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Apple TV Plus and Disney Plus have arrived to shovel even more series and films into the overstuffed maw of the TV viewing public, the first of several giant new streaming services entering a marketplace currently dominated by Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. While the main draw for the Disney service, especially, is access to the company’s deep archive of films, both it and Apple are also introducing plenty of original series.

But are any of them any good? Well, like most programming slates, the initial lineups are pretty hit-and-miss. But here are a few of the new shows that are worth checking out.