Her Friend’s Electric

Sunny creator Katie Robbins unleashes her kawaii-inspired robot into a Japanese noir murder mystery

TARA BENNETT

STICK AN ANDROID IN a person’s home against their will and you’ve got the perfect scenario for murder and mayhem. Irish author Colin O’Sullivan explored that premise in his 2018 sci-fi/noir novel The Dark Manual. A few years later, screenwriter Katie Robbins (The Affair) saw the potential in it for a television series about grief, marital secrets, tech paranoia, female friendship and the Yakuza. SUNNY DAZE Robbins’s idea is now the Apple TV+ show Sunny, a darkly witty near-future remix of O’Sullivan’s book. Both centre on Irish expat in Japan Suzie Sakamoto (Rashida Jones). She’s just lost her husband Masa (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and young son in a freak plane crash, and is adrift trying to figure out what’s next – not expecting that it might be a murder mystery about…

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