Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet, Stillwater, For All Mankind, Little America, Ted Lasso, Boy's State -- these are all pretty good or excellent.
They're definitely getting more hits than misses.
Now I’m curious about the couple of shows people are mentioning in this thread, as I genuinely haven’t watched a single show in the last 9 or 10 months. Not only has the content (when I think I’ve found it) seemed to be mostly aimed at a 35-45 year old American market, the shows all feel so ‘earnest’ and frankly boring. Bit worried that this content may fall into the same trap: TV you feel you ought to watch, rather than have fun watching.
Look forward to being proved wrong, but now only have a couple months before I intend to cancel.
It has enough quality shows and movies to warrant a couple of months of subscription. I think it will slowly become successful despite the nay-saying, just like a lot of things Apple makes.
I consider that a good thing. Now I don't have to buy an Apple product to watch the channel.
And yes, FAM is up there with HBO's From the Earth to the Moon.
Your other points may well be valid.
The show with Jason Mamoa was unwatchable, pun intended.
I also watched all the kids content which was either boring or bad. I had high hopes for the Charlie Brown content but my kid who loves space was pretty bored by their show on Snoopy going into Space.
Netflix has can’t-miss comedians like Dave Chappelle and all their specials. They have excellent kids shows like Dragon Prince and a ton of Captain Underpants offerings. HBO Max had new movies coming direct to streaming. Amazon Prime has a bunch of movies for free and it has The Boys. I think their kids shows are decent. Disney+ had all the MCU content including the new shows.
AppleTV+ had none of the above. They may have one-off shows that aren’t horrible but it’s not enough to sustain a subscription. I haven’t heard any buzz about them from my social network because absolutely no one uses AppleTV+. I’m the only one I know that even gave some of the content a shot. I would say that’s a complete failure for a trillion dollar company.
Firstly, everyone thinks AppleTV is an Apple-branded TV. I have had to explain to people how it’s an Apple Roku.
Then adding the + to designate their content offering instead of an enhanced AppleTV was equally terrible. I have no idea how they came to such a terrible decision.
Thirdly, the content is beyond terrible. I don’t know what they were thinking, but they spent so much time marketing AppleTV+ but they refused to spend money to acquire things that people want to watch.
It’s deeply akin to their strategy on spending money on marketing hype but being deeply superficial on quality of content. They are the worlds richest company but their software is extremely poor. They can afford to pay for the best software engineers, and they don’t. Their software is terrible.
The same goes with their TV shows. I watched The Morning Show which was okay but I haven’t turned it on since. There is nothing compelling to watch on AppleTV+. And Apple has all the money to buy content and they do a really bad job. They need to overspend on a hallmark show to get the traction they need.