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The Review Geek
05-06-2025
- Business
- The Review Geek
Has Tires been renewed for Season 3? Here's what we know:
Renewed or Cancelled? Tires is a new workplace comedy series set at an auto repair shop. It's very easy to binge-watch, and if you vibed with the humour in season 1, you'll feel the same way about this extended follow-up. If you've watched all the episodes in both seasons, you may be wondering if this has been renewed or cancelled. Here's what we know: What is Tires about? Tires revolves around the employees of an auto repair shop which is in danger of going out of business. The shop's manager, Will, does his best to revive its flagging fortunes but his best efforts are often undone by his employee (and cousin) Shane who prefers larking around to doing any actual real work. Season 2 though, includes more small-business, small-town shenanigans, with a mandatory HR meeting going to hell, the hunt for a new manager and a relaunch party includes some pretty surprising We have extensive coverage of Tires across the site, including reviews for both seasons, which you can find HERE! Will there be a Tires Season 3? At the time of writing, Tires has not been renewed for season 3. Generally Netflix would gauge numerous metrics before renewing a show, including how many people initially watch it and then looking at the drop-off rate. With some shows, cancellations or renewals happen quickly. Other times, it can take months before a decision over a show's future is made. So far, Tires has had a decent reaction from critics and audiences alike, with many commenting that the show is an easy binge-watch, has some good characters and the story is simple enough to slip into. Given the way this show is set up, we're predicting that this will be renewed for a third season. The series has plenty of potential and we do know its been a big hit with the streamers. Netflix are generally more lenient on their comedy offerings, and we'd imagine that Tires will follow suit. However, we could be completely wrong, given Netflix do tend to cancel a lot of their series, so take our prediction with a pinch of salt! What we know about Season 3 so far: Barely anything is known about season 3 at this point as Netflix haven't officially renewed this one. Should it be renewed, we'd imagine the antics over at the shop to continue, with plenty more character drama and crass humour to boot. If this series is renewed, we'd expect it to be green-lit with another 12 episode order, with a lot of the old cast returning too. Do you want to see Tires return for a third season? What did you think of the show? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
Geek Vibes Nation
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Vibes Nation
‘Murderbot' Review - Your New Favorite Workplace Comedy With A Sci-Fi Twist
Alexander Skarsgård in 'Murderbot,' premiering May 16, 2025 on Apple TV+. | Photo Credit: Apple TV+ If you were a human/AI construct with the free will to do whatever you wanted, how would you spend your time? Well, if you're Murderbot, you'd catch up on all of your shows instead of doing your job. Based on Martha Wells' beloved series, The Murderbot Diaries, Apple TV+'s Murderbot follows the exploits of a human/AI construct who finds itself in a life-or-death situation as it struggles to keep its clients safe on an alien planet. Part sci-fi epic and part zany workplace comedy, Murderbot delivers an experience unlike any other. With a dynamic cast led by Alexander Skarsgård, David Dastmalchian, and Noma Dumezweni, Murderbot is hilarious, emotionally satisfying, and quite thrilling. But more than anything else, it's a look at exactly what makes us human and how that little bit of humanity can transcend life forms in the most moving of ways. Meet Murderbot, the Most Relatable 'Bot in the Universe Meet Murderbot (Skarsgård), a Security Unit tasked with keeping the Company's clients safe at all costs—and spying on them, of course. But Murderbot's managed to covertly hack its governor module, giving it a taste of free will and the freedom to consume copious amounts of media while on the job. When its latest set of clients, a research team from an unaffiliated planet outside the Corporate Rim, gets attacked by an unknown species in the middle of an expedition on an uninhabited planet, Murderbot finds itself in the kind of life-or-death situation usually restricted to its favorite soap opera, 'Sanctuary Moon'. But can Murderbot be as heroic as its favorite TV characters? Or is it destined to fail spectacularly, taking its clients down with it? With Murderbot, showrunners Chris and Paul Weitz take elements of zany workplace comedies and epic sci-fi thrillers and turn them into something altogether unique. Murderbot spins a tale of finding humanity within the most artificial of sources. Murderbot just wants to be left alone, unbothered by humans and their pesky emotions. And yet, as the season progresses, it learns exactly how human it really is. Skarsgård nails the mixture of apathy, dry humor, and genuine pathos that make up Murderbot. It's a difficult balance to pull off; too much sarcasm would feel insincere, while too much sincerity would feel unearned. But Skarsgård pulls it off with his restrained, almost-wooden expressions and superb vocal and physical humor. Through Skarsgård's lens, it's not that Murderbot doesn't care about its clients or its surroundings, just that it's still learning who it is and how it fits into this zany world. Skarsgård takes audiences on that journey alongside Murderbot brilliantly, giving the series a very warm emotional core to ground its bigger-than-life sci-fi antics. An Out of This World Ensemble Joining Skarsgård's Murderbot are the researchers from the Preservation Alliance—Mensah (Dumezweni), Gurathin (Dastmalchian), Pin-Lee (Sabrina Wu), Arada (Tattiawna Jones), Ratthi (Akshay Khanna), and Bharadwaj (Tamara Podemski). The Preservation Alliance researchers' warmth and often quirky behavior upturn the rigid, emotionally sterile life that Murderbot's grown accustomed to. In fact, the crew's quasi-bohemian dynamic makes Murderbot quite uncomfortable, especially as the crew frequently treats it like a person rather than an artificial construct. But that dynamic is where Murderbot's real drama lies. In the face of life-threatening danger, can this apathetic, anxiety-ridden artificial construct and this ragtag group of emotionally raw humans come together, overcome their past traumas, and save each other's lives? It's a tricky ask to trust a SecUnit whose name is literally Murderbot with your life, though, that's for sure. Dumezweni and Dastmalchian lead this dynamic ensemble of characters. Dumezweni provides buckets of warmth as the leader of the crew. She's immensely empathetic, a trait that holds the team together in times of crisis. Her scenes with Skarsgård are easily among the show's best. They're just two beings trying to find their way through this messed-up situation while holding onto their humanity. Conversely, Dastmalchian is the resident skeptic, constantly at odds with Murderbot, whom he trusts about as far as he can throw it. He's so petty and prickly, and he makes for a brilliant foil for Skarsgård's Murderbot. Dastmalchian's quirky, off-putting humor pairs nicely with Skarsgård's deadpan nature, and the two make quite a comedic duo. The rest of the ensemble fill out the cast nicely, each of them breathing life into the members of the Preservation Alliance and somehow looking even zanier than Skarsgård's quirky Murderbot. Loads of Fun, But Unevenly Paced While Murderbot excels at its worldbuilding and character development, the narrative itself sometimes feels a bit stretched out and unevenly paced. Adapted from the first of Martha Wells' Murderbot novellas, All Systems Red, this first season of Murderbot takes a story told in about 150 pages and stretches it to ten half-hour episodes—for better or worse. On the one hand, both the characters and the world of The Murderbot Diaries are greatly expanded in the TV series, given the room to grow and breathe in ways they couldn't possibly in Wells' original novellas. The Preservation Alliance members, in particular, really come to life in this adapation. And the glimpses at the wider world of the Corporate Rim add some much-needed texture to Murderbot's plight. On the other hand, however, this season of Murderbot stretches the plot of All Systems Red about as thin as it can get. There's just not quite enough meat to the story to really justify the number of episodes, and so there are times when the show moves at breakneck speed and others when it feels like it's spinning in place, trying to kill time before moving onto the next major plot beat. Chris and Paul Weitz do a respectable job of smoothing over these moments with superb character beats that mostly make you ignore that feeling of stagnation. But there are a few episodes that just feel so superfluous you can't help but wish the show would just get on with it. As it is, Murderbot's an immensely fun watch from start to finish, even if it feels a bit longer than it needs to be. Final Thoughts Overall, Murderbot just might be the next big streaming hit. Even with its uneven pacing that makes the season feel longer than it needs to, Murderbot delivers in spades where it counts. Featuring a combination of epic sci-fi worldbuilding mixed with zany workplace comedy shenanigans, an outstanding physical and vocal performance from Alexander Skarsgård, and an ensemble cast headed by Dumezweni's empathetic warmth and Dastmalchian's absurdist prickliness, Murderbot has all of the elements it needs to be the breakout streaming hit of the summer. It's a thrilling, heartwarming, and deeply irreverent look at what makes us human and how we can all better connect with each other buried underneath an absurdist sci-fi comedy. And really, what more could you ask for? Murderbot premieres Friday, May 16, on Apple TV+ with new episodes dropping weekly.
