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Sunny Series-Premiere Recap: User Error
Depression is one thing humans will always do better than bots.
But wait, I’ve already skipped over this premiere episode’s bloody cold open: We hear a man whose face we cannot see say “I love you so much” in Japanese, and then a four-foot-tall white robot is bludgeoning a (different?) More.” She’s like Hall-of-Fame Replicant-huntin’ Replicant Rick Deckard from Blade Runner, imploring his CRT monitor to “enhance, enhance.” She’s not entirely surprised to spot some blood-colored homebot tracks on the guy’s floor. • High up in the storied canon of bot-themed screen entertainment is Paul Verhoeven’s squib-soaked 1987 masterpiece RoboCop, which, like Sunny, opens with a robot brutally killing a man in a corporate office.
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