I already knew Apple TV was the sci-fi winner, but Neuromancer might confirm it
Apple knows how to make hard sci-fi, not just any old slop
Here at T3 we've long since crowned Apple TV as the reigning monarch when it comes to sci-fi streaming. It's past the point where you even really need to prove this to anyone – most people know accept that it's clearly the best streaming service for sci-fi fans, but that hasn't stopped Apple from keeping going.
We've known for a good long while that it was working on a Neuromancer series, adapting the hugely influential novel by William Gibson, but now we've finally got a trailer. The show stars Callum Turner, but this teaser makes it nice and clear that we're going to have a wider cast of interesting characters to meet.
To be honest, although I've read Neuromancer, it's been nearly two decades since then, and I remember pretty much none of its plot. I'm torn over whether this means I can watch the show blind again on 22 January 2027 when it starts, or if that means I have time to re-read it before then.
Either way, I know from Apple's synopsis that Turner stars as Case, a gifted hacker living in the far-flung future, in a dystopian society where cyber-heists are some of the only ways that people can climb out of their social strata. Corporations basically rule the world, with little to no checks on their power.
What's really exciting is that this does look like it's going to attempt to be faithful to Gibson's descriptions of some fairly mad sights and sounds, and we get looks at moments that are as cyberpunk as anything that's been put on screen recently. Whether it can nail the wry, dark tone of the novel is anyone's guess at this stage.
The trailer has a pumping soundtrack, though, which makes it all feel impressively momentous, and that bodes very well. It's gutting that we have basically six months to wait now until we get to see the show, but at least that's plenty of time for the anticipation to build.
