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Alexander Skarsgård’s Wry Robot Can’t Redeem Apple TV+’s Oddly Paced ‘Murderbot’: TV Review

Based on the novels by Martha Wells, Apple TV+'s "Murderbot" centers a hilarious robot, but can't seem to find the plot in the narrative.

Led by Mensah (Noma Dumezweni), the group’s fearless leader, the mission consists of Arada (Tattiawna Jones), Pin-Lee (Sabrina Wu) and Ratthi (Akshay Khanna), who are in an awkward throuple. Dr. Bharadwaj (Tamara Podemski) is another team member as is Gurathin (David Dastmalchian), a tech-augmented human who is immediately suspicious of Murderbot. Skarsgård narrates and humorously portrays the security unit’s disdain for human emotion and obsession with what it calls “premium quality entertainment.” It also finds making eye contact particularly vile.

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