Some things we know about Season 2
From: AwardsBuzz interview about Murderbot 12 May 2026
episodes will be a little longer
boiling down the 3 remaining novellas into a single season
is ambitious for visual effects and action
the core is a character commenting on its life
they are not trying to replicate what they did in the first season
season 2 is totally new stuff
season 2 will be around 350 minutes / 5 hours long (so about 35 mins per episode)
intending to deliver within about a year (before June 2027)
he's looking forward to the visual effects and sound so he can see his mind on the screen
bunch of new characters being introduced
showing the new characters s1 to see how the show feels like
getting a lot of the original cast but not ALL of the cast
he's hoping it will have something for everyone
both repeatedly called it ambitious and super ambitious
From Martha Wells Q&As on Platform Decay 10 May 2026:
they’re filming in Madrid right now, and Martha is going to go see it in June.
for the next season they’re doing Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy, with some changes.
it's just Chris and Paul, brothers, who are the writers, directors, and producers.
they’re trying to figure out ways to show the interactions between ART and Murderbot, or Murderbot and the ComfortUnit.
changing things from a first person internal narration to third person in three dimensions.
In the second season they’re going to continue with showing Sanctuary Moon and some other shows.
I don’t think anyone gets much choice on what they look like. There’s something I want to tell but I can’t tell… It’s kind of fun. (regarding a discussion about muttonchops = secunit with a beard?)
From Martha Wells Q&A on Platform Decay 8 May 2026:
Martha doesn’t think they have cast ART yet (there's a stand-in reading lines)
said that next season will be all the way through Exit Strategy
She was very happy with the changes to the tv series for logistical reasons and considers it a parallel universe to the books
(She specifically mentioned she wished she had thought of LeeBeeBee for the book)
Martha is consulting on the show
likes their approach to portraying how ART and SecUnit communicate.
From 6 May 2026 Q&A (private discord attendees):
The TV show struggled (is struggling?) with portraying ART's presence.
They want to do something unique that also gets across the way that MB and ART communicate in a way entirely inhuman (ie, theyre not planning on doing scrolling text)
Martha hasn't seen final design for ART, has seen the initial ART design.
Has seen Tapan, Rami, and Maro design/costumes.
She is going out to the set to consult in June.
From 5 May 2026 Q&A (private discord attendees):
There will be 10 episodes and they will be longer (S1 Eps were supposed to be longer but the voiceover changed the calculations so they were shorter than intended.
Get to see Sanctuary Moon and Worldhoppers plus a few other new shows.
From Toa instagram story 13 March 2026:
Directors on site in Madrid scoping out potential filming sites
From The Coode Street Podcast Episode 692 December 2025 podcast interview with Martha on Murderbot release date:
They're working on it now.
They're kind of in the pre-production writing the script and you know, doing the production design and all that kind of stuff and then they'll film it next year.
And then they'll be out in 2027.
Same podcast, consultation with Martha on the TV show:
No, I talked to them a lot.
They call me all the time when they're working on it and they need questions and answered fast.
Because sometimes and stuff like that, I know you don't know what you don't know until you get ready to do something that you need something answered really quickly.
Yeah, so we talk about it a lot.
From instagram stories and posts:
the directors have been in madrid since March 2026
skarsgaard is in madrid from early April 2026
(potential 2cm hair growth from tourist photo in Madrid)
Concept artist and set designer discussion: season 2 will be more visceral and more gorey
