Why episode 6? Because that's when the real show premise and plot is revealed. At first, you'll see it as Sugar having a hallucination...but it isn't. And then there's the strangeness around a bullet.
The first five episodes give us Colin Ferrell (in an excellent performance) in a neo-noir with layers, a great supporting cast and an interesting, but convoluted, plot.
There are clues throughout that what we're seeing is not the whole thing. Sugar "doesn't like to hurt people" but he often does. Brutally. There's oblique interaction between him and what we think is his associate/person in the chair/handler, but that gets blown out of the water in episode four. Sugar is also unbelievably virtuous with strangers, victims (because he DOES hurt people) and acquaintances. Too good to be true you say? Not when you get to episode 7.
The GIGANTIC left turn in episode seven is almost unforgivable. It feels like a tremendous cheat. In the streaming series Midnight Sky we were torn between whether the main character was crazy, or is there really a portal to another dimension in his root cellar. When we finally get the answer (at the end of a series that was cancelled!) we've been strung along too long to really care. Here, in Sugar, we've totally invested in all these characters and the missing girl who is at the center of the major plot (or so we were led to believe), when the rug gets completely ripped out from under us and we discover we're actually watching a very different show.
The episode leaves us wishing Sugar's true nature and self was revealed earlier, so we could walk with him through the emotional seduction he's been dealing with. Ultimately he's been drawn in too far, and isn't an observer any more, he's an active participant.
The last episode wraps up the kidnapping mystery, and the reason for Sugar's people wanting to steer clear of the kidnapping, but...the season ends in a cliff hanger and a half dozen mysteries not answered.
Hopefully there's a season two. Otherwise I think we'll all be pretty p1$$ed off.
The first five episodes give us Colin Ferrell (in an excellent performance) in a neo-noir with layers, a great supporting cast and an interesting, but convoluted, plot.
There are clues throughout that what we're seeing is not the whole thing. Sugar "doesn't like to hurt people" but he often does. Brutally. There's oblique interaction between him and what we think is his associate/person in the chair/handler, but that gets blown out of the water in episode four. Sugar is also unbelievably virtuous with strangers, victims (because he DOES hurt people) and acquaintances. Too good to be true you say? Not when you get to episode 7.
The GIGANTIC left turn in episode seven is almost unforgivable. It feels like a tremendous cheat. In the streaming series Midnight Sky we were torn between whether the main character was crazy, or is there really a portal to another dimension in his root cellar. When we finally get the answer (at the end of a series that was cancelled!) we've been strung along too long to really care. Here, in Sugar, we've totally invested in all these characters and the missing girl who is at the center of the major plot (or so we were led to believe), when the rug gets completely ripped out from under us and we discover we're actually watching a very different show.
The episode leaves us wishing Sugar's true nature and self was revealed earlier, so we could walk with him through the emotional seduction he's been dealing with. Ultimately he's been drawn in too far, and isn't an observer any more, he's an active participant.
The last episode wraps up the kidnapping mystery, and the reason for Sugar's people wanting to steer clear of the kidnapping, but...the season ends in a cliff hanger and a half dozen mysteries not answered.
Hopefully there's a season two. Otherwise I think we'll all be pretty p1$$ed off.