
Murderbot (Alexander Skarsgård) just wants to be left alone
Apple TV+
Murderbot
Apple TV+
Friends and colleagues spent years trying to get me to read The Murderbot Diaries, a sci-fi series by Martha Wells about a cyborg security unit that gains free will. I resisted. They pitched it to me as quirky, which raised my hackles, or as comfort reading, which sent them skyrocketing. Not my sort of thing, I thought snootily.
But once Apple TV+ said that it would be adapting All Systems Red, the first instalment, I knew I had to give it a read. It…