I love film noir of all kinds and private dick yarns in particular. It‘’s my favorite genre and I think I’ve seen almost every P.I. film or show ever made.

Sugar started off ok with a couple of bad/cheesy moments. I was hoping they were not red flags for worse to come. But it did get worse, much much worse.

Episode 3 is laughably bad and Episode 4 is a catastrophe. What do you know, they changed director starting with Episode 3. They also added a second writer. Both of these changes took the show from pretty bad to super awful.

Not surprising it was produced by Collin. He may have wanted to see himself as a film noir hero but unfortunately he failed. What he created is a noir knockoff with not a single original idea. Then there’s the dialogue which is a caricature of film noir banter and the inner monologue’s a total snooze fest.

Collin’s acting is mostly ok but it’s hard to tell if he’s bad at times or if it’s just his character that is moronic. Most of the other acting is horrible. Where bad actors cast on purpose to give Collin a little lift? Eric Lange as Byron Stallings is particularly terrible.

I’m not surprised by the good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes (“real critics” or off much of the time IMO) but even all fellow commentators on Trakt so far have give this crapola their praise. Perhaps they commented after seeing only the first episode?

If you want to see some good noir and/or private detective shows/movies check out these lists on Trakt:

Private Eyes
https://trakt.tv/users/hirkiti/lists/private-eyes?sort=my_rating,asc

Loosely Noir
https://trakt.tv/users/hirkiti/lists/loosely-noir?sort=my_rating,asc