There’s some nice information for followers of the Apple TV+ sci-fi comedy collection “Murderbot,” although it is sadly not a spin-off that is completely simply full-length episodes of “Sanctuary Moon.” We’ll nonetheless most likely get extra possibilities to see our favourite fictional house cleaning soap opera, nevertheless, as Apple has introduced that “Murderbot” has been greenlit for a second season. That is proper of us, we’re speaking extra homicide, extra bot, and extra of star Alexander Skarsgård completely killing it as an ungainly weirdo robotic who simply needs to observe his reveals in peace as a substitute of getting dragged into human nonsense.
The present, primarily based on the primary novella in Martha Wells’ “The Murderbot Diaries” collection, is an amazing quantity of enjoyable with a terrific ensemble forged 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 connected to the scrappy hippies from the Preservation Alliance: Murderbot (Skarsgård) leaves them behind within the second guide, 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 forged? In all probability! However it is going to take some doing.
We’re actually going to overlook these PresAux nerds
Within the “Murderbot” books, Murderbot leaves the PresAux group 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 nearly cares!). That implies that, presumably, we’ll be assembly a wholly new supporting forged 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 type of a bummer, as a result of the present has finished a whole lot of onerous work to make these characters lovable and it is onerous to not wish to proceed to comply with them and preserve them in Murderbot’s orbit.
Whereas a brand new season with a brand new forged of people to harass Murderbot ought to work fairly nicely as a result of Skarsgård so completely understands the task and the screenwriting is prime notch, the brand new people can have some severely large sneakers to fill. Followers who have not learn the books are positive to be slightly unsettled by the forged shake-up, however so long as the tone stays firmly between comedy and sci-fi thriller, “Murderbot” season 2 needs to be successful. I simply wish to discover out why Bharadwaj was hoarding cleaning soap earlier than she’s gone.
“Murderbot” season 1 is out there to stream completely on AppleTV+.
