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Tell Your Friends That John Sugar Is an Alien
Apple TV+’s Sugar would be 40 percent better if we knew the twist from the start.
After six episodes of Colin Farrell driving around modern-day Los Angeles in a vintage car, wearing an immaculate black suit and sunglasses, inexplicably flashing to references from golden-age noir films, and poking his nose into the mystery of a disappeared woman no one seems to want him to solve, the Apple TV+ series Sugar finally shows its hand. Not understanding John Sugar’s true nature is an annoyance, a secondary concern that pulses quietly underneath the central mystery of a missing woman like a headache that won’t go away. Putting this information right up front would give Sugar the freedom to be the show it really wants to be: a silly mystery about alien detective Colin Farrell trying his best to solve crime.
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