Murderbot is an Apple TV+ science-fiction comedy created by Chris and Paul Weitz, adapted from Martha Wells' hugely popular Murderbot Diaries book series. Blending deadpan humor with genuine sci-fi world-building, the show turns an existential premise — what does a machine do with free will? — into one of the most charming genre series of the year.
Alexander Skarsgard stars as the title character, a security android, or SecUnit, that has secretly hacked the governor module meant to control it. Now technically free, Murderbot is wracked with social anxiety and would honestly rather be left alone to binge thousands of hours of melodramatic space soap operas than protect the naive band of scientists it has been assigned to guard. When their expedition goes catastrophically wrong, though, it has to actually do its job.
The series earned warm reviews for its wit, its unexpectedly emotional core, and Skarsgard's perfectly dry performance, and Apple TV+ renewed it for a second season. Critics praised the way it honored the beloved source material's anxious, sardonic narrator while translating the character's inner monologue into television.
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