Warning! Contains spoilers for Sunny episode 9.
The titular character makes a dire decision towards the end ofSunnyepisode 9, leaving viewers with several intriguing questions surrounding her future. Owing to the growing interest in AI, Apple TV+‘sSunnyhops on the trend of drawing a picture of the potential future of technological advancements in artificial intelligence and the evergrowing fear around it. However, instead of purely revolving around technophobia, theApple TV+ sci-fi showdoes an incredible job of taking a neutral approach, where it makes audiences empathize with its titular robotic character, Sunny.
Although Rashida Jones is the main character in the series,Sunny’s episode 9focuses primarily on the titular bot, who must choose whether it wishes to erase its memories or live with the consequences of its actions. The episode initially presents this dilemma with comical undertones by portraying Sunny’s subconscious as a Japanese TV game show. However, towards the end, it gets a lot more serious when Sunny finally decides to erase her memory, making it hard not to wonder if she will be wiped clean.
Sunny Cast & Character Guide
Apart from walking through a darkly comical futuristic drama, Apple TV+’s Sunny also features compelling characters portrayed by talented actors.
Will Sunny Actually Get A Memory Reset After Episode 9’s Ending?
It Seems Likely Sunny Will Get A Reset
The episode’s initial moments establish that the audience of the game show, which only includes multiple variants of Masa, will vote for whether Sunny should wipe herself. However, by the time the episode reaches its end, Masa from Sunny’s subconscious fails to announce a fair verdict on the robot. Therefore, it comes down to Sunny to decide whether she wants to keep her memories or get a new beginning with a reset. With what follows, Sunny faces two doors, with one representing her decision to keep her memories while the other represents a reset or complete memory wipe.
After giving everything some thought, Sunny settles for the reset. Moments after she walks out of the door, the credits start rolling,suggesting that she will likely lose her memories. However, the fact that Sunny still had repressed memories from her time with Masa even though Masa had erased her memories before giving her away to Suzie suggests that Sunny might be able to restore them even after the reset. Sunny’s inner workings seem far more complex than that of most other bots, suggesting that, like humans, she might retain fragments of her past despite the reset.
Why Sunny Chose To Wipe Her Memory
Sunny Made The Ultimate Sacrifice For Suzie
Throughout episode 9’s runtime, the game show reminds Sunny of all the mistakes she committed before being punished with a reset. She also gets flashbacks of her origins and all the events that led to Masa’s disappearance. The various stages of the game ultimately help her realize thather love for Suzie made her weak and vulnerable. Her job was to protect Suzie after Masa went missing. However, she started defying her own programming because her love for her made her possessive and forced her to take extreme measures to fulfill Suzie’s demands and desires.
…as an act of sacrifice to protect Suzie, Sunny chooses to wipe her memory clean instead of staying the same.
The game show helps Sunny realize that her emotions have made her emotional to the point where she becomes more of a threat to Suzie. Therefore, as an act of sacrifice to protect Suzie, Sunny chooses to wipe her memory clean instead of staying the same. However, even though this ending seems sad, there could be more to it than meets the eye.
What Sunny’s Decision Means For The Apple TV+ Show’s Finale
Sunny’s Decision Could Evolve Her
In technical terms, when Sunny defies her own programming, she goes into a reboot, which forces her to recover from her transgressions. Owing to this,“wiping herself” could actually be the next step in her development, allowing her to become fully conscious. The game show from episode 9 seems to present itself as a visual representation of Sunny understanding a whole new set of human emotions, like guilt, love, forgiveness, and, most of all, sacrifice. The fact that she puts her identity and sense of consciousness on the line inSunnyepisode 9 to protect Suzie shows the memory wipe might help her attain complete sentience.
Sunny
Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, grapples with the mysterious disappearance of her husband and son in a plane crash. Given a domestic robot named Sunny by her husband’s company, Suzie initially resents Sunny but soon they form a unique bond. Together, they uncover the dark truth behind her family’s disappearance, becoming entangled in a dangerous and hidden world.
