Here Are the Best TV Shows to Stream this Weekend on Apple TV+, Including ‘The Savant’

There’s plenty to watch on Apple TV+ right now, with fresh episodes landing alongside fan-favorite originals that keep adding new chapters. This week’s slate spans newsroom fireworks, undercover investigations, historical epics, espionage, sci-fi world-building, and warm-hearted comedy—so it’s easy to find something that fits however you like to unwind.

Below you’ll find a curated lineup pulled strictly from this week’s Apple TV+ lists and the service’s current most-watched titles. For each pick, you’ll get the essentials—what it’s about and who’s making it—so you can jump straight in without endless scrolling. Queue up your weekend and enjoy.

‘The Savant’ (2025)

This limited crime thriller follows an undercover specialist who infiltrates online hate networks to derail violent plots before they happen. Created by Melissa James Gibson and inspired by a widely read magazine feature about a real investigator, the series stars Jessica Chastain, with Nnamdi Asomugha in a key role. Executive producers include Chastain and Gibson, and the production centers on digital tradecraft, social-engineering, and the logistics of long-term covert work.

Across its episodes, ‘The Savant’ maps how constructed personas intersect with personal cost, building its casework around message-board ecosystems, encrypted channels, and the collaboration between independent experts and law enforcement. The show’s creative team emphasizes character-driven tension and procedural detail, focusing on the step-by-step mechanics of infiltration and disruption.

‘Chief of War’ (2025–)

Set in the late 18th century, ‘Chief of War’ dramatizes the struggle to unify the Hawaiian Islands from an Indigenous perspective, blending political intrigue with large-scale conflict and diplomacy. Jason Momoa leads the cast and co-created the series with Thomas Paʻa Sibbett, with production drawing on Native Hawaiian and Polynesian performers and cultural advisors to depict protocols, regalia, and customs.

The narrative follows rival aliʻi, their courts, and the communities navigating shifting alliances and foreign encroachment. As an Apple TV+ original, the series builds a sweeping, character-first account of unification efforts—balancing council-chamber negotiations, battlefield strategy, and the consequences of first contact on governance, trade, and tradition.

‘Platonic’ (2023–)

‘Platonic’ tracks two former best friends, Sylvia and Will, who reconnect in Los Angeles and quickly discover that reviving their bond scrambles families, careers, and social circles. Created by Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco, the series stars Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen, with Luke Macfarlane, Tre Hale, and Andrew Lopez among the ensemble. Stoller directs multiple episodes, carrying over timing and tone from his prior collaborations with the leads.

Season arcs explore midlife reinvention, workplace reinvention, and the ripple effects of an intense friendship rekindled. Produced for Apple TV+, the show balances tight comedic beats with serialized character turns, anchoring its story in everyday logistics—parenting, creative burnout, and the push-and-pull between responsibility and impulse.

‘Shrinking’ (2023–)

In ‘Shrinking’, therapist Jimmy Laird upends his practice by telling patients exactly what he thinks, setting off breakthroughs and complications that collide with grief, ethics, and workplace dynamics. The series is created by Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein, and Jason Segel, and stars Segel alongside Harrison Ford as Dr. Paul Rhoades and Jessica Williams as Gaby. James Ponsoldt directed the pilot, establishing the grounded, character-first style the show continues.

Episodes interweave patient cases with longer arcs about mentorship, boundaries, and found family among colleagues and neighbors. As an Apple TV+ original, the production leans on its ensemble and clinic setting to explore the messy intersections of professional duty and personal recovery, using therapy rooms, backyards, and neighborhood hangouts as recurring stages.

‘Slow Horses’ (2022–)

This acerbic espionage drama adapts Mick Herron’s ‘Slough House’ novels, following a misfit unit of sidelined MI5 agents stuck doing drudge work under the brilliantly irascible Jackson Lamb. Developed for television by Will Smith, the series stars Gary Oldman as Lamb, Jack Lowden as River Cartwright, and Kristin Scott Thomas as Diana Taverner, with Jonathan Pryce among the ensemble.

Each run adapts a specific novel into a compact operation that pulls Slough House back into London’s highest-stakes threats. Produced for Apple TV+ by See-Saw Films, the show fuses twisty spycraft and agency politics with the offbeat rhythms of a team that’s far sharper than their reputation suggests, threading surveillance work, deniable ops, and interdepartmental maneuvering through season-long cases.

‘Severance’ (2022–)

‘Severance’ imagines a workplace procedure that splits employees’ memories between office and home, creating separate selves that never meet. Created by Dan Erickson and directed in large part by Ben Stiller—alongside contributions from Aoife McArdle—the series stars Adam Scott, Britt Lower, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette, with an ensemble that populates Lumon Industries’ inscrutable departments.

An Apple TV+ original, the series blends retro-futurist production design, meticulous soundscapes, and tightly structured scripts to examine corporate control, identity, and consent. Episodes build out company lore and ritual while following a small team whose curiosity starts to crack the veneer of an immaculately managed environment.

‘Foundation’ (2021–)

Adapted from Isaac Asimov’s landmark novels, ‘Foundation’ follows mathematician Hari Seldon and the science of psychohistory, which predicts the collapse of a vast Galactic Empire. Developed for television by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, the ensemble includes Jared Harris as Seldon, Lee Pace as Brother Day, Lou Llobell as Gaal Dornick, Leah Harvey as Salvor Hardin, and Laura Birn as Demerzel.

The series frames empire-spanning politics around Seldon’s plan to preserve knowledge and shorten the coming dark age, while the cloned rulers—Brother Day, Brother Dusk, and Brother Dawn—fight to maintain control. With large-scale sets, location work, and visual effects overseen by Skydance Television, the show tracks interconnected journeys across planets, religions, and scientific enclaves.

‘Invasion’ (2021–)

‘Invasion’ charts a global extraterrestrial threat through intersecting, ground-level perspectives: a New York–area doctor protecting her family, a U.S. soldier drawn into the conflict, and a Japanese aerospace engineer pursuing a high-risk communications breakthrough. Created by Simon Kinberg and David Weil, the series stars Golshifteh Farahani, Shamier Anderson, Shioli Kutsuna, and Billy Barratt, with early appearances by Sam Neill.

Apple TV+ backs the show’s multi-country scope with location work and effects, while directors help shape its tense, cross-cut storytelling. As separate storylines braid together, the series explores resilience, sacrifice, and the science—and cost—of understanding an enemy that keeps changing the rules.

‘Acapulco’ (2021–)

Set between the 1980s and the present day, ‘Acapulco’ follows Máximo Gallardo’s first job at the glamorous Las Colinas resort and the choices that ripple through his life. Created by Austin Winsberg, Eduardo Cisneros, and Jason Shuman, the series stars Eugenio Derbez as older Máximo and Enrique Arrizon as his younger self, with Fernando Carsa, Camila Perez, Regina Reynoso, Raphael Alejandro, and Chord Overstreet rounding out the ensemble.

The bilingual Apple TV+ comedy blends workplace hijinks with class aspirations and family obligations, using the resort’s guests, staff, and rules of service as ongoing sources of conflict and growth. Direction across seasons keeps a bright, nostalgic palette while threading serialized arcs through stand-alone escapades.

‘The Morning Show’ (2019–)

Set inside the UBA network, ‘The Morning Show’ follows anchor Alex Levy and journalist Bradley Jackson as they navigate a flagship broadcast’s power struggles, industry crises, and corporate strategy. Developed by Kerry Ehrin and originally created by Jay Carson, the series stars Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Billy Crudup, alongside Mark Duplass, Néstor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, and Greta Lee, with later seasons featuring Julianna Margulies, Jon Hamm, Nicole Beharie, and Marion Cotillard.

Key episodes are directed by Mimi Leder, with executive producers including Aniston and Witherspoon. The Apple TV+ drama draws on media-world reporting and season-specific arcs to explore accountability, succession-level dealmaking, and the pressures facing high-profile journalism in a shifting landscape.

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