not here, friend.

side blog for redundare. basically my trash pile.

[astrotheyge]

Benoit Blanc & Jud Duplenticy Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

[polarity-disturbed]

The funniest part of season 20 of Taskmaster so far is the revelation that even now, in the twentieth season of the show, with multiple international spin offs and actual national recognition, they are still using Alex Horne’s real, actual phone in the tasks.

Not a burner. Not a production phone. His phone. The one with his contacts in it. The one his wife calls to ask about his lunch.

[lewiswhatshisname]

For real, I love how the show operates on a single-digit budget, because all the money goes into the house’s themed decor and and cast fees. Sometimes they get some big, bespoke prop or do something silly like hiring specialist equipment, but it’s mostly like, here’s some broken shit we found at a charity shop. Make a working coconut-throwing machine out of it.

[lewiswhatshisname]

This is also hilarious to me. One of the most iconic houses on television, and the show doesn’t even own it. They’ve put SO MUCH money into making it nice, only to have to spend massive amounts of money on being allowed to use it at all

[panelshowsource]

reasonable misunderstanding

[kitmarlowe]

What a great '90s film you all are.

[thiscoldheart]

JOSH O'CONNOR as Jud Duplenticy

[bigassbowlingballhead]

half man episode 5

[securityunit-ese]

Some things we know about Season 2

As of 30 May 2026:

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:

they are filming now

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)

Also from 8 May 2026:

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:

No, it'll be 2027.

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

[aenslem]

HAMISH LINKLATER in Midnight Mass (2021) 1.03 "Book III: Proverbs" / Widow's Bay (2026–) 1.06 "Our History"

[loo-nuh-tik]

- Your love for me. Where do you feel it? - I feel it everywhere. - Everywhere? - Yeah, it sort of runs through me in a way.

Half Man (2026)

[jonmoxleys]

I feel it everywhere. It sort of runs through me in a way. It's like… dangerous. It is the best and the worst thing all at once. It's like the only thing. It's the only thing I've ever felt. It's like I'm fucking… high off of you or something. Chemically dependent. I don't know.

HALF MAN 1.06

[f-slur]

the inherent infantilization of niall walking on ruben's feet like a child, the visual of his little sneakers on ruben's boots while ruben conjures vague images of the unspoken horrors his own father is implied to have committed upon him... richard gadd is not merely a "freak" for creating half man hes making art about something he genuinely cares about hes drawing from his own heart hes trying to tell you something are you listening

[boo-kei]

HALF MAN BTS: COLOR CHECK

[asliceofoceanmist]

???????????????????????

[dirt-c1ty]

i'll see you in the next life, where i'll do everything in my power to make up for this one.

half man 1x01, 1x03, 1x06; antigonick - sophokles (trans. anne carson); herakles - euripides (trans. anne carson); be again - poliça

[wulfhalls]

im too fucking fragile for this shit.

[dorsetti]

In the early 2010s you, a closeted gay man that has slept with nearly half the male population of Scotland’s Central Belt, impregnate your brotherlover’s wife - whom you lost your virginity to with his active involvement in 1987 - and years later he shows up uninvited to your wedding to another man - a man he maimed in 1989 because he pushed you and no one but your brotherlover gets to put their hands on you - and you’re terrified because when he was last in prison you confessed to your brotherlover that you fathered the child he always wanted - immediately after he shared his darkest secret with you - and he’s forgiven you for so much before but this is the one thing he cannot get over and yet you still look for his permission to say “I Do” AT THE ALTAR and later follow him into a dusty barn during your wedding reception letting him lock you both in because he is the one person who has ever made you feel anything real and anything else you’ve tried to replace him with never can

[red-cosmicc]

claudia, oil on canvas 11"×14"