A new sci-fi nugget? This series should please Black Mirror fans

After a hiatus of several years, Black Mirror made a profitable return to Netflix with a sixth season that won over subscribers. So much so that Charlie Brooker’s dystopian series was quickly greenlit for a seventh round of episodes (surprise fans!).

But we’ll have to wait until we find out about the next Black Mirror horror stories. Meanwhile, fans of the genre can watch other series in the same way. And that’s good since Apple TV+ introduced a whole new product. And we are talking about a robot, if we trust the first revealed images.

A series that fans of Black Mirror should love

Created by Katie Robbins (The Affair), also showrunner and directed by Lucy Czerniak (Station Eleven, The End of the F***ing World), this upcoming series is produced and directed by Rashida Jones, revealed by The Office and Parks and recently seen In the science fiction series Silo.

The 10-episode sunny series is an adaptation of the novel Dark Manual by Irish author Colin O’Sullivan, who lives in Japan. This darkly humorous thriller tells the story of Susie (Rashida Jones), an American living in Kyoto, Japan.

But the synopsis that follows promises shocking twists, politics, intimacy and technology, Black Mirror style:

Her life is turned upside down when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As a “consolation”, her husband’s electronics company gives her Sunny, one of their new home robots.

Initially reluctant to try to fill the void in her life, they gradually develop an unexpected friendship. As they together discover the dark truth about what happened to Susie’s family, they become dangerously drawn into a world Susie never knew existed.

Produced by A24 for Apple TV+, Sunny also features Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car), Joanna Sotomura (Barry) and Jun Kunimura (Jukaï: The Suicide Forest). The first two episodes will be available on July 10 on the platform, with the rest of the series running one episode per week until September 4.