‘Sugar’ Trailer Finds Its Way to Screens

Preview:

• Colin Farrell is a private eye in new series ‘Sugar’.
• Mark Protosevich created the new show.
• The series launches on Apple TV+ on April 5th.

A perennial go-to genre across pop culture, the detective drama is as healthy as ever. We’ve had Clive Owen playing one of the most famous examples for ‘Monsieur Spade’, Jodie Foster digging through a chilled cold case in ‘True Detective: Night Country’ and Mandy Patinkin investigating murder at sea on ‘Death and Other Details’.

But Apple TV+ being Apple TV+, the company naturally wanted to raise the stakes. In ‘Sugar’, Oscar nominee Colin Farrell is John Sugar, the latest in a long line of private eyes whose own life is just as complicated as the cases they tackle.

What’s the story of ‘Sugar’?

Farrell here is a slightly tarnished private investigator on the heels of the mysterious disappearance of Olivia Siegel (Sydney Chandler ), the beloved granddaughter of legendary Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel (James Cromwell).

As Sugar tries to determine what happened to Olivia, he will also unearth Siegel family secrets; some very recent, others long-buried.

And from the looks of the trailer, Sugar’s own life is almost as knotty and filled with mystery. He’s certainly handy with his fists (and the odd weapon), but he also has his own obsessions.

It also boasts the sheen you expect from an Apple series, which usually hands out a hefty budget –– so of course things look good when they need to and grubby in the right places. Plus, you can expect plenty of the detective standby: the voice-over, with Farrell intoning that if you tipped the world on its side, everything loose lands in Los Angeles.

This also marks the first of Farrell’s leading roles in TV to arrive –– we’re also still waiting to see his turn as Oswald Cobblepot in ‘The Batman’ spin-off ‘The Penguin’, which should be on Max later this year.

Who else is in ‘Sugar’?

Around Farrell and the others, the new show has a superb supporting cast. Kirby, most recently seen as ‘Sandman’s Death, appears alongside Anna Gunn, Amy Ryan, Dennis Boutsikaris, Nate Corddry, Sydney Chandler and Alex Hernandez.

Who has made ‘Sugar’?

‘Sugar’ was created by Mark Protosevich, who wrote ‘I Am Legend’, ‘The Cell’, and the 2013 remake of ‘Oldboy’.

Actual showrunning duties, though, fell to Sam Catlin, a veteran of ‘Preacher’ and ‘Breaking Bad’.

On the directing front, the episodes are split between ‘City of God’s Fernando Meirelles and TV expert Adam Arkin.

When will ‘Sugar’ land on Apple TV+?

‘Sugar’ debuts with the first two of its eight-episode season on April 5th, followed by one episode weekly on Fridays.