Sugar Season 2 Premieres With 8 Episodes Under New Showrunner Sam Catlin
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 19
Sugar Season 2 Premieres With 8 Episodes Under New Showrunner Sam Catlin
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 19
Summary
Friday’s Season 2 launch finds John Sugar more isolated, with his alien companions gone and Amy Adams’s human love interest no longer in the story.
Sam Catlin takes over as showrunner, steering the Apple TV+ series away from the first season’s noir-sci-fi twist toward a grittier Los Angeles crime procedural.
Sugar’s new case centers on a missing petty criminal and a corrupt sheriff’s deputy, with Sasha Calle and Shea Whigham filling key support roles.
Classic-film inserts from titles like “Gilda” and “Vertigo,” along with a nostalgia-heavy soundtrack, preserve the show’s romantic noir identity even as its tone shifts.