‘Pluribus’ Tops Apple TV+’s Top 10 Most-Watched Shows List This Week

From buzzy new premieres to returning favorites, Apple’s streaming lineup is stacked with series that people are binging, dissecting, and recommending to friends right now. This week’s most-watched picks range from twisty thrillers and sci-fi mind-benders to workplace comedies, newsroom drama, and a high-pressure culinary docuseries. Whether you’re in the mood for Alaskan manhunts, alien invasions, or a feel-good trip back to the locker room at AFC Richmond, there’s something here to fit pretty much any watchlist. Here’s a closer look at the Apple TV+ shows everyone seems to be talking about at the moment.

10. ‘Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars’ (2025– )

‘Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars’ is an eight-part documentary series that follows top restaurants and chefs across regions like New York, Chicago, California, the U.K., Mexico, Italy, and the Nordics as they strive to earn, keep, or win back Michelin stars. Hosted by food expert and TopJaw co-founder Jesse Burgess and executive-produced by Gordon Ramsay, the show tracks menu development, service, and the intense emotional swings that come with the Michelin Guide’s annual announcements. For the first time in the guide’s 125-year history, the production was allowed to shadow its famously anonymous inspectors, with their feedback dramatized through voice actors. The series premiered on Apple TV+ on October 10, 2025, offering a rare, procedural look at how the world’s most coveted restaurant ratings are awarded.

9. ‘Severance’ (2022– )

‘Severance’ is a science-fiction psychological thriller set at Lumon Industries, where select employees undergo a surgical procedure that splits their memories into “innie” and “outie” halves—separating work and personal lives completely. The story follows Mark Scout and his team on the severed floor as they start to question their reality after a former colleague reaches out from the outside world. Created by Dan Erickson and directed in large part by Ben Stiller, the series stars Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Patricia Arquette, Zach Cherry, John Turturro, and Christopher Walken. Season 1 aired in early 2022, Season 2 ran from January to March 2025, and Apple TV+ has renewed the show for a third season; with Season 2’s launch, it became the most-watched series in the platform’s history and has earned dozens of award nominations, including multiple Emmys.

8. ‘Invasion’ (2021– )

‘Invasion’ tells the story of a global alien attack through separate but gradually converging perspectives in different parts of the world, including the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East. The drama focuses on ordinary people—families, soldiers, and scientists—trying to survive and understand what is happening as the extraterrestrial threat escalates. Created by Simon Kinberg and David Weil, the series uses multiple languages onscreen, including English, Japanese, and Pashto, to emphasize its worldwide scope. It premiered on Apple TV+ in October 2021, and its third season launched in August 2025, bringing key characters together for a mission to infiltrate the alien mothership.

7. ‘Ted Lasso’ (2020– )

‘Ted Lasso’ follows an American college football coach who is hired to manage the fictional English Premier League club AFC Richmond, despite having no background in soccer. What begins as a sabotage plan by the club’s new owner slowly shifts as Ted’s coaching style and optimism start to change the team and the people around him. The series, developed by Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, and Joe Kelly, ran three seasons from 2020 to 2023 and has been renewed for a fourth, with Sudeikis returning in the title role. It has become one of Apple TV+’s most recognizable hits, winning multiple Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, and significantly boosting awareness of the platform worldwide.

6. ‘Loot’ (2022– )

‘Loot’ is a workplace comedy about Molly, a billionaire whose life is upended after a high-profile divorce and a massive settlement that suddenly leaves her searching for purpose. She decides to get involved in running the charitable foundation she had mostly ignored, forcing her to work day-to-day with staff who are not especially thrilled by her arrival. Created by Matt Hubbard and Alan Yang, the show stars Maya Rudolph alongside Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Joel Kim Booster, Ron Funches, and Nat Faxon. The series premiered on Apple TV+ in June 2022 and, after a second season in 2024, returned for a third season in October 2025 with new episodes dropping weekly.

5. ‘Down Cemetery Road’ (2025– )

‘Down Cemetery Road’ is a British thriller set in an Oxford suburb, where a house explosion and the apparent disappearance of a little girl pull art-restorer Sarah Trafford into a dangerous investigation. She teams up with private investigator Zoë Boehm, and together they uncover a web of secrets involving a covert government department and people long believed to be dead. Adapted from Mick Herron’s 2003 novel, the series stars Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson and is developed by Morwenna Banks with direction by Natalie Bailey. The eight-part drama premiered on Apple TV in October 2025, debuting with multiple episodes before settling into a weekly release pattern toward its December finale.

4. ‘Slow Horses’ (2022– )

‘Slow Horses’ adapts Mick Herron’s ‘Slough House’ spy novels, following a group of disgraced MI5 agents exiled to a dumping-ground department known as Slough House. Led—reluctantly—by the abrasive Jackson Lamb, they handle low-status work until their cases drag them back into high-stakes national-security crises. Gary Oldman stars as Lamb, with Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, and a large recurring cast rounding out the ensemble. Each season adapts a different book from the series, and by late 2025 the show had reached its fifth season, with Apple TV+ already ordering a sixth and seventh.

3. ‘The Last Frontier’ (2025– )

Set in the wild landscape near Fairbanks, Alaska, ‘The Last Frontier’ centers on a U.S. marshal who must protect his town after a prison transport plane mysteriously crashes, freeing a group of dangerous inmates. The story follows his hunt for dozens of fugitives scattered across the rugged terrain and his pursuit of the criminal mastermind he suspects orchestrated the crash. Created by Jon Bokenkamp and Richard D’Ovidio, the thriller stars Jason Clarke with an ensemble that includes Dominic Cooper and Haley Bennett. The series premiered on Apple TV+ on October 10, 2025, with a six-episode first season that leans into tense manhunts, harsh weather, and tight small-town stakes.

2. ‘The Morning Show’ (2019– )

‘The Morning Show’ dives into the behind-the-scenes world of a high-profile Manhattan morning news program, focusing on anchor Alex Levy and her colleagues as they navigate crises on and off camera. The drama kicks off with the firing of Alex’s longtime co-anchor Mitch Kessler over sexual-misconduct allegations, then broadens out to cover topics like the #MeToo movement, the COVID-19 pandemic, streaming-era media battles, and political upheavals. Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Billy Crudup headline the ensemble, with the series now spanning four seasons and renewed for a fifth. It premiered on Apple TV+ in November 2019 and has gone on to become one of the platform’s flagship dramas, collecting multiple major award nominations and wins along the way.

1. ‘Pluribus’ (2025– )

‘Pluribus’ is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction drama from creator Vince Gilligan, following Carol Sturka, “the most miserable person on Earth,” who suddenly finds herself responsible for saving humanity from an alien virus that makes people almost unnaturally happy. The series is set in a world where the infection essentially turns most of the global population into a hive mind, playing with the idea of individuality versus collective consciousness. Rhea Seehorn leads the cast, reuniting with Gilligan after their collaboration on ‘Better Call Saul’, alongside Karolina Wydra and Carlos Manuel Vesga. The first season premiered on Apple TV+ on November 7, 2025, with a nine-episode run rolling out weekly after a two-episode debut.

Now it’s your turn—share which of these Apple TV+ shows you’re watching this week in the comments and tell everyone what should be next on their list.