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Despite its success in many other genres and formats, Apple TV+ still does not make nearly enough period dramas. (At least, according to me, noted period drama enjoyer.) But, thankfully, it's best one is heading back to us sooner rather than later. The streamer has set a June
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After months of rumors and speculation, Apple TV+'s worst-kept secret is officially official: Ted Lasso, the Emmy-winning comedy that racked up awards season hardware and became the streamer's most popular series (at least until the second season of Severance came along), will return for
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A lot has happened in the two and a half years since the first season finale of Apple TV+’s mystery/thriller, Surface. However, when protagonist Sophie Ellis/Tess Caldwell (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) returned to Apple TV+, only a few weeks had gone by for her character who, at the
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Though most people are probably familiar with Apple TV+ because of singular hits like Ted Lasso or Severance, the streamer has a relatively significant catalog of excellent original dramas that get much less attention (and which far fewer people have heard of). One of its absolute best is For All
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Season 1 of Apple TV+'s mystery/thriller Surface introduced audiences to amnesia victim Sophie Ellis (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). A gorgeous, wealthy woman British expat in San Francisco, she wakes up having fallen off a boat with none of her memories. Aside from her seemingly doting husband James (Oliver
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Two and a half years ago, the season finale of Apple TV+'s Surface had its amnesiac protagonist, Sophie Ellis (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), instigate a massive cliffhanger and then knock off to London, escaping a lot of mess she created in San Francisco. It wasn’t until December 2022
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Apple TV+ continues to lean into its international programming era, announcing that French language drama Carême will arrive on the streamer in April. The eight-part period piece is set to explore the life of the titular Antonin Carême, the man who became the world's first celebrity chef
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Vienna Blood is (probably) dead; long live Vienna Blood. The pre-Great War murder mystery series featuring the highly effective odd couple of young British Freudian Dr. Max Liebermann and veteran Viennese homicide detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt’s fourth season wrapped up on PBS at the end of January, and
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Most people probably missed Surface the first time around when it debuted on Apple TV +. The series initially arrived in 2022, about a month before the first season of Bad Sisters and less than a year after star Gugu Mbatha-Raw appeared in Max drama The Girl Before, another thriller
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Watching a TV series means wholly leaning into the willing suspension of disbelief. Characters on TV wake up with perfect makeup and hair. They live in beautifully furnished apartments, and their salaries would never allow them to afford. They never seem to have to go to the bathroom or worry
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The 2023 Dual Writers and Actors Guild strikes in Hollywood were ultimately won by the writers and actors, who secured significant protections and pay restructuring to reflect the rise of streaming. The strikes also gave studios cover to (in business terms) "right-size" their current crop of shows
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Mathematics isn't a subject that most people tend to view as all that exciting. (Though Tom Stoppard devotees who love Arcadia specifically will almost certainly — and rightly! — argue otherwise. However, Apple TV+ is banking on the power of prime numbers in its latest British thriller, Prime Target, a