One of the perks of the streaming era is that, unlike the 20-episode seasons of network TV yore, television shows nowadays are in that sweet spot of 6-10 episodes, meaning that you can easily crush an entire season of great TV in a single weekend.

Apple TV certainly is no exception — the streaming service is home to plenty of quick comedies, high-tension limited series and short-story anthologies that are seemingly made to finish before Monday rolls around yet again.

And these three in particular are exceptionally star-studded affairs, despite their comparatively short episode orders, led by A-listers like Jake Gyllenhaal, Matthew McConaughey, Taron Egerton, and Woody Harrelson. Whether you're after a breezy buddy comedy or a slow-burn psychological thriller, here are three Apple TV shows you can binge-watch in one weekend.

Based on the 2010 autobiographical book "In with the Devil" by James Keene and Hillel Levin, this true-crime drama centers on Jimmy Keene, a high school football hero and decorated policeman's son, whose clean-cut life is upended when he is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum-security prison for dealing narcotics.

That all changes when he's given a high-stakes deal with the FBI: Enter a maximum-security prison and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser, who won an Emmy and Golden Globe award for his chilling work here) to extract a confession, or serve his full sentence with no possibility for parole.

Across six gripping episodes, the moody psychological thriller thrums with unsettling tension and moral complexity.

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