Murderbot | Apple TV+ (Alexander Skarsgard, David Dastmalchian, premieres May 16)
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"Pretty good" would be my verdict too. Some funny cameos in the space soap opera bit. The scene between Murderbot and David Dastmalchian's character in the second episode was probably the highlight - as someone on the autism spectrum I related a lot to them both struggling with eye contact.
I did think the second episode was hurt a bit by the runtime, as not much happened in the main plot and it was just about to get interesting when it ended.
I did think the second episode was hurt a bit by the runtime, as not much happened in the main plot and it was just about to get interesting when it ended.
Damn, the episodes are way too short!!! 
The plot thickens as does the disgust Murderbot has for humans but even he ( it?) is invested in the mystery of what happened to the other researchers. I love how he infused his bad soap operas and compares them to real life events, unfortunately i know humans who do that too.
The plot thickens as does the disgust Murderbot has for humans but even he ( it?) is invested in the mystery of what happened to the other researchers. I love how he infused his bad soap operas and compares them to real life events, unfortunately i know humans who do that too.
Damn, the episodes are way too short!!!
Well, most of the installments in the series are novellas, with only one full-length novel. So if they're going to do one book per season, that kind of limits the length of a season.
And since it's a semi-comedic series, a half-hour episode length seems kind of fitting to me.
Episode 3 felt too slight to me, there wasn't enough happening for it to stand up as an episode of tv in its own right. I still enjoyed it fine but there's no much to say.
Yeah, you're going along, enjoying the ride, then, BOOM, end credits roll. The last episode was only 20 minutes long if you skip the opening credits!Liking it, but the episodes are too shorts!
Fourth episode was the best one yet, I thought. It was just as short, but it felt more episodic as it had a satisfying beginning and end with the story of Murderbot's malfunctions playing out. The annoying thruple characters finally did sometime useful too.
I'll try this. He's still Eric to me though.
I enjoyed watching Murderbot deal with the takeover, but yeah, these episodes are too short!
I always come back to this character whenever i see him, he was so brilliant in this show ( especially his story arc with his maker Godric).
That family has unfair amounts of acting talent
Reading these replies, I'm finding it hard to believe they are spending an entire season on one novella--although, it seems like the entire season is only going to be the length of a movie?
Well, it's kind of hard to do otherwise, since the first three novellas are separate stories with Murderbot as the only continuing character, with the PreservationAux characters not returning until Book 4, IIRC.
Of course, they didn't have to do the whole season as a single story arc; they could've split a season into two or three story arcs, like, say, the later seasons of The Flash. But with a season of only 10 half-hour episodes, limiting it to one story arc makes sense.
If they're 20-25 minutes each, that's four hours or so, more like two movies -- maybe a bit less if that runtime counts credit sequences. That gives room to flesh out the characters and worldbuilding more fully, which they'd kind of have to, since the novellas are strictly from MB's first-person perspective (with a couple of exceptions later in the series), so there's a lot that we don't see from its POV that would have to be fleshed out more in a TV show's omniscient POV.
I kind of expected a version where, they would cover a couple of novellas a season--with PreservationAux characters doing something else that might not have been in the novellas specifically.
for anyone on the sidelines.... Wait until all the episodes are available, sign up for the service, binge all the episodes in one evening (should only take 2-1/2 hours, at the current episodes length) and then cancel your trial subscription!
This is a fun show, really enjoying it, but 20 minutes of content a week is maddening.
This is a fun show, really enjoying it, but 20 minutes of content a week is maddening.