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Critic Reviews
The PlaylistJun 26, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Robbins deserves the credit for taking scripts that could have easily lost their way visually and finding the right designers, cinematographers, and editors to collaborate on what’s a truly complex vision. Most of all, “Sunny” is unpredictably weird in a way that’s rewarding instead of forced.
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Jul 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Sunny presents an interesting near-future scenario where a woman questions everything she knew about her marriage and life. The mystery she investigates may end up being mundane, but the performances of Jones and Sotomura — and the relatively brief episode run times — make it a fun ride to go on.
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The GuardianJul 10, 2024
Jul 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
I worry, therefore, given the goofy cliffhanger with which the first season concludes, that the show misunderstands its strengths. These do not include “realistic action sequences” or tight plotting. But I’ll devour that second season if it comes, because I desperately want more of the proud, tetchy, immersive, oddly relatable world it builds around Suzie and Noriko and Mixxy.
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iJul 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Just two episodes in, Sunny is both stylish and beautiful, with moments of true darkness. What Susie will uncover at Imatech remains to be seen, but the pieces are all in play for this to be a twisty and compelling drama full of humour and heart. Best and most fascinating of all are the questions that Sunny asks of AI and of us – questions that we, as a society, are still nowhere close to answering.
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Radio TimesJun 26, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Overall, Sunny is a hugely captivating series from Apple TV and A24 which will keep you guessing throughout. Part sci-fi, part corporate mystery, part dark comedy and much more besides, this gripping watch has a big ‘ole beating heart at its centre – and it’s all the better for it.
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Jul 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Jones does heavy lifting in every episode and creates a richly layered character in Suzie, who readily admits she can be a real jerk but was clearly a loving mother and wife who isn’t sure if her husband was a wonderful man who made great sacrifices for her, or a total stranger she never really knew. As for that bot known as Sunny: what an amazing piece of acting by Joanna Sotomura.
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Jul 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Its strong ensemble cast, bolstered by Jones, Sotomura, and Nishijima, grounds us in this setting and helps elevate this techno-conspiracy. These core mysteries have a good build, and although its climax sputters out, it largely provides satisfying answers to its big questions.
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Jul 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Whether or not Sunny has enough story to stretch over multiple seasons remains to be seen, but this first one serves as a promising beginning and its unsure take on AI — depicted in turn as murderous, companionable, life-affirming, unreliable, and goofy — feels made for the times.
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Jul 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There’s a real edge to the show’s style and suggestions but often a hollowness where its beating heart — or even just the more reliable mechanics of plot and pacing — would be. But with buns this tasty you only half miss the burger. The most interesting, complex and original aspects of “Sunny” are its biggest ideas and its tiniest details, its questions about the relationship between technology and emotion and its sumptuous specifics such as the perfect garnish on a rococo cocktail.
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Jul 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The series, created by Katie Robbins, is much more successful when it concentrates on personal relationships — I’m including Sunny here, obviously — than on the mystery and conspiracy elements, which are no more compelling or even the point of the journey than a villain’s plans in your average Bond movie.
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Jul 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It’s not a bad time, per se; a twisty mystery, a colorful ensemble and the occasional stylistic big swing keep its ten 30ish-minute episodes moving painlessly enough. It’s just a vaguely disappointing one, better at suggesting emotional and thematic depths than plumbing them.
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Jul 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Sunny is at various points a mystery, a psychological drama, yet another sci-fi tale of the dangers of creating artificial life, and a buddy comedy, where one of the buddies just happens to have a glowing screen for a face. Some of these modes are more exciting than others, but the overall vibe of the show, plus Rashida Jones’ lead performance, are interesting enough to compensate for the parts that don’t work. .... Sunny is an odd and dryly funny treat. [Jul/Aug 2024, p.127]
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Jul 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
What’s most disappointing about Sunny is that it has all of the elements of a better show in its grasp: a strong cast (especially Nishijima as Masa), inspired look, and gripping premise. It even has an endearing robot primed to be the subject of fan art and animated GIFs. Yet the story just can’t sustain its bloated runtime, as the drip-feed pacing makes clear – and following around a massive pill for the majority of it doesn’t help.
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TV Guide MagazineJul 12, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Too bad that Sunny's uncertain tone and Jones' relentless dour performance keep the 10-episode series from building much suspenseful momentum, let alone genuine humor. [15 Jul - 4 Aug 2024, p.4]
IndieWireJul 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Sometimes Suzie’s actions seem dictated by the script, and other times they’re simply unconvincing both on the page and as executed. By the end of what’s set up to be the first of multiple seasons, there’s not much to chew on, and only a bit more to feel. Sitting with Suzie’s grief adds up to too much mess and too little meaning.
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Jul 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Though Suzie is impulsive and impatient, Jones keeps her relatable as she inches her way toward humanity and even heroism. Nishijima (“Drive My Car”) is equally excellent as Masa. .... Every time the series leaves Suzie, Sunny, or Masa for the internecine bickering of the gang, it’ll make you yearn for the second season of “Severance” to watch instead of this.
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