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Sigmund and Devon dive into 21:9 support and the other aspect ratio options in the tvOS 18.2 beta, grade their M4 Mac predictions, and share relaxing Up Next picks.

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M4 Mac Announcements

• Apple Announces New iMac with the M4 Chip, a Nano-Texture Option, and USB-C Accessories
• Apple Releases Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, and Mouse with USB-C
• The More Mini Mac mini
• Apple Reveals New M4 MacBook Pros

Apple TV News

• Belkin Head Strap for Apple Vision Pro
• RF-S7.8mm F4 STM DUAL
• ‎Proton VPN for Apple TV

Releases

• ‎Wheel of Fortune Daily
• ‎Drive Ahead! Carcade
• ‎Arkanoid vs Space Invaders+
• ‎Texas Hold’em Poker: Pokerist+

Extras

• Shrinking — Brett Goldstein on His Challenging Role in Season 2
• DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter V: Cate Blanchett and Hoyeon on the Downfall of Catherine
• DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter VI: Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón on Trauma and Truth
• Silo — Season 2 Official Sneak Peek

TV App Highlights

• In the Summers
• My Old Ass
• The Day of the Jackal
• Look Into My Eyes
• Megalopolis

Up Next

• The Office
• Game Changer

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Sigmund and Devon discuss the first five years of Apple TV+ and where the service stands today. Plus, they highlight new Apple Original series You Would Do It Too and Before.

Apple TV+ at 5

• March Event 2019 | Apple

Apple TV News

• ‎Blackmagic Camera 2.1
• ‎Controller for HomeKit
• ‎Vimeo for Apple Vision Pro
• Currents: Teaser
• Chick-fil-A’s Legends of Evergreen Hills Trailer
• How Apple developed the world’s first end-to-end hearing health experience
• What It’s Like to Hear Better with AirPods Pro 2

Trailer Talk

• Severance Season 2 Teaser

Apple Original News

• First Look at Prime Target

Highlights

• You Would Do It Too
• Before

Releases

• Before: An Inside Look
• DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter IV: Cate Blanchett and Sacha Baron Cohen on Marital Rows
• Blitz: An Inside Look
• Steve McQueen interviewed by Danny Leigh | BFI London Film Festival Screen Talk 2024

TV App Highlights

• Joker: Folie à Deux
• Treasure
• Wizards Beyond Waverly Place
• Martha
• Piece by Piece
• Despicable Me 4
• The Substance
• Janet Planet
• Doc of Chucky
• Music by John Williams
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
• A Different Man
• The Outrun

Up Next

• And Then There Was Shawn
• Trick ’r Treat

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Sigmund and Devon predict Apple’s M4 Mac announcements and recap the second season of Pachinko.

Pre-Roll‎

• Infuse 8
• CineUltra
• Apple Vision Pro “Get Ready” Ad
• Tailscale
• MacStories Fall Membership Drive

Apple TV News

• Sonos Arc Ultra and Sub 4
• ‎NBA App
• Apple Projector Patent

Trailer Talk

• You Would Do It Too (Tú También Lo Harías)
• Bad Sisters Season 2
• Bread & Roses

Apple Original News

• Spotlight: Bad Sisters Returns on Apple TV+
• We Are Parable x Apple TV+: BLITZ Free Nationwide Previews

Releases

• Before
• MLS Awards
• Extrasensory
• Apple Fitness+: ⁨Treadmill with Scott featuring Apple Music Radio Host Jayde Donovan⁩
• Apple Fitness+ Artist Spotlight: ‎Kygo
• The Cast of Shrinking Give Life Advice
• Shrinking: Jessica Williams, Christa Miller & Lukita Maxwell Discuss Therapy and More
• Silo: Rebecca Ferguson Breaks Down Fan Theories | Theoretically
• DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter I: Cate Blanchett on Confronting the Past
• DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter II: Cate Blanchett on Disliking Her Character
• DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter III: Cate Blanchett and Lesley Manville on Losing a Son

Recap

• Pachinko

TV App Highlights

• Transformers One
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Somebody Somewhere

Up Next

• Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour
• World Series

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Sigmund and Devon highlight Shrinking season two and the debut of NBA All-Star Weekend in Immersive Video. Then they recap Bad Monkey and Slow Horses season four.

Highlights

• Shrinking
• 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend

Apple TV News

• One For All Apple TV Remote
• Apple Announces a Minor Update to the iPad mini
• Beats Pill x Kim Kardashian
• Tablo
• ‎Trakt
• ‎Unwatched: RSS Video Player

Trailer Talk

• Silo Season 2

Apple Original News

• First Look at The Gorge

Extras

• Steve McQueen: Into The Breach With The Blitz Director | Empire
• Slow Horses: Who Said That?
• Slow Horses: S1E1 “Failure’s Contagious” on YouTube

Recaps

• Bad Monkey
• Slow Horses

TV App Highlights

• Alien: Romulus
• The Wild Robot
• Brothers
• Lee
• Woman of the Hour

Up Next

• Hysteria!
• Louder: The Soundtrack of Change

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Sigmund and Devon discuss Sigmund’s experience at London Film Festival, including the world premiere of Blitz. They also highlight this week’s release of Disclaimer and dive deep into Submerged, the first Apple Immersive Video scripted film.

Highlights

• Blitz
• Submerged
• Disclaimer

Apple Original News

• Apple Releases Immersive Short Film Submerged and Announces Upcoming Immersive Content
• Severance: Season 1 on Blu-ray

Releases

• The Last of the Sea Women
• ‎NBA 2K25 Arcade Edition
• ‎Food Truck Pup+
• ‎Furistas Cat Cafe+
• ‎Smash Hit+
• ‎Balatro+

Extras

• The Making of Submerged
• Bad Monkey (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)
• Wolfs: Behind the Scenes of the Car Stunt Scene with Austin Abrams l Another Take
• Pachinko: Lee Minho and Kim Minha Revisit Moments from Season 1
• Shrinking: Actually Helpful Recap with Lukita Maxwell

Up Next

• Bad Boys: Ride or Die
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• The Floor
• Steve McQueen
• Alien: Romulus
• Small Axe
• Nobody Wants This

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Sigmund and Devon highlight the much-anticipated debut of Wolfs, recap Women in Blue, and discuss a new tvOS “feature” impacting purchased content.

Highlight

• Wolfs

Apple TV News

• ‎Channels: Whole Home DVR

Trailer Talk

• Before
• Shrinking — Season 2

Releases

• Where’s Wanda?

Recap

• Women in Blue

Up Next

• The Front Room
• Mr. McMahon
• Will & Harper
• Babes
• Evil Does Not Exist
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Speak No Evil
• Salem’s Lot
• Gremlins: The Wild Batch
• We Grown Now
• Dìdi
• It’s What’s Inside
• The Franchise
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: The Book of Carol
• Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

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Devon and Jonathan highlight new Apple Original Spanish-language medical drama Midnight Family, share their iPhone 16 Pro and Apple Watch Series 10 first impressions, and check in on Slow Horses midway through its fourth season.

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Highlight

• Midnight Family

watchOS 11

• watchOS 11: The MacStories Review

Trailer Talk

• Disclaimer
• Blitz

Releases

• Wolfs

Extras

• An Exclusive Peek at Bad Sisters Season 2 | Vanity Fair
• Apple Maps Guide: Take a Journey Around Japan with Sunny
• ‎Apple Fitness+ Artist Spotlight: Charli xcx

Midseason Check-In

• Slow Horses
• Magic Rays of Light: In Conversation | James Hawes

Up Next

• Ripley
• Inside Out 2
• Full House: Aftershocks
• How Rude, Tanneritos: Jeff Franklin and “Aftershocks”

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Sigmund and Devon round up the new features in this week’s tvOS 18 update, discuss Devon’s review of visionOS 2 on MacStories, and recap Sunny.

MacStories OS Reviews

• visionOS 2: The MacStories Review
• iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Review
• macOS Sequoia: The MacStories Review
• watchOS 11: The MacStories Review

Trailer Talk

• Where’s Wanda?
• Curses!

Apple Original News

• Tú También Lo Harías” (“You Would Do it Too”) Fan Trailer

Releases

• La Maison

Extras

• La Maison: An Inside Look
• Emmys 2024 Portrait Studio: Shot on iPhone 16 Pro

Recap

• Sunny

Up Next

• Blink Twice
• Cuckoo
• Agatha All Along
• The Penguin
• Frasier
• A Very Royal Scandal
• His Three Daughters
• Omni Loop
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
• I Saw the TV Glow
• The Garfield Movie
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
• A Different Man

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Sigmund and Devon break down the exciting announcements from Apple’s It’s Glowtime event and grade their event predictions.

It’s Glowtime Recap

• It’s Glowtime Event
• Apple Announces the New Apple Watch Series 10 and a New Color for the Apple Watch Ultra 2
• Apple Announces AirPods 4, Minor AirPods Max Update, and New AirPods 2 Features
• Apple Unveils New Health Features Coming to the Apple Watch and AirPods Pro 2
• iPhone 16 and 16 Pro: The MacStories Overview
• Maybe I’m Not a Pro Anymore

Apple TV News

• Hue Play HDMI sync box 8K

Trailer Talk

• The Last of the Sea Women

Apple Original News

• Blitz Screenings

Extras

• Shot on iPhone 16 Pro: The Weeknd – “Dancing in the Flames"

Up Next

• Robot Dreams
• The Lion King
• Star Wars: A New Hope

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Sigmund and Devon highlight the triumphant return of Slow Horses and rate tvOS streaming apps based on how well they take advantage of system features.

Opening Chat

• Mark Gurman’s Apple TV Post on Threads

Highlight

• Slow Horses

Main Topic

• ‎Netflix
• ‎Disney+
• ‎Hulu
• ‎Max
• ‎Paramount+
• ‎Peacock
• ‎Amazon Prime Video
• ‎YouTube
• BBC iPlayer

Releases

• Napoleon: The Director’s Cut
• Apple Music Live: Camila Cabello
• Wild Life
• Boundless
• NFL Retro Bowl ’25
• ‎Monster Train+
• ‎Puzzle Sculpt
• Elevated
• It’s Glowtime Event

Extras

• Slow Horses: Who Meets Their Demise in Season 4?

Up Next

• The Perfect Couple
• English Teacher
• Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
• I Used to Be Funny
• The Boy and the Heron
• Rebel Ridge
• Beetlejuice: The Complete Series
• Chimp Crazy
• KAOS

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