How many episodes are in Foundation?

Foundation has 1 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

7.6M1 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 pressure builds. 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 · 1 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

Silo keeps the same slow-burn, empire-sized mystery energy as Foundation, with characters paying real costs for asking forbidden questions. The controlled, bunker-bound world turns every answer into a tighter trap, and the pacing rewards patience the way Foundation’s long arcs do.

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Why this pick

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds brings Foundation’s galaxy-scale curiosity into crisp, crew-driven missions with first-contact tension. You get the same mix of wonder and danger, but the pressure lands on teamwork and moral dilemmas inside each episode, with more variety and lighter moments than Foundation’s heavy politics.

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Why this pick

Dark Matter shares Foundation’s taste for big sci-fi ideas that land through personal consequences, not just spectacle. When identity and memory get scrambled, the dread and urgency hit like a countdown, and the mystery stays tightly focused on one man’s family loss, faster and more intimate than Foundation’s sprawling empire canvas.

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