{"id":24916,"date":"2025-07-12T22:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=24916"},"modified":"2025-07-12T22:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:00:36","slug":"murderbot-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/murderbot-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Murderbot (season 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;Where you from?&#8217; &#8216;Industrial Junction 151523.&#8217; &#8216;That sounds nice.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Murderbot<\/strong> season 1, aired in 2025<\/p>\n<p>A cyborg who calls itself Murderbot has hacked its security system and is now free. It&#8217;s still working for humans, though, because it doesn&#8217;t know what else to do. After taking its helmet off and effectively calming a wounded crew member, the other crew become suspicious, especially Gurathin. When they can&#8217;t reach a team elsewhere on the planet, they decide to go check it out.<\/p>\n<p>This show is based on <strong>The Murderbot Diaries<\/strong> by Martha Wells. This season specifically is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/all-systems-red\/\"><strong>All Systems Red<\/strong><\/a>, and it&#8217;s even funnier than the novella.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s different enough, and funny enough, and well acted so that even if you&#8217;ve read the story not too long ago it&#8217;s still highly enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>Clark Gregg, John Cho, and Jack McBrayer are delightful on the show that Murderbot watches, <strong>The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, Noma Dumezweni, and David Dastmalchian.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Paul Weitz (writer on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/antz\/\"><strong>Antz<\/strong><\/a>) and Chris Weitz (writer on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-creator\/\"><strong>The Creator<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;Where you from?&#8217; &#8216;Industrial Junction 151523.&#8217; &#8216;That sounds nice.&#8217;&#8221; Murderbot season 1, aired in 2025 A cyborg who calls itself Murderbot has hacked its security system and is now free. It&#8217;s still working for humans, though, because it doesn&#8217;t know what else to do. After taking its helmet off and effectively calming a wounded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,8,11],"class_list":["post-24916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24916"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25145,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions\/25145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}