Anyone boasting an Apple TV+ subscription can speak to the streaming service’s seemingly endless supply of sci-fi offerings like "Severance" and "Dark Matter," with the majority being brilliant and well-crafted. So it’s perhaps no surprise that Alexander Skarsgård’s new series "Murderbot" quickly became one of the best Apple TV+ original series and is an absolute must-watch, even if you have next to zero knowledge of the source material.
Based on Martha Wells’ seemingly easy-to-digest book series "The Murderbot Diaries," the genre-mashing show hails from co-creator siblings Chris and Paul Weitz, who are perhaps best known both together and separately for varied projects such as "American Pie," "About a Boy," and "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." The brothers have proven themselves capable of jumping from comedy to drama to science fiction with ease, and Murderbot may be their magnum opus as a slice of perfect television, no matter what SecUnit is mumbling under his breath.
