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Sugar Recap: Everything is For the Mission


The “big twist” is finally here. Was it worth the wait? Uhh…

The actual reveal, where Sugar takes a big injection from his box of weird alien juice and his human form disintegrates in front of the mirror, doesn’t come until the very end of the episode. Against all odds, the earnestness with which creator Mark Protosovech has led this cloyingly inoffensive genre-bending noir to its “big reveal” remains infectious, and there’s still something truthful and heartfelt to be mined from the story of John Sugar now that it’s in full frame. But the construction of the reveal itself — taking what might’ve been a killer premise and concealing it for a vague, two-thirds of a season-long guessing game of diminishing returns — feels at irreconcilable odds with the show’s cinema-loving soul.

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