Best Apple TV Plus Original Shows To Watch On The Weekend

Here are our 12 best picks for weekend watches
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It is that time of the week when you can let your mind turn into a mush without the sense of shame or guilt. You can define what relaxation over the weekend looks like for you without fearing the absolute judgement.

So, even if that means that you rot in bed scrolling through the day, decide to hike up the hill or simply choose to binge-watch an Apple TV Plus original series, you should be able to have the control of how you want to spend your weekend.

We have made a list of 12 mind-blowing Apple TV Plus original series that you can binge watch over the weekend or dare I say kickstart watching leisurely on the weekend. And no, this Esquire India list, moves beyond the super popular originals Pluribus, Severance, Ted Lasso, and The Studio (if you haven't maybe now is the best time to take a leap). The list moves from dark comedy thriller to international espionage drama.

1. Panchinko

Based on a novel, Pachinko, revolves around the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family who begin with a story of a forbidden romance that leads to a sweeping saga taking place in Korea, Japan and America.

2. Silo 

Set in a dystopian future where a community exists in a giant underground silo comprising 144 levels,when its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, an engineer starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

3. Cape Fear 

A remake of Martin Scorsese film Cape Fear, the Apple Tv series stars Amy Adams and Javier Bardem as a married couple whose life is turn upside down by a growing threat by a notorious killer from their past who seeks revenge after being released from the prison.

4. The Hunt 

When powerful elites capture and try to hunt down a group of people, their plans for a fun event are thwarted when one of the captives proves too much for them to handle.

5. Slow Horses 

 A British spy thriller television series based on the Slough House novels by Mick Herron, starring Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden, Slow Horses, is a brilliant drama that navigates the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

6. Shantaram

Based on a semi-autobiography of a bank robber and heroin addict from Australia, Gregory David Roberts, who breaks the prison to flee to India and is recruited in the local mafia gang of Mumbai in the 1980s.

7. Bad Sisters 

The Garvey family has five sisters living in Dublin who set out to plot murder of their abusive and deeply toxic brother-in-law in order to protect their sibling and they succeed. However, the story flips when a life insurance agent wants to prove them guilty to save his struggling business.

8. Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed

A dark comedy thriller is completely bingeable weekend series that follows a divorced fact-checker who gets entangled in a web of blackmail, murder and youth soccer after interacting with an online cam performer.

9. Drops of God 

Drops of God is a brilliant American-Japanese series that offsets when the daughter of deceased creator of the famous Léger Wine Guide and a leading figure in oenology, has to travel to Tokyo, Japan, to claim his vast inheritance. However, she must first face a young oenologist.

10. Unconditional 

An international espionage thriller-drama depicted over eight-episodes,a mother-daughter vacation abroad takes a devastating turn when Gali (the daughter) is arrested for drug possession. Refusing to accept the charges, the mother has to battle to prove her child's innocence by entangling herself in the underworld.

11. Twisted Yoga 

Twisted Yoga is a three-part investigative documentary story that explores the dark reality behind a European tantric yoga network led by reclusive guru Gregorian Bivolaru, where the search for spiritual transformation allegedly turns into manipulation, abuse and human trafficking through a cult-like control.

12. Star City 

A cold and claustrophobic spin-off to Apple Tv's For All Mankind, the sci-fi drama is a gripping story about an ambitious space program aiming to be the first to reach the moon.

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