If you have always dreamed that a socially anxious security guard robot would become your new best friend, Apple has just what is right for you. And Alexander Skarsgård is ready to break your heart. Literally.
When Apple TV+ launches a new series, the world usually trembles. This time it seems that the universe is also trembling, and this is because Robot assassinoa new science fiction series that will be available all over the world on May 16, 2025. It is an adaptation of the bestsellers cult I Diari del Robot Assassino writers Marta Wellswho won everything, from the Hugo to the Nebula Award, and probably also some unknown prize in the field of artificial intelligence, coming from the future.
What is this Murderbot?
This is not the typical story of robot that save humanity. Murderbot, played by the charismatic Alexander Skarsgard (and it is also an executive producer), it is An self -sufficient and fatal protective unit that hates emotions and jealously guards one’s privacybut for a strange coincidence, he feels (or at least simula) an attachment to his human customers.
And when the world needs him, he needs … peace. And the remote control. Because it prefers futuristic soap opera to rescue human lives.
Directors who understand that humor is the best protocol
Behind the camera are the brothers. Chris e Paul Weitzknown for films like About a boy E American cake (Yes, this is canonical too). This time they decided to bring us to a dystopian future, in which the issue of identity is more relevant than ever, especially if you are a machine that has written its operating system.
Skarsgård also joins Even if the people, Davide Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay khanna, Tattiawna Jones E Tamara Postemi – A cast that knows how to combine humor with tension, dialogue with ethical dilemmas and action to the existential crisis.
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Why could Murderbot be your new Ted Lasso?
Because since its debut in 2019, Apple TV + has adopted the formula: great actors + great history + disturbing future realistic = series that we divorce as if we were to exhaust oxygen. And Murderbot is no exception. This is Ted Lasso with laser pistole, Fleabag in a metal shell, Westworld, who decided that it was enough to philosophize.
The series consists of 10 episodesthe first two parts will be available on May 16, the remaining every Friday until 11 July. So there is enough time because you become your new Friday evening ritual. Unless, of course, do not be on a mission to save settlers on the edge of the galaxy.
Conclusion: if Murderbot does not conquer your heart, at least it will open it to you
In a world where artificial intelligence has long ceased to be a simple tool and is becoming a mirror of our greatest phobias (and patterns), Murderbot is a fresh, brutal and at the same time strazianly strange reminder that they are those created without a soul that perhaps understand us more.
With a difference: they are ashamed of them.
Robot assassino will be available 16 maggio 2025 exclusively on AppleTV+ (Source: TV.apple.com).
