The second season of Apple TV’s genre-blending sci-fi neo-noir detective series, Sugar, finds the titular character (played by Colin Farrell) on his own, without his fellow space travelers, and taking on a new case of a missing boxer. Apple TV’s clip from episode two also confirms that John’s still interested in discovering exactly how Senator Pavich is involved in the blackmail scheme that forced his friends to leave Earth.
Episode 2 “Downer Town” Plot: The search for Ji sends Sugar into dangerous territory. Danny resorts to desperate measures.
In addition to Colin Farrell, season two stars Jin Ha, Raymond Lee, Tony Dalton, Laura Donnelly, and Sasha Calle. Shea Whigham guest stars.
During a recent press conference hosted by Apple TV, Farrell was asked if there’s anything he’d like to explore about the character that wasn’t touched on in the first season.
“You know, I knew the script to a beat. The trick was just to honor the kinda tone of the piece that was established in the first season, I suppose, and whatever the truth of him as a character is,” replied Farrell. “But also allow for a change in situation and also whatever changes psychologically and emotionally are taking place in him as a result of things being different. The main thing, of course, being that he’s now, for the first time, a man very much alone. Everyone else, all his friends, all his companions have gone back to their home planet. So he is, for the first time, alone on earth, and he’s struggling with that kinda sense of isolation very much, and how would that inform, certainly at the beginning of the first episode, how would that inform how he is and how he moves through the world? And continue to inform that. And how he is open to people.
Farrell continued, “So yeah, that was the biggest difference. But it’s also a very different world the second season than the first one. First one took place in more affluent parts. You know, Bel Air and Palisades and the studios and all the higher-ups. And this one takes place in K-Town, a lot of, and various other parts of East L.A., so it’s gonna be tonally quite different as well. And he was gonna have new challenges, which he does, and contend with human experiences that he didn’t have to contend with in the first season.”
Sugar Synopsis, Courtesy of Apple TV:
Sugar is a contemporary, unique take on one of the most popular and significant genres in literary, motion picture, and television history: the private detective story. Season two ushers in the return of Los Angeles’s iconic private detective and film connoisseur John Sugar, played by Colin Farrell, who stayed on earth in hopes to find his sister as he takes on a new missing persons case—searching for the older brother of an up-and-coming local boxer.
As the investigation expands into a sinister, city-wide conspiracy, Sugar must reckon with himself to answer the question—how far will he go to do what’s right?
Sam Catlin is the showrunner and serves as an executive producer along with Colin Farrell, Audrey Chon, Simon Kinberg, Scott Greenberg, and Chip Vucelich.