The first images from Murderbot, Apple TV’s adaptation of Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series, lacked personality. In retrospect, this makes a certain amount of sense; the titular cyborg of the books is, after all, only just learning to express its personality in the first place. In hindsight, this also makes sense because the first trailer for the show, released Wednesday, is full of personality.
The footage introduces Murderbot itself, the stakes of its secret, as well as the work-a-day sci-fi setting of the series and the show’s human characters, including Noma Dumezweni (The Little Mermaid) and David Dastmalchian (The Suicide Squad)’s Dr. Mensah and Gurathin. The second most exciting thing to fans of the books might be some very overwrought clips from The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, the fictional space-set soap opera on which Murderbot is hyper-fixated, which appears to “star” Clark Gregg, John Cho, and Jack McBrayer.
But most exciting of all might be finally seeing Alexander Skarsgård’s take on Murderbot. He certainly does sound exactly like someone who has never said words out loud with its face to human beings before.
Murderbot’s ten episode season will arrve on Apple TV Plus on May 16, with a two episode premiere, and one episode releasing each week after that.
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