Best TV shows — thriller on Apple TV+ : our Top 20

2017 · Bruce Miller · 6 seasons

In a bleak, authoritarian future ruled by a zealous theocracy, a woman is compelled to live as a concubine to a powerful official. Stripped of autonomy and watched at every turn, she navigates daily humiliation and moral compromise while quietly plotting ways to reclaim her life and expose the regime’s brutality.

With Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Ann Dowd, Madeline Brewer, Max Minghella, O.T. Fagbenle and Samira Wiley

2022 · David DiGilio · 1 season

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With Chris Pratt, Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch, Riley Keough, Arlo Mertz, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Jared Shaw

2023 · Taylor Sheridan · 2 seasons

A hard-edged, fiercely driven young Marine, Cruz Manuelos is tapped to infiltrate a terrorist network by joining the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team, where she must operate undercover to dismantle the organization from within. Overseeing the program, station chief Joe is responsible for shaping, directing, and supporting a unit of female operatives as they navigate dangerous assignments and blurred lines between duty and identity.

With Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, Dave Annable, Jill Wagner, LaMonica Garrett, James Jordan and Austin Hébert

2024 · Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Scott M. Gimple · 1 season

Torn into an unfamiliar world forged by a relentless fight against reanimated corpses — a conflict that soon fractures into brutal wars between the living — Rick and Michonne must navigate a reality that erases the rules they once knew. Can they reunite and reclaim the people they were amid circumstances that test every moral and emotional limit? Will they end up as enemies or allies, lovers or casualties, survivors or conquerors? And if they’re separated, do they remain truly alive, or will they discover they’ve become indistinguishable from the very things they’ve been fighting?

With Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Pollyanna McIntosh, Terry O'Quinn, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Robert O'Hara and Craig Tate

2023 · Jim Field Smith, George Kay · 2 seasons

When hijackers seize control of a passenger plane, veteran negotiator Sam Nelson is thrown into the most dangerous assignment of his career. Racing against time, he deploys every tactic, bluff and calculated risk he knows to outmaneuver the captors and keep everyone aboard alive as pressure and peril escalate by the second.

With Idris Elba, Neil Maskell, Eve Myles, Christine Adams, Max Beesley, Archie Panjabi and Ben Miles

2017 · Lisa Rubin · 1 season

Jean Holloway, a therapist whose professional boundaries unravel as she becomes entangled in intimate, dangerous relationships with people connected to her clients.

With Naomi Watts, Billy Crudup, Sophie Cookson, Karl Glusman, Lucy Boynton, Poorna Jagannathan and Melanie Liburd