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- 2024
- TV-MA
- Apple TV+
- 2024
- TV-MA
- Apple TV+
Summary Suzie (Rashida Jones), an American woman living in Japan, is given a robot called Sunny after her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash in the mystery thriller series created by Katie Robbins.
Created By: Katie Robbins
- 2024
- TV-MA
- Apple TV+
- 2024
- TV-MA
- Apple TV+
Sunny
Season 1 Premiere: Jul 10, 2024
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Summary Suzie (Rashida Jones), an American woman living in Japan, is given a robot called Sunny after her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash in the mystery thriller series created by Katie Robbins.
Created By: Katie Robbins
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
69
60% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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“Sunny” is not only an engaging thriller, but one of the most intriguing series this year has to offer.
Robbins deserves the credit for taking scripts that could have easily lost their way visually and finding the right designers, cinematographers, and editors to collaborate on what’s a truly complex vision. Most of all, “Sunny” is unpredictably weird in a way that’s rewarding instead of forced.
Its strong ensemble cast, bolstered by Jones, Sotomura, and Nishijima, grounds us in this setting and helps elevate this techno-conspiracy. These core mysteries have a good build, and although its climax sputters out, it largely provides satisfying answers to its big questions.
Whether or not Sunny has enough story to stretch over multiple seasons remains to be seen, but this first one serves as a promising beginning and its unsure take on AI — depicted in turn as murderous, companionable, life-affirming, unreliable, and goofy — feels made for the times.
It’s not a bad time, per se; a twisty mystery, a colorful ensemble and the occasional stylistic big swing keep its ten 30ish-minute episodes moving painlessly enough. It’s just a vaguely disappointing one, better at suggesting emotional and thematic depths than plumbing them.
Some of it works, some of it doesn’t. It is a comedy, which doesn’t always mix well with the mystery aspects. But it’s Jones’ show. For much of the series she’s given only one note to play, really, but she plays it well.
Like so much of the streamer’s content, Sunny is a handsomely made series featuring A-list talent that amounts to a little less than the sum of its parts.
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Production Company:
- A24
- Eureka Row
- Le Train Train
Initial Release Date: Jul 10, 2024
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA