Apple TV+ has unveiled the trailer for its upcoming series, “Sunny,” which will star Rashida Jones, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Joanna Sotomura, Judy Ongg, YOU, annie the clumsy, and Jun Kunimura.
Based on the book, “Dark Manual” by Colin O’Sullivan, the show is created by Katie Robbins (“The Affair,” “The Last Tycoon”) with episodes directed by Lucy Tcherniak (“Station Eleven,” “The End of the F***ing World”) and is set to be a ten-episode mystery thriller with a “darkly comedic bent.”
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The show will be co-produced by Apple Studios and A24, which will be the second time the two studios have worked together to bring a project starring Rashida Jones to life, with the first being the Apple Original Film “On the Rocks,” which co-starred Bill Murray and was directed by Sofia Coppola. Jones also recently starred in Apple TV+‘s sci-fi series “Silo,” starring Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Robbins, Common, and David Oyelowo.
Per a press release, here is the plot synopsis for “Sunny“:
“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.
Produced by Robbins, Jones, Tcherniak, Ravi Nandan, Jess Lubben, and Nancy Won, the first two episodes of “Sunny” will premiere July 10 on Apple TV+, with subsequent episodes released weekly until September 4. Watch the trailer below: