In season 2 of Sugar, Colin Farrell’s quirky detective becomes much more human

When Colin Farrell was doing press for the first season of the detective series Sugar , he had to be very careful with how he spoke. Sugar is a story about a quirky private detective, but it’s also secretly a work of science fiction, something that doesn’t become clear until halfway through the season. “I knew that I could get the show in deep shit if I revealed certain things,” he tells me. Now as Sugar heads into its next season , which starts streaming on Apple TV on June 19th, Farrell says he feels “unburdened” by the previous veil of secrecy. “There are certain things I wouldn’t mention here about season 2,” he says, “but nothing as big a clanger as the reveal of episode 6 of season 1.” Spoiler warning for the first season of Sugar . That secret is that Farrell’s character, a loveably strange private detective named John Sugar, is actually an alien . And he’s an alien obsessed with old films, which gave him a rose-tinted view of humanity, and contributed to his notable quirks, like never leaving the house without a suit and tie and, for some reason, being beloved by all dogs. At the end of season 1, Sugar’s fellow extraterrestrials had fled the planet after being discovered for what they were, thus putting their lives at risk. But John stayed behind, in part to deal with some unfinished business involving his sister, who went missing on his home planet. But he also just really loves humans, and doesn’t seem ready to leave them, and his ’66 Corvette Sting Ray, behind. …