Up until its ruinous stunt, “Sugar” does boast an excellent performance from Farrell as an enigmatic private detective.
as a private investigator wrapped up in a byzantine Los Angeles mystery involving a missing girl, corrupt Hollywood cretins, and shadowy operators on both sides of the good-bad divide.
Whether deliberately or instinctively echoing his cinematic ancestors, Farrell’s sleuth is a throwback with his own charismatic brand of cool, and he does much to keep showrunner Mark Protosevich’s eight-part Apple TV+ neo-noir humming—at least, that is, until a twist disastrously upends this serpentine saga, rendering it little more than a gimmicky pantomime.
Even so, the show conjures up a suitably faithful noir mood and attitude, much of that courtesy of Farrell, who’s tasked with playing a dashing hero rich with charm and detail.
Protosevich attempts to meld multiple genres yet the combination doesn’t hold either narratively or thematically, and the result is that his story by and large falls apart. Perhaps if the series more adequately fleshed out its monumental right turn, it might have avoided that fate.
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