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Murderbot Is Almost the Real Thing
Alexander Skarsgård brings the sci-fi series to life.
Murderbot’s love of bad TV is expressed via a show-within-a-show representation of its favorite soap, The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, which is rendered with daytime soap-style performances from John Cho, Jack McBrayer, and DeWanda Wise, and with more than one Flock of Seagulls–style hairdo. Adaptations should stand on their own, without necessary reference to whatever the original work was and without an obedience to unwinnable aims like faithfulness or fidelity to every story beat, every character makeup, or every plot point. The humor of the books is darker and drier, partly because it comes filtered entirely through the perspective of a cyborg that views humanity as inherently untrustworthy and violence as a frustrating but useful chore.
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