Alexander Skarsgård absolutely killing it as an awkward weirdo robot who just wants to watch his shows in peace instead of getting dragged into human nonsense.
The show, based on the first novella in Martha Wells’ “The Murderbot Diaries” series, is a tremendous amount of fun with a terrific ensemble cast that helps make Skarsgård’s dryness work and makes this unbelievable world feel more real. There’s just one teensy problem for fans who have gotten attached to the scrappy hippies from the Preservation Alliance: Murderbot (Skarsgård) leaves them behind in the second book, going to work for a new group of irritating humans. We know he doesn’t exactly feel a connection to them, but audiences are bound to miss these characters that we’ve gotten to know for the whole first season. Can “Murderbot” work with a whole new supporting cast? Probably! But it’s going to take some doing.
