Credit: Lucas Gouveia/How-To GeekApple TV is one of those streaming services where not much happens… until it does. It may not dump dozens of titles each month like the Netflixes and Prime Videos of the world. Still, when it launches something—a Severance, a Pluribus, a white-hot Emmy winner like The Studio—it tends to land like an event that’s traditionally been reserved for the likes of HBO.
With the next few months heating up with some major returns to Apple TV, including a new Ted Lasso season (August 5), Dark Matter (August 28), and Slow Horses (September), July kicks things off with some sizzlers, including the long-awaited return of our favorite dystopian underground mystery, a fresh new con-artist crime romp, and a goofy pickleball comedy. Let’s dig into everything you should watch on Apple TV in July.
Silo (season 3)
The subterranean thriller finally returns with some answers
I know where I’ll be on the evening of July 3—glued to my TV for the premiere of season 3 of this brilliant dystopian thriller. Silo finally returns after season two’s cliffhanger that saw engineer-turned-savior Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) return from her exile outside Silo 18, but her memory has been wiped clean. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking for the ten thousand people living in the silo as a poisonous purge is counting down that will kill everyone, and Juliette must find a way to stop it. But you want answers, right? Luckily, season 3 will split into two timelines, with one threading back centuries to follow journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick) and Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) as they uncover the conspiracy behind the silos’ creation.
Based on Hugh Howey’s bestselling trilogy, Silo is one of Apple TV’s best-reviewed dramas.
Network
Apple TV
Cast
Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter, Christian Ochoa Lavernia, Avi Nash, Billy Postlethwaite, Chinaza Uche, Iain Glen, Remmie Milner, David Oyelowo, Rick Gomez, Ferdinand Kingsley, Shane McRae, Chipo Chung, Caitlin Zoz, Matt Gomez Hidaka, Angela Yeoh, Olatunji Ayofe, Khairika Sinani, Will Patton, Akie Kotabe
Showrunner
Graham Yost
Directors
Morten Tyldum, David Semel, Michael Dinner, Aric Avelino
Writers
Graham Yost, Hugh Howey, Jeffery Wang, Lekethia Dalcoe
Main Genre
Sci-Fi
Creator(s)
Graham Yost
Producers
Aric Avelino, Jessica Blaire, Matthew Bird, Ben Brafman, Katherine DiSavino, Joanna Thapa
Seasons
3
Story By
Hugh Howey
Streaming Service(s)
AppleTV+
Executive Producer(s)
Graham Yost, Joanna Thapa, Rebecca Ferguson, Remi Aubuchon, Fred Golan, Hugh Howey, Nina Jack, Morten Tyldum, Michael Dinner, Ingrid Escajeda
Trying (season 5)
A surprise visitor upends one very happy adopted family
One of Apple TV’s understated and most beloved comedies, Trying is the story of Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason (Rafe Spall), who, for the series’ first seasons, were desperate to have a baby before finally deciding to adopt siblings Princess and Tyler. Season 4 jumped the timeline ahead by six years as we find Nikki and Jason a well-oiled parenting machine to teenaged Princess (who goes on a mission to find her biological mother) and 11-year-old Tyler. Season 5 blows everything up as Princess gets her wish and her biological mother, Kat (Charlotte Riley), shows up unannounced, causing all kinds of drama.
Quiz
Name that Emmy-winning Apple TV+ show
Trivia challenge
From Severance to Ted Lasso — how well do you know Apple TV+’s biggest award
winners?
DramaComedyCharactersAwardsPlot
Awards
Which Apple TV+ show was the first streaming series to win the Emmy Award for
Outstanding Comedy Series?
first streaming comedy to win Outstanding Comedy Series. It repeated the feat in 2022, cementing its
place in television history.
streaming comedy ever to take home the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy, a landmark moment for both Apple
TV+ and streaming television as a whole.
Plot
In Severance, what procedure do employees at Lumon Industries undergo?
partitions employees’ memories so their work selves have no knowledge of their personal lives, and vice
versa. It’s a chilling metaphor for work-life imbalance.
surgically divides their consciousness into two separate selves — one that only exists at work and one
that only exists outside of it. Neither version has any memory of the other’s experiences.
Characters
What is the name of Ted Lasso’s fictional English Premier League football club?
hired to manage despite knowing almost nothing about soccer. The club’s underdog spirit is central to
the show’s heartwarming tone.
football team becomes Ted’s unlikely home, and its journey from relegation struggles to redemption
mirrors the show’s feel-good philosophy.
Drama
In The Morning Show, what scandal triggers the central conflict at the start of
season one?
played by Steve Carell, is fired after sexual misconduct allegations surface. The fallout forces his
co-anchor Alex Levy, played by Jennifer Aniston, to fight for her own position.
anchor Mitch Kessler following sexual misconduct allegations — a storyline clearly inspired by
real-world events in the media industry during the #MeToo era.
Characters
In Slow Horses, what is the name of the disgraced MI5 division where the main
characters work?
disgraced spies are sent to be bored into resignation. The show’s title, Slow Horses, is slang for the
agents who end up there.
agents who’ve blundered their careers, and the nickname ‘slow horses’ is the derogatory term used for
the operatives stationed there under the perpetually grumpy Jackson Lamb.
Comedy
In The Studio, Seth Rogen plays a fictional version of himself in what role at a
major Hollywood studio?
appointed head of the movie division at Continental Studios. The show satirizes Hollywood’s obsession
with IP, sequels, and artistic compromise.
the movie division at a fictional Hollywood studio. The Studio skewers the absurdities of the film
industry, from IP-obsessed executives to fragile director egos.
Plot
In Palm Royale, what does Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons desperately want to achieve in
1969 Palm Beach society?
into the exclusive, pastel-clad world of Palm Beach’s elite in the late 1960s. Her scheming and ambition
drive the show’s delightfully frothy comedy.
scene. Played by Kristen Wiig, she is a relentless social climber willing to do almost anything to be
accepted by the fabulously wealthy and absurdly self-important upper crust of 1969 Florida society.
Awards
Gary Oldman won a BAFTA Television Award for his role in Slow Horses — which
character does he play?
deliberately slovenly head of Slough House. Oldman’s layered, sardonic performance has been widely
praised as one of his finest in years, earning him significant awards recognition.
surprisingly brilliant chief of Slough House with enormous charisma. It’s a role that has reinvigorated
considerable awards buzz around Oldman, who won a BAFTA for the performance.
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Trying has been one of Apple TV’s best-kept secrets, and its 96% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes is proof positive of that. It returns on July 8.
Network
Apple TV
Cast
Rafe Spall, Esther Smith, Phil Davis, Ophelia Lovibond, Oliver Chris, Yasmine Holness-Dove, Scarlett Rayner, Cooper Turner, Tarik Mesfun, Sophie Fletcher, Elodie Blomfield, Paula Wilcox, Sian Brooke, Darren Boyd, Diana Pozharskaya, Cush Jumbo, Robyn Cara, Imelda Staunton, Billie Gadsdon, Phoenix Laroche, Simon Bubb, James Doherty, Marian McLoughlin, Kenneth Cranham, Clare Higgins
Directors
Ollie Parsons, Ellie Heydon, Elliot Hegarty, Jim O’Hanlon
Writers
Andy Wolton, Oriane Messina, James Wood, Fay Rusling
Main Genre
Comedy
Creator(s)
Andy Wolton
Producers
Chris Sussman, Sam Pinnell, Emma Lawson, Tim Mannion
IMDb ID
tt10982034
Seasons
5
TMDB User Rating
7
.753
Executive Producer(s)
Andy Wolton, Chris Sussman, Esther Smith, Jim O’Hanlon, Josh Cole, Rafe Spall, Sam Pinnell
Lucky
Anya Taylor-Joy plays a con artist on the run
All I have to say about Apple TV’s Lucky is “sign me up.” Anya Taylor-Joy (The Gorge, The Queen’s Gambit), Timothy Olyphant (Alien: Earth, Justified), and Annette Bening (American Beauty, Dutton Ranch, so many more) alone are enough to draw a crowd, but this new seven-part heist series looks like it could be a fun, twisty thrill ride. Taylor-Joy is Lucky Armstrong, a lifelong con artist running from the FBI and a deadly crime boss, played by Bening, who’s looking for her son and her money. To survive and escape her past, Lucky must return to it one last time. Olyphant plays Lucky’s smooth-talking career con-artist dad, John, guiding her along the way.
Adapted from Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel of the same name, and produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine company, Lucky premieres on July 15.
Lucky
Release Date
July 15, 2026
Network
Apple TV
Showrunner
Jonathan Tropper, Cassie Pappas, Jonathan van Tulleken
Cast
Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Clifton Collins Jr., Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Drew Starkey, Mo McRae, Quinn Aune, William Fichtner
Directors
Jet Wilkinson, Jonathan van Tulleken
Writers
Jonathan Tropper, Cassie Pappas, Mark Stasenko, Marissa Stapley
Main Genre
Drama
Creator(s)
Jonathan Tropper
Producers
Reese Witherspoon, Cassie Pappas, Jonathan van Tulleken, Jonathan Tropper, Anya Taylor-Joy
Seasons
1
Executive Producer(s)
Anya Taylor-Joy, Reese Witherspoon, Cassie Pappas, Lauren Levy Neustadter, Jonathan van Tulleken
The Dink
A washed-up tennis pro discovers the pickleball gospel
The lone new movie heading to Apple TV in July, The Dink is poised to add some laughs and fun to the lineup. The excellent Jake Johnson (New Girl, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed) stars as washed-up tennis prodigy Dusty Boyd, who finds himself coaching a pack of unruly kids at his father Chuck’s (Westworld‘s Ed Harris) country club. One of the first major pickleball-related movies in 2026 (it took long enough), The Dink follows the tennis purist Dusty as he discovers, with the help of his playing partner Candace (Mary Steenburgen), that he actually loves the game. Ben Stiller and Patton Oswalt also star in the goofball underdog comedy that premieres on Apple TV on July 24.
The Dink
Release Date
July 24, 2026
Runtime
102 minutes
Director
Josh Greenbaum
Cast
Mary Steenburgen, Jake Johnson, Ed Harris, Andy Roddick, Ben Stiller, Chloe Fineman, Patton Oswalt, John McEnroe, Aaron Chen, Martin Kove, Chris Parnell, Christine Taylor
Writers
Sean Clements
Producers
Ben Stiller, John Lesher, Jake Johnson, Rob Paris, Mike Witherill
Main Genre
Comedy
Executive Producer(s)
Daniel Crosser, Joe Hardesty, Jonathan McCoy, Josh Greenbaum, Rick Steele, Sean Clements
Coming to Apple TV in July
That’s a stacked month for a service that likes to keep things lean. But as things trickle out over the month, How-To Geek runs weekly guides for Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, and the rest, in our streaming section, so the next thing to watch is never far off.
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