Sugar Rush Recap Index

Blood Sex Sugar Magic
1x01 - Pilot
Episode Grade: B
GIRL ON GIRL ACTION! SCHOOL UNIFORMS! How could it possibly fail?

Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off
1x02 - The Lies We Tell
Episode Grade: B-
Stella is a bad mother, Nathan is clueless, Sugar is selfish, Matt is weird. Nothing important actually happens in this episode that didn't already happen in the first one.

My Selfish Gene
1x03 - Chemical Warfare
Episode Grade: B+
Every one of the main characters is a horrible, awful example of a human being. Except Nathan, who's just clueless.

Growing On Me
1x04 - Transmission
Episode Grade: A
'Sexually transmitted' turns out to be a description sorely lacking in full details. Hilarity ensues.

Frenchy, I'm Faking
1x05 - In The Middle
Episode Grade: B+
Sugar falls for a suave French wanker and Kim mistranslates and manipulates her way into a kiss from Sugar.

Love Is Better Than A Warm Trombone
1x06 - Sensitive
Episode Grade: B-
Tom the butt-monkey gets thrown an actual plotline in this one, not quite sleeping with Sugar and getting his dog kidnapped and unintentionally killed by Kim, but remains nothing but an annoying butt-monkey. Also, Sugar finally figures out that Kim is totally crushing on her.

Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life
1x07 - Out
Episode Grade: B
Matt and Nathan continue their descent into total irrelevance, Stella and Dale get bored of each other and Sugar breaks Kim's heart a lot more than usual.

The Straight And Narrow
1x08 - Sugar Is Bad For You
Episode Grade: A
Kim has an eventful day, turning to the church to try to get over Sugar, then getting drunk, seducing a friendly neanderthal but falling at the last hurdle, then sleeping with Tom, who's actually quite cool all of a sudden. Meanwhile, Nathan takes Stella's suggestion that he be more spontaneous to heart, and almost kills her with summer pudding.

A Glimpse At The Good Life
1x09 - Coming Of Age, Part I
Episode Grade: A+
Kim finds salvation, thanks to Beth, the hot Scot from the GiD meeting last week, but throws it away at the last second in favour of continued misery, no thanks to Sugar.

Never Look At The Sun
1x10 - Coming Of Age, Part II
Episode Grade: A+
What do you do for a finale when your two leads outclass the rest of the cast, in terms of both characters and actors? If you answered "Give the rest of the cast a holiday", you're right. You're so right.

CC (You Set The Fire In Me)
2x01 - Just Visiting
Episode Grade: A-
18 months later, Sugar's incarcerated, and Kim learns a harsh lesson about life, and people, and how both of them have a habit of sucking a lot of the time. Yeah, another one.

I Believe In Symmetry
2x02 - One Way Or Another
Episode Grade: B
Saint gives Kim some slightly mixed signals, which of course makes her go crazy, but it all works out awesome in the end.

Gender Bombs
2x03 - Cock And Bull Stories
Episode Grade: B+
Saint's ex-boyfriend shows up, causing Kim to break out in the most severe case of penis envy you ever did see. Also, Sugar's out of prison at last.