From gripping dramas and heartwarming comedies to groundbreaking sci-fi and star-studded Originals, here are some must-watch series from the streaming platform. Watch them on KrisWorld, then redeem one free month of Apple TV+ subscription to continue enjoying them after your flight.

Foundation

Based on the award-winning novel series of the same name by Isaac Asimov, Foundation chronicles the lives of humans across the galaxy who are living under the rule of the Galactic Empire.

When the revolutionary Dr Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) predicts the impending fall of the Empire, he and a band of loyal followers venture to the far reaches of the galaxy to establish the Foundation in an attempt to rebuild and preserve the future of civilisation. Enraged by Hari’s claims, the ruling Cleons (Lee Pace, Terrence Mann, Cassian Bilton) — a long line of emperor clones — fear their grasp on the galaxy may be weakening as they’re forced to reckon with the potential reality of losing their legacy forever.

This first-ever adaptation of Asimov’s groundbreaking series took over 50 years to materialise, and there’s a good reason why it took so long: the novels are famously massive in scope, and many consider them to be nigh unadaptable. The first instalment alone spans 200 years, while the series writ large transpires across 600 years. The book series is also more concerned with ideas than people; philosophical inquiry takes primacy over character development and emotions, making adaptation even more daunting.

That hasn’t stopped screenwriter David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, Man of Steel) from creating this adaptation. He has, however, taken creative license to make major changes to the books, such as gender-swapping and reimagining some characters. Salvor Hardin, portrayed as male and the mayor of Terminus (the capital planet of the Foundation), has been changed to be female and the warden — not mayor — of Terminus.

The series manages to successfully capture the scale of the novels while injecting action and feeling into the show. Sci-fi with heart? Now that’s a winning combination.

Camp Snoopy

Looking for a show to watch with your little ones? Or do you just want a heartwarming series to make you feel all cosy inside? If so, you’re probably going to want to check out Camp Snoopy, which follows the Peanuts gang as they embark on fresh adventures.

After discovering their troop is in danger of disbanding, Snoopy and the Beagle Scouts set off to immerse themselves in nature and the Great Outdoors to earn their badges, with the Beagle Scout Manual as their guide. Meanwhile, Charlie Brown and friends enjoy their summer at Camp Spring Lake, crossing paths with Snoopy as they experience hiking, swimming, sitting around campfires, and everything summer camp and the outdoors have to offer.

With a combination of gentle sweetness, good-natured humour, and summer exuberance, Camp Snoopy makes for a thoroughly comforting watch.

Bad Sisters

Created by Emmy Award nominee and BAFTA Award-winning multihyphenate Sharon Horgan, Bad Sisters is a wickedly fun blend of dark comedy and thriller. The series follows the lives of the Garvey sisters, who are bound together by the premature death of their parents and a promise to always take care of one another.

The sisters are a motley crew of distinct — and sometimes clashing — personalities: protective oldest sibling Eva (Horgan), a high-flying corporate exec; Grace (Anne-Marie Duff), an often flustered housewife who is constantly abused and belittled by her nasty husband, John Paul (Claes Bang); Ursula (Eva Birthistle), a married mother of three who is having an affair with her photography instructor; second youngest sister Bibi (Sarah Greene) who is raising an adopted son with her spouse, Nora (Yasmine Akram); and the free-spirited youngest sister, Becka (Eve Hewson), a massage therapist.

As life insurance investigators begin to suspect the sisters after John Paul’s death, the five siblings must find a way to protect each other’s interests and ward off potential police attention.

Bad Sisters offers a stirring examination of the joys and trials of sisterhood and also serves as a deliciously entertaining spin on female revenge fantasies such as Big Little Lies.

Shrinking

They say laughter is the best medicine. But Shrinking proves that crying can be a balm for the broken heart, too.

Created by Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel, and Brett Goldstein, this dramedy follows grieving therapist Jimmy (Segel), who is still reeling from the death of his wife. What complicates his attempt to pick up the pieces is his strained relationship with his teenage daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell), to whom he has been a bad father.

Jimmy’s crushed spirit changes his perspective on life, so he starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives … including his own.

His abandonment of therapist principles rankles his cantankerous supervisor, Paul (Harrison Ford), who is himself struggling with a life-altering event: a Parkinson’s diagnosis.

Unlike many TV series that focus on the perspectives of therapy patients, Shrinking shines the spotlight on the ones doing the counselling, capturing their human side, flaws and all.

And, as often hilarious and outrageous as it is, Shrinking manages to find real dramatic stakes and emotional weight. The result is a thoroughly cathartic show — your TV equivalent of sitting through a therapy session.

Ted Lasso

The Emmy-winning comedy series, Ted Lasso, is the TV embodiment of a big, warm hug. It became a pop culture sensation when it premiered in 2020, winning hearts with its relentless optimism.

Jason Sudeikis plays Ted Lasso, a small-time college American football coach from Kansas hired to coach UK professional soccer team AFC Richmond, despite having no experience coaching soccer. With unwavering positivity, he takes on that challenge, but mentoring a motley crew of clashing personalities, including egotistical up-and-comer Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster) and the hot-headed veteran footballer Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein), proves to be tricky.

And, unknown to him, there is a powerful force within the club that doesn’t want him to succeed: AFC Richmond’s new owner, Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham).

Still, there are no pure villains in the show. And it’s precisely Ted Lasso’s militant belief in the goodness of people — even ones who do nasty things — that feels like a balm for the weary soul. If you’re ever feeling down, Ted Lasso is just that ray of sunshine you need in your life.

Severance

When work-at-home arrangements became the norm, conversations about work-life balance naturally dominated social media. When your office space is also your living space, where does work end and life begin? Is it even possible to separate those two things?

In the award-winning high-concept thriller Severance, work-life balance is taken to the extreme — with frightening results. The biotechnology corporation Lumon Industries has formulated a medical procedure called ‘severance’, which allows their employees to compartmentalise their memories depending on whether or not they are at work.

When a ‘severed’ worker is at work, they are dubbed ‘innies’ and cannot remember anything of their lives or the world outside. When outside work, they are dubbed ‘outies’ and cannot remember their time at work. Due to this, innie and outie experience two different lives, with distinct personalities and agendas.

Sounds like a useful procedure? Not quite. This excessive separation of professional and personal hurts innies, who experience a lack of agency and a constant sense of despair.

Severance paints a bleak portrait of the excesses of corporatism, one that explores how the need to bury personal baggage in pursuit of productivity can ultimately hurt people.

Pachinko

Based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, this epic drama chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.

Epic in scope and intimate in tone, the story begins with a forbidden love and crescendos into a sweeping saga that journeys between Korea, Japan, and America to tell an unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph, and reckoning.

Pachinko is told in three languages — Korean, Japanese, and English — to maintain a ring of authenticity. 

It uses something very specific — the migrant experience — to illuminate universal truths about being human: the need for a sense of belonging, the power of familial bonds, and the dreaming of a better future.

Featuring Academy Award-winning actress Youn Yuh-jung (Minari) and hotshot actor Lee Min-ho in its huge cast, Pachinko is a sprawling, moving drama that proves that when it comes to relating to art, language is indeed no barrier.

The Morning Show

There’s little wonder why The Morning Show has turned out to be one of Apple TV+’s biggest hits. It explores the cutthroat world of morning news and the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, and is packed with terrific performances, especially by headlining stars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. 

Told through the lens of Alex Levy (Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Witherspoon), two complicated women navigating the minefield that is the high-octane world of morning news. The show is full of chaos — scheming! backstabbing! office politics! — and, well, drama. Multiple plotlines move in tandem at any one time, and they progress so briskly that you’re always engrossed. 

In Season 1, Alex, the co-anchor of a morning talk show, is left feeling abandoned and lost when her co-presenter, Mitch (Steve Carell, who proves he has dramatic chops in addition to comedic talent), is accused of sexual misconduct and fired. It was their chemistry that kept their show’s ratings high; with him gone, she’s in a vulnerable position.

But when she finds a new partner in Bradley, who comes from a serious journalistic background, the show starts taking flight in the ratings again. Along the way, Alex and Bradley discover that the network CEO’s negligence and deliberate inaction fostered a culture of sexual abuse in the company. 

Fearless and fun, the unapologetically candid series looks at the power dynamics between women and men, and women and women, in the workplace without being preachy or heavy-handed. Sophisticated and engrossing — now that’s smart entertainment for you.

Silo

The environment has gotten toxic — so lethal it has wiped out most of humanity. There are only 10,000 people left on Earth, or so it seems. Their home protecting them from the deadly outside world? A mile-deep bunker. That’s the simple premise of Silo, a high-concept dystopian drama adapted from the first book in Hugh Howey’s bestselling trilogy of the same name.

No one knows when or why the silo was built, and anyone who tries to find out faces fatal consequences. Rebecca Ferguson (Dune) stars as Juliette, an engineer who seeks answers about her partner George’s (Ferdinand Kingsley) murder. But she stumbles onto a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined, leading her to discover that if the lies don’t kill you, the truth will.

Mystery is woven into the fabric of the first season. Fresh revelations only raise new questions. When did the world become uninhabitable? Why are even fleeting mentions of the era before the silo prohibited? Why is there still a tiny group of resistance fighters preserving memories from the past with ‘relics’ (items from the old world)? 

The show is also part conspiracy thriller. On her quest to get to the roots of her partner’s murder, Juliette bumps heads with the ‘Judiciary’, a ministry-of-sorts within the silo that has a say in almost every aspect of its governance. The shadowy Judiciary is menacing and cruel, crushing dissent in the silo with an iron fist and meting out even the slightest transgressions with terrible punishments. Were they responsible for George’s death?

With its constant air of suspense, smart metaphors on class warfare, and twisty plot, Silo makes for a terrific binge-watch.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters introduces a novel chapter in the MonsterVerse, the multimedia franchise and shared fictional universe featuring Godzilla, King Kong, and other gigantic creatures.

The show is set in a world where the existence of Titans, or huge monsters (kaiju in Japanese), is the reality for humans.

The show’s kaiju are as varied as they are fascinating. You’d have probably seen (or at least heard of) the iconic, dino-like Godzilla, but the rest of the monster cast are less frequently seen, including Mother Longlegs, a gigantic spider, and Mantleclaw, a crab-like kaiju with the ability to burrow beneath Earth’s mantle. The show also features the Endoswarmers, an insectoid superspecies, and Skullcrawlers, a two-limbed amphibious menace. New titans like the Frost Vark and the winged bat-like Ion Dragon add to the show’s diverse roster of monstrous beings.

Magnificent and terrifying as the kaiju are and colossal as the action scenes may be, the show still mostly focuses on the human stories that unfold against the backdrop of these gargantuan creatures. The kaiju are often the backdrop — and sometimes the catalyst — for grounded drama to play out. Character development is given the priority, and, fortunately for the show, its ensemble cast are impressive in their various roles.

Headlining stars Kurt Russell and his son Wyatt portray former US Army Colonel Lee Shaw across different timelines. They play the character with winky mischief and action-hero brashness but balance that out with gentleness during quieter scenes. Other cast members like Anna Sawai, Ren Watabe, and Kiersey Clemons complement the Russells with their performances, and the chemistry between all of them is palpable.

Newly minted Emmy winner Sawai, who plays Cate, a woman suffering from PTSD after a kaiju attack, is the beating heart of the show. To accurately portray the trauma and agony of surviving the ordeal, Sawai tells The Hollywood Reporter: “I reflected on my memory from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. I didn’t lose family, but so many Japanese lost people important to them.”

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is a powerful reminder of storytelling’s ability to bridge disparate worlds. It celebrates the human capacity to adapt and thrive, even under the shadow of giants.

Slow Horses

Who says you need labyrinthine plots or gun-slinging to make an espionage thriller work? Forget about pyrotechnics or outrageous plot twists — Slow Horses proves that great acting and even greater writing are all you need to make an exciting spy drama.

Based on Mick Herron’s Slough House novel series, Slow Horses follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in Slough House, a dumping-ground department of MI5, due to their career-ending mistakes. 

After River Cartwright (Jack Lowden), an up-and-coming MI5 agent, makes a life-altering mistake in a public training exercise, he is relegated to performing dead-end work at Slough House. He resents his new ramshackle workplace, which is populated by intelligence officers who have, like him, committed serious blunders. Making his life even tougher is his boss, the curmudgeonly Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), who’s the brilliant but irascible leader of Slough House.

Haunted by his past mistake and itching to redeem himself, he sticks his nose into an investigation of a far-right terrorist group despite not being assigned to it.

Despite its name, Slow Horses never feels sedate. While it eschews frenetic plotting, the show smuggles in plenty of twists and cliffhangers. The espionage dealings, while suspenseful at every turn, are grounded in a sense of authenticity. Tense but believable at all times, serious but also wickedly funny, the show is one of the best under-the-radar gems on TV right now.

Presumed Innocent

Created by TV legend David E. Kelley (The Practice, Big Little Lies) and executive produced by J. J. Abrams (Super 8, Star Wars: The Force Awakens), this eight-episode limited series is based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name by Scott Turow.

Jake Gyllenhaal, who also served as executive producer, stars as chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich, who becomes the prime suspect in the death of his colleague, Carolyn Polhemus (Renate Reinsve). Acting alongside Gyllenhaal and Reinsve is a star-studded ensemble cast, including Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, and Peter Sarsgaard.

The series takes viewers on a gripping journey through the horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s office while following Rusty’s personal life as he fights to hold his family and crumbling marriage together.

While the book was adapted for the big screen in 1990, this is the first time it has been made into a TV series. The expanded run time of the silver-screen format affords Presumed Innocent more leeway in exploring its themes of obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love.

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