Watch the trailer for Sugar and you’ll see what appears to be a fairly ordinary neo-noir set in present day Los Angeles centered around a stylish, reserved, square jawed detective played by Colin Farrell. Just what producer/star Farrell and creator Mark Protosevich—a screenwriter known for high genre projects like I Am Legend, The Cell, and Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake—are doing making a series this vague and generic isn’t at all clear. Something doesn’t add up.
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That, as it turns out, is exactly the sort of curiosity that Protosevich, Farrell, and producer/director Fernando Meirelles (City of God) are hoping to provoke. This is a mystery that challenges the viewer to figure out what kind of story it is. The series follows Farrell as John Sugar, a private detective who exclusively works missing person cases. Sugar is impossibly cool, a soft-spoken man who can best anyone in combat, but would rather talk things out in one of the countless languages he speaks. He drives a pristine 1966........