Preview — Sunny: A Corporate Mystery With An AI Twist
Apple TV+ is teaming up with Rashida Jones and A24 for its latest limited series, Sunny.
Jones plays Suzie, an American woman living in Japan with her husband and son. Tragedy strikes when Suzie’s family goes missing after a plane crash where they are presumed to be dead.
In the midst of her grief, Suzie receives an unexpected gift from her husband’s electronics company: a state-of-the-art domestic robot named Sunny. The gift is particularly surprising for Suzie since she had no idea that her husband even built robots like Sunny.
But Sunny is more than just a helper robot. Through Sunny, Suzie uncovers a mystery that reveals there was more to the plane crash that took her family than she was led to believe. Following the clues, Suzie goes down a dangerous path of intrigue and conspiracy, searching for the truth.
The series is based on Colin O’Sullivan’s award-winning book The Dark Manual. It is Apple’s second collaboration with A24 and its third with Jones. Apple previously collaborated with A24 and Jones on Sofia Coppola’s film On the Rocks, and they worked with Jones on their 2023 series Silo.
Check out the photos and promo video below for a preview!
Season description: Sunny stars Rashida 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. Together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family and become dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie never knew existed.
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Sunny premieres Wednesday, July 10, on Apple TV+.
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Sarah is an obsessive geek who likes to get into the weeds and over think things. She is passionate about Sci-Fi and comics and is a giant classic film nerd. Sarah cares deeply about media representation and the power of telling diverse stories. When she's not writing or watching her favorite shows she spends her days working in the non-profit world trying to make life a little better for those that need some extra help.