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'Murderbot' is the best new comedy of 2025. You read that right

The Apple TV+ show takes what might be the oldest sci-fi premise there is — what does it mean to be human? — and mines it for comedy gold.

Murderbot deserves the mainstream success of Severance; I worry it will suffer the fate of, say, The Big Door Prize, a fun Apple TV+ series that still earns blank stares from everyone I recommend it to. Even if they decide to check it out, they might be fooled by the opening minutes of the pilot, which take place in exactly the world you'd expect a show called Murderbot to be set in: That same dark, boringly dystopian-industrial science-fiction milieu we've been served up for decades now. Sabrina Wu and Tattiawna Jones play a married couple who, between attacks by monstrous space-centipedes and raids by rogue SecUnits, find the time and infinite patience to invite the team's resident bluff, overconfident himbo (a very funny Akshay Khanna) into their relationship.

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