[savanaly]

I had to find out from my Uber driver that Apple TV

* Was a streaming service with a library that could stream on any smartTV, like Netflix

* Only cost $5/month (I assumed since it was Apple it would cost double what other services cost, as opposed to half)

That said, it doesn't have much I want to watch. Severance and Ted Lasso season 1 are good and what else?

[WorldMaker]

The Afterparty is an incredible murder mystery series that is on the more comedic side and has the fun and silly premise that the main detective trying to solve the mysteries (played by Tiffany Hadish in the peak of having fun) is a big fan of getting suspects to explore their "mind movies" so the main internals of every episode so far has been in a different genre of films/TV/storytelling. It's fun.

Shrinking is the "sophomore" Apple TV+ show from many of the creators of Ted Lasso. It's far less "twee" and covers a lot more dark topics more regularly, but still tries to be rooted in "punch up" comedy when it is trying to be a comedy and still manages some incredible "feel good" moments from out of the darkness. (It's also the wildest reunion of Bill Lawrence show regulars of the past: you'll spot many character actors from Spin City, Scrubs, Cougartown, and others. It's also especially fun because many of those cameos are incredibly dark in contrast to their past roles, but the actors seem to presumably be having a grand reunion just off screen.)

Schmigadoon is an amazing comedy if you either really love Musicals and/or really hate them. (If you are somewhere in the middle of the spectrum it can be a fun dumb thing with the right libations.) If find out that you do love musicals and enjoy the "Bento Box" animation format (Bob's Burgers, etc) you will want to watch Central Park while you are at it.

[no_wizard]

For All Mankind is neat, if campy. Alternative take on the space race and attempts to make at least some decent logical extrapolations had we continued to invest heavily in space exploration, maybe

[WorldMaker]

I thought Hello Tomorrow! was a fun "Fallout-esque" companion piece to For All Mankind. It's a lot more cynical but touches on a lot of similar space race ideals and retrofuturism.

[dbtc]

I thought the Foundation series was good.

[willis936]

I think it has its moments but I think they buried the more interesting and (oo scary maybe even thought-provoking) concepts of the book so far down that they're barely there. The plot is very new trek and it's impossible to say if it's beyond redemption because anything is possible, there are no stakes, and why do I care again? New Star Wars made similar mistakes.

Also I had high hopes for Salvor because they were a badass in the first part of the first book. Instead now they are a scowling child who defaults to violence. The writers really screwed up the characters.