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From Rom-coms to high-stakes thrillers, Apple TV won't make you choose what genre to watch this summer—it's got it all.
With hits like Silo, Severance, Slow Horses and more, we're excited for what's to come on the streaming service. And while some forthcoming shows are brand new (Unconditional, Lucky, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed), others are coming back for more seasons, like Sugar, Trying and Women in Blue. Even cooler, Amy Adams, Rhys Ifans, Javiar Bardem, Jason Sudeikis and Anya Taylor-Joy all have roles to play in this summer's lineup.
Take a look below at 12 Apple TV shows you'll want to watch this summer, including what they're about, who's starring in them and their trailers.
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Unconditional
Premieres: May 8
Genre: Thriller drama
“Unconditional follows a mother-daughter vacation-turned-nightmare when 23-year-old Gali is arrested for drug smuggling in Moscow. Her mother, Orna, refuses to accept the charges—but her fight for Gali’s freedom pulls her into a deadly web of crime and corruption.”
Cast: Liraz Chamami, Talia Lynne Ronn, Amir Haddad, Yossi Marshek, Evgenia Dodina, Vladimir Friedman
Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed
Premieres: May 20
Genre: Darkly comedic thriller
“Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed follows newly divorced mom Paula (Maslany) as she falls down a dangerous rabbit hole of blackmail, murder and youth soccer. Convinced she witnessed a crime–while simultaneously struggling through a custody battle and an identity crisis–Paula begins her own investigation, one that could unravel a greater conspiracy while also holding the keys to rebuilding her family and sense of self.”
Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Jake Johnson, Brandon Flynn, Murray Bartlett, Jessy Hodges, Jon Michael Hill, Charlie Hall, Kiarra Hamagami Goldberg, Nola Wallace and Dolly De Leon
Star City
Premieres: May 29
Genre: Drama
“Star City is a propulsive paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race, when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program—and the risks they all took to propel humankind forward.”
Cast: Rhys Ifans (House of the Dragon), Anna Maxwell Martin (Motherland), Agnes O’Casey (Black Doves), Alice Englert (Bad Behaviour), Solly McLeod (House of the Dragon), Adam Nagaitis (Chernobyl), Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (I, Jack Wright), Josef Davies (Andor) and Priya Kansara (Bridgerton).
Cape Fear
Premieres: June 5
Genre: Drama, Psychological Horror Thriller
“Inspired by the 1991 remake directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Steven Spielberg, a storm is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Amy Adams) and Tom Bowden (Patrick Wilson) when Max Cady (Javier Bardem), the notorious killer they are responsible for putting behind bars, is let out of prison—and he wants vengeance.”
Cast: Javier Bardem, Amy Adams, Patrick Wilson, Joe Anders, Lily Collias, Malia Pyles, CCH Pounder
Sugar (Season 2)
Premieres: June 19
Genre: Drama, neo-noir thriller
“Sugar is a contemporary, unique take on one of the most popular and significant genres in literary, motion picture and television history: the private detective story. Season two ushers in the return of Los Angeles’ iconic private detective and film connoisseur, John Sugar. Emmy Award nominee Colin Farrell returns for a new case, tracking the troubled older brother of an up-and-coming local boxer as his search for his beloved missing sister continues. As the investigation expands into a citywide conspiracy with sinister intentions, Sugar must reckon with himself to answer the question — how far will he go to do what’s right?”
Cast: Colin Farrell, Jin Ha, Raymond Lee, Tony Dalton, Laura Donnelly, Sasha Calle and Shea Whigham
Ted Lasso (Season 4)
Premieres: August 5
Genre: Comedy
“Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women’s football team. Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.”
Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift, Tanya Reynolds, Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, Abbie Hern, Grant Feely
Here's more of what to know ahead of the fourth season of Ted Lasso.
Silo (Season 3)
Premieres: July 3
Genre: Drama
“Silo Season 3 continues the saga of a dystopian society that finds 10,000 people living underground in mysterious circumstances without an origin story. They don’t know why they are here or who built the Silo. They only know they can’t leave.”
Cast: Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Tim Robbins, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, Harriet Walter, Shane McRae, Alexandria Riley, Billy Postlewaite, Clare Perkins, Rick Gomez, Remmie Milner, Jessica Henwick, Ashley Zuckerman, Laura Innes, Jessica Brown Findlay, Reed Birney, Matt Craven, Morven Christie and Colin Hanks
Here’s more about season 3 of Silo.
Trying (Season 5)
Premieres: July 8
Genre: Comedy
“Season five finds Nikki (Smith) and Jason (Spall) dealing with the consequences of Princess and Tyler’s biological mother Kat (Charlotte Riley) turning up at their doorstep, and the whirlwind of chaos she brings into their settled family life.”
Cast: Rafe Spall, Esther Smith, Darren Boyd, Siân Brooke, Scarlett Rayner, Cooper Turner, Celia Imrie, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Colin Morgan
Lucky
Premieres: July 15
Genre: Drama
“When a multi-million-dollar heist goes sideways, con artist Lucky (Anya Taylor-Joy) is forced to go on the run. Pursued by both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss, Lucky must fight for her life—and a way out.”
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis Taylor, Drew Starkey, Clifton Collins, Jr. and William Fichtner
Women in Blue (Las Azules) (Season 2)
Premieres: August 12
Genre: Drama
“Women in Blue (Las Aules) season two will follow María (Mori), now promoted to lieutenant, as she finds herself torn between the rules she’s sworn to uphold and a relentless pull towards the truth when the body of student activist Lucio Lima, is discovered, and the Azules are pulled into an investigation that unearths a conspiracy that reaches back to the student massacre of 1968. Before they can make sense of what they've found, the body of a person connected to that brutal chapter of history turns up dead, sending shockwaves through the department. Someone is delivering justice straight to the police's door, and the Azules are the department's last hope of stopping the killer. As María, Valentina (Natalia Téllez), Gabina (Amorita Rasgado), and Ángeles (Ximena Sariñana) fight battles both inside and outside the precinct, buried truths rise to the surface and they’re forced to confront an uncomfortable question: in a system plagued with corruption, what is the cost of fighting for their ideals?”
Cast: Bárbara Mori, Natalia Téllez, Amorita Rasgado, Ximena Sariñana, Miguel Rodarte, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Christian Tappan, Horacio García Rojas, and Bruno Bichir.
The Dynasty: UConn Huskies
Premieres: August 21
Genre: Unscripted/Sports
“A new three-part docuseries featuring the legendary University of Connecticut (UConn) women’s basketball team—the 2025 NCAA National Champions and one of the most iconic women’s teams in sports history, spanning 40 years of the program’s historic dynasty under Hall of Fame head coach Geno Auriemma.”
There's been no trailer released yet.
Dark Matter (Season 2)
Premieres: August 28
Genre: Sci-fi thriller
“The Dessens are building a quiet life in a seemingly safe world when the unimaginable happens and they’re forced to leave. As Jason’s obsession with the Box builds, Daniela’s paranoia pushes her over the edge. Meanwhile, Amanda and Ryan start working together to get home and Leighton pursues his grand dream of building a perfect world.”
Cast: Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi and Oakes Fegley
No trailer has been released yet.
