Sugar is an American drama TV show written by Mark Protosevich and directed by Fernando Meirelles. It stars Colin Farrell, who is also the show’s executive producer. The first episode of the show introduces us to John Sugar, a private detective who loves movies and likes to do good things. To start the episode, Sugar saves the stolen son of a yakuza boss in Tokyo, showing off his skills and his desire to help people. Sugar takes on a case from Hollywood director Jonathan Siegel (James Cromwell) to find his granddaughter Olivia (Sydney Chandler), who has gone missing.
Sugar follows Olivia to her condo as part of his research and finds clues about her past and her troubled relationship with drugs. He meets David, Olivia’s half-brother, who is also worried about her, and they talk. Sugar also meets Olivia’s ex-stepmother Melanie Matthews, who is a famous rock star, and gives Sugar information about Olivia’s life. He finds a dead body in Olivia’s car, which adds to the puzzle as Sugar looks into the case further.
In the second part titled “These People, These Places” of the debut night of Sugar, John Sugar finds a web of lies and secrets as he looks into the case more, which makes him question everyone involved, even Olivia’s family.
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The episode starts with John Sugar (Colin Farrell), a private detective with a complicated past, still looking for Olivia Siegel, a young woman who has gone missing. Bernie Siegel (Dennis Boutsikaris), Olivia’s grandfather, says she will come back on her own, but John is eager to find her and find out what happened when she went missing.
As John looks into Olivia’s absence, he learns that she has been going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings regularly for the past year to get sober. Besides that, he finds out that Olivia had a rough past with drugs and other bad habits, but she had recently changed her ways.
John’s search takes him to Rachel Kaye (Natalie Alyn Lind), Olivia’s mother. At the time of Olivia’s disappearance, she was married to Bernie Siegel. Rachel says that Olivia had been going to a certain place a lot, which turns out to be where a recent murder and rape happened. John finds out that Olivia’s car was at the murder scene the night of the crime and that Clifford Carter’s body was in the trunk. Carter is a violent criminal with a past.
John is also looking for Olivia, but he gets involved in the sad story of Carl (Jon Beavers), a young man who is having trouble with drugs. He doesn’t make it to his sister’s house after John Sugar tells him to call her and ask her to come stay. He says Carl deserves help and care. Sugar instead finds Carl on the floor with a needle stuck in his arm, which means he has overdosed on drugs. Carl isn’t breathing anymore, and even though Sugar had a short temper tantrum against the people who sold Carl the drugs, Carl dies.
John is still determined to find Olivia and bring her home safely, even after these new facts. Melanie Matthews, played by Amy Ryan , is his best star. She had been sober for 20 years before she met John and broke her streak that night. Melanie says Olivia had been living with her a lot in the weeks before she went missing, but she is sure Olivia will come back, as she always does.
John keeps looking for Olivia, but his thoughts keep going back to his difficult past and the death of his sister Jen. He gets more and more involved in the case, even though Ruby (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) , his friend and guide, tells him to stay away from it. John can’t say no to the investigation, though, because he thinks it’s his job to keep Olivia safe at home.
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At the end of the show, the main character, John Sugar, starts to care about finding Olivia. He had already thrown away Clifford Carter’s body from Olivia’s car, but then he found that it had been completely erased. At the same time, Clifford Carter’s boss finds a tip that could lead him to Melaine, which makes things even more complicated. Bernie and David (Nate Corddry), Bernie’s son, try to stop Sugar from looking into their past, but it doesn’t work. Sugar finds out that they put a bug in his hotel room, which shows that they are trying to hide something.
Sugar becomes more and more obsessed with finding Olivia as he learns more about the secret surrounding her and her link to Carmen Vasquez. Olivia makes him think of the mysterious Djen, which makes him even more determined to find her. At the end of the episode, Clifford Carter’s boss shows up at the door of Carmen’s sister Teresa to ask about Melaine. She takes him to Melaine, which sets up what will happen in the next episode.
The second episode revealed that Clifford Carter was the dead body found in Olivia’s car. The details of how he died are still unknown and will likely be explored in later episodes. It also sets the stage for more mystery and suspense as Sugar’s research gets deeper and the mysteries surrounding Olivia, Melaine, and Clifford Carter get bigger.
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