‘Sugar’ Season 2 Episode 6 Recap: Slippery Slopes

Eleven years ago, there existed a different John Sugar. Younger, less experienced, rougher around the edges. Yet he exuded a power that today’s John Sugar cannot match. Ladies, gentlemen, friends beyond the binary, I give you…DENIM SUGAR!!! Apple TV Sugar straps on his best Canadian tuxedo in the flashback cold open, which finally explains who that woman played by Laura San Giacomo who keeps appearing in his mind is. Her name is — or rather, was — Peg Rosenthal, and he knew her for a total of one afternoon. But it stuck in his mind for a reason: She killed herself in front of him at the end of it. Mrs. Rosenthal was a kindergarten teacher, it seems, for whom fingerpainting lost its luster when she discovered human financial markets. She amassed a personal fortune, implicitly by committing