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Created by | Katie Robbins |
Based on | The Dark Manual by Colin O'Sullivan |
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Opening theme | "Sukiyo Aishite" by Mari Atsumi [1] |
Composer | Daniel Hart |
Country of origin | United States |
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No. of episodes | 8 |
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Running time | 29–36 minutes |
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Network | Apple TV+ |
Release | July 10, 2024 – present |
Sunny is an American black comedy television series created by Katie Robbins, based on the 2018 novel The Dark Manual by Irish writer Colin O'Sullivan. [2] [3] The series premiered on July 10, 2024, on Apple TV+. [4]
Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto whose husband and son vanished in a plane crash, receives a domestic robot from her husband's robotics company.
No. | Title [6] | Directed by | Written by [7] | Original release date [8] | |
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1 | "He's in Refrigerators" | Lucy Tcherniak | Katie Robbins | July 10, 2024 | |
In an ImaTech facility, a robot kills a man before it is deactivated. Some time later, Suzie Sakamoto is grieving the death of her husband Masa and son Zen after a mysterious plane crash. One night, ImaTech employee Yuki Tanaka delivers a domestic assistance robot (homebot), Sunny, to Suzie. Because Suzie's mother was killed by a self-driving car, she resists having Sunny in her house. When Yuki reveals that Masa designed Sunny at ImaTech, Suzie is stunned, as she believed that her husband worked in the refrigerator division. At ImaTech's Christmas party, Suzie discovers the room where the engineer was killed by a robot, with bloodstains on the wall and carpet. Afterward, she meets Mixxy, a bartender, who mentions that a local politician is believed to have been killed by his domestic robot. As Suzie returns home, she is being monitored by a man viewing surveillance footage. Inside, she finds red wine tracks on her floor, resembling blood, prompting her to abandon Sunny on a bridge. The next morning, Suzie awakens to find Sunny back in her house. Suzie prepares to destroy Sunny, until the robot mimics a hand gesture that Masa made before boarding the flight. | |||||
2 | "Don't Blame the Machine" | Lucy Tcherniak | Katie Robbins | July 10, 2024 | |
Suzie becomes frustrated when Sunny will not talk about Masa's history. Suzie takes Sunny to be inspected and learns that Sunny is an upgraded model of homebot that receives regular updates. Suzie learns that there is a hidden community, identified by a red circular symbol, that hacks their homebots to unlock additional features. Suzie recognizes the symbol as something from Masa's notes but is unable to find information about it. She goes to the ImaTech building and finds it locked down; the room where the robot killed a man is boarded up. Security comes for Suzie, but she escapes with the help of Sunny. At home, Sunny answers the door and receives Masa's shoes, indicating that his body had been found after the plane crash. Outside, the bot that delivered the shoes meets with the man that has been watching Suzie and reveals that they lied about the shoes belonging to Masa. In a flashback, Masa works on his computer, and signs it with the hacking group's symbol. | |||||
3 | "Mmmm, Hinoki" | Lucy Tcherniak | Nancy Won | July 17, 2024 | |
Himé, a high ranking member of the yakuza who is missing part of her pinkie finger, is having a man tortured while she is being fitted for a decorative prosthetic finger. Suzie contacts Mixxy to learn about hacking her homebot. Mixxy takes Suzie and Sunny to meet a high-school friend, who directs them to a dance club. When they arrive, Mixxy and Suzie are separated from Sunny, who is left outside. Sunny is abducted, and Suzie makes her way through the building, eventually arriving at a robot fighting pit. Suzie sees that Himé is planning to have Sunny fight, but Suzie fights her off and escapes with Sunny. The next day, she attends Masa's memorial ceremony, and is surprised when Himé arrives. | |||||
4 | "Sticky" | Lucy Tcherniak | Kimi Howl Lee | July 24, 2024 | |
In a flashback, Masa appears to kill a man that he sees at his son's school. In present day, Suzie meets with one of Masa's college friends, who references Masa's father; Suzie is surprised as she thought Masa's father was dead. Suzie confronts Noriko, who refuses to answer her questions. To learn more, Suzie and Mixxie go to a bath house that Masa frequented, where they witness a yakuza member killing another member. At the same time, Sunny gets Noriko drunk, and finds files about Masa's father, who is still alive. Suzie returns home, but finds her apartment ransacked. | |||||
5 | "Joey Sakamoto" | Dearbhla Walsh | Julissa Castillo | July 31, 2024 | |
Mixxy, Suzie, and Sunny flee from Kyoto to the countryside, where Mixxy's uncle has a farm. They arrive at a remote train station, where Suzie has an encounter with a suspicious man. Mixxy learns that the shuttle to the farm no longer runs, and because there is no phone service, they decide to walk to the farm. They quickly become lost, and Sunny accuses Mixxy of intentionally getting them lost. Sunny begins caring for an injured bird, despite Suzie telling her to abandon it. At night, they hide in the woods as they see the man from the train station walk by them. They come across an abandoned building, where Suzie falls asleep and dreams of a time that Masa suspiciously left in the night. The following morning, they arrive at the farm, and are welcomed in. Sunny's bird dies, and she is distraught, but realizes that she was being moved by Masa on the night he disappeared from Suzie's house. The next morning, Suzie wakes up and can't find Sunny, but sees one of Himé's prosthetic fingers on her pillow. | |||||
6 | "Kyoto Manju, So Delicious" | Lucy Tcherniak | Aja Gabel | August 7, 2024 | |
Suzie and Mixxy return to Kyoto in search of Sunny. Noriko gets herself imprisoned by stealing form a convenience store, and implies she was willingly imprisoned to avoid the yakuza. After an argument at a police station, Mixxy returns to her job at a bar, but Suzie is captured by Hime's men. She is forced to unlock Masa's computer. Suzie returns home, where she is greeted by Mixxy, and they find a non-responsive Sunny has been delivered to them. | |||||
7 | "There's Been a Shift" | Colin Bucksey | Ken Kobayashi | August 14, 2024 | |
Suzie wakes up and finds that Sunny is uncharacteristically angry. Suzie and Mixxy have an argument and Mixxy leaves. Suzie attempts to learn more about Sunny and finds that she is being tracked via a device in her wedding ring. Noriko is threatened in jail by a fellow inmate. Hime meets with her cousins, and she begins to suspect her cousin had her father killed to take over. Suzie and Mixxy search for who is tracking her wedding ring, and while searching in an apartment complex, finds the man who first delivered her Sunny. | |||||
8 | "Trash or Not-Trash" | Dearbhla Walsh | Sarah Sutherland | August 21, 2024 | |
From an early age Masa realized how alone he was, especially in the relation with his father. After Masa's father (dies?), he greivs for 2.5 years. Flashforward when Noriko calls over Hiromasa, an old friend, who offers Masa a house on lake Biwa, and then tells him that he is Masa's father. While at the lake house, Masa finds a folder titled "future innovation", in which he finds an ad for the future of homebots as well as photos of Noriko and Hiromasa. A trash robot tries to throw away masas gaming system, and this leads Masa to care about beating Hiromasa's trashbot algorithm. Masa prefects this algorithm better than Hiromasa ever could. | |||||
9 | TBA | Makoto Nagahisa [9] | Nancy Won & Yugo Nakamura | August 28, 2024 | |
10 | TBA | Colin Bucksey [10] | Katie Robbins & Aja Gabel | September 4, 2024 |
In February 2022, Apple TV+ announced it had given Sunny a series order. Rashida Jones is set to star in and executive produce the series, which is set to film in Japan. [11] In July, Hidetoshi Nishijima joined the cast. [12] In October, Joanna Sotomura, annie the clumsy, You, Judy Ongg, and Jun Kunimura were added to the cast. [13]
Filming for the series began in Japan in July 2022. [14]
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 89% approval rating with an average rating of 7.2/10, based on 57 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Brightened up by Rashida Jones' sly comedic timing, Sunny is a melancholy sci-fi series that positively glows." [6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 69 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [15]
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