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Hey! Hey! It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.

So there's a new show I want to tell you about.

It's called Murder Bot on Apple TV Plus.

It's a science fiction show.

The title might have given you a clue there.

Is it also an action show? Yes. There is some action. Is it a drama? Not so much.

Murderbot asks the following questions about robots. What if you take a super deadly security

robot, something like the Terminator from the Terminator,

then you make that robot self-aware and able to do whatever it wants.

And what if that robot, well, it didn't want to take over the universe or enslave humanity

or ascend to some new semi-spiritual plane of consciousness or whatever.

Maybe it just wants everybody to be cool about the whole thing, so we can watch soap operas inside

its robot head.

Murderbot not only asks and answers that question, dear listener, it is also funny and weird,

and yes, occasionally violent.

Starring as the titular Murder Bot is my guest, Alexander Scarsgaard. If you've seen him in

anything, you already know this, but Alexander Scarsgaard is impossibly handsome. He comes from a family

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