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The big twist isn’t enough to overcome unwelcome cliches — spare yourself the weightless pontificating about what makes us human and how violence begets violence (complete with some late-arriving and pretty severe misogyny) — but it does make clear that if this project had to be made, the first season should’ve been condensed into a pilot episode (or even a movie).
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For most of the show, Sugar comes off as unconvincing wish fulfillment. If “Sugar” were able to sell its 11th-hour hairpin turn, it would need to earn our buy-in first through a more grounded portrait of a lost, searching soul. Instead, the show feels detached from reality even before it takes a turn for the surreal.