Apple TV+ hit sci-fi show just keeps getting better: first reviews here

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Apple TV+ kicked off the year with a major win in Severance, but the streamer has another sci-fi series returning next week that’s much bigger in scope: Foundation season 3 is almost here, and reviews say the show’s better than ever.

Foundation season 3 reviews praise the show as Apple’s ‘Game of Thrones’

Foundation premiered on Apple TV+ in fall 2021 as a big-budget adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi series that had long been thought impossible to adapt.

Did Apple pull off the impossible? Sort of.

Reviews of season 1 were largely positive, but it’s with season 2 in 2023 that Foundation truly soared.

Now, Foundation season 3 arrives next week on Friday, July 11—and based on early reactions, this is the show’s best season yet.

Here’s what reviews are saying:

CBR: “one of the best shows of the year and a must-watch show for all sci-fi fans.”
JoBlo: “Apple TV+ may finally have found its Game of Thrones”
Collider: “this is the type of TV that makes television so good…the caliber of acting and writing is unparalleled”

What to expect from Foundation season 3

One common theme from various reviews: Foundation is likely the best show you’re not watching.

Apple says the show is a hit. But it clearly hasn’t yet had a Severance-like mainstream breakthrough.

That’s no doubt because Foundation’s storyline, which spans hundreds of years and a lot of different characters, requires a lot to keep track of.

You can get a taste of that from Apple’s season 3 summary:

Set 152 years after the events of season two, The Foundation has become increasingly established far beyond its humble beginnings while the Cleonic Dynasty’s Empire has dwindled. As both of these galactic powers forge an uneasy alliance, a threat to the entire galaxy appears in the fearsome form of a warlord known as “The Mule,” whose sights are set on ruling the universe by use of physical and military force as well as mind control. It’s anyone’s guess who will win, who will lose, who will live and who will die as Hari Seldon, Gaal Dornick, the Cleons and Demerzel play a potentially deadly game of intergalactic chess.

By many accounts, Foundation is one of the strongest shows Apple TV+ has to offer.

Here’s hoping the investment of time it requires, and season 1’s inconsistencies, don’t keep the series from finding the audience it needs to score a fourth season pickup.

Are you excited to watch Foundation season 3? Have you seen the first two seasons yet?

Apple TV+ is available for $9.99 per month and features hit TV shows and movies like Ted Lasso, Severance, The Morning Show, Silo, and Shrinking.