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Geek Girl Authority
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
MURDERBOT Season Finale Recap: (S01E10) The Perimeter
Murderbot Season 1 Episode 10, 'The Perimeter,' is a quieter, less action-packed outing, but it's still a fun finale. Thankfully, Season 2 is on the way, although this episode could easily serve as a series finale if necessary. 'The Perimeter' is also lighter on the humor and heavier on the heart. It's got a ton of heart. I'm fascinated by this universe, and I'm excited to see where the overarching narrative takes us. Also, f*ck the Company, y'all. RELATED: Read our recap of the previous Murderbot episode, 'All Systems Red' Murderbot, 'The Perimeter' We open with Murderbot (Alexander Skarsgård) waking up after a system reboot. It peers up at two engineers, wondering where its clients are, before said engineers purge its memories. Then, they install a new governor module. So, now it's a blank slate, and it can be controlled again. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 10, 'The Perimeter.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+. Meanwhile, Mensah (Noma Dumezweni), Gurathin (David Dastmalchian), Pin-Lee (Sabrina Wu), Bharadwaj (Tamara Podemski) and Arada (Tattiawna Jones) demand to know where SecUnit is. We see our PresAux crew is back at Port FreeCommerce with all the Corporation Rim f*ckers. The reps inform them that Seccy's location is none of their business. Sue Them Into Oblivion Mensah reminds the Company employees that they provided materials and transportation to GrayCris, who slaughtered the DeltFall crew and tried to kill PresAux. The Company has remained awfully quiet about that fact. Mensah hints at disclosing this information to, well, everyone. One rep counters that there's an NDA clause in every liability agreement. Pin-Lee goes into lawyer mode, insisting that this won't hold up due to the extraordinary nature of the situation. RELATED: Alexander Skarsgård Goes Rogue in Murderbot Trailer Then, the Company lawyer (Neil Whitely) declares that the Company doesn't admit to any wrongdoing 'connected to the incident on Planetary body 898/8712.' Elsewhere, the engineers get SecUnit to perform various commands, including crying like a baby. A Company rep stops them, citing that Seccy must venture out into the station to do its job. Negotiations continue as Mensah orders the Company reps to address her as 'Madam President.' That's my president. The Company asserts that SecUnit is no longer part of the PresAux crew. Mensah counters that, at the very least, Seccy is a material witness to what transpired during the expedition. The lawyer replies that SecUnit is a recording device, at best. Pin-Lee fires back that all the reason for them to see SecUnit — to access evidence. In Conflict Gurathin declares the group will purchase SecUnit. One Company rep insists that it's expensive. Well, so is the massive lawsuit Pin-Lee plans to bring against the Company. Pin-Lee states they'll take SecUnit and half of the Company. Oof. RELATED: David Dastmalchian Joins Apple TV+ Murderbot Adaptation The lawyer claims they can offer our crew a better SecUnit, but not Seccy. Then, he tells Mensah that they discovered that SecUnit had a faulty governor module. Was she aware of this? Mensah remains silent. If the group witnessed abnormal behavior but refused to disclose it, this would conflict with their contract. Next, our heroes learn that Seccy has a new governor module, and its memories have been erased. Elsewhere, Ratthi (Akshay Khanna) runs into the new but not improved SecUnit as it marches alongside other SecUnits toward a protest. Ratthi greets it; however, it doesn't remember him. It prepares to fire on Ratthi before its superior orders it to stand down. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 10, 'The Perimeter.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+. A Glitch After this, Ratthi relays what he witnessed to the gang in their apartment. Mensah insists that there's no way Seccy's data has been erased. Removed, sure, but not erased. Gurathin explains that the Company is sifting through its proprietary data. If they find anything of monetary value, they'll keep it. RELATED: New TV Shows This Week (July 6 – 12) Mensah urges Pin-Lee to continue with their court injunction against the Company. Ratthi persuades Gurathin that they should try to save SecUnit, no matter the cost. At the same time, strikers and police clash during the protest. Those on strike simply want better pay, equal rights and food to put on the table for their families. Understandable. SecUnit and its team descend upon the protestors. It grabs one man's hand and breaks it. During this act of violence, it recalls the massacre it committed in the mining facility. Those violent flashbacks have returned. Seccy glitches and freezes as the protestors kick its sentient construct ass. It understands that violence is morally bad. Downloading Data Later, Gurathin reunites with his ex-dealer, Landers (Sergio Di Zio). Gurathin insists he's not there for a fix. However, Gura knows that Landers has access to SecUnit purged data. Landers apologizes for making Gurathin addicted to drugs — he thought our fave augmented human could handle drugs tailored to be highly addictive. RELATED: On Location: The Lighterman in Apple TV+'s Slow Horses Next, Gura taps into the Company's system. It claims there haven't been any recent SecUnit memory purges. Landers states that he won't find anything because it's all encrypted. However, Gura knows something that Landers doesn't: SecUnit loves downloading premium, quality entertainment. So, Gurathin searches for data on The Rise & Fall of Sanctuary Moon . He discovers thousands of downloads, all of which tie back to our titular bot. Bingpot! Gura plugs in and downloads all of SecUnit's data, including its memories. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 10, 'The Perimeter.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+. Ongoing Investigation Meanwhile, Mensah and Bharadwaj speak to the press about what they experienced during their expedition. Mensah explains that GrayCris inserted combat override modules into DeltFall's SecUnits to make them go rogue and kill, kill, kill. Then, Mensah credits Seccy for saving their lives. Mensah expects SecUnit to play an integral role in the ongoing investigation into the GrayCris/DeltFall/Company mess. RELATED: On Location: The Phoenicia Diner on Apple TV+'s Severance Elsewhere, Company reps prepare to melt SecUnit. After all, it failed to subdue the protestors. I'll never get used to seeing the Ken doll mound on Seccy. Thankfully, Pin-Lee and Ratthi save SecUnit before it's liquefied. Pin-Lee presents their injunction against destroying SecUnit. After this, SecUnit reunites with the PresAux crew. It doesn't recognize any of them. Gurathin returns and plugs into Seccy to transfer all its data and memories. Now, it remembers everything, including that it's missing a number of Sanctuary Moon episodes. It asks what happened. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 10, 'The Perimeter.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+. Seccy Is Back Mensah excitedly tells SecUnit that she will be its guardian. It will accompany them back to the Preservation Alliance. There, it can do whatever it wants. SecUnit asks if it can wear its armor. Instead, the gang dresses it in some new threads. RELATED: Read our Murderbot recaps Next, it watches from afar as various solicitors from DeltFall, the Company and beyond meet with the PresAux crew. Even GrayCris' parent company paid a visit. Presumably, for them to buy SecUnit and/or the lawsuit. Then, they all celebrate with food and drinks, toasting to SecUnit's new life. Seccy looks lost. That evening, SecUnit tries to leave while they're all asleep. Gurathin wakes up, though, to ask it where it's going. Seccy wants to survey the perimeter, as per usual. Gura insists it'll adjust to life in the Preservation Alliance. Everything will work out. SecUnit tells Gura it wants to survey the perimeter. Gura understands, his eyes welling with tears. Seccy plans to escape. I love this scene. Skarsgård and Dastmalchian communicate so much with their eyes. And Gura's uncharacteristically warm here. MURDERBOT Season 1 Episode 10, 'The Perimeter.' Photo courtesy of Apple TV+. The Next Adventure SecUnit wanders through Port FreeCommerce. It notices the next departure is a bot-driven transport ship bound for a distant mining facility. It surreptitiously swipes someone's bag before changing into a mining uniform. Then, Mensah wakes up. She watches as Murderbot departs on the transport ship. She weeps. SecUnit claims it doesn't know what it wants, but it knows it doesn't want to be told what to do — even by its favorite human (Mensah). It smiles as the ship speeds away. Murderbot is now streaming on Apple TV+. TED LASSO Season 4 Is Officially a Go at Apple TV+ Contact: [email protected] What I do: I'm GGA's Managing Editor, a Senior Contributor, and Press Coordinator. I manage, contribute, and coordinate. Sometimes all at once. Joking aside, I oversee day-to-day operations for GGA, write, edit, and assess interview opportunities/press events. Who I am: Before moving to Los Angeles after studying theater in college, I was born and raised in Amish country, Ohio. No, I am not Amish, even if I sometimes sport a modest bonnet. Bylines in: Tell-Tale TV, Culturess, Sideshow Collectibles, and inkMend on Medium. Critic: Rotten Tomatoes, CherryPicks, and the Hollywood Creative Alliance.
The Review Geek
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Murderbot – Season 1 Episode 9 Recap & Review
All Systems Red Episode 9 of Murderbot starts with our titular character noticing the difference in humanity, and how some keep their feelings bottled up but others are much more open about how they feel. Murderbot lies to the group about their chances to survive (hint: it's much less than 'medium to low') but Gurathin soon calls him out for it. The group touch down near a forest area, where their plan is for Pin-lee and Gurathin to get a drone up in the air. Then, Gurathin can use it as a transponder and hack into GrayCris' HubSystem remotely. That way they can launch their beacon and call for help. However, they need to get GrayCris to give up their access codes… which is where Murderbot comes in. It shows up to see the group, who try to install a new override module inside it remotely. It doesn't work, obviously, as Murderbot speaks the truth about how its governor module has already been hacked. Murderbot claims it's going to betray the Preservation Society and work with GrayCris to hand them over. At least, that's what these guys think anyway. Murderbot manages to do a pretty good job of convincing the group this is the case, while also hiding its true purpose. In reality, it intends to kill the entire GrayCris group by duping them into the beacon launchpad area, where they'll end up immolated when it launches. However, Murderbot is forced to go with them. Mensah believes there's a better plan here, which is maybe just as well given Murderbot stalls for time. It decides to engage in small talk and then launches itself off the landing spot… but nothing happens. This is Preservation Society's doing, who are late following through with the missile. Mensah flies over herself and touches down, speaking to the leader of GrayCris. Unfortunately her bargain goes nowhere, and they all wind up in a firefight. Eventually Murderbot comes out on top and throws itself off the edge of the ravine, just as the beacon is launched and spews fire across the area. As they fall, Murderbot sacrifices itself to save Mensah, throwing itself off the ravine and landing hard on the ground. The Episode Review Murderbot has come a long way since the early episodes of it only caring about itself, and now we can see that it really does care about the Preservation Society. It's pretty amusing seeing the Bot slowly gain humanity over time and as it does, make more mistakes. It speaks a lot about how clumsy humans can be and this comes across really well in the series. The ongoing jokes about Sanctuary Moon are another nice inclusion here, and the show does a good job of blending that in with the story and evolving it over time. Overloading the SecUnit by uploading Sanctuary Moon episodes is a hilariously effective and funny way of dealing with these enemies too. However, it would appear that Murderbot may be too far gone to come back from these injuries, so we'll have to wait and see where this one goes next week. Previous Episode Next Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
The Review Geek
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Murderbot – Season 1 Episode 8 Recap & Review
Foreign Object Episode 8 of Murderbot begins with more Sanctuary Moon, as Nav Seven is under the command of the new Captain… or is it? The bot goes mad, sabotaging the ship, getting them stuck in an event horizon and killing everybody onboard. Murderbot is snapped back to reality when we learn Gurathin is not doing well. His temperature is spiking and even worse, when they check the surveillance logs, they find three SecUnits at their habitat. Doing some research, they find out that the bots actually originate from a Mining Company called GrayCris. They're the ones who destroyed the beacon and they also happen to be working with LeeBeeBee. The leader speaks to them via video, explaining that all of this has been one big misunderstanding and they do intend to leave their habitat. She sends over a rendezvous point and the group are pretty confident they can survive this, but given how they fared in their last bout, that's far from the truth. Murderbot realizes that there's no talking them out of this, so he decides to survey the area before they head to the habitat. Inside, the group work together to try and fix up Gurathin. He refuses painkillers and both he and Murderbot come up with the same solution at once. They deduce they can block the central nervous system of an augmented human to stop the pain. This would involve Murderbot plugging into Gurathin this time. Murderbot is confused by the 'organic goo of feelings' that Gurathin has and begins saying 'why don't you love me back,' out loud. This is, of course, Gurathin's subconscious talking to Mensah. It's pretty awkward, especially when that connection goes the other way and Gurathin sees the bloodshed and chaos in Murderbot's past with the mining colony. Even worse, Gurathin reveals that this SecUnit calls itself Murderbot because of this incident. As they go over the reasons for Murderbot thinking this way, it believes it may be one thought away from killing them all and going defective. As a result, it decides to walk away from the Preservation Society. Murderbot wanders around aimlessly, while the Preservation Society contemplate whether to bring it back, knowing that they both need each other at the moment. Murderbot has an idea, and decides to create a new story to usurp the company. When it heads back to base, the others are pretty spooked to see it. The Episode Review We hit a turning point this week as Murderbot decides to step it up a gear and branch out into unknown territory. It's very clearly going to be working with the Preservation Society going forward to hit back against the company. We still don't know what's happened with this mining colony though, nor do we actually know whether Murderbot killed those miners willingly or whether it's part of a bigger conspiracy. What we do know however, is that Murderbot – despite initially claiming to dislike these guys – clearly wants to protect the Preservation Society and likes them. Overall, this has been another good episode, leaving everything wide open for where it may go next. Previous Episode Next Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
