About fifteen years ago, an era of “complicated” protagonists ruled the television landscape. It was a glorious time to be an unlikable anti-hero on TV, but it was an honor almost entirely reserved for men. Sunny is a late-arriving corrective, centering a fully complex and often unlikable Rashida Jones. Suzi doesn’t read on the page like someone anyone would want to spend time with, but she nonetheless wins the audience over. Within the context of the show, as authored by Jones, she draws in the viewer. For one, the performance and the show’s aesthetics make her grief so palpable. But it’s her evolution that’s impressive, aided by characterization from show creator Katie Robbins and a writers’ room including the author of the source material The Dark Manual, Colin O’Sullivan, and previous Robbins collaborator Sarah Sutherland. TV certainly doesn’t need a return to the era of complicated men who were nonetheless loved and venerated. That said, a brief dip in that pool, especially with a gender swap and Rashida Jones, is worth a brief sojourn to that territory.