STICK AN ANDROID IN a person’s home against their will and you’ve got the perfect scenario for murder and mayhem. Irish author Colin O’Sullivan explored that premise in his 2018 sci-fi/noir novel The Dark Manual. A few years later, screenwriter Katie Robbins (The Affair) saw the potential in it for a television series about grief, marital secrets, tech paranoia, female friendship and the Yakuza.
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Robbins’s idea is now the Apple TV+ show , a darkly witty near-future remix
