How many episodes are in Foundation?

Foundation has 30 episodes in this listed season.

When does Foundation premiere?

Foundation premieres on 2025-07-11.

Is Foundation a new series?

Foundation is a returning series (Season 4).

Foundation(2021)

Also known as Fondation

Archived · Apple TV

7.6M30 eps

S04

DramaScience FictionMysterySci-Fi

ON AIR: JUL 11Season 4Archived listing

What to Expect

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Foundation operates on a galactic scale, spreading its story across planets and centuries with a focus on power, governance, and the slow collapse or survival of civilization. The pacing is deliberate by design; plot threads accumulate across episodes and seasons rather than resolving quickly, and the drama is driven by ideology and institutional pressure more than combat or spectacle.

Mystery runs beneath the political architecture, surfacing in questions about who holds real power and what forces are quietly shaping the empire's fate. Those threads give the long arcs a secondary pull, something to track while the larger civilizational stakes build. The result is science fiction that treats its ideas as seriously as its plot mechanics.

Best for

galactic political drama, ideas-first sci-fi and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Science Fiction

Commitment

Season 4 · 30 episodes

Where

Apple TV

Official Premise

A complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire.

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Strongest Match

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds brings Foundation’s big-idea sci-fi to life through crew dilemmas, first-contact tension, and episode-by-episode stakes. You get the same sense of long-term consequences in smaller, character-driven missions, with optimism and humor cutting through the danger.

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Why this pick

Silo leans into Foundation’s taste for institutional secrets, slow reveals, and characters who keep pushing when the official answers stop working. The confined-world paranoia and methodical investigation create the same steady dread, but the pace stays tighter and darker, with fewer bright breaks.

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Why this pick

The Undeclared War scratches the same itch as Foundation, where secrecy and politics grind down everyone involved. Inside a British intelligence bubble, analysts juggle coded messages and election sabotage with restrained tension and mounting dread, ending in a clean miniseries finish instead of a sprawling saga.

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