on 6/27/2026, 7:50 pm
The author pins the snark meter due to the first season's bizarre plot twist (if you didn't watch it in 2024, we won't spoil it here...)
https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2026/06/apple-tv-celebrates-the-upcoming-second-season-of-its-stylish-neo-noir-detective-story-sugar-led-by-star-and-executive-producer-colin-farrell/
Apple TV's puff piece for Season 2, with photos from the launch event held at the Hammer Museum in Westwood on June 17th.
https://www.micropsiacine.com/2026/06/sugar-season-2-review-old-school-noir-new-school-mystery/
A positive review of the series, but with spoilers regarding the first-season plot twist.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/arts/television/sugar-review.html
Also discusses the plot twist, but has a good overall assessment of the show's strengths (Colin Farrell) and its redundancies...
The show retains its most conspicuous device, the insertion of snippets from classic Hollywood films that echo Sugar’s feelings about events in the real world of the story: “Gilda” when he encounters a new femme fatale (Laura Donnelly of “Outlander”), “Vertigo” when he needs to fake a death. The soundtrack, with numbers like “One for My Baby (and One More for the Road),” “C’est si bon” and “Twilight Time,” contributes to the nostalgia signaling.
These embellishments are enjoyable in their own right, though they start to feel forced, like a tour guide who won’t stop talking. And they are kind of redundant because the show already has the only thing it needs to signal retro California cool and wounded nobility: Colin Farrell, in a crisp white shirt, slim dark suit and sunglasses, cruising around Los Angeles in his Corvette Sting Ray.
https://www.filmink.com.au/forget-it-colin-farrell-its-los-angeles/
A very congenial interview with Colin Farrell centered around SUGAR (but with a reference to that plot twist!)
“When I first read Sugar, it was apparent to me very quickly that there was a really lovely character at the center of it. I loved the genre tropes and the neo-noir of it, and the mood of it, and he was described as wearing all these suits and staying in this beautiful hotel, and he had this beautiful car, and all that stuff was fun.
“But there was a decency to the character, and he was somebody that moved through worlds at times of violence and discord and chaos and treachery, and he worked in the shadows as a private investigator, but he had this fundamental core decency to him.
“I don’t think we can expect any of us to be decent all the time, and the world doesn’t really allow you to be that. It kind of walks all over you. We talk about boundaries and all this other shit, you know? You have to learn somehow to protect yourself.
“So, to play a character that is constantly arcing towards decency is just really beautiful and life affirming,” he says.
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