Sunny: He’s in Refrigerators

July 11, 2024 1:58 PM - Season 1, Episode 1

Living in Kyoto, Japan, a woman's life is turned upside down after her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As consolation, she receives Sunny, a domestic robots made by her husband's electronics company. In a near-future Kyoto, Suzie struggles with profound grief and is given a domestic robot to assist her.

Sunny Series-Premiere Recap: User Error [Vulture / Archive]

posted by ellieBOA (6 comments total)

I enjoyed this a lot. I laughed out loud a bunch, the aesthetics of it really appealed to me, I like the characters, I'm intrigued by the mystery and I'm really digging Rashida Jones in it.

The sets and locations are spectacular. The ImaTech building really exists, and is really that cool looking; it's the Kyoto International Conference Center.
posted by simonw at 7:45 PM on July 11 [2 favorites]

I had missed the ads then saw the review on Vulture which convinced me to check it out, and I’m loving it so far! Excellent aesthetic and story so far.
posted by ellieBOA at 5:40 AM on July 12

the Kyoto International Conference Center.

Clearly a building designed with the thought that if the whole Conference Center thing didn't work out, they could at least generate some revenue renting it out to production companies working on SF projects.

See also the Vancouver Public Library and Simon Fraser University campus.
posted by Naberius at 6:53 AM on July 12 [1 favorite]

Gorgeous title sequence too.
posted by pjenks at 7:28 AM on July 12

This is hilarious to me.

I want more out of control robots.
posted by porpoise at 1:06 PM on July 13

Just watched the first episode and spent most of it trying to place locations (the Kyoto international conference center plays a lot of roles), and getting that sort of “you can’t go south from the Flatiron building and wind up in Harlem” feeling I’ve always dreamed of

Kind of dig the general seventies-ness of everything from the title sequence to the old train car
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:46 AM on September 5