Summer’s in its final stretch, but Apple TV is giving you plenty of reasons to stay parked on the couch all through August. Leading the charge on Aug. 5 is season 4 of "Ted Lasso," which pulls Ted right back to Richmond to coach a second-division women’s team.
Mid-month shifts gears with the return of "Women in Blue" on Aug. 12, featuring María’s promotion to lieutenant as the Azules chase a sprawling 1970s Mexico City case tied to the 1968 student massacre. Double-feature energy arrives Aug. 21 with "The Dynasty: UConn Huskies, a three-part documentary on Geno Auriemma’s legendary program, alongside five delightfully cozy new episodes of "Stillwater."
Closing out the month on Aug. 28 is season 2 of "Dark Matter," reopening Blake Crouch’s mind-bending multiverse with Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly back to explore the road not taken. With a slate this stacked, beating the late-summer heat from the comfort of your living room isn't just tempting — it’s practically mandatory. Here's everything coming to Apple TV in August 2026.
'Ted Lasso' season 4
Season 3 sent Ted home to Kansas for good... or so it seemed. Season 4 pulls him back across the Atlantic to Richmond and hands him a challenge he's arguably even less equipped for than managing a Premier League side: coaching a second-division women's football team. The men's players are out of the picture now, so Ted is starting close to zero, learning a new roster and, in his own bumbling way, the sport itself all over again. Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham), Keeley (Juno Temple), Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein), Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) and Higgins (Jeremy Swift) all return, with Tanya Reynolds and Faye Marsay among some of the newcomers filling out the squad.
Watch "Ted Lasso" season 4 on Apple TV starting August 5
'Women in Blue (Las Azules)' season 2
Season 1 followed the first women admitted to the Mexico City police force in the 1970s as they hunted a serial killer nobody else would take seriously. Season 2 gives María (Bárbara Mori) a promotion to lieutenant and a case that runs straight into the country's recent history. When the body of a student activist turns up, the Azules are pulled into an investigation that leads back to the 1968 student massacre, the day government forces killed protesters in the capital. Then a second body surfaces, this one belonging to someone connected to that same chapter, and it becomes clear that a killer is hunting down people tied to the massacre and leaving them at the police's door.
Watch "'Women in Blue (Las Azules)" season 2 on Apple TV starting August 12
'The Dynasty: UConn Huskies'
Geno Auriemma took over a UConn program with a single winning season to its name and turned it into the closest thing American college sports has to a permanent dynasty: 12 national championships across four decades. This three-part documentary tells that story. Players from across generations keep circling the same admission: that Auriemma was brutally demanding and that a championship, once you have one, mostly leaves you wanting the next. The 2025 title team anchors the present-day thread through Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd and Sarah Strong, while Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore, Breanna Stewart and Rebecca Lobo trace the program back to the start.
Watch "The Dynasty: UConn Huskies" on Apple TV starting August 21
'Stillwater' season 5
The animated series, based on Jon J Muth's "Zen" picture book series, follows three young siblings, Karl, Addy and Michael, and the wise panda who happens to live next door. When the everyday problems that come along with being a kid start to feel like too much, Stillwater (voiced by James Sie) tells them a story or walks them through a few breaths, and the kids learn a gentle lesson. It's a show that's made for young kids, but adults could also learn a thing or two. People aren't perfect, after all.
Watch "Stillwater" on Apple TV starting August 21
'Dark Matter' season 2
"Dark Matter" centers on a device called the Box, a device that opens a door onto every other version of the life you could have lived. Season 1 followed physicist Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) as he clawed his way back to his own wife and son through a maze of parallel worlds, only to end the season fleeing into yet another unfamiliar universe with Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) and Charlie (Oakes Fegley) in tow. Season 2 finds the three of them trying to build a new life in that new world, right up until something drives them to run again. Jason can't leave the Box alone, and Daniela's paranoia starts ruining any stability they've managed to build. Blake Crouch, who wrote the novel and never followed it with a sequel, runs the show himself, so this season is genuinely uncharted territory, so who knows where it'll end up?
Watch "Dark Matter" on Apple TV starting August 28
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