Apple’s Sunny is a grief-stricken crime dramedy with a smile on its face

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By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

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More than yet another sci-fi parable about a future plagued by dangerous robots, Colin O’Sullivan’s 2018 novel The Dark Manual was a lyrical meditation on grieving and the emotions we project onto everyday objects. The book’s premise, prose, and thematic ambivalence about artificially intelligent machines made it feel like the kind of story

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