Apple TV+ has shared a first look at Murderbot, its upcoming sci-fi series starring Alexander Skarsgård, based on The Murderbot Diaries.

Apple TV+ has shared the first images of Alexander Skarsgård in its upcoming sci-fi series, "Murderbot." Based on Martha Wells' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning book series "The Murderbot Diaries," the show follows a self-hacking security construct (Skarsgård) that finds itself simultaneously put off by human emotion and yet drawn to its clients in spite of that.

We’ll admit to being a bit flummoxed last December, when news broke that Alexander Skarsgård had been cast as the lead in Apple TV+’s adaptation of Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries. To be fair, the bestselling sci-fi book series draws a lot of its power and fun from the fact that it situates readers firmly inside the head and voice of its title character,