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July 06 – July 12, 2024

‘Sunny’ days ahead: A24, Apple TV+ join forces for Rashida Jones thriller series BY DANA SIMPSON An argument could be made that the workforce is inherently

eration company” for which her husband worked, Suzie comes

10 episodes to provide context and to lead Suzie and Sunny

a place of great torment. Regardless of the job, its location or

to realize that the man she married may have been leading an

toward the details of his death.

its duties, the idea of giving approximately one-third of your life

entirely different life in the workplace for several years.

Other actors in the new Apple TV+ series include Jun Kuni-

to a company can sound absolutely terrifying. It will then come

Feeling compelled to accept Sunny as a gesture from her

mura (“The Wailing,” 2016) as Yuki Tanaka, singer-songwriter

as no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic and the return-to-

late husband and his co-workers, Suzie at first “resents Sunny’s

Annie the Clumsy (“Miss Osaka,” 2021) as Mixxy, Japanese

work model many companies have adopted in recent years

attempts to fill the void in her life,” but as time goes on and the

actress You (“Nobody Knows,” 2004) as Hime and Taiwanese

have only exacerbated things.

two get closer acquainted with one another, Sunny becomes

native Judy Ongg (“Money Wars”) as Noriko Sakamoto.

Apple TV+ first tapped into this feeling of unease and dis-

Suzie’s only connection to her family, eventually leading the ex-

Created for the screen by Katie Robbins, who also wrote

trust in the workplace with its 2022 workplace thriller series,

pat into a complicated and dangerous underworld that “Suzie

Showtime’s “The Affair” and Prime Video’s “The Last Tycoon,”

“Severance,” starring Adam Scott (“Parks and Recreation”)

never knew existed.” Equal parts moody and action-packed,

“Sunny” is based on a novel by Japan-based Irish novelist and

and Patricia Arquette (“Medium”), and now it is back, working

Suzie’s quest to unravel her husband’s work life and the mys-

2018 Prix Mystère de la critique winner Colin O’Sullivan.

with horror movie master producer A24, for a new 10-episode

tery behind the plane crash that claimed her family drives both

thriller drama.

the plot and her growing relationship with the titular robot.

O’Sullivan’s 2018 novel, “The Dark Manual,” follows Suzie Sakamoto, who, in the source material, is an Irishwoman who “spends her days drinking heavily and cursing the home robot

“Sunny,” premiering Wednesday, July 10, on Apple TV+,

While Rashida Jones is without a doubt the biggest draw for

follows American expat Suzie (Rashida Jones, “Parks and Rec-

American audiences — at least insofar as the cast is concerned

reation”), whose life in Kyoto, Japan, is thrown into disarray

— fans of recent Japanese cinema may recognize her onscreen

“when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane

husband, Masa, from the 2021 Oscar-winning drama “Drive

band designed and is under the impression that it is about to

crash” (per Apple TV+). Understandably inconsolable and

My Car.” Hidetoshi Nishijima, also known for his roles as Yuta-

do her harm.” Unfortunately, the more Suzie tries to ignore the

completely lost in the world without her family, Suzie is soon

ka Yoshii in 1998’s “License to Live” and for voicing Honjo in

eerie feeling creeping up her spine, the more she realizes she

presented with a robot companion, named Sunny, voiced by

Studio Ghibli’s Oscar-nominated 2013 film “The Wind Rises,”

may have to find the so-called “Dark Manual” and learn how

Joanna Sotomura (“Wayward Guide”). A gift from the “refrig-

appears in flashbacks and dream sequences throughout the

to turn off her robot helper for good.

that takes care of all her domestic needs.” Per GoodReads.com, “She despises the thing her dead hus-

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