Apple TV claims three spots on TIME’s list of the 10 best TV shows of 2025 — more than any other streamer or network

Apple TV scored 26 Critics Choice Award nominations, including seven nominations for “F1.”
As 2025 draws to a close, television has delivered a year of bold storytelling, emotional depth, and cultural resonance like few before it. From gripping dramas that tackle timely issues to innovative comedies and prestige series that push creative boundaries, the small screen has proven once again to be a powerhouse of entertainment. Notably, Apple TV claims three spots on TIME’s list of the 10 best TV shows of 2025 — more than any other streamer or network — underscoring its dominance in delivering critically acclaimed, boundary-pushing originals. In this roundup from TIME, critics highlight the year’s standout achievements, the shows that captivated audiences, sparked conversations, and defined a truly remarkable era of television.
TIME Magazine:
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1. DYING FOR SEX (FX)
2. PLURIBUS (APPLE TV)
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan swung for the stratosphere with this globe-spanning sci-fi thought experiment: What if world peace suddenly broke out, people everywhere started living in harmony, and you were the only grouch among billions of humans who couldn’t be happy about it? Built around a virtuosic, often solo lead performance from Rhea Seehorn (who dazzled in Gilligan’s Better Call Saul) as a curmudgeonly romantasy author who proves immune to an extraterrestrial virus that fuses the consciousnesses of nearly everyone on earth, the cinematic Pluribus dares to argue that our stubborn individuality is what makes our species worth saving.
3. THE LOWDOWN (FX)
4. MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY (MUBI)
5. SEVERANCE (APPLE TV)
When a new creator delivers a knockout debut season, then takes three years to release the follow-up, you worry. So it was a wonderful surprise when the second season of Dan Erickson’s sci-fi drama of bifurcated consciousness in the office defied all expectations of a sophomore slump. Back at their desks, Adam Scott’s Mark S. and his coworkers resume investigating their sinister employer. As they dig, ambitious questions emerge around love and death that further Severance’s central inquiry into what makes us human.
6. MO (NETFLIX)
7. THE STUDIO (APPLE TV)
Hollywood loves making art about its devolution. This comedy is TV’s best entry in the subgenre yet, casting co-creator Seth Rogen as a doofy, insecure, idealistic but cowardly studio head trying futilely to make good movies amid cutthroat colleagues played by Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Hahn, and Chase Sui Wonders. The show is truly funny. It uses A-list guest stars to great effect. Its film homages are on point. But what sets The Studio apart is its genuine reverence for cinema, which cuts through the cynicism about the business of moviemaking that fuels so many similar stories and gives stakes to the characters’ fumbling.
8. FOREVER (NETFLIX)
9. SUCH BRAVE GIRLS (HULU)
10. THE PITT (HBO MAX)

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