There’s some nice information for followers of the Apple TV+ sci-fi comedy sequence “Murderbot,” although it is sadly not a spin-off that is totally simply full-length episodes of “Sanctuary Moon.” We’ll nonetheless most likely get extra possibilities to see our favourite fictional area cleaning soap opera, nonetheless, as Apple has introduced that “Murderbot” has been greenlit for a second season. That is proper people, we’re speaking extra homicide, extra bot, and extra of star Alexander Skarsgård completely killing it as an ungainly weirdo robotic who simply desires to look at his reveals in peace as an alternative of getting dragged into human nonsense.
The present, primarily based on the primary novella in Martha Wells’ “The Murderbot Diaries” sequence, is an amazing quantity of enjoyable with a terrific ensemble solid that helps make Skarsgård’s dryness work and makes this unbelievable world really feel extra actual. There’s only one teensy downside for followers who’ve gotten hooked up to the scrappy hippies from the Preservation Alliance: Murderbot (Skarsgård) leaves them behind within the second e book, going to work for a brand new group of irritating people. We all know he does not precisely really feel a connection to them, however audiences are certain to overlook these characters that we have gotten to know for the entire first season. Can “Murderbot” work with an entire new supporting solid? In all probability! However it may take some doing.
We’re actually going to overlook these PresAux nerds
Within the “Murderbot” books, Murderbot leaves the PresAux staff after the occasions we’re seeing depicted in season 1, although we do be taught just a few updates by distant check-ins (aww, Murderbot virtually cares!). That signifies that, presumably, we’ll be assembly a completely new supporting solid in season 2 and would possibly solely get the teeniest glimpses of Bharadwaj (Tamara Podemski), Ratthi (Akshay Khanna), Pin-Lee (Sabrina Wu), Arada (Tattiawna Jones), Mensah (Noma Dumezweni), and even grumpy Gurathin (David Dastmalchian). That is form of a bummer, as a result of the present has finished a number of laborious work to make these characters lovable and it is laborious to not need to proceed to observe them and hold them in Murderbot’s orbit.
Whereas a brand new season with a brand new solid of people to bother Murderbot ought to work fairly effectively as a result of Skarsgård so completely understands the project and the screenwriting is prime notch, the brand new people could have some critically large sneakers to fill. Followers who have not learn the books are positive to be just a little unsettled by the solid shake-up, however so long as the tone stays firmly between comedy and sci-fi thriller, “Murderbot” season 2 must be successful. I simply need to discover out why Bharadwaj was hoarding cleaning soap earlier than she’s gone.
“Murderbot” season 1 is offered to stream solely on AppleTV+.
