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If you’ve been watching Murderbot on Apple TV+—and if you haven’t, time to get started; episode four drops Friday!—you’ve no doubt picked up on one of the main character’s most charming quirks: it’s addicted to the galaxy’s trashiest TV. That might seem like an unlikely time-waster for a self-aware security robot that’s secretly hacked its consciousness and gained free will. But Murderbot‘s SecUnit loves nothing more than using its high-tech capabilities to consume thousands of hours of sci-fi
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Ars Technica: It's interesting you mentioned neurodivergence. I would hesitate to draw a direct comparison because it's a huge spectrum, but there are elements of Murderbot that seem to echo autistic traits to some degree. Paul Weitz: People look at something like the autism spectrum, and they inadvertently erase the individuality of people who might be on that spectrum because everybody has a very particular experience of life. Martha Wells has been quoted as saying that in writing Murderbot,
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Apple TV+ is home to a growing number of critically acclaimed series, and two of its currently airing shows happen to be among the best new TV comedies in streaming. #1: The Studio The Studio is the kind of comedy that can be hard to watch for some people. Why? Because its characters will make you cringe uncomfortably at their hilarious antics. Seth Rogen stars alongside Catherine O’Hara, Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz, and a team of other comedy powerhouses. Not to mention major Hollywood cel
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For Paul and Chris Weirtz, Murderbot — the upcoming TV adaptation of Martha Wells' sci-fi novella All Systems Red — was an experiment: Can you have a hero who tries to do nothing? The 10-episode sci-fi series, which debuts May 16 on Apple TV+, follows an anxious security robot (Alexander Skarsgård) assigned to protect a survey group on a planetary mission. As the mission progresses and deadly surprises emerge, Murderbot grapples with concealing its capacity for free will — an ability enabled wh
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The Murderbot Diaries is a wildly popular book series by Martha Wells. Apple has now adapted the series for television, with Murderbot premiering today with the first two episodes on Apple TV+. New episodes roll out weekly. The sci-fi comedy features Alexander Skarsgard as an awkward human-reclusive SecUnit robot. It is sent on assignments by a group of research scientists, protecting them from space worms and other dangers, while all it really wants to do it is relax in a corner and watch soap
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The new Murderbot series from Apple TV Plus arrives Friday, delivering a tongue-in-cheek look at the far future, where humans have colonized dozens of planets, cyborgs called security, or sec, units protect them, and late-stage capitalism is booming. Murderbot is an on-screen adaptation of the wildly popular Murderbot Diaries book series from author Martha Wells. Its titular narrator is a sec unit who's gained sentience from the governor module that controls it, and who now spends its time help
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A confession: This dispatch will not be coming to you from one of the long-devout Martha Wells faithful. I’m a convert, a curious reader who turned to Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series after reading my colleague Meghan Herbst’s fantastic 2024 profile of the author, which left me questioning who would be challenged with taking on the series’ title character in Apple TV+’s adaptation and why it was Alexander Skarsgård. Put differently, I wanted to know if the actor known for playing blood-sucke
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This week, Apple TV+ premieres its next big sci-fi series: Murderbot. The show stars Alexander Skarsgård as an android who just wants to be left alone to stream TV soap operas. Here’s what reviews are saying so far. Murderbot succeeds due to Alexander Skarsgård’s compelling performance, per reviews Murderbot is based on the first book in Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries series, “All Systems Red.” It’s a fun, quick read that sets up the universe for Wells’ many subsequent stories. You can grab
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On a distant planet in a future where space travel through wormholes is routine—and corny soap operas are considered “premium entertainment”—surveyors make a discovery that would surely be deadly, if not for the Security Unit they’ve reluctantly brought with them. That’s Murderbot, Apple TV+’s latest sci-fi venture, which layers that premise with many nuances, delights, shocks, and multidimensional characters, including the robot. Especially the robot. Alexander Skarsgård, who also executive pr
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I did not expect a TV show called Murderbot to be quite so relatable. On the surface, the Apple TV Plus sci-fi comedy is a somewhat generic futuristic story about a group of humans exploring a dangerous planet with the help of a security bot that’s designed to protect them. The key is the perspective: the story is told from the bot’s point of view, and that bot is really going through it. It’s experiencing free will for the first time and struggling with the ramifications of that, making it anxi
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Image by Steven Hirsch / Curtis Means / Pool / AFP / Getty / Futurism Developments Investors are accusing UnitedHealthcare's parent group of conning the public to boost profits — and, ultimately, contributing to the murder of CEO Brian Thompson. In a proposed class action lawsuit filed earlier this week in New York, UnitedHealth Group investor Roberto Faller claims that the insurer profited from a series of "aggressive, anti-consumer tactics" that harmed clients and investors alike. "UnitedHe
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Apple TV+ has hit its stride this year, finding big success with Severance, The Studio, and Your Friends & Neighbors. But there’s more right around the corner. Here are three big new Apple TV+ releases coming soon. #1: Murderbot Apple’s next big sci-fi series is Murderbot, starring Alexander Skarsgård. The show offers serious franchise potential, since it’s based on a lengthy book series. Unlike lots of sci-fi fare, it also doesn’t take itself too seriously—it’s a thriller/comedy. Murderbot’
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Murderbot creators, writers, directors, and executive producers Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz had well-established source material when it came to adapting their new series for Apple TV+. Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries books, starting with the Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella All Systems Red, craft a specific world and an even more specific character: a self-aware Security Unit that’s both heavily armed and deeply sarcastic. Of course, it (mostly) only shoots when necessary—including when things
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Upcoming Apple TV+ series Murderbot takes place in a future where survey missions on distant planets are required to bring a Security Unit—a hulking robot created using mechanical and organic parts—as protection. Required, that is, by the all-powerful company that controls all the commerce in the galaxy. It’s a scary situation to contemplate, especially the part about being on an isolated planet with a powerful AI that has guns tucked into its arms. But Murderbot takes a surprising approach to
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Murderbot creators, writers, directors, and executive producers (and brothers) Chris and Paul Weitz are huge fans of the Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries books, and they approached their Apple TV+ series from the same perspective. Sci-fi fans like what they like, including the show’s main character, played by Alexander Skarsgård: a Security Unit that’s hacked its own system, gained free will, and discovered the wild world of trashy TV. Its favorite show is The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, a s
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Murderbot is nearly here—the first two episodes arrive May 16 on Apple TV+—but series writers, directors, and producers Chris and Paul Weitz are already thinking about what comes next. The sci-fi series stars Alexander Skarsgård as a security unit that hacks itself to gain free will, but still ends up sticking with the humans (who both disgust and fascinate it) that it’s been tasked with protecting. It’s a character fans of Martha Wells‘ Murderbot Diaries have come to know and love since her 2
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Alexander Skarsgård stars in the sci-fi thriller Murderbot. A rogue cyborg security (SEC) unit gains autonomy and must learn to interact with humans while hiding its new capability in the trailer for Murderbot, Apple TV+'s new 10-episode sci-fi comedic thriller starring Alexander Skarsgård. It's based on the bestselling book series The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. And judging from the trailer, Murderbot looks like it will strike just the right balance between humor and action. There are
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Following Severance’s success, Apple TV+ has been rolling out compelling new shows one after another. And coming soon is Murderbot, a new sci-fi dark comedy that could be one of the best yet based on its just-released trailer. Murderbot trailer arrives ahead of Apple TV+ debut next month Murderbot is a genre-defying series that’s part sci-fi, part workplace comedy, with some action thrown in for fun. The show premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday, May 16 with its first two episodes, followed by we
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We finally have the trailer for Murderbot, the Apple TV+ show based on Martha Wells' seven book series, The Murderbot Diaries. It features Alexander Skarsgård as a security unit that is less interested in protecting humans and more excited about catching up on its favorite soap operas. As Sarsgaard says in the trailer, "I was built to protect and obey humans. And humans are idiots. But now that I've hacked my programming, I can do whatever I want. As long as they don't find out." But, things ta
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His name is “Murderbot,” and he doesn’t think much of humans—but the rogue security unit at the center of Apple TV+’s new sci-fi comedy thriller series is no rage-filled killing machine. He’s more of a curious searcher and a fan of trash TV, but he will resort to violence when necessary, a combination of personality traits that confounds the carbon-based members of his crew. Check out the very engaging first trailer for Murderbot, starring Alexander Skarsgård as the deadly android with the surp
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For a being named Murderbot, the star of Apple’s next sci-fi show is surprisingly relatable. The show — which is also called Murderbot — just got its first trailer, and it sets up the titular lead, played by Alexander Skarsgård, who has just become sentient and is, well, struggling. The bot is forced to hide its free will, and does typical human things like watching too much TV and avoiding eye contact, while also risking itself to protect a research team on a dangerous alien planet.
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From Chris and Paul Weitz, the minds behind About A Boy and American Pie, comes a new Apple TV+ sci-fi comedy riff on the future of androids in Murderbot. The show starring Alexander Skarsgård adds another cold and ruthless killer to the actor’s resume of heartless roles, but with one hiccup. This Murderbot just doesn’t get the appeal of its job: to murder. “All it ends up doing is procrastinating,” Skarsgård told Vanity Fair about the concept based on The Murderbot Diaries from author Martha We
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If this were a book, it'd be a hell of a page-turner. Sure, that's a bold statement. But when it comes to The Residence, I will stand my ground. Netflix's quirky new whodunit series from Shonda Rhimes -- which premiered on the streaming service on Wednesday -- asks the question, what happens when an important dinner at the White House is disrupted by the murder of one of the house's staff members? Sheer calamity is the answer. Amid the cluttered murder mystery landscape, this show is a delightf
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If this were a book, it'd be a hell of a page-turner. Sure, that's a bold statement. But when it comes to The Residence, I'm going to stand my ground. Netflix's quirky new whodunit series from Shonda Rhimes -- which premiered on the streaming service on Wednesday -- asks the question, what happens when an important dinner at the White House is disrupted by the murder of one of the house's staff members? Sheer calamity is the answer. Amid the cluttered murder mystery landscape, this show is a de
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Apple TV+ has gained a strong reputation for its lineup of sci-fi shows, including its new most popular series ever: Severance. Now, the company has just announced the release date for its next big sci-fi show. It’s called Murderbot, and it hits Apple TV+ this spring. Murderbot premieres in May with first season Murderbot is a new Apple TV+ sci-fi comedic thriller based on the hit book series The Murderbot Diaries. It stars Alexander Skarsgård. Apple TV+ just announced that Murderbot’s 10-epi
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