One of many funniest exhibits of your entire 2025 TV schedule has been delivering laughs with the unlikely mixture of the straightest of straight faces from main man Alexander Skarsgård and earnest performances from his co-stars. Fortunately for followers, Apple TV+ is not preserving followers hanging about whether or not Murderbot might be again to proceed the adventures of SecUnit past the upcoming Season 1 finale. Sure, Murderbot scored an early renewal for Season 2, so viewers with an Apple TV+ subscription can take a look at the finale on July 11 safe within the data that the trip is not over.
The excellent news additionally jogged my memory of what co-stars Akshay Khanna and Tamara Podemski informed CinemaBlend a couple of second season. However first issues first!
Murderbot Returns For Season 2
Based mostly on the literary world constructed by writer Martha Wells, Murderbot debuted on Apple TV+ again in Might as a sequence that would delight each readers and viewers who had by no means learn the books. The streamer introduced the Season 2 renewal simply at some point earlier than the Season 1 finale on July 11. The sequence had a profitable crew behind the scenes that led to its Licensed Recent ranking from Rotten Tomatoes, with Academy Award nominees (and brothers) Chris and Paul Weitz as showrunners and Emmy winner Alexander Skarsgård as star and govt producer.
In an announcement relating to the renewal, the Weitz brothers mentioned that they are “so grateful” for the response to Murderbot, they usually’re “delighted” to return to “Martha Wells’s world to work with Alexander, Apple, CBS Studios and the remainder of the crew.” There’s loads of supply materials for the present to work with, as the primary season was primarily based on simply the primary of the seven Murderbot Diaries novellas penned by Martha Wells. Alexander Skarsgård will get to proceed the flowery technique of placing on the Murderbot armor, after telling CinemaBlend why he prefers sensible results over CGI.
Followers should tune in to the finale to see how the the primary season units up the way forward for Murderbot itself, and I am unable to assist however marvel if the Weitz brothers had been together with the Season 1 forged once they talked about working with “the remainder of the crew” once more for Season 2. Regardless of the future holds, the forged members had been enthusiastic after I spoke to them earlier this yr throughout Apple TV+’s Murderbot press junket.
What Akshay Khanna and Tamara Podemski Advised Us
After I was lucky sufficient to talk with the Murderbot forged throughout Apple TV+’s press junket, the comedy was nonetheless months away from a renewal for Season 2. Nonetheless, I needed to ask Akshay Khanna and Tamara Podemski: would they be fascinated with coming in second season if that was a risk? They after all did not spoil how Season 1 would finish, however they left little question about whether or not they’d need to return to their characters if given the prospect. Podemski, who performs the unfortunate geochemist Bharadwaj, mentioned:
For many who are large followers of the books, we all know what E-book 2 is about, and in order that half is a bit of bit complicated, of the place PresAux suits into that, however the world is so unimaginable. Yeah, we simply need to do it over and over and over.
Askshay Khanna, who performs the wormhole skilled Ratthi (who ought to in all probability be stored distant from any weapons), echoed his co-star’s sentiments. He shared:
We might come again in a heartbeat, completely. And I am intrigued to see if it does go ahead, how they do it, as a result of, like I mentioned, the books have a really particular sort of arc, so it will be very, very fascinating, I feel.
The query is not whether or not the forged members need to return again, however whether or not their characters finish Season 1 in a spot that they will want to return again. E-book readers might have an concept of what might come subsequent, however I for one am glad to rejoice the early renewal and cross my fingers that the actors get their needs to return again “over and over and over.”
The Season 1 finale of Murderbot releases on Friday, July 11 on Apple TV+, at which level you’ll stream the complete first season. It stays to be seen if a cliffhanger is in retailer, provided that the primary season was filmed lengthy earlier than Season 2 was renewed. No matter occurs: Murderbot itself will endure for a second season (and hopefully extra Sanctuary Moon).