilla Minus One by Takashi Yamazaki, but for the announcement of the next Hollywood installment. But few projects related to the universe created by Tomoyuki Tanaka were more intriguing than the Apple TV + series based on his story. At least, in its most westernized version.
Monarch: Legacy of the Monsters, is a journey through the entire chronological line proposed by the American films. So its argument goes from what is narrated in Kong: Skull Island up to the premise of Godzilla Vs. kong. Which allows not only to provide new depth to the mythology, but also to add data to the research around the colossal beasts. In addition to paving the future 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 for its rare analysis of depersonalization and workplace violence. Mark (Adam Scott), goes through painful grief after the death of his wife. But despite that, he is an exemplary professional who gives full effort to the work part of his life.
This is not an impossible dichotomy. In fact, your case is the best example of the way Lumon Industries treats its employees. The corporation provides the opportunity for the work and non-work sides of the brain to be perfectly separated. Which gives the opportunity to those who accept it, of functioning in both aspects of your life, without remembering what happens in the other.
The chilling premise allows the script to explore the obsession with success, the dehumanization based on effort towards a technical objective and the fear of the future. All from a cold and distant aesthetic, which makes the implications of a novel vision of the search for individuality more terrifying. This gloomy Kafkaesque fable is an elegant and profound tour of modern paranoia and its darkest places. That, through science fiction.
For all humanity
The uchronia that imagines the world if the special race had not stopped raises several questions about great collective ambitions. Especially when it focuses on the possibility that the exploration of planets and galaxies is also a way to delve deeper into the nature of man. Even in his oldest and most urgent dreams.
With four installments, the series presents diverse scenarios of the evolution of the human race’s need to find new frontiers. But moving away from the science fiction closest to Space Opera, For all humanity analyzes the approach from realism. Thus, it shows the technical cost — civil and military — of achieving the great feats that history demands, through community effort. At the same time, a sensitive evolution in how our era understands and delves into time and the cultural possibilities of technological advances.
Discreet, emotional and more focused on its characters than on spatial settings, the series is ideal for those who enjoy the genre in its most sober version. At the same time, from an adult plot of a world wounded by the greed of the unattainable, whose depth increases season by season.
Silo
Apple TV+ adapts the popular books by Hugh Howey, which tells the existence of a mysterious construction that houses hundreds of human beings. But its version for streaming goes a little further. The production, which premiered its first season in 2023 and is already filming the second, reinvents the well-known cliché of the apocalypse. Survivors of a cataclysm about which little is known inhabit an underground silo that sinks hundreds of kilometers towards the center of the Earth.
But the real problem — and danger — is the pseudo-religious culture that has thrived for almost a century. Specifically, because everything indicates that a conspiracy is fueled by the fears and ignorance of the inhabitants. With a single source of energy and a new generation beginning to suspect that the beliefs that sustain the precarious social order are false, the pressure increases. Much more so, when everything indicates that beneath the solemn figure of the Founders – builders of the unique building – a barely glimpsed horror is brewing.
With a season finale that gave a completely new twist to everything told until then, Silo will become more ambitious in the next season. What is confirmed by the words of its producer and protagonist, Rebecca Ferguson, who stated that the new chapters are closer to terror than one might expect.
Foundation
The Apple TV+ series, which attempts to adapt Isaac Asimov’s saga of the same name, the origin story of a millennia-old Galactic Empire. Also, the narrative of how psychohistory turned from a predictive science that envisioned a fearful future to a religion with obscurantist overtones. All in the midst of a ruling caste united by a biological thread and whose power is diminished with the passage of time.
The premise, in itself, is a free version of the Russian writer’s complex narrative. Even so, it retains the inspired beauty of its more than fifteen books on Foundation and all the philosophical theorems that made it a classic. With two new seasons and the breakdown of the galactic order destroying known life, The plot announces 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 in all possible extremes on film and on the small screen. So this premise by Simon Kinberg is not entirely original. What it is, is to raise the possibility of a large-scale phenomenon from the perspective of the lives of the protagonists, who have no way of knowing what is happening. Which will lead them to face the worst of all threats, from terror, the survival instinct and the need to understand the future.
The first season on Apple TV+, slower, confusing and more focused on the intimacy of the characters, earned mixed reviews. But the second, focused on the invasion itself and with a much richer and better developed world, dazzled. Still without confirmation of a third, the story closes neatly and making it clear that the Earth faces its destruction as best it can. Whether it continues or not, Invasion has already achieved its goal. Show private tragedies as part of a larger event.
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Steven Knight (creator of Taboo and Peaky Blinders), has the rare honor of having been behind the credits of the first series to premiere on Apple TV+. The story of an apocalyptic future in which the majority of the population is blind and sight is considered a dangerous trait, surprised. But much more, the way star Jason Momoa built a character with dozens of different nuances. From a well-intentioned shaman to a charismatic leader, to a family man with a secret to keep.
The truth is See Apple TV+ gives a new meaning to the perspective of time, faith and fear. Specifically, when it becomes clear that what awaits the survivors is much more complicated than just a confrontation between factions. It is the birth of a new generation of men and women.
With a round ending that completed the premise of three seasons, it is ideal for lovers of wild stories in unknown settings. That, in the midst of science fiction premises.