‘Sweet Tooth’: Netflix Renews Fantasy Drama For Season 2
Netflix has renewed the fantasy drama ‘Sweet Tooth‘ for a 2nd Season the streaming service has announced.
Ten years ago “The Great Crumble” wreaked havoc on the world and led to the mysterious emergence of hybrids – babies born part human, part animal. Unsure if hybrids are the cause or result of the virus, many humans fear and hunt them.
After a decade of living safely in his secluded forest home, a sheltered hybrid deer-boy named Gus (Christian Convery) unexpectedly befriends a wandering loner named Jepperd (Nonso Anozie). Together they set out on an extraordinary adventure across what’s left of America in search of answers – about Gus’ origins, Jepperd’s past, and the true meaning of home. But their story is full of unexpected allies and enemies, and Gus quickly learns the lush, dangerous world outside the forest is more complex than he ever could have imagined.
The series stars Christian Convery (‘Beautiful Boy’, ‘Tiger Rising’, ‘Playing With Fire’), Nonso Anozie (‘The Laundromat’, ‘Zoo’, ‘Game of Thrones’), Adeel Akhtar (‘Les Misérables [TV series]’, ‘Victoria & Abdul’, ‘The Big Sick’) and Will Forte (‘The Last Man on Earth’, ‘Saturday Night Live’), with James Brolin (‘Life in Pieces’, ‘Amityville Horror’, ‘Westworld’) as the voice of the narrator.
The renewal is nice to hear, although not totally unsurprising, as Netflix had previously released some streaming numbers for the show, which they don’t usually do if they aren’t good! The series pulled in 60 million viewers in its first four weeks, landing it at No. 6 in the service’s list of most-watched English-language original series, just ahead of ‘Emily in Paris’ and just behind the juggernaut that was ‘The Queen’s Gambit’.
“It’s been equally thrilling and heartwarming to experience how people around the world have been falling in love with our deer-boy,” commented showrunner Jim Mickle. “We couldn’t be more excited to continue our collaboration with Netflix and keep following Gus and his friends on their extraordinary journey.”
Based on characters created for DC/Vertigo Comics by Jeff Lemire, ‘Sweet Tooth’ comes from Jim Mickle (‘Hap and Leonard’, ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’, ‘Cold In July’) and Beth Schwartz (‘Arrow’, ‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’) who serve as writers, co-showrunners and exec producers. Team Downey’s Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey and Amanda Burrell, alongside Linda Moran also exec produce. Team Downey in association with Warner Bros. Television are the studios.
If you want to know more about the music behind the series, we recently interviewed Composer Jeff Grace about his long collaboration with Jim Mickle, and how he came up with the unique hybrid sound of ‘Sweet Tooth’. You can listen to that interview here.
‘Sweet Tooth‘ Season 1 is available to stream right now on Netflix UK and worldwide.
