Apple TV+’s ‘Sugar’ Just Sparked One of the Craziest Twists in TV History – Forbes

I’ve been watching Sugar on Apple TV Plus for a few weeks now, which is a generally solid, if not somewhat unremarkable, mystery series starring Colin Farrell. The granddaughter of a top Hollywood producer has gone missing and Sugar, just like her job, steps in to find her.

The story moves through sleazy actors and seedy criminals, but there’s a strange undercurrent 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 has been this strange network of people that Sugar is connected to. The “Polyglot” society where they seem united because they speak many different languages. It looks like one of those “independent” spy agencies you sometimes see in fictional thrillers. Or maybe something like the strange world of John Wick’s assassins, with their coins and hotels.

Boy, it sure ain’t none of that. Spoilers follow.

It turns out that these people, and in turn Farrell’s Sugar, are aliens.

I can’t express how weird this is in the context of the show. Again, this whole thing feels like a version of an old-school noir thriller. While the concept of someone being a secret alien is not uncommon, for example in the sci-fi genre, this is way outside of what you would expect from the series. Unless you… looked closely.

There are actually a lot of pretty weird things that happen over the course of the series that now add up in hindsight, even if they didn’t outright say “he’s an alien.”

I think Sugar not only likes old movies and old cars and old school ways, I think he shaped his whole personality from watching those movies because it shaped him in the way he act as a human.

His desire not to perpetuate violence may be a moral conviction, sure, but it’s not just because he’s good at fighting, he has real abilities above humans. This ranges from catching a fly with chopsticks at the start of the series to this week where he seemed to deflect a bullet with his hand (his watch, perhaps?).

There is its ability to calm even extremely hostile dogs with just one high-pitched sound. There’s the fact that he said he can’t get drunk because his body metabolizes alcohol 50 times faster than normal. I think he didn’t sleep with Amy Ryan’s character, not just because of chivalry, but because of… biology.

There is his injury which required a sort of blood bag with a text very written in English. There’s his drug use which isn’t actually drug use, but has to do with his transformation from human to alien.

This has all been there the whole time, creating a strange “vibe” around this show, but never really indicating that things were going to get pretty quiet. This weird. What I still can’t quite figure out is why he deals with missing persons cases around the world in the first place, or why his alien organization is apparently behind something as simplistic as the kidnapping of Olivia. But we have two more episodes to figure that out.

Just a deeply weird turn here for Sugar, but I love it.

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