Imagine a bored Robocop. There you have the vibe of new comedy drama Murderbot, adapted by Chris and Paul Weitz (the co-creators of American Pie, Antz, About a Boy and more) from the sci-fi book series The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.
The premise is a good one. What if one of the cyborg security units used by the all-powerful, not overly benevolent Company that operates throughout the galaxy’s Corporation Rim managed to hack its own governor module and restored free will to itself? So instead of attending to the safety of humans working for or leasing mining rights from the Company it could go rogue and kill them all? And what if it’d rather not? What if it couldn’t really be bothered. What if it would rather spend its time watching shows on the Company’s streaming services and … well, not much else?
