Rashida Jones and a Robot Are Coming to Apple TV+

Here’s what it’s worthwhile to know in regards to the new TV present Sunny: Rashida Jones. Robot. Plane crash thriller. Seriously, what extra do it’s worthwhile to know?

OK, wonderful. Here’s extra. Apple TV+ has simply given a 10-episode order to Sunny, a brand new present produced by and starring Office and Parks and Recreation star Rashida Jones. It’s described as a darkish comedic drama and is based mostly on a novel referred to as The Dark Manual by Colin O’Sullivan. Jones will play Suzie, an American girl residing in Japan who loses each her son and her husband in a aircraft crash. To assist with the ache, Suzie is given Sunny, a robotic companion made by her husband’s firm. At first Suzie hates Sunny, however then they turn out to be pals and start to piece collectively what actually occurred within the aircraft crash that claimed her household. Deadline broke the information, although the venture was first reported on the Illuminerdi final yr.

Joining Jones as a producer is the corporate A24 in addition to Katie Robbins (The Affair). Station Eleven director Lucy Tcherniak is, you guessed it, directing.

Which all sounds cool, proper? But issues get even higher whenever you dive a bit deeper into what the supply materials is absolutely about. Here’s the official description of O’Sullivan’s guide, which was launched in 2018; it sounds decidedly extra quirky.

Susie Sakamoto, an Irishwoman in Japan, spends her days ingesting closely and cursing the house robotic that takes care of all her home wants. She despises the factor her lifeless husband designed and is below the impression that it’s about to do her hurt.

To escape the overwhelming grief of her lacking household, she takes to the nighttime and the lawless part of town, loitering in seedy bars together with her wild, drug-fuelled, hypersexual good friend, Mixxy.

Are Susie’s persecutions merely a results of her personal paranoia? Can the parliament of owls gathering eerily within the bushes outdoors be of any significance, any help? Or will she should seek for the mythic Dark Manual, to discover a solution to lastly change off the homebot and finish her litany of woes?

…it would already be too late…the machines are on the rise.

There’s a machine rebellion? A legendary guide? Heavy ingesting? This present sounds wild.

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