I’ve been watching Sugar on Apple TV Plus for a few weeks, which has been a generally solid, if not somewhat average, mystery series starring Colin Farrell. The granddaughter of a high-profile Hollywood producer is missing and Sugar, as is her line of work, steps in to find her.
The story goes through some sleazy actors and sleazy criminals, but there’s a strange undertone to the whole thing. But now, in episode 6, things have gone completely off the rails, in what I would say is a good way.
All this time, there’s been this strange network of people that Sugar is connected to. The “polyglot” society where it seems that they are united because they speak many different languages. It looks like one of those “independent” spy agencies you sometimes see in suspense fiction. Or maybe something like the strange world of John Wick’s assassins with their coins and hotels.
Boy, it sure isn’t anything like that.
It turns out that these people, and in turn Farrell’s Sugar, are aliens.
I can’t express how strange this is in the context of the show. Once again, this all seems like a version of an old-school noir thriller. While the concept of someone being a secret alien is not uncommon in, say, the science fiction genre, this is a far cry from what you would expect from the series. Except if you were… looking closely.
There’s actually a lot of pretty strange things happening throughout the series that now add up in retrospect, even if they didn’t outright say “he’s an alien.”
I think Sugar doesn’t just like old movies, old cars, and old school manners, I think he has created his entire personality based on watching those movies as it has shaped him in how to act as a human.
His desire not to perpetuate violence may be a moral conviction, of course, but it is not just because he is good at fighting, but because he has real abilities above human ones. This ranges from catching a fly with chopsticks at the beginning of the series to this week where he appeared to deflect a bullet with his hand (his watch, perhaps?).
There is its ability to calm even extremely hostile dogs with a single sound. There’s the fact that she said he can’t get drunk because his body metabolizes alcohol 50 times faster than normal. I think she didn’t have sex with Amy Ryan’s character not just out of chivalry, but out of…biology.
There’s his injury that required some kind of blood bag with text that wasn’t in English. There’s his drug use, which isn’t actually drug use but has to do with his transformation from human to alien.
All of this has been there all along creating a weird “vibe” around this show, but it never indicates that things were going to get this weird. What I still can’t understand exactly is why he’s pursuing missing persons cases all over the world, or why his alien organization is apparently behind something as simplistic as Olivia’s kidnapping. But we have two more episodes to figure it out.
It’s a deeply strange turn for Sugar, but I love it.
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