Pat Stacey: Disastrous twist in ‘Sugar’ makes the whole series a waste of time

Sugar ♦♦ Spy/Master ♦♦♦♦

Colin Farrell plays sharply-dressed private eye John Sugar but the show is a let-down

Pat Stacey

The trouble with a series that flags in advance that there’s a big twist coming down the line is that viewers are likely to spend all their time anticipating what it might be.

In the case of Sugar (Apple TV+), they were left anticipating . . . and anticipating and anticipating, right up to the final moments of episode six, which landed last Friday.