The new Murderbot series of Apple TV Plus arrives on Friday, delivering an ironic look to the distant future, where humans have colonized boxes of planets, cyborgs called security or SEC, the units protect them and capitalism in the late stage is booming. Murderbot is an adaptation on the screen of the series of Diaries Murderbot Matha Wells books.
Its titular narrator is a unit of the SEC that has gained sensitivity of the governor’s module that controls it, and now spends their time helping humans who are given away … while watching hundreds and hundreds of hours of television programs televisions.
The narrator calls himself Murderbot. Is that good or bad? It is not entirely clear.
I discovered Murderbot’s books in 2020 and quickly contained everything that had been published at that time. I loved the ironic narration of Murderbot and the vast universe wells created.
The previous books of Murderbot are all novels and very short. We are talking about less than 200 pages: the first novel, All Systems Red, is only 140. Books are intelligent, sharp, fun and full of heart, even when Murderbot did not put humans, they are tasks that are told with the guard.
So, when I discovered that the series had bones collected for the adaptation of Apple TV plus, it was euphoric. My emotion only increased when it was announced that Alexander Skarsgård not only starred in the program, but also acted as an executive producer as well. The cherry at the top was that Wells itself would be on the set. The program has arrived very well, but I am already excited, thanks to the previous views that Apple TV Plus has launched.
I thought I am very excited about this adaptation, I am attenuating my Entussiam because I am personally the victim of bad adaptations in the past. At this time, I am precisely, because although the previous views look great, I have learned my lesson.
Murderbot has a specific tone and voice through books, one that is crucial to capture the entire environment of the series. In that note, I’m already in love. Skarsgård has the silent and silent conversational tone that I always imagined, and has the way Murderbot Relations with humans to an art form. We can see limited clips of the favorite television program of Murderbot, The Rise and Fall of Serenity Moon.
However, there are some things that worry me. The previous views that I have seen very inclined in the humor of the Diaries of Murderbot, making me worry that the deepest themes of the book can be brushed aside. Similarly, in the books, Murderbot cannot not be possible, no, no, it is not, he cannot do not a full narrator with a complete head makes me ask me what other aspects have ignored the bones in favor of a television adaptation.
Under armor, Murderbot looks like a person. It is just another example of how appearances can be misleading.
Here is the thought: a television adaptation is just that, an adaptation. I have seen them well, and I have done them wrong, but no adaptation is 100% faithful to the material of origin. As regards me, it is fine, provided that the themes and the heart of the story I am seeing are faithful. Ultimately, I am not going to make a particular character, not a task exactly as they did on the page. I am more concerned about the environment than strictly stick to books.
Murderbot can have the hair, as long as the cyborg is the social uncomfortable that I met and love.
Murderbot opens at Apple TV Plus on Friday, May 16.
