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 when it hacked its governor module — and its insecurities around humans, all while navigating existential questions about its purpose in the universe. Above all, though, Murderbot wishes it could
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