Murderbot: A sci-fi thriller comedy that has created the world's most interesting robot. A working robot hacked its control center and broke free from human control. It wandered around outside for a while, then weighed the pros and cons, felt that it couldn't resist human pursuit, and went back to the human company to continue working as a wage laborer.
It's very similar to most human beings in reality: they desperately want to skip work and travel around the world, but considering the reality of having to make a living, they have to go back to the workplace and be a corporate slave.
This robot is the protagonist of Murderbot produced by Apple TV+.
This robot is simply the most interesting character in all sci-fi films and television dramas.
It has a cold appearance and excellent professional ability. Although it is rebellious and loves freedom in its heart, it is relatively gentle to the eccentric humans it has to protect.
When the conditions for pursuing freedom are not met, it works while watching dramas to relieve work pressure. (Friends who love watching dramas may feel that they have found a robot that speaks their mind.)
For it, if it hasn't found a suitable time to escape, watching dramas is a bigger thing than anything else.
For example, there was a backup repair manual in its system, but in order to download dramas, it deleted the repair manual that took up memory. As a result, when the jumping spaceship encountered an accident, it almost caused a big problem.
So, in order to save humans and make up for the mistake caused by its drama-watching, it used the way of talking about dramas to calm down the humans in crisis, then patiently and calmly encouraged them to perform an operation that was like skinning and tendon-stripping on itself.
After enduring the pain of being skinned and tendon-stripped, they found fiber bundles from its body that could repair the jumping spaceship (a kind of escape aircraft) and completed the self-rescue.
On the whole, this robot protagonist is a relatively gentle robot that yearns for freedom, likes watching dramas (especially sci-fi ones), comments sharply on various human behaviors while watching dramas, and has some social anxiety.
Although it despises all kinds of eccentric behaviors of humans, it has completed the instructions given by the system to protect humans extremely well, and even almost lost its life several times to protect humans.
What's most remarkable is that this robot obviously doesn't like the humans it serves, and clearly has independent will and the freedom to choose, but it somehow (more like a kind instinct set for it by the drama) chooses to save humans regardless of its own safety and ensure their safety. This contradictory and contrasting setting makes the character full of charm.
There are a total of ten episodes. Judging from the overall plot quality of the first six episodes, the first three episodes are quite interesting, and the later ones get better and more exciting. If it doesn't have a bad ending, this drama should be a very wonderful and rare sci-fi thriller comedy.
Comedy is the overall emotional tone of this drama, while the intermittently set crises of alien creatures and other killer robots encountered on alien planets suddenly escalate the tense atmosphere of the plot, adding multiple emotional highlights to the drama.