Apple TV’s “Unadaptable” 3-Season Series Is Mandatory Viewing for Sci-Fi Fans

Apple TV’s Foundation adapts Isaac Asimov’s far-reaching science-fiction saga, long considered too sprawling for television. The series matters because it finds a way to bring the books’ vast history and ideas to the screen while making them work as an ongoing drama.

The story follows Hari Seldon, whose field of psychohistory predicts that civilisation will face a thousand-year dark age, and his plan to shorten it. The novels span centuries and feature characters who rarely meet, so creators David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman reshaped the narrative with time jumps, expanded roles for characters such as Gaal Dornick and Salvor Hardin, and more developed settings.