If you only glanced at the title of Apple TV+’s new sci-fi series Murderbot, you might think you were dealing with some kind of true-crime procedural in space. And, while Murderbot Season 1 does have a pretty big mystery at the core of its narrative, and the whole thing does take place in space, the tremendous thing about the show is how many different genres it straddles at once.
In fact, speaking to the cast of Murderbot, you might think the show was actually a sitcom, rather than a full-blown Apple prestige drama. “ I think it was very clear that we were doing a comedy other than the fact that no laugh track,” actress Tamara Podemski tells Inverse. “Even if all my character does is cry all the time.”
