Apple TV+ in 2026: The Shows Everyone’s Watching

Jon Hamm plays Coop, a recently divorced hedge fund manager who gets fired and, too proud to downsize, starts robbing the wealthy neighbors in his upstate New York suburb to keep up appearances, until he breaks into the wrong house at the wrong time. It is a dark comedy about class and self-image with a vicious streak, and Amanda Peet sharpens it as the ex-wife still circling his life. The second season has been the most-watched show on Apple TV+ worldwide.

Javier Bardem is Max Cady, a killer fresh out of prison and hunting the two attorneys who helped put him there, Anna and Tom Bowden, along with their family. Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson play the Bowdens, with Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg among the producers. Based on John D. MacDonald’s novel The Executioners, the same source as the two Cape Fear films.

• The Executioners (the novel): Audiobook | Kindle

A cursed island town in New England, and a mayor who refuses to take his superstitious residents’ warnings seriously, even as things around him stop adding up. Matthew Rhys leads the comedy horror with Stephen Root, in a genre mix reviewers have compared to eighties creature features. Created by Katie Dippold.

A spin-off of For All Mankind that flips the alternate-history space race to the Soviet side, set in the secret training city where the USSR’s cosmonauts, engineers, and the intelligence officers watching them all work. Reviewers have called it a tense, paranoid thriller that holds up on its own, even if you never saw the original.

Margo, an unemployed single mom in her early twenties, launches an OnlyFans to make rent. When her estranged father, an ex-pro wrestler, turns back up, she starts working his showmanship into the act, with unexpected results. Elle Fanning anchors the comedy, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Nick Offerman as the parents who keep complicating her life. Based on Rufi Thorpe’s novel.

• Margo’s Got Money Troubles (the novel): Audiobook | Kindle

Apple TV+‘s entry in Legendary’s MonsterVerse, the world of the recent Godzilla and Kong films. After uncovering their family’s ties to Monarch, the secret agency that tracks giant monsters, the Randa siblings press on, and the ten-episode second season takes the fight to Kong’s Skull Island as a new Titan rises. Kurt Russell and his son Wyatt Russell play the same man decades apart, with Anna Sawai.

London detectives June Lenker and Daniel Hegarty, rivals turned uneasy allies, are back for a second season. When a young man is killed at a political rally, their hunt for the killer escalates into an undercover operation to stop a far-right bomb plot, dragging the same questions of institutional rot from the first season back into the open. Cush Jumbo and Peter Capaldi lead.

Tatiana Maslany, the Emmy winner from Orphan Black, plays a newly divorced mom in a custody battle who becomes convinced she witnessed a murder. Her amateur investigation pulls her into a tangle of blackmail, conspiracy, and youth soccer. A twisty dark comedy carried by Maslany, though reviews have been more mixed than the rest of this list.

When one of three women in a decades-long friendship is found dead, the other two are left to work out what really happened, and the secrets that surface change how they see each other and the friend they lost. Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington, and Kate Mara carry it as the three women, in a glossy, soapy thriller that turns on how much you can really know the people closest to you. Based on Araminta Hall’s novel.

• Imperfect Women (the novel): Audiobook | Kindle

A documentary about Gregorian Bivolaru, the reclusive Romanian leader of an international network of yoga schools, and the former students who came looking for purpose and say they found a cult instead. Bivolaru now faces charges in France including human trafficking and rape, which he denies, and several of those women are working with prosecutors.