An Oscar win has escaped his grasp to this point in his career, but Colin Farrell is still one of the biggest stars in Hollywood with high-profile movie and TV roles every year. Farrell picked up his first-ever Best Lead Actor role for his performance opposite Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin, which is now streaming on Apple TV. Farrell also exploded to new levels of popularity recently due to his role as Oz Cobb/The Penguin in The Batman, and he recently confirmed to Collider that he’s soon to begin filming his scenes for the 2027 sequel. Between films, though, Farrell shined in the HBO original series, The Penguin, but the fate of the show beyond Season 1 has yet to be decided, though it was initially billed as a miniseries. This hasn’t been for a lack of demand, though — it’s one of HBO’s most popular shows of the last few years.
Farrell has another all-time great TV role that may have flown under the radar the last few years due to a long hiatus between seasons, but he’s finally ready to return as John Sugar in the second season of Apple TV’s Sugar later this week on June 19. Apple TV has officially confirmed a one-episode premiere for Sugar, and with eight episodes total in its sophomore season, this means fans will be enjoying new episodes of Farrell’s neo-noir detective thriller until its Season 2 finale on August 7. Fans have been rushing to rewatch the first season on Apple TV as a refresher before Season 2, also, which has led Sugar back into the streamer’s top 10 most popular titles of the week.
Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
👑Game of Thrones
🖖Star Trek
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What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
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Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
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How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
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Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
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What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
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How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
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What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
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What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
What Is ‘Sugar’ About?
An official synopsis for Sugar, as released by Apple, reads as follows:
“Private investigator John Sugar searches for a missing Hollywood starlet, unraveling a web of family secrets and dark conspiracies in the process. As his methodical investigation deepens, a shocking truth about Sugar himself emerges, recontextualizing everything—and threatening to upend his carefully hidden world.”
Sugar Season 1 earned solid scores of 81% from critics and 80% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and it performed well on Apple TV streaming charts. Farrell’s role in The Penguin slowed down the arrival of Sugar Season 2, but fans now only have a few days to wait before returning to the world of one of Apple TV’s best crime thrillers.
Check out the first season of Sugar on Apple TV and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 2, which debuts this Friday.
Release Date
April 4, 2024
Network
Apple TV
Showrunner
Mark Protosevich, Sam Catlin
Directors
Fernando Meirelles, Adam Arkin
Writers
Mark Protosevich, Donald Joh, Sam Catlin, David Rosen
