When it comes to adaptation, Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries series is a tricky beast. The series' main appeal is its titular character's inner monologue, a charming blend of snark and social ...

Imagine if a security service robot broke its programming and turned out to be a genuinely good autonomous entity—as long as no one erases its hundreds of episodes of The Rise and Fall of Santuary ...

Security Unit 238776431 is the property of the Company, a powerful mega-conglomerate located in the galaxy’s Corporation Rim. Programmed to serve, the heavily armed robot soldier does not love its job ...

Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries books have earned a dedicated following over the past few years, charming sci-fi fans with a sly twist on the killer robot trope. Structured around a series of ...

A cyborg providing security to a corporation’s workers hacks into its own system and becomes sentient in the droll 10-episode sci-fi Apple TV+ comedy “Murderbot,” based on “The Murderbot Diaries” book ...

The penultimate episode of Murderbot is here, and boy is it a doozy. I thought this show was supposed to be funny — why is it making me so damn emotional? The answer, of course, is because despite ...

The show opens as Murderbot successfully hacks and nullifies his Governor’s Module. In quiet celebration of his success, he eagerly downloads thousands of hours of dramas and soap operas, his favorite ...

High praise is rolling in for Alexander Skarsgård's performance as a melancholy cyborg in Murderbot, the new Apple TV+ sci-fi comedy series. "Alexander Skarsgård is not the Murderbot I imagined when I ...

Adapted from Martha Wells’ 2017 novella ‘All Systems Red,’ ‘Murderbot’ marks the latest attempt by Apple TV+ to turn a much-praised sci-fi story into a series, following the likes of ‘Foundation’ and ...

Apple TV+ has made a name for itself with its prestige sci-fi series such as Silo, Severance, and Foundation, as well as its variety of comedy series such as The Studio, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Platonic ...

Meet Murderbot, a cyborg Security Unit (or SecUnit) loaned out to space expeditions by "the company" — one of many companies who make their home in the Corporation Rim. Grown weary of humans who see ...

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