If you’re not already a subscriber, let me tell you about the best quality for the money proposition in streaming: Apple TV+. For ten bucks a month you get the highest quality shows, and to quote the legendary film, ‘Dazed and Confused’, ‘It’s quality, not quantity, alright man?’ While I could write an entire post just describing the best Ted Lasso episodes, I will try to make this one for the masses, and I hope that you will end reading this with a 7 day trial to the service.

The Morning Show

Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston lead a fire-starting take on not only righteous journalism, but feminism in the modern media landscape and it is fantastic. The thing you have to love about this platform is that an issue like abortion will come up and be seriously addressed in the way that you can’t do on network TV. Both leading ladies kill, and the drama currently runs for three seasons that span the American reality so well the way that HBO’s, ‘The Newsroom’ used to do.

Ted Lasso

If you think this show is about soccer, let me stop you in your tracks before you lose interest. Jason Sudeikis takes over an English Premier League soccer team with no experience in soccer. What happens from there is a masterclass in character development, romance, camaraderie and a feeling that we all are AFC Richmond. The show gets into deeper issues such as mental health and relationships in a way that if you don’t cry in response to several episodes, you may have to turn in your human card.

Lessons in Chemistry

Continuing on Apple’s feminist trailblazing effort, this show is so wholesome, in its solidarity pushing agenda between both races and sexes. Based on a book of the same title, Brie Larson doesn’t dazzle, because she can, she instructs. The story of her relationship with famed chemist Calvin Evans and her struggle to become recognized in a world she masters but is not let into, makes for captivating entertainment.

Five Days at Memorial

This is inarguably the most controversial show I will recommend, so let that grain of salt set in. The miniseries retells the catastrophic and horrific events of a hospital in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. It challenges the viewer to consider the impossible moral decisions that the hospital staff had to make over 8 episodes, and Vera Farmiga reprises her role as a grey area hero similar to how I remember her from her role in, ‘The Departed.’ This does not disappoint.

I’m writing this on an Apple laptop; I consider my own bias, but in terms of the quality of shows you get on Apple TV+ that take chances other services wouldn’t, give it a try. If you haven’t seen Ted Lasso yet you are already doing yourself a disservice, and three seasons of that should satiate the most cynical person on the planet. Take a bite from the tree, unlike that bible nonsense, you will be left in a better place and no snake is involved.