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 helping the humans it’s been assigned to… while watching hundreds upon hundreds of hours of TV shows.
The narrator calls itself Murderbot. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It’s not entirely clear.
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I discovered the Murderbot books in 2020 and quickly inhaled everything that’d been published at that point. I was delighted by the ironic narration of Murderbot and the vast universe Wells created.
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