‘Sugar’ Season 2 Episode 8 Recap: Sibling Rivalry

What an odd thing Apple TV‘s Sugar has become. Whatever the behind-the-scenes turmoil during Season 1 that led to a showrunner handoff was, it’s worth bringing up only because its effects are still being felt on screen. Despite being built to for a full season, there’s a rushed, slapdash quality to the resolution of old storylines and the establishment of new ones here that’s really unfortunate to see on a show that only just began steering itself out of its second-season skid. The Vega/Fire Sale storyline gets wrapped up with the wave of a hand. Remember the secret power moving behind the scenes, pulling Vega’s strings as he pulled those of the other deputies, the gang members, and so on? Just some politician we’ve never seen before, introduced and arrested in approximately one minute of