The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that Murderbot is the latest thinking-human's sci-fi series to debut on Apple TV+. The Globe's J. Kelly Nestruck writes that Murderbot asks: Do androids stream episodes of Veep? The comedy's protagonist is an Alexander Skarsgard-shaped sec-unit -- short for security unit, and a kind of robot rent-a-cop -- that has hacked the "governor module" that prevents it from harming clients in a corporation-dominated future. Secretly able to use the guns in its arms however it wishes, this rogue sec-unit has adopted a dark new semi-ironic name for itself: Murderbot. When viewers first meet Murderbot, however, it is definitely not living up to its name. Indeed, it has put aside fantasies of carnage -- which it knows will only end with it being deactivated and melted down in a vat -- in order to instead binge hours upon hours of what it calls "premium quality entertainment," while half-bottedly doing its job. This entertainment does not look far off from the sci-fi shows Apple TV+ has found its niche in and regularly cranks out to please human audiences -- from Foundation to For All Mankind and Silo. Murderbot is adopted from Martha Wells's book series The Murderbot Diaries.