‘Pluribus’ Is Apple TV+’s Most-Watched Show of the Week

Apple TV+ is in one of its busiest moments yet, with buzzy new premieres dropping alongside returning heavy-hitters that already shaped the service’s identity. From sci-fi experiments and newsroom drama to thrillers, workplace comedies, and a high-pressure culinary docuseries, there’s a lot competing for your watchlist right now. Here’s a look at the shows drawing the most attention this week, from 10 to 1, so you can quickly see what everyone’s streaming and what each series is actually about.

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

‘Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars’ is an unscripted docuseries that tracks high-end restaurants around the world as they attempt to earn, maintain, or regain coveted Michelin star ratings. Hosted by Jesse Burgess and executive produced by Gordon Ramsay’s Studio Ramsay Global, the series follows chefs in cities such as New York, Chicago, and locations across Europe and Mexico through menu development, service, and the tense buildup to Michelin’s annual announcements. For the first time in the guide’s 125-year history, Michelin allowed cameras to document parts of its inspection process, including rare interviews with its traditionally anonymous inspectors. The eight-part series premiered on Apple TV+ on October 10, 2025, providing a detailed look at how critical reviews, business pressures, and personal ambition intersect in fine dining.

9. ‘Severance’ (2022– )

In ‘Severance’, office employees at Lumon Industries undergo a procedure that surgically divides their work and personal memories, creating “innies” and “outies” who effectively live separate lives. The narrative follows Mark Scout and his colleagues on the severed floor as they gradually question their working conditions and attempt to understand Lumon’s true goals, while their non-severed selves grapple with grief and fragmented information from the outside world. The series premiered on Apple TV+ in February 2022 and returned for a second season in January 2025, continuing its storyline of corporate secrecy and resistance. Following the launch of season 2, ‘Severance’ became the most watched series in Apple TV+ history and was renewed for a third season later in 2025.

8. ‘Invasion’ (2021–2025)

‘Invasion’ is a science-fiction drama that chronicles an alien attack on Earth by following several groups of ordinary people in different countries as they experience the event in real time. The show weaves together storylines from locations including the United States, Japan, Afghanistan, and the United Kingdom, using multiple languages and perspectives to show how societies react as systems begin to collapse. Created by Simon Kinberg and David Weil, it premiered on Apple TV+ in October 2021 and later expanded with additional seasons. Across its run, the series blended large-scale visual effects with character-driven arcs about survival, collaboration, and communication under extreme pressure.

7. ‘Ted Lasso’ (2020– )

‘Ted Lasso’ follows an American college football coach hired to manage AFC Richmond, a struggling English Premier League club, despite his lack of experience with soccer. The series tracks Ted’s efforts to steer the team, earn the trust of players and staff, and navigate the agenda of club owner Rebecca Welton, who initially brings him in expecting failure. Over three seasons, the show covers promotions and relegations, mental-health storylines, and evolving roles for characters on and off the pitch. Originally debuting in 2020, the series became one of Apple TV+’s breakout global hits and has collected numerous major television awards. In March 2025, Apple confirmed a fourth season, with the next chapter focusing on Ted’s work with a women’s team in Richmond.

6. ‘Loot’ (2022– )

‘Loot’ is a comedy series about Molly Wells, a woman who becomes one of the richest people in the United States after divorcing her tech-billionaire husband and then turns her attention to the charitable foundation she had mostly ignored. As Molly steps into day-to-day operations at the foundation, she clashes and connects with staff who are used to doing the work without a high-profile figurehead. The show stars Maya Rudolph alongside Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Joel Kim Booster, Ron Funches, and Nat Faxon, and it mixes workplace storylines with plots about Molly’s personal reinvention. Season 1 debuted on Apple TV+ in June 2022, with subsequent seasons — including a third that began releasing episodes in October 2025 — continuing her attempts to link extreme wealth to meaningful change.

5. ‘Down Cemetery Road’ (2025– )

‘Down Cemetery Road’ adapts Mick Herron’s 2003 novel into an Oxford-set thriller where a quiet suburban neighborhood is upended by a house explosion and the apparent disappearance of a young girl. The story centers on Sarah Trafford, who becomes fixated on finding the child and teams up with private investigator Zoë Boehm, only to uncover a wider web of government secrecy and long-buried identities. The series features Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson in the lead roles and is produced by 60Forty Films for Apple TV+. Its first season, consisting of eight episodes, premiered on October 29, 2025, with new installments released weekly through December 10.

4. ‘Slow Horses’ (2022– )

Based on Mick Herron’s Slough House novels, ‘Slow Horses’ follows a group of British intelligence officers who have been sidelined to a shabby MI5 outpost after career-derailing mistakes. The team works under Jackson Lamb, a notoriously abrasive but highly capable spymaster who oversees investigations that often intersect with higher-profile operations inside the main service. Each season adapts a different book from the series, tying self-contained plots to a continuing arc about political maneuvering and internal power struggles. Since premiering in 2022, the show has released multiple seasons on Apple TV+, with a fifth arriving in 2025 and further seasons already ordered.

3. ‘The Last Frontier’ (2025– )

‘The Last Frontier’ is an Alaskan thriller about a U.S. Marshal stationed near Fairbanks who must secure his remote community after a prison transport plane mysteriously crashes nearby. The crash releases a group of violent inmates, including a criminal mastermind the Marshal believes is orchestrating events from the shadows, forcing local law enforcement into a sprawling manhunt. Created by Jon Bokenkamp and Richard D’Ovidio, the series stars Jason Clarke alongside Dominic Cooper, Haley Bennett, and Alfre Woodard. It premiered on Apple TV+ on October 10, 2025, with a first season of hour-long episodes produced by Apple Studios and filmed primarily in Montreal.

2. ‘The Morning Show’ (2019– )

Set inside a fictional New York morning news program, ‘The Morning Show’ explores the lives of anchors, producers, and executives at the UBA network as they navigate workplace politics and public scrutiny. The series begins with co-anchor Alex Levy dealing with the sudden firing of her longtime partner Mitch Kessler over a misconduct scandal, while field reporter Bradley Jackson is thrust into the spotlight as her new on-air counterpart. Across later seasons, the story expands to cover issues like the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate mergers, and a tech billionaire’s attempted takeover of the network. The show premiered with Apple TV+ in November 2019 and has continued with multiple seasons, including a fourth that launched in 2025.

1. ‘Pluribus’ (2025– )

‘Pluribus’ is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction series from creator Vince Gilligan that follows Carol Sturka, a romance novelist who appears to be the only person not infected when an alien virus pushes humanity into a relentlessly optimistic hive mind. The title refers to the phrase “e pluribus unum,” hinting at the show’s focus on individuality versus collective consciousness. Apple ordered the project straight to series, and it debuted with a nine-episode first season whose opening installments premiered on November 7, 2025. New episodes arrive weekly on Apple TV+, with filming centered around Albuquerque and production handled by High Bridge Productions and Sony Pictures Television.

Share which of these Apple TV+ shows you’re watching this week — and which one you think everyone else should check out — in the comments.