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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Sunny is a robot buddy comedy about loss

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.5 β€’ 10.6K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In the new Apple TV+ series Sunny, Rashida Jones stars as a woman living in Kyoto, whose husband and young son go missing in a plane crash. To help console her, her husband's electronics company gives her a robot companion. The show is an interesting mix of styles and genres – it's a buddy comedy, a crime thriller and a drama about loss. But at the center of it all is the mystery of what happened to her husband and son – and why.

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In the new series, Sunny, Rashida Jones stars as a woman living in Kyoto, whose husband and young son go missing in a plane crash.

0:35.9

To help console her, her husband's electronics company gives her Sunny a robot companion.

0:40.2

The show is an interesting mix of styles and genres.

0:44.0

It's a buddy comedy, a crime thriller, and a drama about loss,

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but at the center of it all is the mystery of what happened to her husband and son and why.

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I'm Aisha Harris.

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And I'm Glenn Weldon.

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And today we're talking about the Apple TV Plus series,

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Sunny on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. are.

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