Another strange and original from the creators of the A24 The husband and son of the main character are killed on a plane. Tragedy. In Japan, too. And in the future with robots and all sorts of futuristic lotions. Everything else, alien, unfamiliar. Everything except grief and sorrow, understandable in any language and in any period of time.
Rashida Jones plays Susie, an American who has been in Japan for ten years. Reason? Marriage, child, family. And a happy marriage. A husband is a good father and best friend of his wife. The loss of him and the child naturally breaks Susie’s heart, and she can’t find a place in Japan, which has once again become a kind of stranger after the disaster.
It would seem a simple and understandable story about how a person experiences a painful loss. But then the story first adds a robot created (unexpectedly!) by Susie's husband, although she was firmly convinced that he was engaged in the production of refrigerators. It turns out that her husband was considered some kind of cruel tyrant at work, not the kind and sympathetic person she knew him to be. In fact, the company he worked for may have been secretly trading in sex robots and killer robots. Here, against the background of the news, the story of a murdered official who was crushed by a robot is covered. And the further deep into the bottomless sea of intrigue and conspiracy theories, the more nothing is clear at all. What did the main character get into and what the hell did Yakuza have to do with it?
For the first three episodes, it is too early to draw unequivocal conclusions on the series. It’s definitely interesting, and it’s done well, with style. Do not take away from him and atmospheric, at the same time friendly and detached Japan near future with these eccentric home bots, seemingly so friendly and cozy, but at the same time frightening and creepy. In some places, however, the series loses pace and seems to be lost in the nooks of its own plot, then and then trampling on the spot and returning to where they began. But there are still seven episodes ahead, and I still want to find out the solution to the mysterious intricacies in the entourage of light Japanese cyberpunk!
