Apple TV+ has revealed the cast for Murderbot season 2 and damn, is it stacked.

Oh, great. Even more stupid humans.

Your first look at the cast of #Murderbot Season 2. pic.twitter.com/DQhyNqzUBr

— Apple TV (@AppleTV) August 19, 2026

Variety has a list of all the new cast members coming to season two and it is long:

Blair Underwood

Brendan Hunt

Bridget Everett

Britne Oldford

Damian Young

Divian Ladwa

Ella Jay Basco

Etienne Beydon

Griffin Newman

Jaedynn Latter

Jason George

Kali Reis

Katy OâBrian

Maddy Strauss

Marc Menchaca

Martha Plimpton

Meredith Salenger

Michael Sheen

Nia Otchere-Sarfo

Nicholas Braun

Patton Oswalt

Steve Buscemi

Topher Grace

Tramell Tillman

Wanda Sykes

I am gagged. Murderbot is one of my favorite Apple TV+ shows, adapted from one of my favorite sci-fi series, The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. The first season was great. Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd played an amazing Murderbot, a security cyborg who bootstrapped itself into sentience and wants nothing to do with plumbing the depths of his newfound humanity, preferring instead to watch its space soap operas, but can’t help but protect its fragile, constantly-almost-dying human clients. It’s a funny-ass show that’ll appeal to anyone with a kink for found family, biting critiques of capitalism, and watching John Cho cavort about, giving his best Captain Kirk impression. And the cast for season two is looking to promise more of the same.

I’d bet my last dollar that Tramell Tillman will pull out the menacing nice-guy performance he perfected in Severance to play one of the capital-B bad guys from The Corporation. Katy O’Brian I could see playing a rival security bot to take on SkarsgÃ¥rd. The presence of so many comedic actors on the list makes me think SkarsgÃ¥rd’s Murderbot is gonna ham it up with a new crop of hapless humans it’ll try and fail to not fall in love with.

But I’m really curious who’s been tapped to voice ART. Short for Asshole Research Transport, ART is essentially “what if the Starship Enterprise were a sentient, sardonic asshole?” and also Murderbot’s best friend, if it permitted itself to acknowledge the idea of friendship. Patton Oswalt seems like too obvious a choice but nevertheless a good fit. Steve Buscemi would also be a good ART. OR! Murderbot S2 could blow all our minds, fully subvert expectations, give ART a female voice, and make it Wanda Sykes. 

I need this season yesterday. But since there’s no firm release date and the cast has just now been announced, it’ll probably be sometime in 2027.