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lizbee ([personal profile] lizbee) wrote2025-04-10 08:33 am
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Murderbot (AppleTV+ 2025)

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!
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[personal profile] sabotabby 2025-04-10 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] laurenthemself 2025-04-11 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't read the books so don't have the same attachment as you do, and I still thought 'oh no this is not how Murderbot looks'.
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[personal profile] falena 2025-04-11 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)

*subscribes to the newsletter *

Edited 2025-04-11 14:05 (UTC)