Sunny

Sunny is ostensibly about a robot, but the robot's entire life revolves around it's forced love for the main character, who is a deeply rude and unpleasant person with no friends. Because it's best not to dwell on this, there is a railroaded plot where the Yakuza are involved trying to get Sunny's secrets so they can create murderous robots, but this not only requires you to ignore common sense, but also results in you realizing this was definitely written by a white person who **** Japan without actually understanding it at any level because the Yakuza are a complete caricature and the show insists on them being able to flagrantly ignore the police. But yeah, because Japan is the setting, you get a lot of Japanese flavor, but it's clearly from an external eye **** it. This was embarrassing enough 30 years ago, but in today's world where literally anyone has instant access to millions of hours of Japanese media, it's incredibly lazy. By far the most interesting character is the main character's husband, but not only are we are left wondering why he married the garbage bag that is the protagonist, episode 1 establishes he is very likely dead, and so everything we see about him is through flashback or similar narrative vehicles. The robot character is also just plain too stupid and childlike to really ask hard questions about humans creating intelligent robots, and unfortunately so is the show. It's not terribly bad television in the end, but it sure isn't worth watching with the plethora of better options.

I'm three episodes in and I enjoy the look and feel, but am still baffled as to the plot. I think that's the point - we're learning as we go with Rashida Jones. And therein lies the problem. I specifically looked forward to this because it was Rashida Jones, but to be honest, and this may just the character, she's a bit annoying. I get she lost her husband and kid and I should be giving her character my sympathy, but she just seems bored and annoyed by the whole thing. Her answer is to get drunk all the time and every once in a while go try and track down what her husband was doing at his refrigeration job. I found the robot off-putting in the beginning, but so far I'd rather hang out with it than any of the other characters. Still interested in seeing where it goes, but style alone won't make it last.

"Sunny" (Sep 2024, 10 eps, 35+ mins, Apple) You know and love Rashida Jones from The Office, Parks & Recreation and even Angie Tribeca - all comedy roles in comedy shows. However, she doesn't want to bank on that anymore, she wants to go all drama on us now. And in this show, she's not an ensemble player like those other shows, this show is laser-focused on her character, "Suzie", though the show gets its title from secondary character, "Sunny", a very colloquial sounding helper bot whose all-white presentation looks like a style-aesthetic Apple would promote. Guys, I forced myself through four boring episodes before jumping to the finale. The presentation is very dry and boring. Much of the dialogue is in Japanese (filmed in Kyoto), so you're going to be reading a lot of subtitles. In fact, Rashida is the only westerner in the cast. Look, I tried to be interested, I tried to follow her story, her concerns, but I was simply bored. The pacing is glacial and there's very little action so this is going to appeal to very few people regardless of the wild shilling you see in this forum. The only way this show gets renewed is if Rashida, as an EP, forced Apple to do so in their contract, because in any other situation, this series is already cancelled like "Time Bandits" (Apple) and "Kaos" (Netflix).

Will always have a soft spot in my heart for Rashida Jones, but this drivel should come with a health warning. Not funny, not interesting.

cringey weeb. embarassingly 25 -30 years behing its time.......................