The Apple TV+ series 'Sugar' stars Colin Farrell as a mysteriously well-off private eye specializing in missing-person cases. The show explores the seductive and alien nature of Los Angeles, drawing inspiration from film noir and the city's capacity for new wrinkles along familiar fault lines.
For a pop-cultural century, in words and images, Los Angeles has been depicted as a seductively alien locale not like any other place in the galaxy. Its natural disaster quotient, its sterling variety of photogenic backdrops for moral rot and a wide world of sleaze, the sun, the secrets — all of it spells camera-ready trouble in paradise. Its strangeness was made for, and by, film noir .
Here’s one example: the Apple TV+ offering “Sugar,” starring Colin Farrell as a mysteriously well-off private eye specializing in missing-person cases. Creator and lead writer Mark Protosevich’s slippery fish of an eight-part series, with its first two episodes premiering April 5, owes debts all over town — to the legendary movies beloved by the title character, and to LA’s infinite capacity for new wrinkles along familiar fault line
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