Sugar is the typical love-it-or hate-it series, being able to enjoy some aspects, but inevitably ending the 1st season with a bitter question of: why and what did they want to tell us?

The ultra-stylized sci-noir features Colin Farrell in a bizarre role: John Sugar, an alien who has lived on Earth for years and whose professional activity as a private detective specializes in finding missing people. He never fails, has a strange command over animals, and a sweetness towards strangers that makes us distrust him more than belief in the sincerity of his empathy.

Well, the revelation of Sugar’s nature came midway to the end of the season, but although this ET in love with film noir, circling Los Angeles in a blue Corvette, is our hero, nothing has changed for the questions that have accumulated and stayed away to have an answer.

Before coming to Earth, the detective’s sister disappeared, a trauma that he mentions all the time, but if she didn’t mention it it wouldn’t make a difference. The mission on the planet of the group that Sugar is part of is to “observe and report”, but we do not know where or why human monitoring takes place. There are accidents along the way, some unfortunate, some criminals, but we effectively don’t connect A with B., it only becomes clear that Henry, the only friend Sugar trusted, was responsible for the crimes we were following in the cinema capital, including the kidnapping and Olivia’s torture.

Henry doesn’t want to go back to wherever he came from and “runs away” when it’s time to board. Sugar stays behind to go after his friend, but only because he discovers that Henry was the one who disappeared his sister. This scares me more: will Apple pay for a second season? God!

I’m only sorry because it’s yet another wrong choice by Colin Farrell, a great actor who slipped up in the second season of True Detective and who here – once again – is wasted. I don’t recommend checking out any episode and I have Raised By Wolves as a positive reference this is the series where the heroine was transformed into a tree, a snake flew and the androids were more human than humans. If in this universe we are more bored than Sugar, understand the reason for the warning. Run.

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