Those who have seen and loved the first season of Apple TV's "Sugar" are aware of what transpired at the end of the neo-noir private detective story. The unexpected twist — spoiler alert — that reveals Farrell as an alien searching for his sister while operating as a stylish investigator, with good taste for cinema, music and everything else, adds a different dimension to the proceedings. Season 2 is expected to learn more into this element, while exploring a new case.
In a press interaction on Saturday, Farrell said the new case involves a couple of Korean immigrants, one of whom goes missing. However, he adds that there will be "multiple" cases. "There’s also the quest to try and find out what happened to his (Sugar's) sister,” quoted The Hollywood Reporter.
Farrell brings up the reflection on the current state of the world in the show. While acknowledging his good fortune and privilege, the actor says the world is a "really cruel place" and that it's "tricky" to live as a human being and "try to process what we see around us and the divisions."
Associating this view with his character, John Sugar, in the show, Farrell added, “Sugar gets involved in violence. That’s one of the things that he questions about himself, particularly. The questioning is pretty heavy this season, but evermore, he just believes in the fundamental decency of human beings. I don’t know that I share that belief all the time. I touch it sometimes, but to play a character that even if he’s shaky in that belief, that belief is always there, even if he questions his own goodness, his belief in the potential decency of humanity is always really front and centre. And that’s a lovely, lovely character without, I hope, him being vanilla and just going around high-fiving everyone he knows. He knows life is tough, but he believes in the decency of human beings, and that’s OK.”
Elaborating further on his character, Farrell calls him a "device."
"He’s a being from a distant land who comes to experience what it is to be a human being," he shares. "Through that, we get to explore what it is to be a human being, all the rage, all the anger, all the stuff that we see that doesn’t work, and that is horrifying. But sugar, for my money — and this is one of the things I love most about the show — he is always angling towards optimism and angling towards the beauty that he sees in human beings.”
"Sugar" Season 2 will premiere on Apple TV on June 19, 2026. Executive produced by Farrell, the eight-episode season is scheduled to begin streaming with one episode, followed by one weekly episode, until its Season finale on August 7.