Apple TV+ Has the Best Fall TV and Film Slate Of Any Streamer

If you’re going to subscribe to one streaming platform in Fall 2023, it probably better be Apple TV+. As we outlined in our Fall 2023 TV Preview, Apple’s streaming service is basically spoiling its customers at a time when other streamers, networks, and studios are flailing to piece together a slate in the midst of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. While network TV strains to entertain viewers with wall-to-wall game shows and reruns of hits, Apple TV+ is offering its subscribers a wildly robust slate of exciting television and Oscar-bait films. Just last Friday, LaKeith Stanfield‘s The Changeling debuted, this Wednesday, Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon welcome Mad Men‘s Jon Hamm to The Morning Show, and by the year’s end, multiple major Oscar contenders will find their way to streaming on Apple TV+. All in all, Apple TV+ has the most outrageously exciting Fall 2023 slate of any of its competitors.

When Apple first announced the launch of Apple TV+ in 2019, it was unclear if the omnipresent tech company could catch up to already established rivals like Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video in the streaming wars. Sure, they had money and they had star power, but it takes more than that to build a loyal consumer base. You need to provide consistent quality. Since then, Apple TV+ has dominated pop culture with the zeitgeist defining hit comedy Ted Lasso, taken home the Best Picture Oscar for the darling drama CODA, and stealthily established itself as home for inventive, stylish, and ground-breaking genre storytelling.

This fall, Apple TV+ subscribers can look forward to the finale of Foundation‘s strongest season yet, weekly MLB games with Friday Night Baseball, and Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited adaptation of David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Oscar-winner Brie Larson will be taking on perhaps the riskiest role of her career yet: Elizabeth Zott, the inimitable heroine of Bonnie Garmus’s Lessons in Chemistry. Real-life father and son Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell will play the same hero battling Godzilla in different decades in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Errol Morris will profile the slippery master of the spy genre, David Cornwall, aka John Le Carré, in the documentary film The Pigeon Tunnel. And Sir Ridley Scott will drop his latest historic epic, Napoleon.

Apple TV+ offers a free one-week subscription to new customers and then costs $6.99/month after that. There are no ads on Apple TV+ and the service usually rolls out new episodes of your favorite shows on a weekly basis, meaning you won’t burn through your faves or burn out on content. But most importantly, Apple TV+ has something for everyone premiering this fall.

From the return of the star-studded soap The Morning Show to early Oscar-favorite film Killers of the Flower Moon, here are twelve reasons why you might want to make sure you have an Apple TV+ subscription for Fall 2023….

1. The Changeling

   Release Date: September 8

   Cast: LaKeith Stanfield, Clark Backo, Adina Porter

   The Buzz: Based on Victor LaValle’s beloved bestseller, The Changeling follows new father Apollo (LaKeith Stanfield) as he embarks on a dark and magical journey to find his wife Emma after she does something truly heinous in the aftermath of their son’s birth. The incredibly magnetic Stanfield doubles as an executive producer and visionary director Melina Matsoukas directs the pilot.

2. The Morning Show Season 3

   Release Date: September 13

   Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup, Jon Hamm

   The Buzz: The Morning Show remains Apple TV+’s marquee drama and Season 3 could potentially be its best and most star-studded season yet. Now that Steve Carell’s Mitch Kessler is out of the picture, the show can fully invest in the catty behind-the-scenes drama of the morning news. Even more exciting? Jon Hamm is joining the series as an Elon Musk-esque billionaire. 

3. The Super Models

   Release Date: September 20

   Cast: Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington

   The Buzz: The supermodel era was a moment in time when a handful of exceptional beauties became more than just muses — they became cultural titans. This new docuseries looks at the impact these women had on fashion, music, TV, and the world at large and how they continue to upend notions about feminine beauty today.

4. Still Up

   Release Date: September 22

   Cast: Antonia Thomas, Craig Roberts

   The Buzz: Lisa (Antonia Thomas) and Danny (Craig Roberts) are best friends who bond over their shared insomnia, leading those around them to surmise they may be more than just friends. This UK-set comedy might just be the effervescent treat we need to wean us off our Ted Lasso obsession.

5. Flora and Son

   Release Date: September 29

   Cast: Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jack Reynor

   The Buzz: John Carney is back with yet another sweet indie that combines music, Irish actors, and the power of human connection. Flora (Eve Hewson) struggles to connect with her teen son Max (Orén Kinlan) until they find an acoustic guitar. With the help of a washed up musician, mother and son will find a way to bond through music. 

6. Lessons in Chemistry

   Release Date: October 13

   Cast: Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King

   The Buzz: Based on the bewitching bestseller of the same name, Lessons in Chemistry casts Oscar-winner Brie Larson as Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist and single mom whose unorthodox approach to life doesn’t mesh with life in the 1950s. All that changes when Elizabeth accepts a job as a cooking show host on a local TV channel and she soon becomes a trail-blazing change-maker. 

7. The Pigeon Tunnel

   Release Date: October 20

   Cast: David Cornwall, aka John le Carré

   The Buzz: Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris turns the lens on one of the most influential authors of the 20th century: John le Carré. Expect Morris to present a twisty portrait of an enigmatic subject that also forces us to look inward.  

8. Killers of the Flower Moon

   Release Date: In cinemas October 20, Apple TV+ debut after

   Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons

   The Buzz: David Grann’s searing nonfiction account of the Osage Murders is a horrifying mix of true crime and American tragedy. Maestro Martin Scorsese has reframed the story as a love story gone wrong between Indigenous oil heiress Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone) and her conniving white husband Ernest (Leonardo DiCaprio). The early buzz on the film is tremendous and we could be looking at a massive Oscar favorite in the making.

9. Fingernails

   Release Date: November 3

   Cast: Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White

   The Buzz: Cate Blanchett produces this buzzy love triangle story starring three of the most captivating actors working today: Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White. Set in a world where soulmates are matched by technology, Anna (Jessie Buckley) and Ryan (Jeremy Allen White) are confident they are going to be together forever. That is, until Anna finds herself drawn to her coworker Amir (Riz Ahmed). 

10. The Buccaneers

    Release Date: November 8

    Cast: Kristine Froseth, Alisha Boe, Josie Totah, Christina Hendricks

    The Buzz: Apple TV+ is getting back into the period drama game with this bold new interpretation of Edith Wharton’s final, unfinished novel about American heiresses hoping to land English lords as husbands. Created by Katherine Jakeways and directed by long-time UK TV great Susanna White, expect a fresh spin on a classic story.

11. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

    Release Date: November 17

    Cast: Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons 

    The Buzz: This lavish new action drama builds upon the most recent Godzilla films — including Kong: Skull Island — to tell a multi-generational saga punctuated by the existence of monsters. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters will attempt to flesh out this cinematic universe by going behind-the-scenes of Monarch’s rise and potentially revealing humanity’s fall. 

12. Napoleon

    Release Date: In cinemas November 22, Apple TV+ debut after

    Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Ben Miles

    The Buzz: Sir Ridley Scott has thrown himself into yet another historic epic and we can’t wait to follow. Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix plays Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the most brilliant and controversial leaders in history, but he could easily be upstaged by Vanessa Kirby’s Joséphine. Kirby’s been nominated for Emmys and the Oscar, but this could be the role that really helps her ascend to the top of Hollywood’s A-list.