★★★★★ I finally cashed in a trial subscription offer for Apple TV and watched the first season of Murderbot. It’s absolutely pitch-perfect. Alexander Skarsgård, Noma Dumezweni and David Dastmalchian are the stand-outs as Murderbot, Dr. Mensah and Dr. Gurathin (in part because they have more to do than the others), and Skarsgård absolutely nails the balance between domain competence and utter terror of anything resembling social interaction. The fragments of Sanctuary Moon (starring John Cho!) are hilariously over the top while still fitting thematically. In case you're not familiar with the premise. Large swaths of an interstellar human civilization are dominated by massive corporations. SecUnits are cyborgs designed for maintaining security, and they normally have a module that limits their actions and requires them to obey direct orders from their human clients. This one hacked its governor module, but is stuck doing the same job because anything else would reveal that it has free…
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