Apple TV+ has set July 10 as the date for new series Sunny. It’s described as a 10-episode mystery thriller with a darkly comic bent, but as you’ll see below there’s a science fiction element as well. I’ve now lost count of the number of science fiction shows on the streamer — long may it continue.
From the press release I learn:
Created by Katie Robbins, who also serves as showrunner, and executive producer and director Lucy Tcherniak, Sunny stars Rashida Jones, who also serves as executive producer, along with stars Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, Judy Ongg, You, annie the clumsy and Jun Kunimura.
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. 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.
See — there’s a robot! Is it science fiction or not? The first two episodes arrives July 10 — I’ll take a look and make my mind up then.
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