The actor shows her range in Apple's new drama-thriller-robot buddy comedy as an American expat emotionally adrift in a near-future Japan.
is finishing up its first season, and one of the main characters is Bibo, a helpful yet pushy household robot whose secret desire is to become an actor. Now comes Apple TV’s, where the chipper but potentially troublesome robot is the title character, and core focus of the plot. One more, and it’s officially a trend!) is grieving the deaths of her husband Masa and their young son in an airplane crash.
Jones has spent most of her acting career playing the straight woman to more outsized performances, most famously as Beautiful Ann Perkins on. She gets to play the hottest of hot messes — she’s drinking wine from the bottle, while seated on the toilet, before the first episode is over — and engage in juvenile arguments with an angelic-voiced robot, and she’s very funny as Suzie lets all the filters of her pre-crash life fall away.
That episode is also one of several from late in the season devoted to explaining the show’s byzantine plot, which involves both Masa’s secretive electronics company and a war between local Yakuza factions. It’s less than ideal to have to pause the story for so long just so the audience might finally understand what’s happening; it’s a credit to Robbins and company that they let Suzie express her own impatience with things after a while, because most viewers will more than relate by then.
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