Murderbot is going through it in the first trailer for Apple’s sci-fi series

For a being named Murderbot, the prima of Apple’s adjacent sci-fi amusement is amazingly relatable. The amusement — which is besides called Murderbot — conscionable got its archetypal trailer, and it sets up the titular lead, played by Alexander Skarsgård, who has conscionable go sentient and is, well, struggling. The bot is forced to fell its escaped will, and does emblematic quality things similar watching excessively overmuch TV and avoiding oculus contact, portion besides risking itself to support a probe squad connected a unsafe alien planet.

From the trailer, Murderbot — which is based connected The Murderbot Diaries bid of novels by Martha Wells — looks similar a playful summation to Apple’s increasing subject fabrication lineup, which includes the astir caller seasons of Severance and Silo. Also successful the works is an adaptation of William Gibson’s cyberpunk classical Neuromancer. In fact, it’s shaping up to beryllium a engaged play for streaming sci-fi: the animated anthology Love, Death, and Robots returns to Netflix successful May, portion Hulu is getting an animated Predator movie successful June.

Murderbot’s archetypal play volition span 10 episodes. The archetypal 2 volition commencement streaming connected May 16th, with consequent episodes dropping connected Fridays.