Murderbot (AppleTV+ 2025)

[lizbee]

The trailer for the Murderbot TV series is out, and I'll be honest: it gives me the ick. Like, I've blocklisted the word "Murderbot" on my social media, blocked Martha Wells so I don't see her promotional posts in my timelines, and I'm thinking of giving my books away.

Which is absolutely an overreaction, so I'm sitting on my hands for now, but it has powerful "we have completely captured everything you imagined, except it's white, cis, male and incredibly cheap looking".

AppleTV+ generally produces quite decent-to-good sci-fi, so I assume this will be watchable, but so far it looks generic and boring.

Semi-related, but I did wind up creating a little newsletter where I talk about the TV I've been watching, with an option for other media as the mood strikes me. I have 16 subscribers! You could be the 17th!

Comments

[sabotabby]

AppleTV+ has done some of my favourite stuff (Severance, Slow Horses), but if everyone else wasn't hyped about this, it'd be of no interest to me.

[lizbee]

I went and had a shower and attempted to be more reasonable and less contrarian, and I've decided to pretend this is the in-universe unauthorised drama inspired by Murderbot's story, and the real Murderbot hates every minute of it while being grateful the actor (human, of course) playing it doesn't look anything like it whatsoever.

[kerravonsen]

Sometimes the only way to cope with an adaptation is to treat it as if it has no connection whatsoever to the original, and see if it stands on its own merits.