Streaming on: Apple TV+

Episodes viewed: 10 of 10

There's nothing more human than grief, that searing loss which carves out your insides until there's nothing left but a void where your heart used to be. Yet there's something quite robotic about the numbness that hits first, and it's between these two extremes where a new Apple TV+ show explores what it actually means to be human.

This is a show that wants to be a lot of things all at once, multitasking like the robot that lends the series its name, and for the most part, it works very well. Across ten 30-minute episodes, creator Katie Robbins (The Affair) navigates big reveals, pithy put-downs, intriguing cold opens and yakuza antics with humour and pathos, all set in a semi-futuristic yet still recognisable Japan. It's a lot, granted, but a game cast ground this robot-filled world with much humanity, including Sunny herself...