Apple TV’s New Noir With Colin Farrell Is a Must-Watch For Sherlock Fans

Summary:

• The private detective’s famous cinematic genre expands its dramatical horizons in Colin Farrell ’s upcoming noir show.
• The plot revolves around a private investigator who arrives in Los Angeles to discover how the daughter of a very famous Hollywood producer disappeared and who is behind the crime.
• Despite not being released yet, the show has already shown impressive results with critics by scoring 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Sometimes even the city where all the events unfold can become a separate character, especially if it’s guided by period-coded visual elements. This is the case of Sugar, Colin Farrell’s intriguing brand new noir show that takes yet another step towards the modern development of the private detective genre.

The plot follows John Sugar, an American private investigator led through black-and-white Los Angeles along with appeasing jazz sounds. Sugar is set to find traces to the reasons why Olivia Siegel, daughter of famous Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel, has mysteriously vanished.

As the detective gets deeper into Olivia’s story, he also discovers some frightening skeletons that have been kept in her family’s closet.

Not even being released yet, the show has already kicked it off with solid 83% on Rotten Tomatoes and critics praising Colin Farrell’s compelling performance as a detective whose versatile image pays homage to the classic detective stories with some main features borrowed from them while also intertwining the latter ones with a totally new vision on the screen.

Thus, a simultaneously charming and unpredictable character seems to be bringing some freshness into the detective’s cinematic story.

The series, which is being released on Apple TV on April 5, looks promising enough to immediately captivate the viewers’ attention by its numerous masterfully twisted stories as well as by the characters’ complicated relationships’ development.