Last week it was announced that Apple's new sci-fi show Murderbot is premiering much sooner than we expected: May 16, barely three months from now! Based on the

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.

Murderbot will activate this spring on Apple TV+. The streaming service announced Thursday that the comedic thriller, based on Martha Wells’ best-selling book series “The Murderbot Diaries,” will premiere May 16 with its first two episodes,