"Sunny."

The AppleTV+ series gets the Two Episode Test.

The most interesting element, initially, to the new AppleTV+ series, “Sunny,” is that it arrived with almost no fanfare, as if it had fallen off the back of a truck or, worse, as if AppleTV+ was somehow “pulling a Netflix” ostensibly because when Netflix self-sabotages in the form of non-promotion it weirdly seems to work.

No matter the origin story, hey look, a potentially watchable series set in Japan about robots and starring Rashida Jones and Hidetoshi Nishijima (so excellent in the film “Drive My Car”), appeared out of nowhere on July 10, offering up two initial episodes and, apparently, some kind of prayer that you would find it, or, conversely, some embarrassing hope that it would just disappear in the summer sun.

Which makes it kind of interesting, actually.

Is there really something to the dark arts that Netflix uses to drop whole seasons without telling people? Is a pleasant discovery better than a promoted disappointment? What are we to make of “Sunny”?

Let’s get to it, then.

Rashida Jones and Sunny in “Sunny.”

---