Saturday, July 12, 2025

Winter Warmer Watchlist - Murderbots - Season One

Murderbot just finished streaming on Apple TV+ & is based on All Systems Red, the first book of the series The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.

Starring Alexander Skarsgård as the titular character., the first season commenced mid-May, concluding yesterday.

Days before the finale, the series was renewed for a second season.

A media-obsessed private security construct (manufactured from cloned human tissue and mechanical parts), calling itself Murderbot, must hide its newly acquired autonomy, while completing dangerous assignments and being simultaneously drawn to humans and appalled at their weakness.

Alongside Skarsgård, David Dastmalchian and Noma Dumezweni, Sabrina Wu, Tattiawna Jones, Akshay Khanna, and Tamara Podemski also star.

So how'd Apple TV+ set up the second run?


Just when Murderbot's systems reboot, Corporation Rim technicians delete its memory and install a new governer module. 

At the same time, the PresAux team negotiates with company representatives in order to find the SecUnit. 

They offer to buy it and threaten with a lawsuit, but the company refuses and tells them that its memory has been wiped anyway. 

So Pin-Lee files an injunction to seize Murderbot for evidentiary reasons, while Gurathin manages to get access to the data that has been downloaded during the memory wipe. 

He locates Murderbot's personality files among Sanctuary Moon episodes. The team can keep Murderbot from being melted down, and Gurathin uploads its personality. 

The team invites Murderbot to live as a free agent on their home planet. Later that night, Murderbot attempts to leave but is intercepted by Gurathin, who tries to make it feel welcome. Murderbot insists that it needs to check the perimeter. When Gurathin relents, Murderbot thanks him. 

Posing as an augmented human, it boards a cargo ship as Mensah awakens and realises that it has left.

I for one, like Murderbot just wants to be alone and watch my shows LOL

Happy mid-winter!

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