I'm trying to catch up on Sugar (2024) since I'm one episode behind but this weekend might just post both, shortly after three episodes the series has gone down in rating and I personally was amaze that it was over 80% acceptance since this style of filming tends to be boring, it is interesting though because its all about who is lying, put away the noise and focus on the target while John has everyone against him.
Episode 2 has close to nothing new but finally Olivia father confront John, he has been the one sending Davy to do intel on John making thing worst and at the same time more interesting because why would the father of the missing girl don't want to find her, same goes for her brother, the only answer would be that they are covering up for something, at this point I'm not trusting anyone not even her grandfather who actually hired John to find her, this family is all fucked up.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18177528/
- Platform: AppleTV+
Missing rich girl whose father doesn't care if she is found, but why? John interview Olivia's father Bernie Siegel who is a movie director too as his father but lacks the talent. Episode 1 John found some videos online where Olivia seem desperate that made him dig deeper between her stuff at the apartment and found a bunch of Polaroid of her mother, nudes that Bernie denied taking so either those were artistic or she was cheating on him, that could mess up Olivia's head but not to disappear, at least this gives John grounds to know that Olivia comes from a broken home. The conversation with Bernie was very short, he denied knowing where she was and refer to her search as a waste of time and money.
How would a father say looking for his daughter is a waste of time and money but at the same time saying he cares for his missing daughter? unless he knows where she is and how she is doing. John is sleek and caught Davy and his bodyguard on camera sniffing at his place then he mention "I can't have him digging into my past..." what past? what thing has John done that he doesn't want others to know? so now the mystery is on both directions.
Talking to the family was making no sense, dead end so John went to Olivia's friends who were very open but did not help that much, from Melanie now John knows Olivia was trying to get sober, also her grandfather told him she was sober the last time they met but why? usually when you are addicted to something people don't stop because they want to be a better person, usually it happens because of an event, something went wrong to the point that it is rock bottom for that person so they take the decision to change, this is the most common scenario.
Olivia's grandfather confirm this theory, she was a fuck up period and for the rest of the family would always be except for him, here is when some dots start to connect, before going MIA Olivia has been visiting an address multiple times, it was Carmen Vasquez place and I bet Melanie knows her but do they know where Olivia is?
John has this ability to not getting drunk even though he drinks like a fish well Melanie doesn't, seems she is an alcoholic so she was easy target for him but didn't got her talking as he probably wanted the first time so he tries again after attending a meeting with her for Alcoholics, she knew she had to start fresh but the moment he ask for the guy in the bag at Olivia's car trunk she panic, start lying and that's when John found a north on this investigation, at least now he knows Melanie can be of real help, she knows the guy and Olivia but Melanie decides not to talk about it.
John is just too much of a good guy and extremely smart but this time it was not enough, he got three leads:
- Melanie
- Carmen Vasquez
- The dead guy in the trunk, Clifford
Problem is Melanie is not talking, the guy in the trunk is gone, he goes checking and some one clean up and took the guy, for that to happen must be some one that needs to keep it a secret, he knows it was not Melanie so the first suspects are Bernie and Davy, he is about to talk to Carmen, her sister Teresa receive an unexpected visit from Clifford associate looking for him and his first lead is Teresa since he cant get a hold to Carmen who was dating Clifford so its just a matter of time before John figure this out.
Things are starting to unfold although there is no motive or reason for Olivia to be gone so John needs to keep asking the right questions to the right persons, those who knew Olivia directly or some one close to her, in this case Melanie spook when she saw Clifford picture so she probably knows he is dead but then how Carmen ties to Melanie, I would only guess Olivia, Melanie and Carmen use to party together when Carmen was dating Clifford or for some other reason the three knew each other. Things are not clear but some things are starting to make sense but the biggest question is WHY Olivia's family doesn't want others to know where is and the only one looking for her is Jonathan, Olivia's grandfather, I would not discard him of knowing what the fuck is going on if what we are doing is elaborating conspiracy theories because that is exactly what the rest of her family is doing at saying they care about her but they don't care where the fuck she is.
Sugar (2024) is more than just a private investigator TV series, is more about the details in the production, the mix shots, the mix of video formats, the angles, the way John is a vintage guy and movie lover but I understand how all this can still be boring for others, theme song is really cool with that 80s vibe.
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