New Apple TV+ miniseries ‘Sunny’ explores mourning, mystery, and much more
Rashida Jones stars in “Sunny,” which premiered globally July 10, 2024 on Apple TV+.
“Sunny” stars Jones as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company. Though at first Suzie resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, gradually they develop an unexpected friendship, as together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family, becoming dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie never knew existed.
John Anderson for The Wall Street Journal:
Anyone tuning into this 10-part series by accident will wonder what in the wide, wide world of sports is going on: The opening is an obliquely observed scene of what is undoubtedly robo-murder, replete with blood spatters, someone having ignored Isaac Asimov’s rules. (Basically, that robots shouldn’t be made to hurt humans.) Then, the Playskool-colored opening credits, set to perky Japanese pop, suggest something much happier than what we’re going to get, which is a mix of mourning, mystery and Suzie’s fish-out-of-its-native-waters story: Having expatriated herself 10 years earlier, she has never learned Japanese, resists most of the hidebound cultural norms and as a result has been at odds for years with Masa’s kimono-wearing mother, Noriko (Judy Ongg), who is at best difficult…
There are subplots aplenty. Members of a mob family, its hierarchy in question, are scrambling to find out Masa’s secrets, led by the venomous Himé (the single-named YOU), a lethal yakuzette with a dangerously angular haircut. Mixxy, the aptly named bartender played by the wonderfully named annie the clumsy, becomes Suzie’s sidekick, though she is something of a ditz. And Sunny (voice of Joanna Sotomura) is an overly cheery, rolling metaphor for science run amok, though she is far too real to be science fiction.
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