Colin Farrell is on the job and no one is going to stop this detective.
IN SugarThe 47-year-old Irish actor plays John Sugar, a private investigator who finds himself entangled in a decades-old web of lies after turning on the granddaughter of a legendary Hollywood producer.
The first trailer for the new Apple TV+ series, which will premiere its first two episodes on April 5, opens with Sugar looking like any good Crazy people-esque character as he drives through the sunny palm-lined streets of Los Angeles with his dog in the passenger seat of his Corvette convertible.
“Out here, I’m one of the good guys,” he says in a voiceover before the true – and bloody – nature of his gig is revealed. “But good and bad can be in the eye of the beholder.”
As Sugar lands a job with Tinseltown mogul Jonathan Siegel (James Cromwell), who accuses him of targeting his missing granddaughter Olivia (Sydney Chandler), the PI gets caught up in something far more complicated than a missing persons case.
“Sweetheart, I don’t like this case for you,” Ruby (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) tells him before launching into the investigation — which comes with a few gunfights and, seemingly, a bit of a panic attack for the protagonist, the main character.
“Not now,” Sugar says as he begins to collapse in one scene, his ears ringing as he bends over. “I can’t stop. She’s out there – somewhere.”
Colin Farrell looks fresh in a suit and suspenders on the set of new Apple TV+ drama ‘Sugar’
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Colin Farrell as private investigator John Sugar in Apple TV+ “Sugar.”
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He enlists Mackenzie Mackintosh (Amy Ryan) along the way, telling her, “I need your help,” as he uncovers some “Siegel family secrets,” recent and “long buried,” according to the show’s logline, and the list of his enemies seems to grow by the minute.
“This is someone I shouldn’t have found,” Sugar says after discovering what appears to be a human body in a bag in the trunk of a car. Later, they follow him as he drives through town.
“You’re asking for your time and my father’s money,” Jonathan’s son, Bernie (Dennis Boutsikaris), also tells him, adding another name to the growing list of possible suspects in Sugar’s search.
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Kirby and Colin Farrell in Apple TV+ “Sugar.”
Apple TV+
The investigator eventually reveals that the network he’s uncovering has ties to his own business as well, as he tells Kirby, “There’s someone you’re protecting.”
“They need you to stop looking,” Kirby says, to which Sugar replies skeptically, “Who are ‘they’?”
As the trailer ends, showing countless scenes from the show — including a final shot of Sugar on his knees with his hands up while facing down with a gun — he muses, “Someone once said, ‘Turn the world on its side and everything lands loose to Los Angeles.’ After all this time, is this place starting to turn me upside down?”
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Amy Ryan and Colin Farrell in Apple TV+ “Sugar.”
Apple TV+
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The eight-episode Apple TV+ series premieres with the first two episodes airing on April 5; new episodes will then air every week on Fridays for the next six weeks.
Sugar also starring Anna Gunn, Nate Corddry and Alex Hernandez, and is described as a contemporary, unique take on one of the most popular and significant genres in literary, film and television history: the private detective story.”
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