Apple TV+ has announced that its ten-episode mystery thriller with a darkly comic bent, Sunny, is scheduled to premiere globally with the first two episodes on July 10, 2024. New episodes will be released every Wednesday through September 4. Sunny is created by Katie Robbins, who also serves as showrunner, and executive producer and director Lucy Tcherniak. The series stars Rashida Jones, who also serves as executive producer, as well as Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, Judy Ongg, YOU, annie the clumsy, and Jun Kunimura.
Synopsis: 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, as together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family, becoming dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie never knew existed.
Sunny is based on the book “Dark Manual” by Japan-based award-winning Irish writer Colin O’Sullivan. This series marks the second collaboration for Apple, A24 and Jones following the global premiere of Sofia Coppola’s acclaimed film On the Rocks. Jones also recently starred in Apple’s global hit series Silo, based on Hugh Howey’s New York Times best-selling trilogy of dystopian novels.
Catch Rashida Jones and the rest of the cast on Sunny, premiering on Apple TV+ on July 10, 2024.
