Screenshot\/Apple TV+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBoth Bernie and Melanie insist that there\u2019s nothing for Sugar to investigate. Olivia has disappeared before, and they express confidence that she\u2019ll reappear any day, ready to go into rehab again. Bernie may believe that, but I don\u2019t think Melanie does.<\/p>\n
A lot of things indicate that Olivia hasn\u2019t simply fallen off the wagon again. She hasn\u2019t called her grandfather, Jonathan, for money, like she has during past instances. Her friends and drug dealer haven\u2019t seen her. And, oh yeah, there was a dead body in the trunk of her car.<\/p>\n
That dead body—of one Clifford Carter—has gone missing. When Sugar returns to dispose of it at Ruby\u2019s insistence, it\u2019s simply gone. He finds a strand of hair that might serve as a clue as to who took it, but the only other person he told about it was Jonathan. The old man might have sent someone to get the corpse out of his beloved granddaughter\u2019s car, or maybe someone else knew it was there and finally got around to it.<\/p>\nScreenshot\/Apple TV+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe closing scene of Sugar<\/em> Episode 2 introduces us to Stallings (Eric Lange), as he ambushes Teresa Vasquez (Cher Alvarez) in her home to ask her if she knows what\u2019s happened to Clifford. Teresa is the sister of Carmen Vasquez, who we know from newspaper headlines was raped and murdered.<\/p>\nSugar has also learned (from the GPS) that Olivia\u2019s car was at Carmen\u2019s apartment the night Carmen was killed. He can\u2019t figure out how to put things together. But, given that Stallings shows Teresa a picture of Melanie that was sent to him from Clifford\u2019s phone, we may be a step ahead of John\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n
Teresa knows who Melanie is. We flash to a photo of the two posted to a bulletin board. We further know that Olivia had been spending a lot of time with Melanie prior to her disappearance and that her social media shifted in the direction of advocating for women\u2019s rights. It doesn\u2019t feel like too much of a stretch to suggest that Olivia killed Clifford and Melanie helped her go on the lam. Of course, things may be more complicated than that.<\/p>\nScreenshot\/Apple TV+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nA complication I haven\u2019t talked about is that Bernie has tasked his son, Davy (Nate Corddry), along with his heavy, Kenny (Alex Hernandez), with spying on John Sugar. They\u2019re stupid, but that doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t a threat. John doesn\u2019t want them looking into his past, but they\u2019re about to start doing that.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also someone else who has been following John in a gray VW. We know that\u2019s not Davy and Kenny because they were following him previously and were very bad at it, so there remains a question as to who it might be.<\/p>\nScreenshot\/Apple TV+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAs I watched the premiere of Sugar<\/em>, I thought it was fairly straightforward, but clearly this story has a lot of ins and a lot of outs. I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t mention that John appears to have some issues with controlling his arm that he doesn\u2019t want to see a doctor about, and that towards the end of Episode 1, he hallucinates that he\u2019s bleeding from the cut he got in Japan, only to find when he comes to in the shower that he was never bleeding at all.<\/p>\nSomething about this case is getting under John\u2019s skin. He needs a rest, but he\u2019s not going to get one. Olivia reminds him of Djen, but he hopes this story has a happier ending.<\/p>\nScreenshot\/Apple TV+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOne way or another, he has to get to the bottom of it, no matter the cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The following recap contains spoilers for the premiere of Sugar on Apple TV+: S1E1, “Olivia,” and S1E2, “These People, These Places” (written by Mark Protosevich and directed by Fernando Meirelles) The first thing you notice about Sugar is its style. There\u2019s no way around that. The opening scene is in black and white. The credits […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":287012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[2143,8659],"yoast_head":"\nSugar Is a 21st Century Noir: A Recap & Review of Its Premiere on Apple TV+ | TV Obsessive<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n