Rashida Jones Teams With a Mystery-Solving Robot In Sunny's First Trailer

Apple TV+ has released a trailer for Sunny, its caller “ten-episode darkly comedic enigma series” pairing prima Rashida Jones with a talking robot.

Based connected the caller The Dark Manual by Colin O’Sullivan, the series— hailing from showrunner Katie Robbins, enforcement producer/director Lucy Tcherniak and Rashida Jones, herself — follows Suzie, “an American pistillate surviving successful Kyoto, Japan, whose beingness is upended erstwhile her hubby and lad vanish successful a mysterious level crash. As ‘consolation’ she’s fixed Sunny, 1 of a caller people of home robots made by her husband’s electronics company. Though astatine archetypal Suzie resents Sunny’s attempts to capable the void successful her life, gradually they make an unexpected friendship, arsenic unneurotic they uncover the acheronian information of what truly happened to Suzie’s family, becoming dangerously enmeshed successful a satellite Suzie ne'er knew existed.”

The series’ co-stars Japanese actor/model Hidetoshi Nishijima arsenic Suzie’s presumedly dormant husband, histrion and tv property YOU arsenic the villainous industrialist Hime, Judy Ongg arsenic Suzie’s parent in-law, Jun Kunimura arsenic the roboticist, Yuki Tanaka, and Joanna Sotumura arsenic the dependable of Sunny the robot.

Notably, Sunny marks the 2nd collaboration betwixt Apple, A24 and Rashida Jones pursuing Sofia Coppola’s 2020 film, On the Rocks—another communicative astir a pistillate suspicious of her husband’s whereabouts. In fact, the series’ appears to beryllium the latest successful a agelong drawstring of constricted series’ tackling akin taxable substance besides astatine Apple TV+, including The Last Thing He Told Me with Jennifer Garner, Monarch: The Legacy of Monsters with Kurt Russell and Dark Matter with Joel Edgerton suspicious of himself. This does look to beryllium the archetypal to adhd a wise-cracking robot to the mix, though, adding a salacious tint to the similar-but-very-different 1987 children’s film, Too Much.

Sunny premieres July 10, 2024 connected Apple TV+.

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