Apple TV+’s Sugar is not the best TV show I’ve seen this year, but it did give me my favorite TV moment so far this year. It was somewhere in the middle of episode three when it suddenly hit me: Wait. That can’t be what this show is about. Unless …
That was it. I, much like Colin Farrell’s private investigator John Sugar, had been drawn hopelessly into a byzantine mystery with twists I couldn’t possibly have predicted when I took up the case. I was on a Sugar high, and I wanted the whole world to join me.